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Re: IndyCar
Montoya overpowering in season-opening win
By Dave Lewandowski
Published: Mar 29, 2015
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Twenty-four hours before securing his 13th Indy car victory and first on a road/street course since Vancouver in his 1999 CART championship season, Juan Pablo Montoya was sizing up the Verizon IndyCar Series season.
“Roger (Penske) hired me to get the job done and I do my best to get the job done,” he said.
Montoya did just that in the season-opening Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. He held off Team Penske teammate and reigning Verizon IndyCar Series champion Will Power over the final 27 laps and won by .9930 of a second in the competition debut of the aerodynamic bodywork packages supplied by Chevrolet and Honda.
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By Dave Lewandowski
Published: Mar 29, 2015
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Twenty-four hours before securing his 13th Indy car victory and first on a road/street course since Vancouver in his 1999 CART championship season, Juan Pablo Montoya was sizing up the Verizon IndyCar Series season.
“Roger (Penske) hired me to get the job done and I do my best to get the job done,” he said.
Montoya did just that in the season-opening Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. He held off Team Penske teammate and reigning Verizon IndyCar Series champion Will Power over the final 27 laps and won by .9930 of a second in the competition debut of the aerodynamic bodywork packages supplied by Chevrolet and Honda.
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Re: IndyCar
Montoya ekes out win in St. Petersburg season opener
Tony DiZinno
Published: Mar 29, 2015
ST. PETERSBURG – On a day when “new” was all the rage for the Verizon IndyCar Series as it opened its 2015 season, an old hand stole the show with a move reminiscent of his open-wheel heyday in 1999 and 2000.
Juan Pablo Montoya pitted earlier than his Team Penske teammate Will Power, who led the majority of the 110-lap season-opening Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, on the third and final pit stop sequence of the race.
But with Power suffering a slower pit stop on Lap 82 due to a slow air jack release and Montoya nailing both his in and out laps a lap earlier – the latter on cold Firestone red alternate tires after switching from the primary blacks – Montoya took the lead and seized the momentum heading into the dramatic final stages of the race.
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Tony DiZinno
Published: Mar 29, 2015
ST. PETERSBURG – On a day when “new” was all the rage for the Verizon IndyCar Series as it opened its 2015 season, an old hand stole the show with a move reminiscent of his open-wheel heyday in 1999 and 2000.
Juan Pablo Montoya pitted earlier than his Team Penske teammate Will Power, who led the majority of the 110-lap season-opening Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, on the third and final pit stop sequence of the race.
But with Power suffering a slower pit stop on Lap 82 due to a slow air jack release and Montoya nailing both his in and out laps a lap earlier – the latter on cold Firestone red alternate tires after switching from the primary blacks – Montoya took the lead and seized the momentum heading into the dramatic final stages of the race.
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Re: IndyCar
Indy Grand Prix of Louisiana
What's happening in 70094: Setting up in the Big Easy
Inaugural Indy Grand Prix of Louisiana kicks off NBCSN’s IndyCar coverage for 2015 (VIDEO)
NOLA kicks off crazy stretch of 10 weeks in a row for IndyCar
NOLA Motorsports Park track walk observations (PHOTOS)
Notes: INDYCAR mandates structural upgrades
Grand Prix of Louisiana has officials hopeful big race leads to West Jefferson boom
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What's happening in 70094: Setting up in the Big Easy
Inaugural Indy Grand Prix of Louisiana kicks off NBCSN’s IndyCar coverage for 2015 (VIDEO)
NOLA kicks off crazy stretch of 10 weeks in a row for IndyCar
NOLA Motorsports Park track walk observations (PHOTOS)
Notes: INDYCAR mandates structural upgrades
Grand Prix of Louisiana has officials hopeful big race leads to West Jefferson boom
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James Hinchcliffe Wins Inaugural Indy Grand Prix of Louisiana
By Mark Robinson
Published: Apr 12, 2015
AVONDALE, La. (April 12, 2015) – James Hinchcliffe had a premonition midway through the inaugural Indy Grand Prix of Louisiana when his crew ordered him not to make a pit stop like the rest of the Verizon IndyCar Series field leaders at NOLA Motorsports Park. The hunch came true when the Canadian took the checkered flag to win a wild and unpredictable series debut on the 2.74-mile road course outside New Orleans.
Hinchcliffe, driving the No. 5 Arrow/Lucas Oil Schmidt Peterson Honda, won under a full-course caution ahead of Helio Castroneves, in the No. 3 Hitachi Team Penske Chevrolet. The race, run in changing track conditions after heavy morning rains, ended after 47 laps due to the 1-hour, 45-minute time limit. It marks the fourth career Indy car victory for Hinchcliffe and fifth for his Schmidt Peterson Motorsports team.
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By Mark Robinson
Published: Apr 12, 2015
AVONDALE, La. (April 12, 2015) – James Hinchcliffe had a premonition midway through the inaugural Indy Grand Prix of Louisiana when his crew ordered him not to make a pit stop like the rest of the Verizon IndyCar Series field leaders at NOLA Motorsports Park. The hunch came true when the Canadian took the checkered flag to win a wild and unpredictable series debut on the 2.74-mile road course outside New Orleans.
Hinchcliffe, driving the No. 5 Arrow/Lucas Oil Schmidt Peterson Honda, won under a full-course caution ahead of Helio Castroneves, in the No. 3 Hitachi Team Penske Chevrolet. The race, run in changing track conditions after heavy morning rains, ended after 47 laps due to the 1-hour, 45-minute time limit. It marks the fourth career Indy car victory for Hinchcliffe and fifth for his Schmidt Peterson Motorsports team.
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Sir Patrick Stewart to serve as Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach grand marshal
By IndyCar.com staff
Published: Apr 12, 2015
Acclaimed stage and screen actor Sir Patrick Stewart will serve as grand marshal for the Verizon IndyCar Series race on April 19 at the 41st Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.
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By IndyCar.com staff
Published: Apr 12, 2015
Acclaimed stage and screen actor Sir Patrick Stewart will serve as grand marshal for the Verizon IndyCar Series race on April 19 at the 41st Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.
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