Today's IZOD IndyCar Series, Firestone Indy Lights and Mazda Road to Indy headlines:
1. Rookies impress at Sebring test
2. Hildebrand checks out half pipe and more
3. Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing building for team's future
4. Yacaman earns top Colombian driving honor
5. Of note
1. Rookies impress at Sebring test: By extension, some straight talk from Sam Schmidt led to Tristan Vautier having the opportunity to test an IZOD IndyCar Series car Dec. 13. He appreciates both.
"I met Sam in 2010 and the first thing I did was beg him to give me a (Firestone Indy Lights) test that I couldn't afford," Vautier recalled. "He was honest and advised me to go back to Star Mazda where I had the money to hopefully win the championship and come ... FULL STORY »
2012 Firestone Indy Lights Champ to Test IndyCar with SSM
INDIANAPOLIS (December 10, 2012) - 2012 Firestone Indy Lights Champion Tristan Vautier garnered six awards last week with his team Sam Schmidt Motorsports (SSM) at the IndyCar Championship Celebration, but the ... FULL STORY »
INDIANAPOLIS (December 7, 2012) - Sam Schmidt Motorsports’ (SSM) Indy Lights team will embark on the quest for its seventh Firestone Indy Lights Championship in 2013 with the signing of 21-year-old British racer Jack Hawksworth.
Hawksworth dominated the 2012 Star Mazda ... FULL STORY »
BALTIMORE (Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012) – Schmidt Hamilton HP Motorsports driver Simon Pagenaud climbed atop another IZOD IndyCar Series podium Sunday when he finished third in the second running of the Grand Prix of Baltimore.
Pagenaud, from France, has now finished ... FULL STORY »
SONOMA, Calif. (Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012) – The official IZOD IndyCar Series box score shows Simon Pagenaud starting ninth and finishing seventh in Sunday’s GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma. What the box score doesn’t show is everything the Schmidt ... FULL STORY »
For race car driver Simon Pagenaud, much has changed in his world since this time last year.
In the week leading up to the annual IZOD IndyCar round at Mid Ohio Sports Car Course in 2011, the ride-less Pagenaud was deciding ... FULL STORY »
DATE: July 22, 2012
EVENT: Edmonton Indy
SERIES: IZOD IndyCar Series
LOCATION: Edmonton (Alberta) City Centre Airport (13-turn, 2.224-mile temporary circuit)
START/FINISH: 6th/20th (Contact, Completed 74 of 75 laps)
WINNER: Ryan Hunter-Reay of Andretti Autosport
EDMONTON, Alberta, Sunday, July 22, 2012 – Finishing races has become ... FULL STORY »
