TORONTO – Spencer Pigot survived a race under challenging conditions to make a clean sweep of the doubleheader weekend on the streets of Toronto. The victory helps the Juncos Racing driver re-enter the championship discussion after a difficult “Month of May” at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The fourth career Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires
READ MORETORONTO – Oh Canada! Garett Grist became the first Canadian to win a Verizon IndyCar Series’ ladder series event on the streets of Toronto in exactly a decade, since Antoine Bessette won a Toyota Atlantic Series race on July 10, 2005. It was the fourth career Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires win for
READ MOREINDIANAPOLIS, Sunday, June 14, 2015 – History abounded at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway over the four-day Sportscar Vintage Racing Association’s Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational, with a century’s worth of classic race cars turning laps on the oval and road course. But Sunday featured a moment never seen before at IMS – five members of the
READ MORETORONTO, Ontario, Canada – For the third straight Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda race, the main combatants for the victory were sophomore drivers Nico Jamin and Jake Eidson. But this time the result was more satisfying for Jamin, who had been bested by his closest championship contender, Pabst Racing’s Eidson, after he started
READ MORECOOPER TIRES GRAND PRIX OF TORONTO RACE TWO REPORT SHELBY BLACKSTOCK NO. 51 STARSTRUCK MAZDA After capturing a fourth-place finish* for Saturday’s Race One, the Nashville, TN native came home in the sixth position for today’s wet 30-lap race after rolling off the grid from seventh *The No. 4 car
READ MOREBy Patrick Stephan It has taken a LONG time for me to get this weekend’s sights and sounds (minus the sound) stuff together, and I’m not really even sure why. I’ll just blame it on the weather – I’m done with rain, mud, muck, etc. – both at race tracks and at home in Colorado...
By Patrick Stephan and Steve Wittich First, Patrick’s quick opinion. I enjoyed this race. Yes, it was a strategy race, and Coletti’s caution was perfectly timed for Newgarden, but there was also some great racing and some very good passing and most importantly some good driving. Given the same circumstances in the past (damp track,...
By Patrick Stephan and Steve Wittich The Verizon IndyCar Series Honda Indy Toronto got off to a clean start, helped by the race being declared a “rain race” which meant they dumped the tire rules for red/black and we got a single file restart on a very damp race track. But, the rain had pretty...
By Patrick Stephan I really will be sending some pictures and notes from the paddock and away from the track, but I haven’t gotten that all together as real racing stuff keeps interrupting. Recall that yesterday Will Power and Juan Pablo Montoya talked about the Chevy/Honda aero kit situation. It started when Will was asked...
By Patrick Stephan The rain the fell on the USF2000 race, and then stopped. The Pro Mazda cars ran on a wet, but drying track and then at 11:00am the Verizon IndyCar Series took to a mostly dry track with some damp patches for the 30 minute warm-up. Most of the cars went out on...
