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Recapping the day in Pro Mazda and USF2000 testing with a little flavor for Patrick Stephan

  Our lede for Wednesday’s MRTI testing recap changed from “Rookie Cape Motorsports pilot leads all six USF2000 test sessions” to, “beat by just ‘that’ much, when MRTI $200K Scholarship Shootout winner Oliver Askew lost the top spot on the timesheet after a lap by Newman Wachs Racing rookie Rinus Van Kalmthout nudged him out […]

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Fisher (Pro Mazda) and Askew (USF2000) lead first day of MRTI testing at Homestead-Miami Speedway

By Steve Wittich I apologize for the lack of photographs. The Amazon S3 outage impacted the photo repository. They will be added to the story a little late. Thanks. If you spent any amount of time in the pit boxes of Cape Motorsports, Newman Wachs Racing, and Team Pelfrey during the final Cooper Tires USF2000 […]

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Opening sessions of USF2000 and Pro Mazda testing are complete. Askew (USF2000) and (Pro Mazda) lead the way.

At exactly 9am the heavy South Florida air was filled with the buzz of Mazda MZR 2.0L power plants powering a swarm of brand new Tatuus USF-17s that took to the 2.21-mile, 14-turn Homestead-Miami Speedway road course. One of the big question marks entering the first season of USF-17 competition is which team will have […]

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Dalton Kellett leads Andretti Autosport to four of the top six spots in first Indy Lights test session

An even dozen Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tire car and driver combinations turned a total of 719 trouble-free laps (1078.5 miles) on the 1.5 mile high-banked Homestead-Miami Speedway during the first official Mazda Road To Indy presented by Cooper Tire test session of 2017. The quickest lap of the morning was set in the […]

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Mazda Road To Indy presented by Cooper Tire testing at Homestead-Miami Speedway – Steve’s preview

By Steve Wittich Over the course of four days between February 27, 2017 and March 2, 2017, the three levels of the Mazda Road To Indy presented by Cooper Tire ladder will take to the 1.5-mile oval (Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tire only) and 2.21-mile, 14-turn road course at Homestead-Miami Speedway for the first and […]

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New Mazda powered USF2000 Tatuus USF-17 completes six-day testing program.

The Mazda powered, Cooper Tire shod, Tatuus designed USF-17 completed it’s successful six day shake-down testing today with a final one-day test on the oval at Lucas Oil Raceway. The USF-17 also spent time testing at the National Corvette Museum Motorsports Park, Barber Motorsports Park, and Road America. Handling driving duties for the first five […]

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Monday Update #3 – final USF2000 and Pro Mazda sessions – 4:45pm

With many teams holding onto their final set of tires for the final session of the two day test, times in the second Monday session were not as fast as they were in the first session. A number of drivers used the session to simulate race length runs. For the fourth of five sessions, it […]

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Monday Update #1 – first USF2000 and Pro Mazda sessions – 10:45am

With their reputation as track “dew sweepers” and with a 7:30am Friday morning practice in St. Petersburg, an 8am test session is good practice for the Cooper Tires USF2000 Powered by Mazda field. Maybe he’s still on Australian time, but the early start certainly didn’t slow down reigning USF2000 rookie of the year Anthony Martin […]

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Sunday Update #4 – final USF2000 and Pro Mazda session and notebook – 6:15pm

For the second straight Cooper Tires USF2000 Powered by Mazda session it is was Cape Motorsports with /WTR sophomore Parker Thompson who led the way with a top lap of 1:24.355. He was followed closely by three drivers from three different teams before reaching his teammate Anthony Martin in fifth. The meat in the Cape […]

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Sunday update #1 from Mazda Road To Indy testing – good morning

Good morning from a sun-drenched Barber Motorsports Park where Mazda Road To Indy testing continues today and tomorrow.  There are 18 Cooper Tires USF2000 Powered by Mazda entries and 12 Pro Mazda presented by Cooper Tire entries. Today’s Mazda Road To Indy schedule: 8:45am-9:45am —> Cooper Tires USF2000 Powered by Mazda testing 10am-11am —> Pro […]

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