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SPOILER ALERT - Detroit Grand Prix 2008: The IndyCars take to the track

As the first season of the reunited IndyCar series winds down, the open wheel racers took to the Belle Isle track to close out the Detroit Grand Prix weekend. Scott Dixon sat on the pole holding a slim lead over Helio Castroneves in the season standings with three races to go including this one. If the race is still sitting on your DVR and you don't want to spoil the surprise, just enjoy the gallery for now, it won't spoil your appetite. Scott Dixon grabbed the pole, and both Dixon and Castroneves pulled away strongly for the first 18 laps, leaving the rest of the field in their wake. An incident on lap 17 between Dixon's teammate Dan Wheldon and Jamie Camara triggered a full course yellow. The Ganassi team decided to bring Dixon in for an early pit stop, but no one followed. As a result, Dixon was never able to regain the lead, although he did ultimately climb back up to fifth place at the finish. Castroneves continued to lead the pack for majority of the race, but eventually Justin Wilson made his way into the lead in the Newman-Hass-Lanigan car. Through the last ten laps Castroneves tried repeatedly to reel in Wilson, but never quite managed, and over the last three laps, the rookie (at least in these cars) pulled away by a few seconds, finally taking the checkered flag in a fitting tribute to his car's co-owner Paul Newman, who's health has been in question over the past few weeks.
posted : 9/14/2008 @5:13:27 AM
Honda to supply IndyCar engines at least 5 more years

Honda is now in its third season as the sole supplier of engines for the IndyCar series, and it has decided to re-up for another five years. Honda originally jumped into IndyCar from the now-departed Champ Cars in 2003, and at that time, the H was still competing with Toyota and General Motors. The other two manufacturers eventually dropped out, leaving Honda to supply the whole field. Honda's new committment isn't an exclusive deal. The Indy Racing League is holding a roundtable summit in Indianapolis next month to discuss new technical rules for the chassis and engines. Other manufacturers will be welcome to join the series in the future as well, but at least Indy officials know that Honda will be around for a while. IndyCars are currently running 3.0L normally-aspirated, ethanol-fueled V8s. The biggest event of the IndyCar season is kicking off right about now with the running of the 92nd Indianapolis 500.
posted : 5/25/2008 @7:23:17 PM
Open Arms in Open Wheels: reunited IndyCar season kicks off at Homestead

If you've got the Gainsco Auto Insurance Indy 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway TiVo'd and are waiting to watch it, read no further. Chances are that you haven't or aren't going to, though. Because while a spirit of camaraderie prevailed at Homestead, there wasn't a large live or television audience to witness it. Bear in mind, of course, that we're talking about American oval-track racing, whose stock-car counterpart ranks as the largest spectator sport in the country... only by those standards does a headcount of some 20,000 people in the stands count as small. By any other measure, though, the inaugural race of the reunited open-wheel series was a big success, its 26-car field ranking as the largest starting grid of any race (other than the Indy 500) either of the erstwhile separated series has had since 2003.
posted : 4/2/2008 @10:37:06 AM
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