Indycar Happenings sept 30

 

Five more days till they go back racing
at the Grand Prix of Houston  
but lots of other stuff going lately!
 

 

* Woo-Hoo!! Indycar will be racing on the Indy road course next May! 
Any suggestions on how we get our parents to take us out there for the whole month of May?  (It's a 10 hour trip so there's no driving back and forth.)

* Rumor has it that 2013 Indy 500 winner Tony Kanaan is going to be racing for Chip Ganassi Racing next year, though no official announcement has been made yet.

*  The Texas Motor Speedway race will be bigger and better next year with an extra 20 laps for the June 7, 2014 event.

*  George Bignotti, a really great race mechanic when our mom was growing up died this week at age 97.  He had 85 Indycar wins and his cars won the Indy 500 7 times with five different drivers including 4 time winners A.J. Foyt and Al Unser, Sr.



George Bignotti with Wally Dallenbach
1973 California 500.

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)