Ganassi’s No. 8 crew had rapidly turned around Ericsson and he had emerged in third. However, he passed Newgarden and then took the lead from compatriot Rosenqvist on lap 137. Two laps later, Newgarden, too, had passed Rosenqvist to run second in Ericsson’s wheeltracks. Half a second behind Ericsson ran Rossi who had demoted Ferrucci, while O’Ward was sixth, the No. 5 McLaren team warning him that his car was using up too much fuel. The surprise was Carpenter, who appeared to have been short-filled for he had jumped to seventh in the pit stop exchange ahead of Kirkwood, the recovering Palou and Sato.

On lap 149, out came the second caution, as Grosjean lost control out of Turn 2, sliding out of the groove and into the SAFER barrier, before bouncing across the track and into the infield grass. As the DHL car was scooped onto the flatbed, O’Ward, Carpenter, Sato, McLaughlin, VeeKay, Kanaan and Power were among those who hit pit road.

On lap 156, the green flew again, and Newgarden drafted past Ericsson into the lead, while Ferrucci passed Rossi and Rosenqvist for third, and the following lap Ferrucci was past the No. 2 Penske into second, and into Turn 1 next time by, the Foyt car went up the inside of Ericsson into the lead.

Behind Rosenqvist and Rossi, Kirkwood ran sixth ahead of Palou, Daly, Dixon, Sato, Simon Pagenaud, O’Ward and Power. Then on lap 164, Kirkwood passed the man he replaced at Andretti, Rossi, to claim fifth, and the following lap Daly drafted past Palou for seventh. On lap 166, Kirkwood moved again, getting around Rosenqvist for fourth, and on lap 167 he passed Newgarden around the outside for third. Meanwhile, Power slid wide at Turn 2, and broke a toelink on the wall.

Of those yet to make a fifth pit stop, Ferrucci blinked first and pitted on lap 169, and there was a fumble as a wheel rolled out of the Foyt No. 14 team’s pitbox. However, he received only a monetary fine and a warning. It was still a slow stop, but he was still in the hunt. He got around Newgarden and then Rosenqvist, but both of them re-passed him, as did Rossi.

Ericsson and Rosenqvist ran in lockstep, while Newgarden and Rossi squabbled over third. Yet O’Ward, who had led the early fifth-stoppers, had worked hard and emerged in third. He wasted little time in passing teammate Rosenqvist, then Ericsson. However, it wasn’t yet for the lead, as Ryan Hunter-Reay and Dreyer & Reinbold Racing led the Juncos Hollinger pair of Ilott and Agustin Canapino, having not yet made their final stop.

Then on lap 186, after Newgarden passed him at Turn 1, Rosenqvist slid up to the wall in the dirty air, smacked it hard, and slid down to the middle of the track. Ferrucci and Rossi swerved to the inside around his stricken teammate, Ferrucci went to the high side to avoid the wreck, but Kirkwood — also on the high side — was far less lucky. His left-rear wheel just clipped the McLaren and was torn off. It cleared the debris fence, yet by some miracle it fired into a gap between grandstands. However, Kirkwood’s car was spun around, flipped up and ground along the barrier, then the track, upside down. Kirkwood, mercifully, was left complaining only of sore knees, while NBC were able report that no one was injured by his errant wheel, damaging only a parked street car.

Hunter-Reay led Ilott and Canapino into the pits, leaving O’Ward heading Ericsson, Newgarden, Rossi, Ferrucci, Palou, Daly, Dixon, VeeKay and Herta for the restart with nine laps to go. However, the restart was waved off as O’Ward was adjudged to have brought the field to the green at too slow a pace.Now with eight laps left, there were no issues with the start, but O’Ward was still a sitting duck. He clung to the inside wall, but Ericsson drafted alongside him along the front straight to and edged ahead, while Newgarden swept around the pair of them to snatch the lead. On the run down to Turn 3, O’Ward tried outside, then inside Ericsson, and was three-quarters alongside when Ericsson turned in. O’Ward’s left front hit the rumble strip, while his right-front rubbed the Ganassi car’s left rear. That pitched the No. 5 into a spin across the track and into the outside wall, where it lifted its nose but stayed right-side up. After coming to rest, his car was damaged further by Canapino, who was without steering, having been an innocent victim of a crash caused when McLaughlin ran into the back of Pagenaud, spinning the Meyer Shank car out of control.

