KEVIN FORBES, Director for Engineering and Construction at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, won’t take any individual credit for all the safety innovations installed or put into practice at the 100-year old race track. He said “It’s a team effort. Diverse resources and diverse thought processes look at problems with different thoughts, which are explored to the […]
Day: May 24, 2009
SAFER SAFETY STAGES, AND LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES – Part 1
Sunday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the 93rd running of the Indianapolis 500, the SAFER barriers had many chances to show how well they lived up to their name. Despite all the wall-banging in Turns One and Four, the SAFER walls did what they were installed to do – absorb energy and keep the […]
HELIO & PENSKE WIN THE MONTH OF MAY • MEIRA IN BACK BRACE
Pole Sitter HELIO CASTRONEVES/No.3 Team Penske said he’s had the best month of May, ever! He won his third Indianapolis 500 race Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Castroneves won the Pit Stop Challenge Friday on Carb Day. His team owner, ROGER PENSKE, had said earlier this week that there were three races at Indy in […]
HAPPY HELIO!
Pole sitter HELIO CASTRONEVES/No.3 Team Penske won the 93rd running of the Indianapolis 500 race at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Runner-up was DAN WHELDON/No.4 Panther Racing, who started eighteenth. DANICA PATRICK/No.7 Andretti Green Racing was the top finishing female, placing a hard-fought third, while trying for the lead. The highest placing Indy-only driver was […]
LAP 120 UPDATE
Twenty-seven cars were still running, with the top twenty-three on the lead lap. The three females in the race were all still running: DANICA PATRICK/No.7 Andretti Green Racing-tenth; SARAH FISHER/No.67 Sarah Fisher Racing-sixteenth; and MILKA DUNO/No.23 Dreyer & Reinbold Racing-twenty-fourth, one lap down. RAPHAEL MATOS/No.2 Luczo Dragon Racing was still top Rookie at Lap 120, […]
YOU TAKE THE HIGH ROAD AND I’LL TAKE THE LOW ROAD
DARIO FRANCHITTI/No.10 Target Chip Ganassi Racing has led for 45 laps by Lap 80. Other leaders have been Pole Sitter HELIO CASTRONEVES/No.3 Team Penske-seven laps; 2008 Indy 500 winner and champion, SCOTT DIXON/No.9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing-17 LAPS; and RYAN BRISCOE/No.6 Team Penske-11 laps. So far RAPHAEL MATOS/No.2 Luczo Dragon Racing has been the top […]
TRADITION • RIDING HIGH….NOT!
No one does tradition, pomp and circumstance like the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Indianapolis 500 race. And this 93rd running of the race was no different. As the race is held during the Memorial Day weekend – an American holiday honoring those US military personnel who died in the service of our country – […]
TAPESTRIES • SPOT ON • FAST FATHERS
It’s hot, hazy and muggy at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on race day for the 93rd running of the Indianapolis 500. At 11:30 local time the ambient temperature is 86 F, the track temperature is 108 F and the breeze is nil. The crowds are large and started arriving early. People everywhere, gawking, gaping, and jostling […]