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By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter & NASCAR Contributor LONG BEACH, Calif. – California Pizza Kitchen will support Townsend Bell’s efforts with Andretti Autosport in the 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500 presented by PennGrade Motor Oil. This will be the first time that the Beverly Hills based restaurant chain will serve as a sponsor in motorsport. “Being a California native, I cannot think of a better fit than California Pizza Kitchen to join our team for the 100th Running of the Indy 500,” said Bell. “It’s awesome to represent aRead More

By Frank Santoroski, Staff Writer The Verizon IndyCar Series held its final practice before qualifications for the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Team Penske, with their four-car juggernaut, swept the top of the charts led by 2014 Series Champion, Will Power.  Power’s Penske teammates, Simon Pagenaud, Helio Castroneves and Juan Pablo Montoya took positions two through four, respectively. With a lap 1:06.89, pacing the circuit at 105.918 mph, the Australian driver topped the time charts in the morning session, completing pre-qualifying efforts that saw Penske cars lead both theRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter & NASCAR Contributor The debate on the domed skids for the superspeedways seems to be pretty split throughout the Verizon IndyCar Series paddock. The domed skits are mounted on the bottom of the chassis and are designed to change the airflow under the car when the car spins in order to keep the cars from getting airborne. With the domed skids comes a reduction in downforce, As a result of that, the downforce generated by the bottom of the cars is reduced due to the raisingRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter & NASCAR Correspondant Team Penske was on top once again during practice at Long Beach, but this time it was Will Power who paced the field. The two-time Long Beach winner bettered his time from this morning to set the fastest lap of the day at 01:07.5992s. “It was a bit of a good setup,” said Power. “I learned some stuff with Juan and now we’re progressing well. This is a track where I have struggled the last couple of years in qualifying, starting way backRead More

By Frank Santoroski, Staff Writer For the 42nd consecutive year, the streets of Long Beach have come alive with the sounds of high-powered race cars screaming through the city streets, as the drivers of the Verizon IndyCar Series held their first practice for Sunday’s Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. At the end of the session, we saw a familiar sight: Penske-Chevrolet cars taking the top two spots. Juan Pablo Montoya, who took his first career CART race win at Long Beach some seventeen years ago, led the session withRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter & NASCAR Contributor Juan Pablo Montoya was the quickest man in opening practice for the 42nd Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. The Colombian logged a lap of 01:08.1290 that was just .2424s quicker than teammate Will Power. The AJ Foyt Racing cars of Jack Hawksworth and Takuma Sato both found their way into the top five with the Britton logging a lap of 1:18.4839s. Josef Newgarden split the two Foyt cars with the fourth quickest time and was followed by Sato. Practice was slowedRead More

By Conor Daly, Verizon IndyCar Series Driver Welcome to my blog on Tribute Racing! I look forward to sharing the experience of my first full-time Verizon IndyCar Series season with all of you this year. We’re only two races into the season but it’s been very busy with testing, racing and promotional appearances, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I love what I do and I love every part of it. So far the season has been very much up and down. We struggled in practice and qualifyingRead More

By Frank Santoroski, Staff Writer Hulman & Co., the parent of IndyCar and Indianapolis Motor Speedway, have announced a mulityear partnership with MillerCoors, the second-largest brewer in the United States. The sponsorship arrangement will see the brewer named as the Official Beer and Cider of the Verizon Indycar Series.  Coors Light will serve as the lead brand of the IndyCar partnership. However, other MillerCoors products will be integrated into the program, most notably, Henry’s Hard Soda, whose logo will adorn the Penske car of Juan Pablo Montoya at Indianapolis inRead More

By Frank Santoroski, Staff Writer This coming weekend the Verizon IndyCar Series will return to the streets of Long Beach, as they continue their 2016 season. The race weekend is slated for April 15-17, 2016. About the Race The 42nd Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach is round three of sixteen for the Verizon IndyCar Series in 2016. The event is held on a temporary street circuit, one of six such races on the calendar. The defending race winner is Target Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon. The New Zealand-born driverRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter & NASCAR Contributor After 12 years of inactivity, the Nazareth Speedway has a new owner. The track was purchased by Jaindl Real Estate, a local real estate company, from the International Speedway Corporation. The company’s plans for the property are not known at this time other tahn David Jaindl, owner of Jaindl Real Eastate, saying that the area around the track will be farmed in the Spring. The current incarnation of the track opened in 1986 when Roger Penske purchased the property and built the track just southRead More