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Welcome to the 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series!



This season's calendar:
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1.  Sun  March 27      Streets of St. Petersburg     1.8 mile street course
2.  Sun  April 10      Barber Motorsports Park       2.38 mile road course
3.  Sun  April 17      Streets of Long Beach         1.968 mile street course
4.  Sun  May 01        Streets of Sao Paulo          2.6 mile street course
5.  Sun  May 29        Indianapolis Motor Speedway   2.5 mile oval
6.  Sat  June 11**     Texas Motor Speedway          1.5 mile oval
7.  Sun  June 19       The Milwaukee Mile            1 mile oval
8.  Sat  June 25*      Iowa Speedway                 0.875 mile oval
9.  Sun  July 10       Streets of Toronto            1.75 mile street course
10. Sun  July 24       Edmonton City Centre Airport  1.96 mile airport course
11. Sun  August 07     Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course    2.258 mile road course
12. Sun  August 14     New Hampshire Motor Speedway  1.058 mile oval
13. Sun  August 28     Infineon Raceway              2.303 mile road course
14. Sun  September 04  Streets of Baltimore          2 mile street course
15. Sun  September 18  Twin Ring Motegi              1.5 mile oval
16. Sun  October 02    Kentucky Speedway             1.5 mile oval
17. Sun  October 16    Las Vegas (TBC)               1.5 mile oval

* Denotes night race.
**The Texas event in June is two 275km full field races held on the same night. Half points will be awarded for each race

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The teams and drivers we can expect to see this season:
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Confirmed Entries:

Car  Driver               Country  Team                    Sponsors                 Races
#3   Helio Castroneves    BRA      Team Penske             Itaipava, Pennzoil, AAA  Full-Time
#4   J.R. Hildebrand      USA      Panther                 National Guard           Full-Time
#5   Takuma Sato          JPN      KVRT                    Lotus                    Full-Time
#6   Ryan Briscoe         AUS      Team Penske             IZOD                     Full-Time
#7   Danica Patrick       USA      Andretti Autosport      GoDaddy.com              Full-Time
#8   EJ Viso              VEN      KVRT                    Lotus/PDVSA              Full-Time
#9   Scott Dixon          NZL      Chip Ganassi Racing     Target                   Full-Time
#10  Dario Franchitti     GBR      Chip Ganassi Racing     Target                   Full-Time
#12  Will Power           AUS      Team Penske             Verizon, Meijer@Vegas    Full-Time
#14  Vitor Meira          BRA      A.J.Foyt Enterprises    ABC Supply Co.           Full-Time
#22  Justin Wilson        GBR      Dreyer & Reinbold       Z-Line Designs           Full-Time  
#24  Ana Beatriz          BRA      Dreyer & Reinbold       Ipiranga                 Full-Time
#26  Marco Andretti       USA      Andretti Autosport      Venom Energy             Full-Time
#27  Mike Conway          GBR      Andretti Autosport      GoDaddy.com@3races       Full-Time
#28  Ryan Hunter-Reay     USA      Andretti Autosport      DHL (Sun Drop@StPete)    Full-Time
#38  Graham Rahal         USA      Chip Ganassi Racing     Service Central          Full-Time
#43  John Andretti        USA      Andretti Autosport      Window World             Indy
#67  Ed Carpenter         USA      Sarah Fisher Racing     Dollar General           9races(StPete,Ohio,All Ovals)
#77  Alex Tagliani        CAN      Sam Schmidt Motorsports Bowers & Wilkins         Full-Time
#78  Simona de Silvestro  CHE      HVM Racing              Nuclear Clean Air Energy Full-Time
#83  Charlie Kimball      USA      Chip Ganassi Racing     Novo Nordisk             Full-Time
#TBA Wade Cunningham      NZL      Sam Schmidt Motorsports Creatherm                3races(Texas,Kentucky,Vegas)
#88  Jay Howard           GBR      Rahal Letterman/SSR     Service Central          Indy
#99  Townsend Bell        USA      Sam Schmidt Motorsports Herbalife                Indy

Unconfirmed Entries:

Car  Driver                        Team                    Sponsors                 Races
#32  TBA (Kanaan?)                 KVRT                                                   
#34  TBA (Mann? Tracy? Saavedra?)  Conquest                
#18  TBA (Duno/Bourdais shared?)   Dale Coyne              CITGO?      
#19  TBA (Plowman?)                Dale Coyne              Boy Scouts of America 
#06  TBA (Servia? Hinchcliffe?)    Newman/Haas Racing    
#TBA TBA (Wheldon? Tracy?)         AFS Racing                                       Full-Time?
#TBA TBA (Tomas Scheckter?)        REDLINE Xtreme/KVRT     REDLINE Xtreme Energy    Indy

All cars use Dallara chassis, Honda engines and Firestone tires.

