IndyCar contributor,
@Frontstretch
.
@LSU
@ManshipSchool
grad. Tweets are mostly racing, otherwise they’re about the New Orleans Saints or the Dallas Stars.
Kyle Larson
#Indy500
rookie orientation laps.
The faint cracking sound you might be able to hear is the car going over the bricks at the start/finish line.
A great gem from
@RGrosjean
in the post
#FirestoneGP
race press conference:
"I understand a lot of kids want to make it to Formula 1. If it's to be at the back of the grid every weekend, I think you're better here (in
#IndyCar
)."
Colton Herta was very upset at the lack of penalties from race control and said he might have to "bring a gun and shoot somebody in the head" to get a penalty called.
#XPELGP
#IndyCar
Callum Ilott brought the mechanics some tea last night, thought he did a bad job with it but the team appreciated it.
Said the tea he brought them was called English Breakfast.
#Indy500
#IndyCar
My friend booked the Airbnb for the Milwaukee race weekend that the four of us will share. Our host for this weekend thought all of us were in town to see the Brewers play.
He had no idea that
#IndyCar
were racing only a few miles away from the house.
.
@IndyCar
CEO Mark Miles on attendance for the Milwaukee Mile this weekend: "I would say over time, we wouldn’t be satisfied with 15,000 people for a race, but we could be satisfied with that as a starting point." -
@JournalSentinel
After receiving a call on Friday night from Dale Coyne,
@ConorDaly22
started a phone call chain that led him to Roger Penske’s personal jet heading to Iowa.
Not an ideal situation to have to replace a friend, but Daly wants to help
@DaleCoyneRacing
any way he can.
#IndyCar
INDYCAR boasted a 100% vaccination rate among drivers and an over 90% vaccination rate in their paddock and part of me still wonders how this is the predominant attitude in NASCAR.
I have an article in this year’s
#Indy500
program, my first ever.
This year is my Dad’s 60th 500 since his first in 1960.
Keeping this a secret from him and Mom for five months was one of the hardest things I’ve had to do, but his reaction was totally worth it.
#ThisIsMay
The banter in the
#IndyCar
press conference, amazing.
Newgarden responding to a question about his wife’s due date:
"It's a couple days before (The IMS test in April), so... Trying to shoot a gap here."
Rossi: “You shot something!”
#AGPLB
"If she wouldn't have gotten better, I would've stopped for my son." -Will Power on his wife Liz's health and its effect on his career.
#XPELGP
#IndyCar
The 5th gen car NASCAR introduced in 2007 moved the drivers' position four inches toward the center of the car. It's possible that change could have been the big difference for Ryan Newman tonight.
#Daytona500
#NASCAR
Scott McLaughlin’s parents arrived in Indianapolis early this morning but they told him to sleep. He’ll see them today for the first time in two years.
#Indy500
#IndyCar
If anyone’s still questioning why the Canadian anthem is sung at this race, this photo was taken at the rear of the deadline media room and that’s literally Canada right over there.
There’s a lot of Canadian fans here.
#DetroitGP
#IndyCar
I’m sad I received so much hate and death threats in the last 24 hours for such a small incident in the Detroit GP.
I hope people can understand that we are all humans and we can make mistakes. But it’s not normal to abuse people online..
Please be kind to each other 🙏🏻🫶🏻
Presented without comment.
2023 Iowa Race one:
Total passes: 1,502
Position passes: 319
2024 Iowa Race one:
Total passes: 192
Position passes: 100
#HyVeeHomefront250
#IndyCar
Michael Andretti rode on his scooter to Rossi’s pit and asked “Where is he” in an exasperated tone.
The scooter headed back to the transporter quickly.
#Honda200
#IndyCar
The 2021
#IndyCar
schedule has me honestly concerned for the future of oval racing in the IndyCar world. Without aggressive promotional efforts, we’re at a situation where it’s not profitable to go oval racing. Something has to change.
Before the
#IndyCar
season started, I had one goal for myself.
Cover all 17 races this season in person.
Mission accomplished.
Thank you all for a hell of a year on the road and for everyone that followed along this season.
Now, it’s time to go home.
Grosjean on IndyCar vs F1
"It's the freedom of driving the car the way you like to drive it. You don't need to look after charging mode, push mode, tire temperature, tire window so on and so on and so on. You just go in the car, leave the pit lane then you push every single lap"
Fernando Alonso failed to qualify for the 2019 Indianapolis 500.
