It's finally here. It's been 352 days since last year's Indianapolis 500, and while the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has hosted some other tenants, today it welcomes home its rightful guests as official preparations begin for the 103rd Indianapolis 500. For slightly more than half it's history, practice for the Indianapolis 500 always began on May 1 and …
Back around 2011 and 2012 during the budding days of MoreFrontWing.com, Steph and I were regular prognosticators for IndyCar Nation Fantasy Racing. It probably shouldn't surprise anyone that I almost always finished last. No matter if I tried to play the odds or go out on a limb and take some pick chances, I always …
Oh, yeah. There's a race this weekend. Often overlooked, but certainly never duplicated, this weekend sees the NTT IndyCar Series running clockwise around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on the 2.439-mile road course for the INDYCAR Grand Prix. In the unenviable position of being the last race prior to the Indianapolis 500, the Grand Prix tends …
With all the talk of guaranteed starting positions and expanded fields for the Indianapolis 500, it's hard to remember just how good Bump (or Bubble) Day used to be for the Indianapolis 500. The new qualifying formats, regardless of what tweaks have been implemented for the past seven or eight years, have somewhat done away …
In Monday's article, I posted a picture of one of my favorite Indy cars of all time, the 1992 Lola in the King Motorsports Quaker State livery. That got me thinking about some of my other favorite Indy cars through the long and storied history of the Indianapolis 500. Sometimes a paint scheme can greatly …
It seems almost unfathomable now, but for decades, the Indianapolis 500 grew in worldwide acclaim without TV and without orchestrated drama in qualifying and without any drivers or teams being guaranteed starting positions. It was so large, in fact, that the race grew in spite of the fact it was almost always run on a …
The Field of 33 