IndyCar Series: The Biggest Event Ever
As the 2012 Indianapolis 500 draws closer, the drivers are gearing up for this year’s race and are excited as ever to be part of the series’ biggest event ever.
“I can’t wait to be back,” said Kevin Harvick, who is trying to take the first of his three IndyCar Series championships in a row. “It’s always great to be with the team and the organization. We all take a lot of pride in what we do every year. It’s always a great organization.
Harvick won race one in 2008 at Indy’s Barber Motel and led 97 laps in race two, making him an instant favorite. In race three last year, he was in the lead heading into turn three when he lost a wheel while trying to overtake Scott Dixon on a restart.
“For being the team leader, we feel (Harvick) has a lot to prove,” said series executive vice president and chief operating officer, Rick Mears. “The most important thing we’ve got to worry about is for the guys to have a good start, and I’m glad to see that Harvick is going to be a top-notch racer.
Another driver eager to be involved in the series’ greatest show of its kind is Dale Coyne. Team owner Coyne, who is in his fifth season with the series, says he’s more than willing to give the drivers a run for their money – even if it’s one race.
“This IndyCar Series is going to be one of the biggest things to ever happen. I know that there’s going to be hundreds of fans at the Indy 500 who are going to come out and make a huge impression on us.
“I think we’re going to have an opportunity to be the first team to get out there and get an incredible win out of the way.
Powered by the Toyota engine, the No. 24 Chevy will also be driven by an array of drivers returning to their original teams this year.
IndyCar: The First Open-Wheel Games Game
The IndyCar Championship presented by Auto Club of Southern California began May 4th with five rounds of competition, culminating in the final round to be held in Indianapolis, IN, on July 8, 2012. The event is owned and operated by the Indianapolis 500 LLC, and is organized by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with assistance from the IndyCar Series, with corporate and non-profit support provided by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Indiana Tourism Corporation, SEMA, The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Foundation, and the Indiana Department of Transportation.
The official Indianapolis 500 sanctioning body for the Open-Wheel Racing Championships and IndyCar Series is the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Speedway is the home of the IndyCar Series, which is part of the World Endurance Championship.
The Open-Wheel Championship is one of the largest open wheel series in the world, with three events each year being held in the United States and Canada. As of May 2012, there have been 21 events held throughout the year in ten different cities.
The Indianapolis 500 will be held on Sunday, May 4th, 2012.
In mid-July, the IndyCar Series is introducing an all-new open-wheel race series competition, which will feature a single event. The race will be the first of three events that will take place on the same day: the first IndyCar Series Open-Wheel race, the IndyCar Series Grand Prix of St. Petersburg and the IndyCar Series Auto Club of Southern California Indy 500.
The new competition, called IndyCar Series Open-Wheel Racing Championship Game, will incorporate many features that have been developed for the open-wheel series – including a circuit that will extend north from Indianapolis to St. Petersburg, a new race format similar to the IndyCar Series Grand Prix of St. Petersburg – and it will incorporate the existing track as a feature of the new race. This will allow fans to experience open wheel racing in a way they couldn’t before – and hopefully enjoy the same excitement that open wheel fans have over the last month as the new race begins.
The first IndyCar Series Open-Wheel race was held July 18, 2011. The IndyCar Series Grand Prix of St.
The INDYCAR Game
“A new era in sports was born.
This quote by sports historian and author George Plimpton was first uttered by a journalist in The Plain Dealer on January 27, 1980. Shortly afterwards, in the words of the quote’s namesake, the world’s fastest man in the 40 meter dash. He was, you see, George Plimpton, the first to win a title in the Olympics, and the first to win it in the world’s longest running sports event. In 1983, on the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the now infamous slogan ‘Plimpton’s World’ originated.
These words weren’t created with the intent of defining the sports events that Plimpton had become world champion of, no. He had already won Olympic gold in the 4×400 meter relay.
I was riding in a car, with some of the greatest athletes in the world, when a man came up to me on the street and announced, “George Plimpton here. ” I was completely stunned. Then he turned to my left and introduced himself as ‘Mr. ’ I just kept staring at him and then said, “I’ve seen you here. In Moscow, in Moscow. What’s the big deal?” He just sort of backed away and smiled.
As I look back on this now, I’m still amazed. In a moment in which he wrote the world’s first sport-related book, The World’s Fastest Man in the 40 Meter Dash, it is easy to forget how young George Plimpton’s career was. How many runners were watching the World Championship of the fastest man competing in the world’s longest running sports event and, in no particular order, he was number one, number two, and no.
In his pre-Olympic career, George Plimpton won medals in a number of Olympic Games, gold and silver in the marathon and he also was a silver medalist in the individual gold medal in the 400 meter hurdles.
IndyCar series 2005
The 2005 Indianapolis 500 Motor-Cars will be remembered for two things: the number of people who died in a spectacular crash a few days into the race, and the fact that one of the cars (a Dodge Viper) crashed into multiple trucks and killed four of the seven people aboard.
The race was held in the middle of the night, on a Saturday. It was April 15, 2005. As the race began, the race director for Ford Motor Company (Ford) told television producer Steve Breen that no one knew the race was going to start and that there would be a time change. He told Breen that he would not take to the radio microphone after the race until the time change was announced.
It is one of the most tragic moments in IndyCar racing. An IndyCar driver, Kurt Busch, crashed into a wall and suffered massive head injuries, and three of the drivers and crew members died. The race ended, with the cars on the outside wheel wells of multiple trucks sitting in a row. It is one of the most tragic moments in IndyCar racing.
The race cars looked much different than the cars that would race in IndyCars in 2006, but at the end of the race they all stayed on the same row, and so did they. It will remain a mystery, except for the Viper that was damaged by a truck driving in front of it at the accident, but that was the only damage that happened.
The first of the crashes happened at 1:10 a. EDT, with 11 cars on the outside row, the second crash occurred at 1:24 a. EDT, and another crash occurred at 1:42 a. The Indianapolis 500 runs on public streets and is not closed to traffic during the race. The road leading into the oval was not closed for anyone to enter the race.
The Viper was a new Viper engine that was being tested. The new engine ran at the pace of V8 engines run at the time. It can run as fast as a V8 engine can, but is nowhere near as powerful. According to the Indianapolis Star (April 10, 2005), the race car was not as well prepared as it might be, and that could have been a factor in the crash.
Tips of the Day in Computer Games
Here is an e-mail I got from a reader, asking about the best strategies for improving a computer’s performance. A simple question, really, but since I’ve been asked this question quite a bit recently, I think I’ll give it a try here.
Here is my answer for her. I’ve been playing the PC version of Battlefield 1 this summer, and have found these strategies I use to make the game run smoother, and make myself feel better about what I’m doing.
First of all, in a PC game, you’re going to want to do a lot more than just press F1 or F2 to move around, you want to do a lot of things. There is so much content, I feel like I should take a lesson in it.
The best thing about a computer is that it makes you act like an idiot. If you don’t know what to do, you’re almost guaranteed to screw up in some way. Try to figure out what you’re doing wrong so you can correct it.
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