After a torrid week, it was a weekend of redemption for Team Penske. I don’t know how the whole P2P debacle is going to turn out, but after being surrounded by it it all week and then this weekend – I can tell you I’m about sick of hearing and talking about it. Everyone has their thoughts and theories about what happened, and I have mine, too. But at this point I’m ready to put it behind us. I was convinced that a Team Penske car would win this weekend, simply because they were going to use this as extra motivation. That’s exactly what happened.
Archive for April, 2024
Random Thoughts on Barber
Posted in IndyCar on April 29, 2024 by OilpressureAnother Entertaining Race at Barber
Posted in IndyCar on April 28, 2024 by Oilpressure
I’m not quite sure what it looked like on television, but the Children’s of Alabama was an extremely fun race to see in-person. There was mayhem near the back of the field, in the first turn of the opening lap. After that, things settled down to the point I was afraid things were going to get processional.
It’s Race Day at Barber!
Posted in IndyCar on April 28, 2024 by Oilpressure
Good morning from a sunny Barber Motorsports Park. It has been good weather all weekend, but somehow the racing gods created an even better day today.
Barber Saturday Qualifying Wrap-up
Posted in IndyCar on April 27, 2024 by Oilpressure
Team Penske will make up the front row for Sunday’s Children’s of Alabama Indy Grand Prix at Barber Motorsports Park. Scott McLaughlin will start on Pole as the defending champion of last year’s race here. Will Power will start second, alongside his team Penske teammate.
Lindsay Brewer: Not What You Think
Posted in IndyCar on April 27, 2024 by Oilpressure
Most of you that have followed this site for a while, know that I don’t do many interviews. I can probably count on one hand how many actual sit-down one-on-one interviews I have done in the near-fifteen years of this site – and they all occurred within about a six-month period in 2011. IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard, Sarah Fisher and Ed Carpenter were all done in spring of 2011. That summer, IndyCar asked me to meet Indy Lights driver Josef Newgarden in Nashville and interview him.
It’s Day Two at Barber
Posted in IndyCar on April 27, 2024 by Oilpressure
It’s another sunny, but very breezy day at Barber Motorsports Park, just east of Birmingham, Alabama. The weather calls for a little bit more cloud clover today. Tomorrow calls for brilliant blue skies.
Barber Wrap-up–Day One
Posted in IndyCar on April 26, 2024 by Oilpressure
It was a hot day in Alabama, both on the track and on the grounds. This past Tuesday morning in Nashville, it was 35°. Today in Leeds, Alabama just three days later; it was 85°. Welcome to spring in the south.
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