Indycar School Video #2

Indycar made simple. 

By kids.

 

Part 2 in our video series.

 

In this 'class' learn more of the basics

of the super exciting and competitive Indycar series.

 

 

(Be sure to watch for Alex's shout out for her favorite driver Josef Newgarden)

 

Favorite IMS things. GP of Indy

We can't wait to go to the GP of Indy!

 

Why we're so excited....

1. It's our first time going to see a road course race!

2. It makes two Indycar races at the IMS (and we get to go to both of them!)

3. The cars will be going the other direction down the front straightaway (how cool is that!)

4. It makes more awesome, fun, cool, great and exciting stuff in the month of May.

5. It's the fastest road/street course on the Indycar schedule.

6. There's lots of places to watch around the track, and we're going to check them all out.




* Oh, and most importantly (to her), Alex will get to see Josef

Here's a video of drivers previewing what a great race it's going to be
 

 

 

 

Road To Indy Series

The 'minor league' of Indycar
The Mazda Road To Indy is a series that prepares drivers for the Verizon Indycar Series.


There are three series.

USF2000
- Drivers first time in competitive open wheel cars
- Drivers first proper race team
- The car is the lightest with small wings
- The top speed is 140 MPH
- Youngest current driver is 14 year old Colton Herta


The champion of USF2000 goes on to:




Pro Mazda
- First experience with traction control
- Top speed 160 MPH
- Heavier wings



The champion of this series goes on to:

Indy Lights
- Bigger wings and tires
- Excess of 200 MP
- Drivers get a feel of what Indycar is like

- The winner gets a 1/2 million to 1 million dollar scholarship to race with an Indycar team the following season.

- They will run 14 races on 10 different tracks in 2014

- Past champions include Tony Kanaan, Scott Dixon, Townsend Bell, Scott Dixon, JR Hildebrand, Josef Newgarden!!!, Tristan Vautier and our hometown guy, Sage Karam.

- Sage Karam is the first driver to compete in all three series and was the youngest Indy Lights Champion at 18.



Some other information
-Drivers come from all over the world
-They're ages range from about 14 to 25 depending on series
- They race on many of the same tracks as the Indycar series

All Three Series will be racing on the Road Course at Indianapolis the weekend of the GP of Indianapolis.

 

 We can't wait to see them all.

Josef update #4 Barber Motorsports Park

Josef Newgarden finished a strong 8th in the rain delayed, wet and tricky GP of Alabama.

 

After starting fourth for the second race in a row Josef dropped to tenth by lap 4, but slowly worked his way back up to 6th before falling back to 8th after his final pit stop.
He is now 10th in Indycar Points!

And it seems like Josef had some fun before the race too.

Here he is selling race tickets from atop a spider (with an 'interesting' voice):

 

He also had some fun with Hinch at the space camp at the US Space and Rocket Center:

 

 

 

OTHER JOSEF STUFF:

 

*  There was a article about Josef in the USA Today before the Alabama Race! 

 

*  Sarah Fisher Hartman racing announced Klipsch Audio will be Josef's primary sponsor for the GP of Indy on May 10th.

 

Cool Car.
Can't wait to see it in person when we're at the race!!!

 

 

Watch Josef May 10th in the Grand Prix of Indianapolis on ABC.

GP of Alabama Road To Indy recap

There was lots of action at Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama, and not just Indycar.
 

Here's what happened in the
Road To Indy series 

 

 

 

USF2000
Colton Herta (son of former Indycar driver Bryan Herta) became the first driver born in the 21st century to drive in an Indycar feeder series event.
 

  

 Top Threes

 

Race 1                                                      Race 2

 

                                                        RC Enerson                                             RC Enerson

                                                      Florian Latorre                                          Aaron Telitz

                                                        Jake Eidson                                           Victor Franzoni

  

 RC Enerson won 3 of the 4 races this season and placed second in the other one.

 

 

 

 

Pro Mazda
 

 

Top Threes

 

                                                  Race 1                                                            Race 2

 

                                             Spencer Pigot                                                  Spencer Pigot

                                            Scott Hargrove                                               Scott Hargrove    

                                              Kyle Kaiser                                                Shelby Blackstock

 

  

          Spencer Pigot has won all four races this season.

 

 

 

Indy Lights
Zach Veach started on pole and dominated Race 1 on Saturday, but Sunday he started with a wet setup but the rain held off allowing Gabby Chaves to take the win.
 

  

Top Threes

 

                                                          Race 1                                                      Race 2

 

                                                       Zach Veach                                             Gabby Chaves  

                                                       Luiz Razia                                                Alex Baron

                                                      Jack Harvey                                              Zach Veach

   

       Zach Veach and Gabby Chaves have each won two races this season.




Catch all these series on the Indianapolis road course on May 9th and 10th!