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By Diane Swintal Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Reminder of how this qualifying works: One qualifying session to cover all three races: Qualifying session sets the race one grid Race two grid set by the second-quickest lap in qualifying or the quick race lap – whichever is quicker Race three grid set by the second-quickest lap […]
By Patrick Stephan (@TSO_Patrick) Steve Wittich spent this session on the radio broadcast, so I’ve jumped in to cover this session for the Indy Lights presented by Cooper Tires. As noted by everyone, it’s a little sticky with the high humidity and we started the session with the track at ambient temperature at 88F and […]
By Patrick Stephan Hunter McElrea en route to his first Indy Lights win at Mid-Ohio. Penske Entertainment: Travis Hinkle With the track temp rapidly approaching 100F and the air at 78, the Indy Lights presented by Cooper Tires field came down to take the green on the front stretch under the control of Hunter McElrea with […]
By Patrick Stephan Michael d’Orlando led the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship field down to the green with the ambient temp at 79F and the track in the low 120’s. Myles Rowe starting alongside slotted in to line as they went through Turn 1. Nikita Johnson, starting 4th went off and into the gravel outside Turn […]
By Patrick Stephan (@TSO_Patrick) Hunter McElrea celebrates his pole position at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course – TSO Photo by Patrick The Indy Lights presented by Cooper Tires qualifying session got under for 12 of the 13 cars with the air temp a comfortable 78F (though it’s still a little on the sticky side), and […]
By Patrick Stephan The first Indy Pro 2000 presented by Cooper Tires race got off to a difficult start. Louis Foster brought the field down nicely packed up by the time they hit the front straight. Josh Foster jumped out of line to make it three wide entering Turn 1 but the field made it […]
By Patrick Stephan The 2nd Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship race got off to a clean start up front though there was some contact in the pack. That contact damaged Lochie Hughes (who btw, got DQ’d from his 2nd place finish yesterday after failing post race technical inspection) and Christian Weir. Didn’t get a good look […]
By Patrick Stephan Welcome to a slightly cooler Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for today’s first Road to Indy activity – Practice #2 for the Indy Lights Series presented by Cooper Tires. The session got started at 8:35am following a Porsche Sprint Challenge qualifying session with the air temp a nice 71F, and the track at […]
By Patrick Stephan Myles Rowe brought th Cooper Tires USF2000 field down to the green flag waving from the traditional front stretch flag stand with the field nicely formed up. Rowe was able to beat Michael d’Orlando through Turn 1 and kept him to the outside around Turn 2. After taking a couple more shots […]
By Patrick Stephan Today’s lone Indy Lights presented by Cooper Tires session got started the track still baking under lots of direction sunshine at 126.1 degrees and the air temp at 91F. It’s supposed to cool off a little bit the rest of the weekend with Saturday’s high at 83 and Sunday’s at 85. 20 […]