Indycar Offseason videos

       

Offseason videos

 

 

We missed the races during the winter, but found the Indycar 'Offseason' videos that show 
Will Power, James Hinchcliffe, Charlie Kimball and Josef Newgarden and
what they supposedly do during the non-racing months. 

They're really funny and held us over until the racing started again in March.

 

Here's episode 1 of 12 Offseason videos:

 

 

Alexandra especially liked them because her

favorite driver, Josef Newgarden is in most of them.

 

 

 

 

Everyone wants to go to the Indy 500

   

Come on, why can't we go to the Indy 500 too!


 

Tasha is ready to go.
(The hat's a little big)

I forget, where do the tires go again?






Four weeks to the Indy 500!

Can Dario Franchitti join

A.J. Foyt, Al Unser Sr. and Rick Mears

as a four-time Indy 500 winner?

Car and drivers photos from 1969 and 1970

Our pappy was really into open wheel racing and he and mammy used to go to lots of tracks around where we live like Pocono, Langhorne, Trenton and Nazareth, so he especially liked the 'local' drivers who lived nearby. 

His all time favorite was Mario Andretti. 

 

We found these old pictures in a file of our pappy's and thought they were pretty cool.

 



Mario Andretti (Indy 500 Winner 1969)
 



Al Unser Sr. (Indy 500 winner 1970,71,78)



Dan Gurney

Mark Donohue (Indy 500 winner 1972)



Bobby Unser (Indy 500 Winner 1968, 75, 81)







 

 

 



 

Corvette Pace Cars at the Indy 500

The 2012 Indy Fan Fest displayed past Indy 500 Corvette Pace Cars.
 

Since Corvettes are our grandfathers favorite car, we took lots of pictures of them.

 



 The 2012 Indy 500 Official Pace Car
Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1

 The 2007 Indy 500 Pace Car, a Corvette C6

The 2004 Indy 500 Pace Car, a Corvette C5

The 2006 Indy 500 Pace Car, a Corvette C6 Z06 Coupe



 







 

 



Josef Newgarden

Our little sister, Alex's favorite driver is Josef Newgarden, however 'favorite driver' is a bit of an understatement.  To know Alex is to know who Jofes (as she pronounces his name) Newgarden is.

It all started innocently enough when she met him at an autograph session in Indianapolis in 2012.  She got his autograph, and he joked with her about wearing her beloved Minnie Mouse hat.  She's been hooked ever since.



Meeting Josef was wonderful.....even if he didn't look for the picture.

Her favorite dress.




The best elevator ever.

She would only ride the elevator at the hotel that had his picture in it, she changed her 5th birthday party theme from kitties to Josef Newgarden and she hasn't shut up about him since.

One good thing is it makes it easy to give her gifts.  



Her favorite placemat.

Alex's 5th birthday cake.
Josef beat Marco and Hinchcliffe.



It was pretty easy to guess what Alex wanted to be for Halloween.

Go Josef! 
We hope he will be around for many years so  that Alex stays so interested in our favorite sport.



 

Pocono Tire Testing

 

We got our Indycar fix at Pocono tire testing two weeks ago.

 

 

It was really cool and
we can't wait till the race there July 7th!

 

 

 



Grand Prix of Long Beach

CONGRATULATIONS  to winner TAKUMA SATO!

 

It was an action packed race with so many passes and crashes.  It was fun to watch

them zoom around the tight turns and the fountain.       (Makenna)

Fun Facts from Long Beach
  
   *   First Japanese driver to ever win an Indycar race.

   *  First win for A.J Foyt Racing since 2002 when Airton Dare won at Kansas.

   *  First road course win for the team since 1978 when A.J. Foyt won at Silverstone.

   *  Sato was the second first time winner this year (James Hinchcliffe won at St. Petersburg)

   * With Graham Rahal's second place finish it was the fifth time a Rahal finished second at Long Beach (his dad finished second there 4 times and never won).

                                                                  

Alexandra (age 5) was not happy because her favorite driver Josef Newgarden finished 13th after having a bad pit stop, and he was not shown on tv much.

 

Can't wait till the 500!

Indy 2012

Indy 2012