Hometown boy Graham Rahal kept his championship hopes alive with a perfectly strategised race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Rahal was looking to finish inside the top 5 as the race entered its final stages. Prior to that, the leader board was shuffled as a handful of yellow flags brought several drivers to the front. Scott Dixon got a jump on the field at the start and built up a big lead over the course of the opening stint. A curveball was thrown when the race’s second full courseRead More
LEXINGTON, Ohio (Aug. 1, 2015) – Scott Dixon shattered a 16-year-old track record on the way to earning the Verizon P1 Award for Sunday’s 90-lap Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio. This marks the fourth track record that has been broken during the 2015 Verizon IndyCar Series season, which in addition to Mid-Ohio includes events at St. Petersburg, Long Beach and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. Dixon, who won at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in 2014 after starting at the rear of the 22-car grid, recorded a best lap ofRead More
Though it’s not widely known, NASCAR is one of the greenest sports today. Through its NASCAR Green initiative the sport has planted thousands of trees and helped install solar power at Daytona, Indy, Michigan, Pocono and Sonoma as well as for teams Roush Fenway Racing and Kyle Busch Motorsports. Today it has taken yet another step forward towards sustainability in announcing SunEdison, the world’s largest renewable energy development company as the sport’s official solar energy partner. Garnering praise all the way from the White House, the new partnership is onRead More
Giorgio Piola has given F1 fans everywhere a gift with a recent animation he has created showing how a Mercedes W06 would look were it converted to the proposed 2017 F1 regulations. The side by side comparison is telling; the wider tires are wonderful, the return of a full width wing is a nice touch too. Proper bargeboards will be back and the front wings will be wider. It will look familiar, maybe still too familiar to the current machines but it is at least a step in the rightRead More
Ousted Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson will soon be back with his best buds; James May and Richard Hammond. Motoring television’s most famous trio is set to reunite for a new car program produced by long time Top Gear veteran Andy Wilman for Amazon’s new on demand service; Amazon Prime. The three presenters simultaneously announced the deal this morning via their twitter accounts, James May ushering in the announcement with his typical, “Good News!” phrase. Jeremy Clarkson in a snub to his former employers at the BBC said, I feelRead More
The Verizon IndyCar Series announced that Derrick Walker, president for competition and operations, will leave his post following the season ending Go Pro Grand Prix of Sonoma. Walker took the job with IndyCar in June of 2013 and has been the pinpoint of IndyCar’s introduction of aero kits as well as race control technology upgrades. Prior to his tenure at IndyCar, he operated his own race team, fielding cars for a number of big names in IndyCar including future starts Gil de Ferran, Will Power and Simon Pagenaud. His teamRead More
PALMETTO, Fla. – A hectic weekend lies in store at the famed Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course which will host double-header events for Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires and the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires as well as a triple-header event for the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda on July 31-August 2. All seven Mazda Road to Indy events will be held in support of the Verizon IndyCar Series headliner and are likely to prove pivotal in the chase for three championship titles and over $2.3Read More
Two time CART champion, Paralympic Gold Medalist and inspirational racing legend Alex Zanardi wants to race in the Indy 500. Zanardi never had the chance to take to the start of the greatest spectacle in racing due to the CART-IRL split still in place when he raced in the US, a fact he regrets and would like to rectify if the right opportunity arose. Potential outfits include friend and former rival Jimmy Vasser’s team as well as Chip Ganassi’s crew who he drove for en route to the 1997 andRead More