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2011 IZOD IndyCar Series - Round 1
Honda Grand Prix of St Petersburg, FL USA


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Just under two weeks to go until the IZOD IndyCar series kicks off in Flordia on the streets of St Petersburg. Let the excitement for the first major open-wheel motorsport weekend of the year commence!

Circuit Information:


View the official circuit map here

Circuit Length: 1.80 mile street circuit
Race Distance: 100 laps, 180 miles
2010 Winner: Will Power, Team Penske
Lap Record: 1:00.928 (Sébastien Bourdais, Newman-Haas Racing, 2003, Champ Car)

View race highlights & an onboard lap of the circuit:
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IndyCar Honda Grand Prix of St Petersburg Entry List:

Car  Driver               Country  Team                    Sponsor
#3   Helio Castroneves    BRA      Team Penske             Cerveza Itaipava
#4   J.R. Hildebrand      USA      Panther                 National Guard
#5   Takuma Sato          JPN      KVRT                    Lotus
#6   Ryan Briscoe         AUS      Team Penske             IZOD
#7   Danica Patrick       USA      Andretti Autosport      GoDaddy.com
#8   EJ Viso              VEN      KVRT                    Lotus/PDVSA
#9   Scott Dixon          NZL      Chip Ganassi Racing     Target
#10  Dario Franchitti     GBR      Chip Ganassi Racing     Target
#12  Will Power           AUS      Team Penske             Verizon
#14  Vitor Meira          BRA      A.J.Foyt Enterprises    ABC Supply Co.
#22  Justin Wilson        GBR      Dreyer & Reinbold       Z-Line Designs
#24  Ana Beatriz          BRA      Dreyer & Reinbold       Ipiranga
#26  Marco Andretti       USA      Andretti Autosport      Venom Energy
#27  Mike Conway          GBR      Andretti Autosport      GoDaddy.com
#28  Ryan Hunter-Reay     USA      Andretti Autosport      DHL/Sun Drop
#38  Graham Rahal         USA      Chip Ganassi Racing     Service Central
#67  Ed Carpenter         USA      Sarah Fisher Racing     Dollar General
#77  Alex Tagliani        CAN      Sam Schmidt Motorsports Bowers & Wilkins
#78  Simona de Silvestro  CHE      HVM Racing              Nuclear Clean Air Energy
#83  Charlie Kimball      USA      Chip Ganassi Racing     Novo Nordisk

20 cars confirmed as of 12/03/11. Entry list not finalised.
All cars use Dallara chassis, Honda engines and Firestone tires.

Weekend Schedule:

US Eastern Time / UK Time (BST) / Europe (CEST)

Friday 25th March
10:15-11:15 / 14:15-15:15 / 15:15-16:15 IndyCar 1st Practice
14:00-14:45 / 18:00-18:45 / 19:00-19:45 Indy Lights 1st Practice
15:00-16:00 / 19:00-20:00 / 20:00-21:00 IndyCar 2nd Practice

Saturday 26th March
09:10-09:55 / 13:10-13:55 / 14:10-14:55 Indy Lights 2nd Practice
10:10-11:10 / 14:10-15:10 / 15:10-16:10 IndyCar 3rd Practice
13:25-14:10 / 17:25-18:10 / 18:25-19:10 Indy Lights Qualifying
14:30-15:50 / 18:30-19:50 / 19:30-20:50 IndyCar Qualifying

