After losing ALL FOUR cars to some sort of power-related gremlins at Long Beach, many Indycar fans lamented at the bad week Andretti Autosport was having. Well friends, lament no further! After an absence of 38 years, McLaren is to return to the Indianapolis 500 next month, using Honda engines. On May 28 2017, McLaren […]
Well, that was certainly fantastic! James Hinchcliffe’s win at Long Beach was the icing on his comeback cake, and everybody loves cake, right? You’d have to be a heartless cyborg sent from the future to not feel a excited at this, and in case you are, no, my name isn’t Sarah Connor. You’ve got the […]
To the Indycar series victor belongs the spoils. And the media attention. And the interesting marketing choices. Behold, Simon Pagenaud cheerfully playing the self-deprecation card. From the opening seconds, you know where this is going, and yet you know you still want to watch. Credit Pagenaud with butchering the “Southern” accent with such cringe-inducing flair and […]
From Indycar, news that the sort of last lady left from the heretofore golden age of women Indycar drivers is not done yet with The 500. Mann will return to Dale Coyne Racing for a fifth consecutive year to pilot the team’s third entry in the 101st Indianapolis 500. The British driver will once again be […]
This is an obligatory post. Last year your humble host found the idea of having Indycar drivers participate on American Ninja Warrior positively blogworthy. And so it was that Helio Castroneves, Josef Newgarden, and Tony Kanaan took their crack at the arduous obstacle course, and none of them got past the third stage. Sad trombone. […]