Ryan Hunter-Reay

 FUN FACTS ON RYAN HUNTER-REAY
the 2012 Indycar Champion

Ryan Hunter-Reay in the 2012
Indy 500 parade

*Has the car number 1 to represent his 2012 championship and has the number
  28 inside of the 1 to represent the 28 million people who suffer from cancer

*Rookie of the year in 2007 when        
  only competed in 7 of the 17 races

*Has more wins than all other current
  American indycar drivers combined

*Is the only Indycar driver ever to lead all of the laps in a single race
  
*Was the highest placed American driver in points in 2010, 2011 and 2012

*Is the only driver to ever win in CART, Indycar, Alms, Champcar and Grandam

*Had the most Indy car wins in 2012 with 4 wins

*Is the only American driver who won in 2012

indycar schedule

            Here are the upcoming races for the

           2013 Izod Indycar series season

                 We really can't wait until the 97th running of the Indianapolis 500 on May 26th 

 

 

*May 5th at Sao Paulo, Brazil

*May 26th at Indianapolis, Indiana

*June 1st at Detroit, Michigan : Race 1

*June 2nd at Detroit, Michigan: Race 2

*June 8th at Fort Worth, Texas

*June 15th at West Allis, Wisconsin

*June 23rd at Newton, Iowa

*July 7th at Long Pond, Pennsylvania

*July 13th at Toronto: Race 1

*July 14th at Toronto: Race 2

*August 4th at Lexington, Ohio

*August 25th at Sonoma, California

*September 1st at Baltimore, Maryland

*October 5th at Houston, Texas: Race 1

*October 6th at Houston, Texas: Race 2

*October 19th at Fontana, California: Indycar Championship

2013 Indy 500 Pace Car

The 2014 Corvett Stingray

in  Laguna Blue Tintcoat
the Official 2013 Indy 500 Pace Car

With last year's pace car also being a corvette, soon our Poppi (grandfather) will want

 to come to the race with us just to see the cool pace cars.

Indy 500 Patches

What do these three patches have in common?

 

Answer:

 

They are from the years when a driver won Indy for a fourth time.

 

AJ Foyt in 1977

 

Al Unser Sr. in 1987

 

Rick Mears in 1991

 

News

In the Indycar News

 

 

THUMBS UP!

Pippa Mann, is going to try to make her 2nd Indy 500 this year in a car for Dale Coyne racing.  We always like seeing women drivers at Indianapolis so we hope she makes it!



Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon will be driving to give the Target Chip Ganassi racing team its 100th victory this weekend at the Sao Paulo Brazil Indy race.  Their first win came with Michael Andretti way back in 1994 in Australia.




THUMBS DOWN.

Could Indycars race on the old Formula 1 road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway?  We hope not.  Indy is a special place for the 500. So we agree with Robin Miller's article on this. 


Driver Oriol Servia will be without a ride after the Indianapolis 500 as his team Panther Dreyer Reinbold Racing cannot find enough sponsership and will be shutting down.