The worst kept secret in the IRL is now official. Mr. McMahon Tony George has named Paul Tracy to the WWE Smackdown Roster Vision/Walker Racing ride. The #22 entry will be sponsored by Subway, which Brother Indy sees as an audition for the title sponsorship role in ‘09. Is this what [...]

When your not backed by a South American Dictator (hmm, no mention of that in the Citgo press release) A Girl has to hit the phones a little harder to fund her team. Regrouping after a crazy month of May, Sarah has caught a break in that Dollar General has come on [...]

The Team Penske cars of Helio Castroneves and Ryan Briscoe have a special decal at Nashville in memory of employee Bill Passwater. The transportation co-ordinator for the team’s NASCAR Sprint Cup teams died Wednesday, leaving his wife and an infant daughter.
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Danica Patrick watched Helio Castroneves’ first qualifying lap Friday at Nashville Superspeedway.
There wasn’t a need to watch the remaining three.
She knew she had been bumped off the pole for tonight’s Firestone Indy 200.
Castroneves won his first pole of the season and at the superspeedway with an average speed of 204.519 mph. (tennessean.com)
Castroneves turned a 204.313 [...]

Opportunistic passes, avoiding the mistakes of others and a strong sprint to the finish netted Ryan Hunter-Reay his first IndyCar Series victory Sunday at Watkins Glen International Raceway. In doing so, the Florida native became the first driver other than Scott Dixon to win in four IndyCar races at the historic 3.37-mile road course in [...]

Keeping his cool when almost all others were losing theirs on a hot, sultry Saturday night at Richmond International Raceway, Tony Kanaan dominated the second half of the SunTrust Indy Challenge, leading 166 of the 300 laps to score his first IndyCar Series triumph of 2008.
Kanaan’s strongest challenger through the first two-thirds of the contest [...]

Sarah Fisher Racing wants $635. The IndyCar team staged a photo opportunity on Primary Election Day providing caps and other props to the campaign.
This is just a part of Hillary Clinton’s record campaign debt of $22 million with at least 17 unpaid bills in Indiana.
Markey’s Audio Visual supplied sound services at an April 23 Hillary [...]

Not to sound to much like the classic exchange from Days of Thunder - but Dr. Indy has noticed something watching the race at Iowa. To refresh your memories, here is the exchange I am referring to:
Harry Hogge: What do you know about racing?
Cole Trickle: Well… watched it on television, of course.
Harry Hogge: You’ve [...]

Target Chip Ganassi Racing’s Dan Wheldon celebrated his 30th birthday in the best way possible for an IndyCar driver, by winning Sunday’s Iowa Corn 250 with a calculated gamble on fuel strategy, followed by a determined drive to the checkers.
Wheldon, who ran in the lead pack all day, was one of three front-runners who elected [...]

Target Chip Ganassi Racing’s (TCGR) Dan Wheldon celebrated his birthday in victory lane Sunday by winning his second race of the season at Iowa Speedway in the Iowa Corn Indy 250. Teammate and polesitter Scott Dixon finished fourth in the No.9 Commit Honda Dallara to extend his lead in the IndyCar Series championship race from [...]

McDonald’s driver Justin Wilson drove to a 12th place finish after starting 20th in the Iowa Corn 250 on the .894-mile Iowa Speedway and ran in the top-10 for a good portion of the race. The inaugural event here last year lacked passing but the capacity crowd was rewarded with a much-improved race this year [...]

Blockbuster driver Marco Andretti scored his third podium finish of the 2008 season with a third-place result at Sunday’s running of the Iowa Corn Indy 250 at Iowa Speedway. It was Andretti’s best finish since a third-place result at the Indianapolis 500.
Less than 20 laps into the race, Andretti was running third, five [...]

Tony Kanaan, driver of the #11 Team 7-Eleven car, crashed with less than 40 laps remaining at finished 18th at Iowa Speedway on Sunday. Despite the finish, Kanaan remains in fourth place in the IndyCar Series standings.
From the race’s onset, the Team 7-Eleven car was strong. Kanaan, who started fourth, took the
lead on lap 16 [...]

Will Power has achieved his first top 10 finish on an oval in a breakthrough result with ninth in the Iowa Corn Indy 250 at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa today.
The Aussie Vineyards – Team Australia driver improved two spots in the 2008 IndyCar Series standings with this result and now lies ninth in points [...]

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 [...]