By Steve Wittich The Indy Lights presented by Cooper Tires series will take to the streets (and runways) of downtown St. Petersburg, Fla. for the 19th and 20th time. It will also be the 10th straight year that the series starts the season on the shores of Tampa Bay. Previous race winning drivers and teams […]
By Steve Wittich Good day, and welcome to our TSOLadder.com coverage of the first official Mazda Road To Indy Presented by Cooper Tires (MRTI) test of the year. I (Steve) will be on hand with all of your details. I arrived in Florida on Thursday afternoon after a loooong day of travel that began when […]
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 […]
By Steve Wittich Belardi Auto Racing, the team the won the Indy Lights race at Watkins Glen International last year with Zach Veach, has not lost that set-up. Three of the top six spots in the first Indy Lights practice were held by pilots from the Brownsburg, Ind. based squad. A lap at 92.790 seconds […]
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 […]
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 In the four races prior to arriving in Canada, it was Carlin’s Matheus Leist who was the hottest driver in the Indy Lights series, winning three of four races and gaining 37 points on Kyle Kaiser in the chase for the $1 million Mazda Motorsports Advancement Scholarship. But a trip to the […]
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 […]