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 When the eventual quickest driver of the road course portion of spring training, Santi Urrutia, began his final lap just before the checkered came out, all seven drivers were within a scant four-tenths of a second of each other. But thanks to a triple hit of push-to-pass, which feeds the 2.0L turbo-charged […]
Source: ANDRETTI AUTOSPORT PRESS RELEASE ANDRETTI AUTOSPORT TO FIELD PATO O’WARD FOR 2018 INDY LIGHTS CAMPAIGN Andretti Autosport’s Four-Car Indy Lights Stable Complete with O’Ward, Herta, Kellett and Norman INDIANAPOLIS (Jan. 4, 2018) – Entering his first full season of Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires competition with Andretti Autosport, Pato O’Ward will pilot the […]
Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona Champion, Pato O’Ward Joins Team Pelfrey IL for Spring Training and the Season Opener HOMESTEAD, Fla. (February 28, 2017) – Team Pelfrey IL announced today Pato O’Ward and his primary sponsors, Gap Guard and Topo Chico, will continue to stand behind the 2017 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona Champion as […]
Contact, penalties, and extended championship, a maiden win, and the first win of the season for a legacy team were the stories of the opening race of the final day of the “Soul Red Finale” at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. After three previous podiums in 2016, Nicolas Dapero got his first win in the U.S.A. […]
The box score for the first of three Pro Mazda presented by Cooper Tire races of the weekend won’t show any official lead changes, but that doesn’t tell the whole story, as three different passes were made for the lead. Pato O’Ward made a daring pass of pole sitter and championship leader Aaron Telitz on […]
Redemption was the name of the game for championship leader Aaron Telitz during the final Pro Mazda presented by Cooper Tire practice session of the day. After missing the majority of the first session due to mechanical issues, the 24-year old led the second session over the Juncos Racing threesome of Jake Parsons, Will Owen, […]
A rough start for the two championship contenders in the Pro Mazda presented by Cooper Tire championship was the story of the first practice session, as the Juncos Racing trio of Will Owen, Jake Parsons, and Nicolas Dapero held down the top three spots on the time-sheet. For the first 20 minutes of the session, […]
Opposites… Night and day, summer and winter, hot and cold, short and tall, and the pre-Road America and post-Road America portions of the 2016 Pro Mazda presented by Cooper Tire season. In the seven Pro Mazda races prior to Road America, sophomore Pato O’Ward outscored Aaron Telitz, his rookie Team Pelfrey teammate 221 to 166. […]