Author: Doug Patterson

Motorsports enthusiast since ...well... always. Grew up watching Mario and AJ, took my first lap around IMS in the tour bus in 1977, fell in love with anything that went fast. Currently, I work as a professor of astronomy and physics at a college in the suburbs of Kansas City, http://staff.jccc.edu/dpatter/, and own a photography business, Patterson Prints, with my wife. http://www.pattersonprints.com/

Episode 232 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast

Doug Patterson

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadDoug returns this week to join the Mikes in discussing the qualifying weekend for the 98th running of the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race. We also preview this weekend’s Road to Indy races on Carb Day and the Night Before the 500. Shaw recaps the news from the GCR, WRC, and Rally America, and we wrap up the show with a preview of the Monaco GP and which Mercedes we think will win. OpenPaddock.net Podcast, Episode 232 – Tuesday, May 20th, 2014 [yop_poll id=”3″] IndyCar…

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IndyCar – Road to Indy Well Represented in 500 Field

Doug Patterson

The Mazda Road to Indy has been a very successful program since it’s inception. We’ve certainly done our best to document that here at OpenPaddock.net and to follow the progress of many of the drivers that have come through the Road to Indy, but admittedly, we’re fans and a bit biased. There is objective evidence of the program’s success, and it can be seen in the list of the 33 drivers who will contest the 98th running of the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race. Although the formal program has only been…

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IndyLights – Newton-John Returns to Indy (No, not Olivia)

Doug Patterson

This year will see the return of Emerson Newton-John to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as he replaces Vittorio Ghirelli in the #22 Team Moore Racing machine. Ghirelli did not compete at the Indy GP last weekend, and the team has been looking for a solid driver to place in their second car. Zack Meyer will continue in the team’s #2 machine. It’s been a while, two years to be exact, since Newton-John has been in an Indy Lights car, and he performed very well in 2012 even if his last…

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Episode 231 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast

Doug Patterson

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIt’s the Mike & Mike show again! Doug is buried in ungraded final exams, and Shaun is busy making life difficult for the bad guys. Joining M&M this week is Christopher Leone, Social Media Manager of the Red Bull Global RallyCross, to discuss the cool things that are happening with GRC this season including their new broadcast deal wtih NBC! Shaw recaps the rest of the news from the world of rally racing, and Whitesell gives us his perspective from the viewing mounds of…

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Episode 230 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast

Doug Patterson

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIt’s Mike and Mike at OpenPaddock.net! No, not that Mike and Mike, the awesome Mike and Mike that actually know their stuff about motorsport! Shaun and Doug are out this week, so Shaw and Whitesell recap the Oregon Trail Rally and preview the F1 Spanish GP and the inaugural IndyCar race on the newly reconfigured Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course. OpenPaddock.net Podcast: Episode 230 — Tuesday, May 6th, 2014 IndyCar ROP completed for Busch, Aleshin, Hawksworth, Huertas and Plowman Mechanical problems kept Karam from…

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Episode 229 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast

Doug Patterson

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIt’s another long one, but it’s worth it! We have the author of OpenPaddock’s “The Missed Shift”, John Olsakovsky on the show this week to talk about his weekend at Barber Motorsports Park. Mike Shaw reviews the news from the WRC, recaps the Empire State Performance Rally, the only US tarmac rally, and previews the upcoming Oregon Trail Rally. Wrapping up the show, Mike Whitesell leads us through the craziness that is Formula 1. OpenPaddock.net Podcast, Episode #229 for Tuesday, April 29th, 2014 Misc…

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Episode 228 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast

Doug Patterson

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadFearless Leader Shaun Pechin returns to the show as we preview this weekend’s IndyCar and Mazda Road to Indy event at Barber Motorsports Park, recap the week’s news in the WRC and Rally America, and review the news in Formula 1 and last weekend’s grand prix in China. OpenPaddock.net Podcast, Episode #228 – Tuesday, April 22, 2014 Misc. Pickett racing pulls out of TUSCAR — Is anyone surprised? IndyCar Saavedra on probation, fined 10k Helio’s new twitter problems Is Will Power getting kid glove…

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Indy Lights – The Year of the Veterans

Doug Patterson

The 2014 Indy Lights presented by Cooper Tires championship is underway and has it’s first two races are in the books. The series started with a increase in participants over the last season with a total of twelve entrants at both of the opening street races. I know it’s not a large of a field as we’d like to see, but it’s an improvement over the single-digit fields of last season. As usual, there are a number of European drivers coming over from the multitude of formula series that abound,…

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Episode 227 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast

Doug Patterson

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadMike, Doug, and Mike run the show tonight as Fearless Leader is on vacation and constructing a sand sculpture of the Mercedes F1 car. We review the mindless carnage from Long Beach in IndyCar, and the continued dominance of the veterans Veach and Chaves in Indy Lights, celebrate Colin Clark, the Voice of Rally, coming to the Oregon Trail Rally, and place odds on who’s head is going to roll next at Ferrari. OpenPaddock.net Podcast – Episode #227, Tuesday, April 15, 2014 IndyCar Long…

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