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Grand Prix of Portland – Sunday – 11:15 a.m. – Starting Lineup and Indy Lights second race

Most of the field is starting on the Firestone primary black tires. Here’s the full starting lineup with tire designation below. SP Car Driver Tire 1 88 Colton Herta Alternate 2 12 Will Power Alternate 3 9 Scott Dixon Alternate 4 60 Jack Harvey Primary 5 10 Felix Rosenqvist Primary 6 28 Ryan Hunter-Reay Primary...

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Grand Prix of Portland – Saturday – 12:15 p.m. – IndyCar Qualifying Groups

Two quick follow-ups came in just after we sent our last update. The Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing availability planned for 12:30 p.m. PDT has been scrubbed due to a conflict. And now, here’s the qualifying groups for the Grand Prix of Portland following third practice. Compared to some races where it appears one group is...

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Grand Prix of Portland – Saturday – Noon – IndyCar Third Practice and three Road to Indy Qualifying Sessions

Before we get to coverage of this third practice session, we acknowledge some sad news from elsewhere in the motorsport world. In an accident at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps for the FIA Formula 2 Championship race, French driver Anthoine Hubert, 22, was killed following contact with two other cars. The FIA’s official statement of the incident...

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Grand Prix of Portland – Friday – Close, Great Crowd, Herta and Bourdais, and two more Road to Indy Qualifying

  By Steve Wittich and Tony DiZinno Wrapping up a festive and busy Friday with our respective notes from the day… as well as our respective arrivals into Portland. We’ll note which one of us did each bit of notes below. — Steve’s travel notes I arrived in the Pacific Northwest on Wednesday. 1- I...

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Hybrid power coming to INDYCAR in 2022 – the news and some thoughts

By Steve Wittich Today, August 1, 2019, INDYCAR takes a step into the future of automobiles and racing. Since 1905, the NTT IndyCar Series and a multitude of forerunners have utilized the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) to power the pre-eminent American Open Wheel racing series. On March 10, 2022 (if the Firestone Grand Prix of...

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Texas Motor Speedway Friday – 2:00pm

By Patrick Stephan The practice session started with an air temp of 80 and the track a 113. That is lower on the air temp than last night (86), but the track temp is higher (108F last night). While taking a quick walk on pit lane, it was interesting to see a lot of NASCAR...

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Qualifying Day at Texas Motor Speedway – 1:30pm (Practice is starting – sorta!)

By Patrick Stephan Just a couple real quick notes before we get started with today’s first practice session at 1:30pm Central Time. Remember the first half hour that was added last night is only for scuffing tires and pit stop practice – no full speed running. Last night Scott Dixon was asked about this busy...

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TSO Feature (no sub. required) — INDYCAR partners with Red Bull Advanced Technologies to push driver safety forward with the next generation of cockpit protection

INDYCAR partners with Red Bull Advanced Technologies to push driver safety forward with the next generation of cockpit protection   By Steve Wittich For over a century the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has led the way in safety innovations in racing. From today’s announcement about the next evolution in driver cockpit protection, through the I-PAS goggles...

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