The 2015 Honda Indy 200 will mark the 18th Indy car event for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (RLL) here. The team also competed in the Atlantic Series race in 2003 with Danica Patrick and has competed in ALMS races here in 2007 and from 2009-2012. The highest IndyCar finish for the team here is two third place finishes (Rahal 1997, 1998) and the highest start is pole (Herta 1997). Another front row start came in 1999 (Herta; 2nd).
Juan Pablo Montoya leads the Indy car championship with three races to go for the second time in his career. He also led the CART point standings with three to go when he won the 1999 championship.
A lot has changed for racing brothers Louis-Philippe and Jean-Francois Dumoulin since they last competed on their hometown circuit, and all for the better.
The NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1 will head to Quebec for the fourth and final time this year with the JuliaWine.com Le 50 Tourson Sunday at Circuit de Trois-Rivieres.
Mark Miles, CEO, Hulman & Company, announced that Derrick Walker, President of Competition & Operations, INDYCAR, has decided to leave the company effective Aug. 31, 2015, in order to pursue other professional opportunities. A search for his replacement is under way.
INDYCAR announced the following post-event infractions and manufacturer championship points updates from the Iowa Corn 300, which was held July 18 at Iowa Speedway:
Mark Dilley was behind the wheel of the #02 Johnsonville Ford for a pair of NASCAR Canadian Tire Series races in western Canada last week. The highlight of the trip was his strong performance in the July 15 Velocity Prairie Thunder 250 at Saskatoon’s Auto Clearing Motor Speedway. But the team showed strength in both outings and they’re looking forward to building on those runs this coming Saturday at Montreal’s Autodrome St-Eustache.
INDYCAR announced today the introduction of new technology that will track each Verizon IndyCar Series car's running position and display it in real time via light emitting diode (LED) panels on the side of each racecar. The LED panels have been tested multiple times this season and will be implemented in time for the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio on Aug. 2.
Scott Steckly driver of the 22 Racing/Canadian Tire Dodge is looking forward to this weekend’s event at Autodrome St. Eustache. Steckly is the winningest driver in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series at this facility and looks to add to the win column here again on Saturday night.
Joe Gibbs Racing driver Taylor Gray was made available to the media on Friday prior to the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race from Talladega Superspeedway.
Roush Fenway Keselowski (RFK) Racing joins the 50th anniversary celebration of Roush, the engineering and technology company founded by Jack Roush in 1976.