 

Ericsson, having completed a great save after the contact with O’Ward, would take the restart as Newgarden’s main challenger, with Ferrucci third after passing Rossi around the outside of Turn 2 on the previous start. In fifth lay Palou ahead of Dixon, Daly, VeeKay, Herta and Sato.

A four-lap shootout never happened. Newgarden didn’t stay alongside the pitwall, and Ericsson filled the gap on the left, while Ferrucci found a gap on the right to slip into second. However, behind them, Christian Lundgaard was knocked into the wall by a wheel-to-wheel battle between Carpenter and Andretti, and the chaos claimed the second Foyt car of rookie Benjamin Pedersen, which also struck the wall and scattered debris along the front straight. Out came the third red flag.

That meant the restart would leave one warm-up lap, and then one racing lap, with Ericsson leading Newgarden, Ferrucci, Rossi.

Ericsson sprinted away as the green was called, and he looked to have too much of an edge on Newgarden, who had also dropped his pursuers. But on the run down to Turn 3, Ericsson had no way of defending, and the No. 2 Penske pulled past. Despite cool tires, he held firm on a slightly higher line, kept his momentum through the short chute and up the front straight. He beat Ericsson by 0.0974s, with Ferrucci, Palou and Rossi completing the top five ahead of Dixon, Sato, Daly, Herta and VeeKay.

 

Victory celebration with Indy 500 winner Josef Newgarden

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With a bag of McDonalds in one hand and a beer in the other, Josef Newgarden — winner of the 107th Indianapolis 500 — joins RACER’s Marshall Pruett to discuss his rise from the Mazda Road To Indy to earning the greatest victory of his career, and more.

 

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With a bag of McDonalds in one hand and a beer in the other, Josef Newgarden--winner of the 107th Indianapolis 500--joins RACER's Marshall Pruett to discuss his rise from the Mazda Road To Indy to earning the greatest victory of his career, and more.

 

'I wanted to win so bad... I knew we could' - Newgarden

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Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden, who won the 107th running of the Indianapolis 500, says he felt people looked at him as a “failure” until he had captured victory at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Newgarden sprinted past defending Indy 500 race-winner Marcus Ericsson with less than half a lap to go after the third red flag of the day left a single-lap shootout to the checkered flag. Despite the Chip Ganassi Racing driver apparently making a break at the drop of the final green, Newgarden stayed in his draft through Turn 1 and carried more momentum through the short chute onto the back straight. Ericsson swung hard left to prevent his pursuer from creeping up the inside, but he was defenseless on the long run down to Turn 3, and Newgarden stayed high and passed him long before turn-in.

Newgarden then stayed firm through Turns 3 and 4 before crossing the yard of bricks a mere 0.0974s ahead of Ericsson.

“I’m just so thankful to be here, you have no idea,” gushed Newgarden after scoring Penske’s 19th Indy 500 victory, and his own 27th IndyCar triumph. “I started out as a fan in the crowd and this place, it’s amazing regardless of where you’re sitting. It doesn’t matter if you’re a jockey in the car, or you’re working on it, or you’re part of the crowd – you’re part of this event and the energy. I love this city; I drove racing cars here when I was a kid.

“I’m just so thankful to Roger (Penske) and Tim (Cindric, his team president and strategist) and everyone at Team Penske. I just felt like everyone kept asking me why I hadn’t won this race. They look at you like you’re a failure…and I wanted to win it so bad. I knew we could, I knew we were capable and I’m so thankful to Shell, Team Chevy, everybody. I’m so glad to be here.”

