The worst kept secret in INDYCAR was finally announced...
A.J. Foyt Racing announced...
Ed Carpenter Racing announced...
Dreyer & Reindbold Racing Rookie Mike Conway will run some of his first laps at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway on foot. Conway will join Penske driver Will Power in the quest to run the largest half-marathon the 5th largest running event in all of the United States.
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway announced today that actor and husband of Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie, Josh Duhamel will pace the 93rd Indy 500. The star of Transformers and NBC's Las Vegas will be piloting the 2010 Camaro for the opening warm-up laps of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing.
According to Paul Page's website, he'll be back in the Radio Booth for the Greatest Spectacle. The Idea was originally brought to Paul by IMS Radio Network guru Mike King, when he jumped at it.
Danny Kladis who started in his first and last indianapoli 500 in 1946, died Sunday at the age of 92.
Basketball Hall of Famer and T.V. anylist Dick Vitale was announced today as the Indianapolis 500 Parade Grand Marshal.
Other notable Parade Grand Marshal's
Ok, so 74', 85', and 92' weren't the best of years!!
Still no word on who will be pacing the field in the 2010 Camaro, but my gut tells me it'll be Mario Andretti.
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Notice the Thursday, May 21st plans (in which I artfully highlighted), titled Top 10 Indianapolis 500 moments. Well, VERSUS is opening it up to the fans. You can vote on what you think are the top moments in the history of the greatest spectacle, and stay tuned to VERSUS to see if your favorites made the cut.
I was a little disappointed with it. They could of really made the thing look sweet, But it's still not bad.
Every since NYSE left AGR as a full season primary sponsors after the 07' season, Marco has had countless companies on his sidepodes. Last year the then new Indiana Jones movis found it's self as the primary for the 2006 Indy 500 Rookie of the Year, and this year another energy drink enters the Indycar series. Venom Energy drink will be on the livery for Marco this weekend in Kansas and for the Month of May. And As you can tell by their logo, it could turn out to be a pretty sweet paint scheme.
(Photos courtesy of the Indycar Series)
AP reports Helio & his sister have been acquitted on all counts except for count 1/conspiracy, which was ended in a hung Jury.
Late yesterday after the 12 person Jury asked a series of questions that were somewhat answered by the judge, Helio's defense team headed by Roy Black motioned for a mistrial.
In the wake of rather disappointing VERSUS T.V. ratings, the new Indycar Series television partner announced its plans for the Month of May including daily coverage from the 2nd day of qualifying all the way through race day. The schedule consists of 6.5 hours of live coverage during all 4 days of Qualifying, apposed to the last several years when ESPN would have spotty coverage on Pole day.
Over the last couple months while drivers have had a hard time finding rides, it seems as though teams are having an even harder time finding cars.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I thought the VERSUS coverage was absolutely tremendous. First off the two hour qualifying show was great, of course it's not like we had anything to compare it to considering ESPN has never done a qual show. Then they went the extra mile extending the race day coverage another 20 minutes because the race ran over the scheduled 3 hour time slot. If it was last season, as soon as Briscoe took the checkered and jumped out of his Dallara after taking a cool down lap, viewers would of been whisked away to see the gut wrenching Alaskan High School woman's Nordic skiing state quarter-final pre match show.
After compiling 64% of the vote and defeating Marco Andretti, Dario Franchitti will be moving on to face Vitor Meira for the 2009 Indycar Helmet Bracktology Championship. (Huge honor I'm sure)
Congrats to Dario Franchitti who absolutely demolished Dan Wheldon yesterday with 75% of the vote.
Marco Andretti
