By Steve Wittich It’s easy to forget just how short and quickly the drivers get around the 0.894-mile Iowa Speedway oval, taking under ten minutes for the 13 pilots to complete 200 laps. The first yellow flag of the 50-minute session came out after 13 minutes of practice. Reports from a recent test indicated there […]
By Tony DiZinno The Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires series is getting pretty good at sending its drivers out in mixed conditions races lately, and Linus Lundqvist is getting pretty good at winning them. Lundqvist won a barnburner at Barber Motorsports Park when the field there ran a full race on wet Cooper Tires […]
By Tony DiZinno Singaporean driver Danial Frost had won three times in Indy Pro 2000 competition, but not on the top rung of the Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires ladder, Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires. That changed Friday to cap off a chaotic day of racing on the 2.439-mile, 14-turn Indianapolis Motor […]
By Tony DiZinno As the Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires descends on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, the HMD Motorsports pair of Linus Lundqvist (HMD with Dale Coyne Racing) and Benjamin Pedersen (Global Racing Group with HMD) sit 1-2 in the championship – as they finished last race at Barber Motorsports Park – […]
By Steve Wittich Dominant, on-rails, championship altering and effortless are all words and phrases that describe Kyle Kirkwood’s weekend at the iconic WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. “I have to give it to the team,” said the 22-year-old on the peacock broadcast after his 26+ second Sunday drive. “Andretti Autosport has been on it all weekend, […]
By Steve Wittich A couple of updates after a quick walk in the Indy Lights paddock. The HMD Motorsports crew is hard at work repairing the No. 79 HMD Motorsports machine of points leader David Malukas. While the hit didn’t look that bad, the rear end of the car hit the concrete wall at just […]
By Steve Wittich With only 40 minutes of practice, the lone practice session for the Indy Lights Grand Prix Of Detroit Presented By Cooper Tires doubleheader, it was necessary to 1) set a positive tone for the weekend and 2) keep it off concrete walls. For Andretti Autosport rookie Kyle Kirkwood, who turned in a […]
David Malukas, with a green-to-checkered flag victory in the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg presented by Andersen Interior Contracting, becomes the first Indy Lights driver in 2021 to win a second race. It also means the 19-year-old spends at least the next three weeks as the championship leader. The Chicago, Ill. driver held off a […]
By Tony DiZinno / Steve Wittich Kyle Kirkwood rebounded from a tough debut weekend in Indy Lights presented by Cooper Tires at Barber with a dominant performance in St. Petersburg race one that more resembled his Road to Indy career to this point. From pole, the driver of the No. 28 Andretti Autosport Dallara IL-15 […]
By Steve Wittich Global Racing Group announced their entry into the 2021 Indy Lights presented by Cooper Tires one month ago. Today, the team racing under the Global Racing Group with HMD Motorsports tent announces that Benjamin Pedersen will be their first driver. The 21-year-old has spent the past five seasons racing in both the […]