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Asked what was going through his mind as he crossed the yard of bricks for the final time, Newgarden said: “Oh, just pure emotion. I was just trying to stay locked in. I was emotional the whole last 10 laps because I knew we were in a position to fight for this win at the end.

“And I knew it wasn’t going to be easy; it was going to come to some last laps shootout like it always is these days, which is exciting but stressful for us.

“I’m just thinking about all the work. I can’t talk highly enough about the team. They worked so hard all month. It takes so long to get to this point. We’re here for weeks, grinding on this thing for just this one moment. That’s what makes it so demoralizing when it doesn’t work out.

“I can tell you, we’re going to enjoy it tonight; it’s going to be amazing to win this.”

After completing his slowdown lap, Newgarden stopped his car on the yard of bricks, got out of his car, ran over to the wall, and slipped under the fence to join the wildly cheering fans.


“I’ve always wanted to go into the crowd here at Indianapolis,” said the two-time IndyCar champion. “I’ve seen people go up on the fence; I wanted to go through the fence.

“I wanted to celebrate with the people. I just thought it would be so cool to feel that energy, because I know what that energy is like on race day. This was a dream of mine – that if this was ever gonna happen, I wanted to do that.”

Regarding the last lap fight with Ericsson, Newgarden commented: “P2 with one lap to go is where you wanted to be, and it actually worked out great that I got a run on the back straight. I knew if I could just get him and clear him into (Turn) 3, then maybe we could hold on until the line.

“But he was so quick on the straights, it wasn’t guaranteed. I was just trying to do everything I could to keep him back, and it was a fight – just a big fight.

“It’s not easy to win this race; it’s the most difficult race in the world to win.”

 

Every Winner from The Indy 500 ( 1911-2022 )

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#indy500 #indycar #indianapolis500 Hey Guys, in this Video I've collected every Winner of the Indianapolis 500.

 

Trans Am returns to the Brickyard this weekend

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The Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli’s TA/XGT/SGT/GT competitors return to action for Round 5 of their 2023 season at one of the world’s most historic and storied racetracks, Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Throughout the track’s 114-year history and the series’ 57 years of competition, the Trans Am Series has only visited the Brickyard three times, with the most recent event held in 2019. Built in 1909, the Brickyard is the oldest track on the Trans Am circuit.

Kissed the bricks
Chris Dyson in the No. 16 GYM WEED WHILE YOU WORKOUT Ford Mustang is the only driver entered into this weekend’s event who has won on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course in Trans Am, earning his third-career victory in the series in 2019. However, he isn’t the only one who knows what it’s like to kiss the bricks at the famous facility.

Paul Menard in the No. 2 Weaver/Householder/Technique Dodge Challenger won the 2011 Brickyard 400, claiming his first ever victory in the NASCAR Cup Series on the track’s 2.5-mile oval.

Matthew Brabham in the No. 20 GYM WEED Ford Mustang won on the track’s road course, standing atop the podium in the 2014 Indianapolis Grand Prix in Indy NXT. The 29-year-old has four road course starts at the track in that series.

Back Home Again in Indiana
The two drivers in this weekend’s field who call the Indianapolis area home have two of the most famous last names in racing: Adam Andretti and Matthew Brabham. Brownsburg native Andretti (No. 44 Top Liner Chevrolet Camaro) comes from a large family of famous and multi-disciplined racers, including his uncle, Formula 1 champion, four-time IndyCar champion and Indy 500 winner Mario Andretti. Brabham, the grandson of three-time Formula 1 champion Sir Jack Brabham and son of four-time IMSA GTP champion and 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Geoff Brabham lists Indianapolis as his hometown.

