$3.1 Mil for Ericsson and Ganassi for Indy Win

Sunday’s 106th running of the Indianapolis 500 paid a record purse, with race winner Marcus Ericsson taking home $3.1 million from a total load of $16,000,200. It’s the largest purse ever in the century-plus history of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.” The Chip Ganassi Racing driver’s prize is also the largest…

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Thank You, Takuma Sato, for the $800

“In all the pre-race talk, few were mentioning Taku (Takuma Sato) as someone to keep an eye on,” Robin Miller wrote on Racer.com Seriously? How recent winner (knows how it’s done), front row starter (very fast), and drama-free-in-August (smooth Carb Day with all the right things to say afterwards) Sato…

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Godspeed Bill Simpson

One of the highlights of my PRI show this year was sharing Bill Simpson stories with Del Flores—a fellow former tenant of Lord of the Land Simpson. To know Simpson is to have Simpson stories. Neither of us knew that Bill had a second—and ultimately fatal, I guess—stroke on Friday.…

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Are Two Bumped Teams Better as One?

Former polesitter James Hinchcliffe of the Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports team failed to qualify for the 2018 Indianapolis 500 and qualified second-to-last in 2019. Two time F1 champ Fernando Alonso of Team McLaren failed to qualify in 2019. Now these two teams are joining together to share their experience at…

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Rainmeister Pagenaud Wins Wet IndyGP

Simon Pagenaud mastered weather and the competition in his electric yellow Menards Chevy to win the IndyCar Grand Prix on a wet Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. Pagenaud passed five-time NTT IndyCar Series champion Scott Dixon for the lead on the next-to-last lap  and pulled away to collect the 12th victory…

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Rookie Rosenqvist on Indy GP pole

Rookie Felix Rosenqvist won his first pole in the NTT IndyCar Series on Friday by outpacing Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Scott Dixon in the Firestone Fast Six qualifying session for the INDYCAR Grand Prix at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The 27-year-old Swede posted a lap of 1 minute, 8.2785 seconds (128.597…

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Midgets to the Dirt at IMS

The Driven2SaveLives BC39 presented by NOS Energy Drink already has made United States Auto Club (USAC) history before on-track action starts, with an all-time record entry of 118 Midget cars for the inaugural event Sept. 5-6 at The Dirt Track at IMS. The previous record for Midget entries in the…

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