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Phoenix Open Test – Saturday 4:50pm Update – Timesheet from P3

By Patrick Stephan (@TSO_Patrick) Here is the time sheet from the 1-4pm practice session. After Rossi’s incident, the session ran mostly clean except for a couple of track inspections. Graham Rahal and Sebastien Bourdais both came in to the media center and I’ll send more notes from that shortly, but Graham said he did try...

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Welcome to TSO’s Saturday Open Test Coverage!

By Patrick Stephan (TSO_Patrick) Well, if you are a long time reader of TrackSideOnline.com, you’ll know that I don’t sleep much on race weekends, and I’m usually STILL running behind…something I’m probably too honest about. The problem is there is just so much stuff I want to talk about, send out, go over, etc., and...

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Newgarden leads first day of Phoenix Raceway open test

AVONDALE, Ariz. (Friday, Feb. 10, 2017) – The roar of 2.2-liter, twin-turbocharged V-6 engines filled the air with sweet sounds at Phoenix Raceway, day and night, as 21 Verizon IndyCar Series entries turned laps for the first time together in 2017. The first of a two-day open test for all full-season teams saw Team Penske...

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Phoenix Friday End of Day

By Patrick Stephan Still finishing up from a long day at PIR. If I’m not careful I will follow yesterday’s 4 hours of sleep with a nice 24 hour day 🙂 I got up at 2:45am this morning to make my flight to Phoenix. As Joe likes to point out, I should fire my travel...

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PIR Open Test Friday Night Session Notebook!

By Patrick Stephan Still a busy night here at PIR, where the temperature is dropping rapidly (oh wait, that’s just the A/C in the media center). But, I’ve been doing this long enough to know that the hotter the climate – the colder the media center will eventually get – so on an mid-80’s day,...

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Practice Session #2 is underway at Phoenix

By Patrick Stephan Well, that break wasn’t much of a break…almost as soon as the drivers came off the track, we got started with press conferences. First it was Scott Dixon, then all four Andretti Autosport drivers (Andretti, RHR, Sato, and Rossi). Then three of the Penske’s came in, Newgarden, Power and Pagenaud. Next up...

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Thursday Notes from Phoenix – and Welcome to FRIDAY!

By Patrick Stephan (@TSO_Patrick) and Bruce Martin Well race fans, it’s finally time for me to get back to a race track. Seems like forever ago that I went out to cover the Chili Bowl in Tulsa. Anyway, this is Patrick Stephan, and I will be handling most of the writing duties this weekend as...

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