It’s not often that you watch a race that is dominated as heavily as yesterday’s Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach was, and you come away thinking that it was a fairly entertaining race. Alexander Rossi dominated not only Sunday’s race, but really the entire race weekend on his way to victory lane. He topped the charts in Sessions Two and Three of practice, then won the pole in qualifying. Rossi jumped to a huge lead at the start and never looked back. He led seventy-one of the eighty-five laps, trailing only after pitting and waiting for the pit-stops to cycle through.
Archive for April, 2018
Random Thoughts On Long Beach
Posted in IndyCar on April 16, 2018 by OilpressureLong Beach Preview
Posted in IndyCar on April 13, 2018 by Oilpressure
With a month separating the first and second Verizon IndyCar Series races of the season, it was hard to fully realize that the season had actually started. But now that we have our second of three racing weekends in a row, I feel like we are now getting a rhythm to the season.
Jumping On The Rossi Bandwagon
Posted in IndyCar on April 11, 2018 by Oilpressure
Whenever I go through a performance review at work, there is one overwhelming trait that comes through on every one regardless of who is giving them. For decades, different bosses on different jobs have always told me that I have the ability to read people very well. I have to agree with them. Very rarely has that trait of mine failed me. OK, it failed me when I met my first wife – but other than that one crucial bobble, I’m usually dead-on accurate when I either meet people or even get a first impression on television. Well, now I can count two bobbles, because it’s now apparent that I completely misread Alexander Rossi when he first came to the Verizon IndyCar Series.
Random Thoughts On Phoenix
Posted in IndyCar on April 9, 2018 by Oilpressure
It took a while, but the Verizon IndyCar Series race at ISM Raceway in Phoenix on Saturday night became one that people were still buzzing about on Sunday. Early on, it did not look like that was going to be the case. About thirty laps into the 250-Lap event, I looked over at my wife, Susan, and said that it looks like it’s going to be another snoozer at Phoenix.
Phoenix Preview
Posted in IndyCar on April 6, 2018 by Oilpressure
After a four-week hiatus, the Verizon IndyCar Series roars back to life in the desert. What used to be Phoenix International Raceway is now called ISM Raceway. What does ISM stand for? Ingenuity Sun Media, of course. If that doesn’t evoke fond racing memories, I’m not sure what will.
A Few Suggestions For NBC
Posted in IndyCar on April 4, 2018 by Oilpressure
A couple of weekends ago, when parts of Indianapolis got up to ten inches of snow – Nashville just got a lot of cold and dreary rain. It made for a miserable late-March weekend. To the chagrin of Susan, I decided to brighten my weekend considerably by watching the full race recording of the 1993 Indianapolis 500.
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