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 [...]

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 [...]

The top-five finishers of today’s Iowa Corn Indy 250 IndyCar Series event at the Iowa Speedway all had one thing in common.
They were each passed on the track by eighth-place finisher Ryan Hunter-Reay (#17 Ethanol Dallara/Honda/Firestone) of Rahal Letterman Racing.
Problem is, most the [...]

Alex Lloyd looses it in Turn 4 and ends up on Pit Road - Sequence

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Ryan Hunter-Reay must be an IndyCar Series rookie, right?
He wasn’t at the Milwaukee Mile last year; he didn’t join until nearly two months later. He was the highest finishing rookie Sunday and was named rookie of the year in the Indianapolis 500.
You don’t get more rookie than that, do you?
So there’s an hour of track [...]

On a day where weather ruled, a former weatherman man from Indianapolis became one of the winning car owners of the Indy 500. David Letterman of Bobby Rahal Letterman Racing enjoyed the victory indoors with his driver Buddy Rice as a tornado with a rating of F3 missed the Speedway and its fleeing spectators [...]

When I was reading all of the articles about the rookie orientation program for the Indianapolis 500 I read that Australia’s Will Power has set the fastest time driving the No. 8 Aussie Vineyards-Team Australia car for KV Racing Technology at a top speed of 253.110km/h. (skynews.com.au)
Dr. Indy saw 253 and did a double take [...]

Rahal Letterman Racing and Target Chip Ganassi Racing announced they would work together to field an entry for 2007 Firestone Indy Lights champion Alex Lloyd for the 92nd Indianapolis 500 on May 25.
The No. 16 Dallara/Honda/Firestone will be run out of the RLR garage for the Month of May, with the Ohio-based team working closely [...]

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 [...]

The Grand Marshal for the 34th Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach provides the perfect bridge between the end of the Champ Car era and the beginning of the IndyCar Series years.
Bobby Rahal raced in a Champ Car on the streets of Long Beach a remarkable 15 times, from the first Champ car race [...]

GreenLight Collectibles will help commemorate this milestone year for the IndyCar Series with the 2008 IndyCar Series die-cast replicas. The die-cast cars will be released as a part of GreenLight’s annual IndyCar Series Garage. The 2008 IndyCar Series Garage will consist of 1:18 (Approx. 11” long) and 1:64 (Approx. 3” long) scale die-cast cars.
Each 1:18 [...]

Former Indianapolis 500 winner and racing veteran Bobby Rahal and his wife, Johanna, sold their five-bedroom, 3.1 bath at 1849 N. Howe St. in Lincoln Park, Ill. for $1.875 million to James M. Langer Jr. on Feb. 26.
The Rahals paid $2.05 million for the home in May 2005. Details-(chicago.blockshopper.com)
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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 [...]

Won IndyCar rookie of the year honors last year after joining Rahal Letterman team at midseason. Finished 19th in the standings with three top-seven finishes in six starts. Best finish was sixth at Michigan. Won three grand national karting championships in the 1990s before turning his attention to open-wheel cars, where he starred in the [...]

Nine former Champ Car entries will be on the 26-car grid for the first round of the merged IRL IndyCar Series at Homestead next weekend.
HVM Racing have confirmed that former GP2 driver Ernesto Viso will race their single-car entry, and Keith Wiggins’ squad will be joined in the field by two-car teams from fellow Champ [...]