The three-hour Wednesday evening session of the Indy Racing League’s Indy Car test was punctuated with cautions for debris. More cut/flat tires. The Firestone engineers said it was the first test of the season and the track had debris. “Firestone is careful about what we run out there.” Despite the numerous cautions for debris and […]
Month: February 2009
BRISCOE PIPPS DIXON • MORAES MEETS THE TEAM
RYAN BRISCOE/No.6 Team Penske pipped SCOTT DIXON/No.9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing near the end of the first Wednesday afternoon test session for the Indy Racing League’s Indy Cars at Homestead Miami Speedway. Briscoe pulled a fast lap near the end of his run – 00:25.1984/212.156 mph – fastest time of the weekend. Dixon, who had […]
DIXON STILL FASTEST
IXON/No.9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing was still the fastest driver Tuesday evening in th e second of two long Indy Racing League Indy Car test sessions. His late afternoon time of 00:25.2919/211.372 mph held. All in all he ran 100 laps. The top three drivers held their earlier positions. MARIO MORAES/No.5 KV Racing Technology was […]
DIXON & MANN (THE FEMALE) FASTEST DRIVERS
The weather was sunny but windy at Homestead Miami Speedway Tuesday for the second day of Indy Racing League’s annual Spring Training. The Firestone Indy Lights cars were on track from 9 am to 3:45 PM. Panther Racing’s PIPPA MANN/No.16 was the fastest, overall and Rookie. There were 17 cars on track, ten of which […]
SOUND BITES IN THE SAND • LEANER MEANER INDYCAR
Four Indy Racing League IndyCar series champions met Monday at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami to play in the sand and be informally chatty with the media. A sand sculptor crafted a large IndyCar championship trophy flanked by logos for the two Florida races – season’s opener at St. Petersburg and finale race at Homestead […]
BUSCH THE DOMINATOR MAKES NASCAR HISTORY • ROOKIE FLAMEOUT
KYLE BUSCH/No.18 Z-Line Designs Toyota is two thirds of the way to a hat trick after winning Saturday evening’s NASCAR Nationwide Series Stater Bros. 300 at Auto Club Speedway. He made NASCAR history by winning two major top tier races in one day. He held off KEVIN HARVICK/No.33 Rheem Chevrolet, who made a run at […]
ROWDY WINS BORING TRUCK RACE
Pole sitter KYLE BUSCH/No.51 Miccosukee Resort Toyota won the NASCAR Camping World c Series San Bernardino County 200 Race Saturday afternoon at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana. The race wasn’t up to its reputation of being rough, tough and exciting. Rowdy, as he likes to be called, led for 95 of the 100-lap race, swapping […]
EDWARDS ON NNS POLE AND IN BRONZE
In Southern California, the land of contrasts, the weather is just that. It’s a bright overcast day at Auto Club Speedway for Saturday’s NASCAR events. It’s cool and bright, breezy with a hazy overcast… but the snowcapped mountains are still quite visible. The grandstands are randomly occupied by a few fans. CARL EDWARDS/No.Scotts 60 Ford […]
VICKERS AND ROWDY ON POLE
BRIAN VICKERS/No.83 Toyota may feel vindicated after last Sunday’s ill-fated NASCAR Sprint Cup Daytona 500 race, when he was caught in an accident which left him an unwilling DNF in fortieth place. Friday he took the pole position for Sunday’s Auto Club 500 race on the Southern California two-mile superspeedway. Stats wise, this is Vicker’s […]
MORE THAN FULL FIELDS – WHO WOULDA THUNK IT?
It was sunny, mild and clear Friday at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana CA for the all-NASCAR weekend. The beautiful snow-clad San Bernardino mountains can easily be seen – not always possible due to the infamous Southern California smog. All three of NASCAR’s top-tier series are oversubscribed for their races, something not thought possible earlier […]