I thought this street racing stuff was supposed to be boring? The second race of the IZOD IndyCar Series was anything but that. I even watched this race twice, if you count sneaking the live indycar.com race feed during work Monday morning as a viewing. (sorry boss). We are now 2 for 2 for good races in the 2010 IZOD IndyCar season. St. Pete was another fast and furious (minus Van Diesel) race with a lot [...]

As defined by Wikipedia, “The term ‘mid-major’ was originally coined by the sports media and has no official status. The NCAA recognizes no distinction between so-called “major” and “mid-major” conferences in basketball. Then I found these 6 other definitions, by random bloggers: Definition: A “mid-major” is any team outside of the Big 6 power conferences. Definition: Any team outside the 11 Division 1-A football conferences is a mid-major. Definition: Any team in a conference that [...]

Now, THAT was a race! I can honestly say that was the first street (go ahead and throw road in there as well) course race that I actually enjoyed. I think it was a combination of many factors that resulted in the awesome outcome. There was all of the craziness such as the Sambadrome, a small hurricane and a first lap melee. Add in the flat-out extreme and intense racing and the result was a [...]

After a year of reading the great blog work posted by George Phillips at Oilpressure.com, I felt motivated to get in on the action. Topic for my virgin post; the IZOD Indycar drivers. It’s finally time to go racing. Enough of the silly offseason which saw an interesting game of musical chairs, announcement of IZOD as the Indycar Series sponsor, new leadership and the release of possible chassis designs for 2012 (which if the DeltaWing [...]