Indycar Happenings

Wonder what's been happening in the world of Indycars?

 

Look below!

*  Juan Pablo Montoya, 1999 CART Champion and 2000 Indy 500 winner, will be returning to Indycar after years in F1 and Nascar.  He will drive a third car for Penske Racing joining Helio Castroneves and Will Power.

*  Tire Testing at Indianapolis Motor Speedway last week. 

*  Graham Rahal and Ryan Briscoe tested on the road course at IMS in anticipation of a possible Indycar road race there in 2014.

*  Jack Hawksworth, winner of the most recent IndyLights race at Baltimore tested for Rahal Letterman racing today.

*  Boo Hoo.  The Grand Prix of Baltimore will not be back in 2014 or 2015.   We loved this race and were so looking forward to going back!

1966 USAC Yearbook

If you've looked around our blog you may have seen some of the really neat old Indycar stuff that belonged to our pappy that we have posted occasionally. 

 

Since there is so much of it,

and it's all really cool,

we thought we would post something each week

for Throwback Thursday.

Since this week marked the 35th anniversary of Mario Andretti winning the World Championship in 1978,

we thought we would throw it back to 1965 when he won his first Indycar Championship at the age of 25.

Why we love Indycar. Fun Zones!

 

One of the reasons we love going to Indycar races so much is all the other stuff to do when the cars aren't racing.

 

 

Here's just some of the extra fun at Indianapolis, Pocono and Baltimore this year.

 

Go-Karts (for little kids and big)

  



Racing Games,



Slot Cars,

 

 Carnival Rides

 

Climbing Thingies and
Super Bounce Houses,

 

 a Few New Friends,

Slides,

Zip Lines,

Games,

Goofiness,

Racing Games!!!!



 and Entertainment.


So if you're going to a race,
take the kids (not us, yours),
and spend the weekend at the track having a blast!

 

 



More from The Grand Prix of Baltimore

Other Stuff from around the GP of Baltimore.
 

Makenna and Alex were thrilled their favorite drivers,
Tristan Vautier and Josef Newgarden
were starting side by side in row 3.

 

 

Our first 'Behind the Scenes in Indycar' interview. 

Krystin Wiggs, the PR person for Simon Pagenaud's winning team (Schmidt Peterson Motorsports) sat down with us the Friday before the race to answer some questions.

 

 

 7 Indianapolis 500 wins in one place.

Rick Mears ('79, '84, '88, '91) and Castroneves ('01,'02,'09) 

talking in the paddock.

 

Indycar invades Camden Yards.

 

We spent lots of time in the Paddock.  

 Lots to see and it was air conditioned.

 

Almost ran into Power and Castroneves on their scooters.

A map on the sidewalk. 

We wished we had our mini Indy cars along!

 

Lots of great places to watch all the action!

 

 

 

 Did we mention,

 

WE LOVED THE GP OF BALTIMORE!!!

 

 

Pagenaud Wins Grand Prix of Baltimore

The top 6.

 

Pagenaud (his second win), Newgarden (his highest Indycar finish ever), Bourdais, Justin Wilson, Simona De Silvestro, Kimball.

During the race there was no way to predict who would be where since there were so many crashes.

 

 

Second Place Finisher, Josef,  pre-race. 

(Josef is looking at us because, as always, we shouted his name really loud).

 

Pagenaud, Justin Wilson, and Josef. 

 

Josef Newgarden's first podium in Indycar. 

Alex is watching intently.

 

 

 

Josef's #1 fan ecstatic he finished 2nd.

 

 

A tough day for some of the championship contenders, like Ryan Hunter Reay. 

Helio increased his lead to 49 points over Scott Dixon and Pagenaud moved into third, 70 points back, with 3 races remaining.

 

 

The GP of Baltimore won't be back on Labor Day weekend in 2014, but hopefully they can get in on the schedule somewhere.

 

WE LOVED THIS RACE AND EVERYTHING ABOUT THE WEEKEND!