By Steve Wittich For the seventh time in 2017, an Indy Lights race will begin with second generation Andretti-Steinbrenner Racing driver Colton Herta starting on pole. Herta’s quickest lap of 94.439 seconds was over three-tenths of a second quicker than Belardi Auto Racing sophomore Santiago Urrutia, who will start on the front-row for the fifth […]
Santiago Urrutia, who desperately needs to score maximum points this weekend, led the lone Indy Lights qualifying session before qualifying. The Uruguyan’s fastest lap was at 162.438mph, that’s 2.5mph quicker than the track record set by NBC Sports Network’s Townsend Bell in 2000. Fellow sophomore Dalton Kellett turned in the second quickest lap and was […]
By Steve Wittich As the Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tire series travels to the 1.25 mile oval for the seventh time, all eyes are on junior Juncos Racing driver Kyle Kaiser. Kaiser, who currently holds a 42 point championship advantage over Belardi Auto Racing sophomore Santiago Urrutia, and Andretti-Steinbrenner Racing rookie Colton Herta, is […]
For the sixth time in his last seven visits to the 2.258-mile, 13-Turn Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Nico Jamin made a visit to the top step of the podium. This was the third win of the season for the 21 year-old driver from Rouen, France, and the fifth of the year for his Andretti Autosport […]
A near flawless drive by Santiago Urrutia, who started from pole and led all 30 laps of Saturday’s “sprint” race, gave the top rung of the Mazda Road to Indy it’s seventh different winner in 2017. The trip to the top step of the podium is the 20 year-old’s third straight at the Mid-Ohio […]
By Steve Wittich With his series leading sixth pole of the season, second generation California racer Colton Herta will have the opportunity to match one of his father’s Indy Lights feats. Bryan Herta, who was driving for the Ohio based Tasman Motorsports won the 1993 Indy Lights at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course from the […]
By Steve Wittich The lone Indy Lights practice session of the wekeend began under overcast skies. The ambient temperature was 68F and the track temperature was 75F. The first red flag of the session came out 10 minutes into the session. The No. 11 of Garth Rickards spun in Turn 11, and came to a […]
By Steve Wittich Colton Herta held the provisional pole for the final four minutes of qualifying, apparently making it look easy, but, it was anything but. Herta turned his quickest lap of 65.045 seconds just pipping Santiago Urrutia, who best lap was only two-hundredths behind the second generation American driver. Herta went quicker on […]
By Steve Wittich Ever since Kyle Kaiser won the second Indy Lights race on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course in May, the Juncos Racing veteran has repeated numerous times that his singular goal is to outscore the other drivers fighting for the $1 million Mazda Motorsports Advancement Scholarship on an event-by-event basis. For the most part, the […]
By Steve Wittich Similar to the first USF2000 practice session, it was a pair of veterans that were the quickest during the lone Indy Lights practice session. Championship leader Kyle Kaiser led the way with a quick lap of 1 minute, 6.399 seconds, which was just over a-tenth of a lap quicker than fellow veteran […]