Archive for October, 2020

Random Thoughts on The Harvest Grand Prix

Posted in IndyCar on October 5, 2020 by Oilpressure

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For years, I have been as skeptical as anyone about the IMS road course. Although we’ve been seeing cars run “backwards” down the front straightaway at IMS for twenty years now, it still seems like a crime against nature when I see cars going “the wrong way”. But that hasn’t been my complaint about the course. I just thought it wasn’t very racy. It didn’t seem that way in Formula One, nor did it with Indy cars – until this past weekend.

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Harvest Grand Prix Preview

Posted in IndyCar on October 2, 2020 by Oilpressure

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I’ve been following the sport of IndyCar racing for a long time. The last time I can remember a race taking place on a Friday was the 1969 Indianapolis 500, win by Mario Andretti. More than fifty-one years later, we are looking at our next Friday IndyCar race later today, when the green flag flies for the first of two races at the Harvest Grand Prix – also at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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