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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

12 Hours of Sebring 'Indycar' results

The 12 Hours of Sebring goes to Ganassi's #1 car of Scott Pruett, Memo Rojas and Marino Franchitti!!

Sage Karam ran two stints (and a great race) teaming

with Scott Dixon and Tony Kanaan

and they finished sixth.

Other Indycar drivers results included

Sebastien Bourdais and his team finishing 3rd

Simon Pagenaud's team finished 5th

Justin Wilson' s team finished 9th.

Can't wait the 12 days till we get to see

all the Indycar drivers

driving in the season opener at the GP of St. Pete!

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Sage Karam in the 12 Hours of Sebring

Sage Karam,

our great local racer,

is racing in the 12 hours of Sebring today
with Scott Dixon and Tony Kanaan
after having done a great job at the
24 hours of Daytona in January.

Other Indycar drivers we'll be watching include
Simon Pagenaud, Sebastien Bourdais,
Tristan Vautier, Katherine Legge, Alex Tagliani,
Ryan Briscoe and Ryan Hunter-Reay, Martin Plowman.

Good Luck Sage.

Keep impressing them so we can see you
in the Indy 500 this year!!!

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Joe Leonard Samsonite ad 1971

We love that our Pappy saved all his old Indycar stuff.

Today we found this in a Pocono program.

Joe Leonard began his 'second career' as an

Indycar driver in the early 1960's

after being a motorcycle champion.

He went on to race for greats such as

Andy Granatelli and Parnelli Jones.

He won the USAC (Indycar) Championship in 1971 and 1972.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Indycar offseason news #5

Almost the start of the season and there's plenty going on in Indycar!

There will be a new qualifying format for the Indy 500 this year. Of course we never fully grasped the old format, and our mom still misses the 2 weekends of qualifying. We just hope we can go to Indy to watch it this year however they qualify.

NASCAR driver Kurt Busch will do the 'double' and race in the Indy 500 and Coca Cola 600 in Charlotte on the same day. Cool!