Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Tag

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter The Hyatt hotel chain announced they will once again serve as an associate sponsor for Graham Rahal in the Verizon IndyCar Series. Rahal’s No. 15 Honda will feature branding from Hyatt’s loyalty program – World of Hyatt starting at this weekend’s season opening Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. The World of Hyatt program allows users to earn free nights to be used at any of the company’s 698 properties across 56 countries. “We’re excited to be working with World of Hyatt for a second seasonRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter Age: 28 Years in IndyCar: 10 Wins: 4 Podiums: 19 Career Laps led: 240 2016-17 Team: Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Graham Rahal has established himself as one of the most exciting drivers in the Verizon IndyCar Series. The driver of the No. 15 Steak ‘n Shake Honda had another solid year in what has been a career turnaround. He edged out James Hinchcliffe by 0.008 of a second for a thrilling win at the Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway in August. He also putRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter Steak ‘n Shake will return for a third year sponsoring Graham Rahal in the Verizon IndyCar Series as part of a four-race deal. The fast food chain will serve as Rahal’s primary sponsor in four races this year – the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, the 101st Running of the Indianapolis 500 presented by PennGrade Motor Oil, the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio and the Bomarito Auto Group 500 at Gateway Motorsports Park. Maxim Magazine will also serve as an associate sponsor. Both Maxim andRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter Verizon IndyCar Series team owner Bobby Rahal seems to like the potential of the series expanding internationally. The 1986 Indianapolis 500 and three-time Indy car champion turned team owner feels that going international would elevate IndyCar’s bottom line if the event well supported. He alluded to CART/Champ Car’s successful stint in Surfer’s Paradise Australia from 1991-2008 as an example of how a race was done right.  “We had tremendously successful races in Australia, Surfer’s Paradise became a huge event,” Rahal told Motorsports Tribune. “There’s aRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter Oriol Servia will return Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing for the 101st Running of the Indianapolis 500 with hopes of running a full season. The Pals, Spain native has driven for RLL in the Indy 500 three times (2009, ’14, ’15) with a best finish of 11th in 2014. He also drove three additional races for the team in 2014, with a best finish of seventh at Long Beach and leading seven laps late at the Grand Prix of Indianapolis. “I couldn’t be more excited to be backRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter Rahal Letterman Langian Racing has bolstered their Verizon IndyCar Series engineering program with the hiring of Indy-500 race winning engineer Tom German. German joins the team as an engineering consultant on a multi-year contract after spending the 2016 season with Andretti Autosport, where he helped guide Alexander Rossi to a win in the 100th Indianapolis 500 presented by PennGrade Motor Oil. Germain also served as the technical director of Team Penske prior to his tenure at Andretti Autosport. He helped guide Sam Hornish, Jr. and GilRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter On the heels of a part-time rookie season in 2016, Spencer Pigot feels that returning to Ed Carpenter Racing for the road and street courses in 2017 would be a nice fit. The 23-year-old from Pasadena, California joined ECR driving the No. 20 Fuzzy’s Vodka Chevrolet alongside Josef Newgarden for the road and street courses at the Detroit doubleheader round after beginning the season with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. The two brightest points of his season came at Road America and Mid-Ohio where Pigot started deepRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter Graham Rahal thinks that Oriol Servia is an ideal choice for a second car at Rahal Letterman Langian Racing. RLL Racing ran two cars for three races last year with rookie Spencer Pigot at the wheel. The team has expressed interest in running two cars for the 2017 Verizon IndyCar Series season but would favor a veteran driver rather than a rookie. Servia, 42, has driven for RLL on three occasions, most recently in a one-off drive at 2015 Indianapolis 500 and ran a handful of racesRead More

By Frank Santoroski, Staff Writer The Verizon IndyCar Series has now run the Firestone 600 at Texas Motor Speedway, a race that began in June. The conclusion of the rain-interrupted event saw Graham Rahal take his first win of the season in the closest IndyCar finish at TMS. Lets take a look at some of the storylines coming out of Saturday night’s race. 1 ) Worth the Wait  With eleven weeks between the red flag for rain and the restart, TMS fans had a long wait for the finish. TheRead More

By Frank Santoroski, Staff Writer This coming weekend the Verizon IndyCar Series will return to the Mid Ohio Sports Car Course for the Honda Indy 200 continuing the 2016 season. The event is slated for July 29-31, 2016. About the Race The Honda Indy 200 at Mid Ohio is round twelve of sixteen for the Verizon IndyCar Series in 2016. The event is held on a natural terrain road course, one of six such races on the schedule. The defending champion is Graham Rahal, who drives the No. 15 HondaRead More