Starting from the 18th position, Vision Racing driver A.J. Foyt IV charged all the way up to a fifth place finish at Iowa Speedway today for the Iowa Corn Indy 250. It is Foyt’s best finish of the season driving the newly painted No. 2 Lilly Diabetes/Vision Racing Dallara/Honda/Firestone machine.
Rain showers on Saturday canceled qualifying [...]

AJ Foyt IV on Fire in the Pits - Vision Racing - Pit Sequence

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The OH-FER list shows the number of IndyCar Races that a driver has started without winning a race.
Vitor Meira OH-FER 81
Ed Carpenter OH-FER 70
A.J. Foyt IV OH-FER 70
Darren Manning OH-FER 46
Ryan Briscoe OH-FER 24
The Rest of the Pack:
Races Without a Win
Marty Roth 13
Ryan Hunter-Reay 11 :-} (None in IRL [...]

Noted from the Vision Racing News Release:
…In addition, the team has made some organizational changes effective immediately. Former crew chief, Keven Kukulewicz (a.k.a. Keven Kaye) has been named to the post of team manager, taking on the additional responsibility for the operation of the race team. Kukulewicz follows Larry Curry as Vision Racing’s [...]

Almost a year to the day since he last visited Victory Circle, Target Chip Ganassi Racing’s Dan Wheldon took advantage of teammate Scott Dixon’s misfortune to win Sunday’s Road Runner Turbo Indy 300, his second consecutive victory at Kansas Speedway and his first IndyCar Series win since last year’s race here.
Dixon started from the pole [...]

Vitor Meira OH-FER 80
Ed Carpenter OH-FER 69
A.J. Foyt IV OH-FER 69
Darren Manning OH-FER 45
Ryan Briscoe OH-FER 23
The Rest of the Pack:
Races Without a Win
Marty Roth 12
Ryan Hunter-Reay 10
Milka Duno 9
Bruno Junqueira 8
Hideki Mutoh 5
Oriol Servia 4
Justin Wilson 4
Mario Moraes 4
EJ Viso 4
Enrique Bernoldi 4
Jay [...]

Vitor Meira OH-FER 79
Ed Carpenter OH-FER 68
A.J. Foyt IV OH-FER 68
Darren Manning OH-FER 44
Ryan Briscoe OH-FER 22
The Rest of the Pack:
Races Without a Win
Marty Roth 11
Ryan Hunter-Reay 9
Milka Duno 8
Bruno Junqueira 7
Hideki Mutoh 4
Oriol Servia 3
Franck Perera 3
Justin Wilson 3
Mario Moraes 3
Ernesto Viso 3
Enrique Bernoldi 3
Jay Howard 3
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In my race report for St. Pete this week I included the following factioid: Drivers entered in the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg as of March 31 have combined for 52 IndyCar Series victories, 57 pole positions and 813 starts.
52 victories. 52 - Only 52!!!! - Bobby Rahal had 24 [...]

Scott Dixon - Chip Ganassi Racing
“Well, we just need to win. The new qualifying system will be a little harder for everyone just to figure out what the best strategy is. It is vital to qualify up front for you to do well. So that will be our main goal - to qualify well and [...]

Races Since Last Win - Updated after Homestead

Driver
Races Since Last Win

Buddy Rice
54

Marco Andretti
19

Helio Castroneves
16

Dan Wheldon
14

Tony Kanaan
2

Scott Dixon
0

Career Wins:

Driver
Career Wins

Dan Wheldon
13

Helio Castroneves
12

Tony Kanaan
12

Scott Dixon
11

Buddy Rice
3

Marco Andretti
1

Zero For ____

Vitor Meira
0
77

Ed Carpenter
0
66

A.J. Foyt IV
0
66

Danica Patrick
0
48

Darren Manning
0
42

Ryan Briscoe
0
20

Marty Roth
0
10

Milka Duno
0
8

Ryan Hunter-Reay
0
7

Bruno Junqueira
0
5

Hideki Mutoh
0
2

Oriol Servia
0
1

Franck Perera
0
1

Justin Wilson
0
1

Mario Moraes
0
1

Ernesto Viso
0
1

Enrique Bernoldi
0
1

Jay Howard
0
1

Will Power
0
1

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Dixon Claims First Win of Unified IndyCar Era
The statistics make it appear simple. It was anything but.
Starting from the pole, Target Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon won Saturday night’s season-opening Gainsco Insurance Indy 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, going into the record books as the first victor of the newly-merged IndyCar Series, which has assimilated teams [...]

The Vision Racing cars driven by Ed Carpenter (No. 20) and A.J. Foyt IV (No. 2) failed post-qualification technical inspection and will start from the rear of the grid in the GAINSCO Auto Insurance Indy 300.
The sanctioning Indy Racing League does not divulge technical inspection infractions. Carpenter qualified an IndyCar Series career-high second (213.311 mph [...]

Peak Motor Oil Pole Position - Scott Dixon - 4 Lap Average 213.341
Pole Progression:
Helio Castroneves
Ryan Briscoe
Danica Patrick
Scott Dixon
#24 - Jay Howard Wrecks in Turn 2 on lap 1 of Qualifying. He is OK, out of Care Center.
On Crutches. Not sure if he will run on Saturday. When ask about his physical condition [...]

After 12 years of hostilities between the Indy Racing League and the Champ Car World Series, the merged IndyCar Series debuts Saturday night at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Sadly, the fighting has driven most IndyCar fans and some of the best talent to NASCAR. Had this happened two or three years ago, we still might have drivers such [...]

The grandson of four-time Indianapolis 500 winner A.J. Foyt began his driving career in junior dragsters at age 9, winning two titles before moving to go-karts at age 11. Despite his famous name, Foyt worked his way up the racing ladder. His first job was working at his grandfather’s race shop as a parts washer. [...]