Tag: INDYCAR

IndyCar – Mid-Ohio Review

Doug Patterson

The Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course is a beautiful race track, and the morning sun on Race Day made it look even more fantastic. Even at 7:30 in the morning, the hills along the Esses were filling up fast. Qualification on Saturday was amazing to watch, especially with Justin Wilson doing so well. Briscoe earned the pole, but Wilson was right along side him qualifying P2 for Sunday’s race. In the previous road race at Watkins Glen, Wilson scored Dale Coyne Racing’s first ever win in any major open-wheel series. It…

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Le mans – Highcroft to Stay Regardless

Shaun

With the ALMS series in a state of cardiac arrest due to the economic downturn, some good news can be found amongst the rubble that is a devastated 2009 season. Highcroft racing announced that regardless of what happens in the series, they will be racing in the ALMS in 2010. There has been growing concern over the state of the LMP1 series since the exit of Audi and Peugeot and a number of other teams that competed last season. There is also potential news that Acura may pull the plug…

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IndyCar – Why Switch Teams Robert?

mike

The official start of silly season happened this week as Doornbos has taken his father’s checkbook to HVM. If you recall, it was pretty widely reported at the beginning of the season that Robert had secured a 12 race deal with NHL. Lets be honest though, NHL is one of the most likely candidates to end up as one of the top teams in coming seasons, and certainly the move to HVM is slightly south of lateral. It appears that there was some pretty bad blood at the team as…

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IndyCar – Kentucky Changes

mike

The IndyCar race at Kentucky easily qualifies as the best oval race they have put on this year, and in my book, also outshined the fantastic street race at Toronto. Hands down, best race of the season! It was just a bonus that I was in attendance. Congratulations to Ryan Briscoe, who took the photo finish win over Ed Carpenter. Their side by side battle has to go down as the best season highlight on ovals so far. The teams were given very little practice time with these new features…

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IndyCar – 2010 Schedule Thoughts

mike

The IndyCar series schedule for 2010 was release last Friday. By now you have probably already laid eyes on it, but I wanted to give my thoughts next years lineup of events. Date Venue Track Sunday, March 14 Brazil (city TBA) TBD Sunday, March 28 St. Petersburg, Fla. 1.8-mile street course Sunday, April 11 Barber Motorsports Park 2.48-mile road course Sunday, April 18 Long Beach, Calif. 1.968-mile street course Saturday, May 1 Kansas Speedway 1.5-mile oval Sunday, May 30 Indianapolis Motor Speedway 2.5-mile oval Saturday, June 12* Texas Motor Speedway…

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IndyCar – Doornbos Leaves NHL

Shaun

IndyCar is known as a place where there is bright young talent with the passion to compete in open wheel racing at a high level. Also, the series has gained a reputation for housing F1 drivers that either are on the tail end of their career or not good enough to drive at the pinnacle. Both of these are the case for Robert Doornbos who has decided that after 12 races he needed a change. Doornbos has executed the option on his NHL contract and will leave the team effective…

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Episode 02 – Open Paddock Podcast

Shaun

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThis weeks podcast is chock full of goodness. F1 – Schumi returns, BMW bails, Renault banned and Hungary wrapup. IndyCar – Edmonton wrapup, Kentucky preview, new aero, push to pass & 2010 schedule. Rally – WRC Finland preview & Xgames. My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-1a4d1281133fe564f0ff5045439be667}

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