Down Shift Magazine

A view from turn 6 during the 2010 Honda Grand Prix of St Petersburg Florida.

The Franchitti brothers will pair with regular Level 5 driver and team owner Scott Tucker in the 1,000-mile/10-hour race on Saturday, Oct. 20th.

“This is a very sad day for all of us at Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing,” principal owner Bobby Rahal said of Roembke, who was one of his first hires when he started his team in 1992. “Scott was truly passionate about motor racing and particularly IndyCar racing, and was a wealth of knowledge about the sport. He was a great leader, a confidant of mine and a dear friend.”

“It’s massive. I’m just trying to catch my breathe. Those restarts were crazy, crazy, crazy.” (About restart w/ Briscoe) “Everyone had been going late. The green flag was actually coming out before the leaders were accelerating and I caught wind of that so I just started to focus on the green flag instead of focusing on the guy next to me and Briscoe got jumped on that one but the green flag was flying when he was still sitting there in first gear. I mean I feel sorry for him, well I don’t really feel sorry, but you know what I mean.”  ~Ryan Hunter-Reay

The circuit is a 2.04 miles temporary street circuit. The scenic partially tree-lined course starts and finishes near the intersection of Pratt Street, one of Baltimore’s main avenues, and Sharp Street. It contains 12 turns, including a hairpin turn at the intersection of Light Street and Lee Street. The main straight runs along Pratt Street from Paca Street to Calvert Street and is 0.5 miles long. The course has 13 grandstands and 5 bridges.

For the fourth time in six years, Dixon won the Mid-Ohio round of the IRL Series championship. This year, he did it without the benefit of a full-course caution, as INDYCAR has completed two consecutive caution-free races for the first time in 25 years.

This season marks the sixth straight co-headlined Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge & The Honda Indy® 200 at Mid-Ohio weekend. This unique event boasts the top sports car and open wheel series in the nation competing on back to back days. Mid-Ohio is the only permanent road course to host both series on the same weekend. Both the Honda Indy® 200 and the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge will be broadcasted live on ABC.