2012-indycar Stories - Pop Off Valve
Dale Coyne Racing sees open window of opportunity, leaps headlong through it
If ever there was a time for perennial minnow Dale Coyne to become a serious player in the IZOD IndyCar Series, 2012 may be that time. The well-liked team owner got his first IndyCar victory at Watkins Glen International in 2009 with driver Justin Wilson and engineer Bill Pappas. It was a terrific...
2012 IndyCar puzzle slowly coming together
It wouldn't have been IndyCar without a slight tinge of hysterical pessimism coloring the beginning of the new year. Let's face it - pessimism by now is coded into the DNA of a disturbingly large percentage of IndyCar fans, and if there wasn't something to worry or kvetch about, most of us would...
Connecting the DOTS: The DW12 and INDYCAR's short-timeline development process
Sit back, kids, and let your grizzled old blogger give you a bit of a history lesson. Just over half a century ago, the United States of America was in a veritable lather, a froth of panic. When Americans looked up into the night sky, one of the stars moved. When they tuned their radios to a...
Function following form: The struggle to adapt performance to a traditional aesthetic
The much-publicized growing pains of the Dallara DW12 "next-generation" IndyCar should not surprise anyone. Marshall Pruett over at SPEED has all of the nitty-gritty details about why the car is having its developmental issues, and his piece is definitely worth the read. But if you want to know...
Long IndyCar off-season a blessing in disguise
Someone recently asked me what I thought about the yawning divide between the 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series finale at Las Vegas and the start of the 2012 racing season. The question was fraught with complexity because of Dan Wheldon's death. Normally, most of us would say that the new season couldn't...
Safety is the greatest tradition that IndyCar can follow
I occasionally ask myself why I love sports that are so beset by traditionalism and "old-school" fans that substantive change is virtually a forbidden topic. Of course, there's baseball. The sport is almost as old as the United States itself, so naturally there is an enormous reticence to mess...
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