Indycar Off-season News #4

Here are some Indycar happenings!

 

 

 

* The Indycar season is getting close.  The building of the GP of St Pete track began, with the help of defending winner, James Hinchcliffe. 

 

* A.J Foyt Enterprises picked up Martin Plowman for the Indianapolis 500.

*  Simona Silvestro has signed with an F1 team, Sauber, in the hopes of running in the F1 series in 2015. We will miss her in Indycar.

*  Sebastian Saavedra has signed with KV Racing and will join Sebastien Bourdais for the 2014 season.

 

* The GP of ST Pete will have a standing start.  What a great way to start the season!

* 2013 Indy 500 winner Tony Kanaan unveiled the ticket artwork for the 2014 Indy 500.  Can't wait to get our 'blue' envelope in the mail with our tickets!

* 1995 Indy 500 winner Jacques Villeneuve returns!!  He has a ride with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports for the Indianapolis 500 this year.

 

 



 

Indycar Offseason News #2

 

Indycar Offseason #2!!!

 

Lets begin.

 

*  2013 Indy 500 winner Tony Kannan's image was unveiled on the Borg Warner trophy on Dec. 2nd.

 *  Paul Page, chief radio announcer for IMS Radio Network from 1977 to'87, will return to that position in 2014.  Our mom is excited about that.

 

*  Josef Newgarden and Graham Rahal had a Tricycle Showdown on the Pat McCarthy show.   (It starts at the 6 minute point in the video.)  Very funny....and you can probably guess we've watched it many times since it has Josef in it.
 

*  The 2014 Indycar tv schedule was released and the great news is that their will be more Month of May of network tv in 2014!

*  Sebring Raceway in Florida has been busy the past few weeks with teams testing for 2014.  Ganassi racing was there this week with Alex Tagliani filling in in the #10 car.  Prior to Thanksgiving Penske Racing tested there including their new driver Juan Pablo Montoya.   Andretti Autosport, Dale Coyne Racing and RLL drivers have also tested there in recent weeks.
And to keep Alexandra happy we need to mention that Josef will be testing there on Dec. 18th and 19th with Sarah Fisher Hartman racing.

 



Indycar Offseason News #1

While we've been busy with school, there's been lots happening in Indycar.

Indycar News!...

 

 

Here's some of the news for the offseason

*  One of our favorite drivers, Dario Fran'kitty' has retired due to injuries from his last lap crash in Houston race #2.  We sure hope we'll still see him around the races.  Gonna miss rooting for him to win his fourth Indy 500 next May.

*  Paving of  the new road racing surface for the Indy GP was finished this month.  Can't wait to go to Indy and see it!

*  Indy 500 Rookie of the Year and 2nd place finisher, Carlos Munoz has officially signed with Andretti Autosport for the 2014 season, and is testing at Sebring this week.

*  The inaugural Dan Wheldon Pro-Am Karting Challenge raised over $100,000 for the Alzheimers Association in October!

*  'Turbo' is now on DVD!!!  Didn't get ours yet, hoping for Santa to bring it.  (or mom)

*  Zach Veach receives the Firestone Indy Light KeyBank Community Leader Award
  for his participation in STEM, Racing for Cancer, No Bull(anti-bully), and Miles Ahead.

*  Ed Carpenter Racing signed Mike Conway (2013 Detroit race #1 winner) for 2014.   Carpenter will now only be racing on ovals for the 2014 season, while Mike Conway will race the road/street courses.

*  Josef Newgarden (wearing his shiny 'Strike' racing suit) teamed with Mark Dismore, Jr. to win the 10th annual Robo Pong endurance Karting event at New Castle.

2013 Indycar Season

Can't believe the season is over.  

We miss it already. 

 

We miss...

 

 The cool race cars

 

 

and Pace cars

  

 

 and snails???
 

 

 

  The teams working on the cars

 

  

Seeing drivers up close (Really close)

 

Getting driver autographs

 

Super nice drivers

 

 

Shhh. 
No one tell Josef his #1 fan was getting
another driver's autograph.

 

 

We miss all the drivers

 

 

  Cool Flyovers.

 

 

The thrill at the start of the races!!

 

 

The excitement at the end of the races!!

 

 

 

 

Cool bikes the drivers ride around on.

 

 

Fun Fanfests!

 

 

 

Meeting Legends

 

 

 

And the #1 thing we'll miss this Indycar offseason...

Seeing Josef all the time.

(Alex made us write that.)

 

 

 

 

Indycar End of Season

 

 

Will Power wins his third race of the season.

 

Scott Dixon wins his third Indycar Championship.

 

Only 8 cars finish the race due to accidents, blown engines and who knows what else.

 

It was exciting!

 

Carlos Munoz won the Indy Lights race and

 

18 year old Sage Karam won the Indy Lights Championship

in his rookie season.

 

Can't wait till next season!

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.