Fathers and sons
This Father’s Day weekend, two drivers in the Trans Am Series will be sharing the track with their fathers. Keith Grant in the No. 40 Showtime Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro will take the green flag with his father, Richard Grant in the No. 30 Grant Racing Chevrolet Corvette, competing against each other in the TA class. Keith will also be on track with his uncle, 2022 SGT champion Milton Grant, who will drive the No. 55 Springhill Suites/Sentry Self Storage Porsche 991.1 GT3 Cup in the SGT class.

Matthew Brabham will be joined at the racetrack by his father Geoff Brabham, who will drive in Formula B in the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association’s Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational.

While he won’t be racing against him, Chris Dyson’s father Rob Dyson has his own place at the speedway. The elder Dyson, who recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of his team, Dyson Racing, is the Chairman of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum board of directors. Rob, an SCCA GT2 national champion and Rolex 24 at Daytona winner has served on the museum’s board since 2011 and was named chairman in 2021.

New Burtin chassis debuting
When Trans Am arrives at Indianapolis Motor Speedway this weekend, driver and team owner Claudio Burtin will unload a brand-new Burtin Racing TA class chassis, which will make its competition debut in Saturday’s race following three years of design and development. This is the first time Burtin or his team have competed since Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course last June. Adam Andretti will pilot a second Burtin Racing entry this weekend, the No. 44 Top Liner Chevrolet Camaro. Andretti scored a third-place finish in the TA race at the track when the series last visited in 2019.

The No. 17 Top Liner Chevrolet Camaro, which will be driven by Burtin this weekend, was built in Burtin Racing’s 70,000 square-foot facility, which houses their race shop in Adairsville, Ga., with design and manufacturing assistance from Leap Racing in Georgia and CP Tech and CP Autosport in Germany.

Burtin says that the metric-sized tubular design of the chassis is unique and is a foot wider than current vehicles in the TA field, utilizing the strength and lightweight nature of the chassis to create a more stable platform. It also moves the full contents of the fuel tank in front of the rear axle, allowing it to be more balanced. He also states that the car is metallurgically different than every other car in the garage. Through careful design, and the use of tubing with superior specifications, the new chassis has a torsional rigidity that is nearly three-times higher than the previous chassis. Learn more about the new chassis here.

Dyson could become fifth in all-time TA wins
Two-time TA champion and current points leader Chris Dyson in the No. 16 GYM WEED Ford Mustang could become fifth on the all-time list of TA class winners if he scores a victory in this weekend’s event. The win would tie him with Scott Pruett with 22 victories. Dyson scored his third ever Trans Am win at Indy in 2019, which is the last time Trans Am visited the track.

New look for Drissi at Indy
2009 TA champion Tomy Drissi will run a familiar number this weekend, but his car will be sporting a completely different look. Drissi will drive the No. 8 Lucas Oil Chevrolet Camaro fielded by Ken Thwaits’ Showtime Motorsports. Drissi suffered a hard crash in his 3GT Racing Ford Mustang at Lime Rock Park over Memorial Day weekend. The team was unable to repair the car up to their standards of performance and safety in time for this weekend’s race, so Showtime Motorsports is lending a hand to allow Drissi to continue his full-time championship effort.

New faces in production classes
This weekend, the Trans Am Series will welcome a few new faces into the garage. Florian Eyme is making his first-career start in the No. 11 Racing Hive Porsche Cayman GT4 CS in the GT class. Wesley Slimp will also compete in the series for the first time, driving the No. 43 BridgeHaul/Bennett Family of Companies Audi R8 LMS in the XGT class.

Father’s Day thoughts
In honor of Father’s Day this weekend, a handful of drivers offered their thoughts about their dads and how they influenced their racing careers:

Amy Ruman, No. 23 McNichols Co. Chevrolet Corvette:
“What a fitting way to spend Father’s Day weekend – at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the ‘Racing Capital of the World.’ I can’t thank my father enough for being such a great role model and inspiration to me throughout my life. I am fortunate to have worked side-by-side with my dad in business and in racing. His love of the Trans Am Series, Corvettes, and racing set the tone for where I wanted to be. I have learned so much from him and can’t thank him enough for his tireless efforts, from working on the car, data, engineering, coaching, and even body work. Without his unconditional love, encouragement, and support, I wouldn’t be a champion!”