Sunday 27th March
08:05-08:20 / 13:05-13:20 / 14:05-14:20 Indy Lights Warm-up
08:40-09:10 / 13:40-14:10 / 14:40-15:10 IndyCar Warm-up
10:30-11:45 / 15:30-16:45 / 16:30-17:45 Indy Lights Race (45 laps)
12:00-12:30 / 17:00-17:30 / 18:00-18:30 IndyCar Pre-Race
12:30-15:00 / 17:30-20:00 / 18:30-21:00 IndyCar Honda Grand Prix of St Petersburg

Reminder to viewers - daylight saving time takes effect Sunday 27th March
View the complete schedule here

Television Information:

ABC (USA) - LIVE race coverage Sunday 27th March
Sky Sports (UK) - LIVE race coverage Sunday 27th March

Streams & Live Timing
Indycar Video Ondemand - pre-race buildup, session highlights & live practice sessions
Indycar Race Control - live raceday footage and multiple onboard cameras including live timing
Indycar IMS Radio Network - audio commentary

Televised streams of the race will be posted by forum members shortly before the race.
Links to some of the common streams will be shown on the MyP2P links page nearer the time.

Sources and links:
IZOD Indycar Series Homepage
Honda Grand Prix of St Petersburg Track Site

Not long to wait now!!

Thanks for the UK time, very handy!

yay indycar

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Like you wouldn't have asked me anyway....

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"Every day on Memorial weekend, comes the chance to cross these bricks, and live forever. No votes, no politics, no thanks to the Academy. Nothing. Just driver, machine, and pursuit of immortality"

Today's announcement from Barber regarding Saavedra in the #34 puts us to 21 cars in St Pete, with at least one entry for Coyne and Newman Haas very likely.. that will put us to 23. Despite the AFS announcment.. I will believe it when I see it.

Is Saavedra full-time this season or just St. Pete?

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Full-time.

The Dale Coyne car's not run in St petersburg ?

They don't have a confirmed driver yet.

Was Paul Tracy hoping for the Conquest seat? He looks dissapointed by something on twitter.

FYI: might want to update first post as there is no televised (or online) practice this year and IndyCar Race Control went bye-bye.

- Practice is not televised. So it won't be online either.
- Qualifying will be shown on Versus (tape delay i think) on weekends that Versus is covering races but still there is no online video stream unless you can find a pirated one. On ABC weekends such as St. Pete there is no televised qualifying which means no streams anywhere.
- Races will be on Versus or ABC this year. Neither have online streams available. Will have to use a pirate one if you don't have access to IndyCar on tv locally.

The GOOD news is that IndyCar is dusting off their equipment to give us any streaming press conferences that happen this year!!!!

It's not IndyCar's fault. NBC-Comcast which owns Versus is not happy with IndyCar.

Do you have any quote or news to support this part?

http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/ ... -for-2011/
Randy Bernard: "Comcast/NBC had been kind enough to let us air content on the web during the first two years of our relationship."
Randy Bernard: "I understand their goal here, and it's to drive more people to watch the broadcasts on television--to get the ratings up."

In other words: "they were kind to us before but now because of low ratings, they've decided to not be".

It says they won't be airing raceday coverage as its televised. Where does it say that practice won't be streamed?

^ Indycar doesn't own the rights to stream anything. I guees they thought they did but upon further inspection of their contract when Comcast said "stop doing this", they don't.

from indycar's own site: "Because of network TV rights/contracts, live streaming video of practice (outside of the Indianapolis 500), qualifying and races won’t be available this season."
http://www.indycar.com/news/archive/sho ... ar-nation/

He's a complete fucking moron if he's managed to sign away the series broadcast rights so much that they can't even stream the series they own.

Rafael Matos will race in St.Pete with AFS Racing's new IndyCar program.

Honestly it seems like the network is leveraging it's weight more so then anything. If cameras aren't rolling though you can't stream anything.

The channel which broadcasts Indycar in Holland seems to be in problems. They haven't been broadcasting for about 2 weeks now. There website says they will be back soon, but it looks like they have bigger problems.

Always wondered how they where able to afford live DTM, F3 Euroseries and Indycars (with BTCC, Superstars and some other GT series in replay) without almost none commercials. Guess Holland is too small to have a autosport channel .

Since yesterday they are broadcasting again... no idea if they will have live-coverage this year, send them an e-mail some months ago but unfortunately no reply from their side...