Brain Dump: St Petersburg 2017

Congratulations to Sebastien Bourdais, who channeled his inner 2006 to utterly dominate the St Petersburg Grand Prix of St Pete, or whatever it’s called. Since coming to the Indycar series Bourdais has achieved only a fraction of the success he garnered in Champ Car, but as he showed on Sunday he is still more than […]

In case you think you can beat Simon Pagenaud in a go kart

Here’s a bit of fun from the reigning Indycar champ, who shows that although most of us dream that we could be pretty fast in one of those fancy race cars, well, there’s a reason we’re sitting here on the internet instead of racing right now. The recap: Simon Pagenaud was challenged to a 10-lap […]

Jay Howard’s Indycar career brought out of mothballs

Suppose you were blessed with a sponsorship deal funding an entry in the Indianapolis 500 this year. Hooray for you! Would you survey the landscape of all available drivers and decide your guy/gal would be…Jay Howard? From motorsport.com: Former Indy Lights champion Jay Howard will race the #77 Schmidt Peterson Motorsports-Honda at this year’s Indy […]

John Oreovicz sacked by ESPN

Ladies and gentlemen, I am saddened to report that longtime Indycar writer John Oreovicz has been sacked at ESPN. Well, actually he reported this himself on twitter. Or maybe it was Bruce Martin. Either way, the truth is out there. And it’s my fault. And probably yours as well. Seriously, I don’t recall the last […]

It’s not you – there have been a lot of ads lately

Your humble host has had the good fortune to view a great deal of auto races, and I fully understand the point of broadcasting is to get eyeballs and show them advertisements. The network gots to get paid. All about the benjamins. Insert your own favorite rap lyric here. Still, while viewing through the Indianapolis 500 […]