Chris Dyson, No. 16 GYM WEED Ford Mustang:
“Watching Dad go racing when I was a boy was inspirational. He was winning races and building amazing businesses. He was (and still is) an absolute dynamo. But more than anything, he absolutely loved being a dad. When I wanted to go racing, he was the opposite of a ‘Little League dad.’ He wanted to make sure I was doing it for myself and not to impress him. He had enjoyed a great driving career and didn’t need to live through me. I also started racing a lot later because I was mainly playing baseball, so he pushed me to sort out a lot of my early karting and club racing on my own. He knew that was the way I would understand if I really wanted to do this. I appreciate his approach to it even more now.

“Dad’s priority as a driver and as a team owner was getting the basics right. He always focused on putting resources into the right people and the right equipment and carved his own path. He built relationships with people who shared his outlook and wanted to succeed. He saw potential where others might not. And then he gave his people freedom and empowered them to do great things. We have been able to build on the foundation of the team he created and enjoy a lot of success together. It’s an honor to carry on his legacy. Happy Father’s Day, Dad!”

Tomy Drissi, No. 8 Lucas Oil Chevrolet Camaro:
“My dad raced bikes in Morocco; he loved racing bikes and he loved cars. My dad was always supportive of my racing and was the first one to have a bag packed for a race. My career started in vintage racing, and he was a fixture at the racetrack. He couldn’t believe it when I started racing pro. Everyone at the track knew him and loved him. If he wasn’t able to make it to the race, everyone would say ‘Where is your dad?’ before they even said hi to me. When I won my first Trans Am race, the Long Beach Grand Prix in 2000, everybody had him come up on stage and he took the mic. I was excited, but I think he was even more excited. I don’t know where my racing career would be without his love and support. I think he enjoyed it more than me sometimes. I love you, Papa!”

Matthew Brabham, No. 20 GYM WEED Ford Mustang:
“I grew up listening to incredible racing stories shared around the dinner table between my Dad and Grandpa. I would sit there in absolute awe, and it really inspired my decision to go racing myself. Dad was fully on board and supported me a great deal throughout my life and racing. We have so many fond memories driving all across Australia in a van and going to kart races together. We developed such a strong and emotional connection through all the success and hardships. When it comes to racing, we almost always know what each other is thinking without even having to say it.

 

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Abandoned tracks in Florida area and other places (updated)
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Bonneville History
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Daytona History
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Drag Racing History
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This link has some historic drag racing pics.

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Local historic drag racing track Twin City Oldsmar

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Indianapolis History

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24 Hours of Lemans history

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Lime Rock Park history

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Pikes Peak racing history
Is Pikes Peak a road Race?


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History of Race Cars

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Road Racing History
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Sebring history

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A bit of stock car racing history

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The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum: INSIDE The "Off Limits" Restoration Shop! (Indy 500 Winners)

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The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum located in the infield of the historic racetrack also has a restoration facility on the track grounds that used to be an actual IndyCar race shop from the 1950s! Notonly do we get to see the cars in the museum up close with a knowledgeable tour guide but we get exclusive access to the time capsule restoration facility! All of the big names have legendary cars on display here, many f which are powered by Ed Pink engines. Indy 500 winning cars driven by Andretti Unser Foyt Rutherford and even some NASCAR names like Tim Richmond!

 

Revson: America's Grand Prix Superstar


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Peter Revson was an American Superstar; a race car driver who won in everything he drove and became a national celebrity. Since 1970, more Americans have walked on the Moon than won a Formula One race. Revson carried American F1 interest on his shoulders as he won races and chased the World Championship. But at the height o …