He was beaten by a dirt oval racing team that had never set up an IndyCar before and a team that rebuilt a road course-built car into a superspeedway missile over two days with some borrowed parts and no sleep.
@natesaundersF1
@ESPNF1
Indy? LoL! Indy can only compare with lower segments of Formula, like F3.
The pinnacle of motorsport is F1, and it’s like 10 times harder than Indy!!
David Malukas on the post race celebrations. Josef Newgarden let him spray the real champagne a bit since Malukas isn’t 21 years old yet.
#Bommarito500
#IndyCar
There's a $10,000 bounty tonight on
@KyleLarsonRacin
.
Anyone finishing in front of the
@HighLimitRacing
co-promoter will split $10,000 up to 10th place.
If Larson drops out early, top 10 get $1,000 each. If Larson finishes 2nd, the winner gets all $10,000.
Watch on
@FloRacing
.
Conor Daly has outed Alexander Rossi and Colton Herta as the culprits of the Romain Grosjean Pagoda scooter prank. While there was speculation, Daly straight up said it was them.
#Indy500
#IndyCar
For Jimmie Johnson supporters, it’s worth noting that while he is 18th in this session, he’s 1.098 seconds behind Rossi in first.
His fastest lap last year in first practice: 1:50.0764.
Current fastest lap: 1:47.7692.
That is progress over a year.
#SonsioGP
#IndyCar
There was a scuffle behind Brock Zearfoss’s car after someone mouthed off to Zearfoss about the accident with Ayrton Gennetten.
#NOSvilleNationals
#WoOSprint
Gil de Ferran was a hard charger who executed when it mattered. After becoming a two-time IndyCar champion and winning the 2003 Indianapolis 500, de Ferran moved to sports car racing and then retired when he felt the time was right.
Race in peace, Gil.
🇧🇷 Campeão, amigo, rival, mentor dentro e fora das pistas. Sem palavras para descrever esta perda. Descanse em paz meu amigo.
🇺🇸 Champion, friend, rival, mentor at the track and outside of it. I have no words to describe this loss. May you rest in peace my friend.
It’s been five years, we’ve heard the reasons, and frankly, I’m not buying them.
A key piece of
#Indy500
festivities has been missing that helped prepare drivers for their
#IndyCar
careers and give Carb Day spectators more ticket value.
It’s time to bring back the Freedom 100.
"Are you kidding me, that's a yellow for that lady?! Who let her down? It'd be funny if she went into someone's cockpit." -Will Power
#IndyBHM
#IndyCar
A small scale operation knocked Fernando Alonso and McLaren out of the 2019 Indy 500.
Did McLaren at the time not quite grasp the high level of IndyCar?
FOH with that nonsense.
"Within F1, there is a general sense that many of those racing in America in categories where teams buy cars off the shelf and run them with fairly small-scale operations don't quite grasp just how high the level is in F1, how complex the task." -
@BBC
-
“What a cheap way to hire Cannon, right? Get a deal with Foyt and get all the speedway secrets for free.” -Colton Herta on Team Penske’s newfound speed.
#Indy500
#IndyCar
@TrevorR77
@TheKendallBaker
You’d be surprised at how fit those drivers are. Their bodies take a massive pounding racing around road and street circuits with how sudden the acceleration and braking are in a formula one car.
.
@ConorDaly22
’s performance in Sunday’s
#Indy500
was perhaps his best, even if he’s finished higher in the race before and has been out of an Indy car for eight months.
His next hope? Trying to get
@DreyerReinbold
to do the
#IndyCar
season finale in Nashville.
Josef Newgarden is being airlifted to a Des Moines hospital for treatment after falling outside of his motor coach and suffering an abrasion on his head.
#IndyCar
@mclarenfanever
Chip Ganassi's team has won the Indianapolis 500 five times, the Rolex 24 overall six times and 14 IndyCar championships, plus numerous sports car titles.
They know how to race.
I’m looking forward to this weekend at Pocono with the
#IndyStar
. This is a brand new opportunity and I intend to make the most of it.
#IndyCar
#ABCSupply500
This hard-working man will be your go-to-guy for
#IndyStar
@IndyCar
coverage at
@poconoraceway
this weekend. Many of you probably already know Chris, but for those who don't, give him a follow.
Marcus Ericsson had a conversation last night at dinner in the IMS infield with Dario Franchitti about what to do if it was late in the race and he was leading.
While he was sitting on pit road under the red flag, that conversation was playing in his mind.
#Indy500
#IndyCar