#indy 500 1993

[coimbrabertone]

The Full Story of the Andretti Indycar Team

On September 27th, 2024, Jay Penske's sportico.com website reported that Michael Andretti was relinquishing ownership of Andretti Global and stepping back into a strategic role.

Michael Andretti, who spent over twenty years racing in Indycar in his own right and spent just as long as a team owner, was stepping away from team ownership, handing the reins to investor Dan Towriss.

Now, a lot of people have speculated as to why:

Some people say that Michael and Dan had a falling out earlier this season and Michael ultimately left.

Others say that Michael promised Dan an entry into Formula One, and now that the teams have firmly blocked that, Dan demanded some kind of return on his investment.

Others yet think that Michael stepping away is a way to smooth over the friction between Michael and the F1 team bosses, potentially giving an avenue for the Towriss-led Andretti Cadillac to make it into F1 after all.

There is also, you know, the possibility that Michael Andretti was being entirely truthful. He simply wants to step back to a more strategic role rather than dealing with team ownership.

We don't know the real answer though.

Nor is it the topic of this blog.

Instead, this blog is a retrospective on Andretti as a race team, particularly in Indycar. How they started, how the Andrettis got involved, some of the high points, and what the team means to Indycar now that, in one way or another, it won't even been the same.

The story starts in 1993, when Barry Green (a senior Australian engineer who worked with teams like Forsythe and Kraco) and Gerry Forsythe himself (who had run an Indycar team in the early and mid 80s) partnered with Player's cigarettes out of Canada to create a Formula Atlantic team, with Quebecois drivers Claude Bourbonnais and Jacques Villeneuve.

Claude finished second in the standings that year, Jacques just behind in third.

With a promising debut, the team moved up to CART in 1994, fielding Jacques Villeneuve in a Player's sponsored car. Jacques would finish second at Indy and take his debut win at Road America, to finish sixth in the standings and snatch rookie of the year.

Come 1995, the team experienced an ownership split. Barry Green kept Players and Villeneuve initially, while Gerry Forsythe started his own team with Teo Fabi - who had previously driven for Forsythe in 1983 - as the driver.

That didn't stop Team Green from continuing to be successful.

Villeneuve won the season opening Grand Prix of Miami, the Indianapolis 500, Road America yet again, and Cleveland to win the championship.

All of this was enough for Frank Williams to snatch Villeneuve out of Indycar and bring him over to Formula One.

Furthermore, Forsythe secured the Player's sponsorship for his own team for 1996, hiring Greg Moore to drive.

Meanwhile, Team Green had a pair of mediocre seasons in 1996 and 1997, with Raul Boesel and Parker Johnstone, respectively, however, by 1998, the team was ready to compete.

Barry's brother Kim joined in as co-manager of the team, KOOL cigarettes signed up as sponsor for 1997, and they switched to Honda engines that same year.

Then for 1998, they brought on Penske's Paul Tracy and Hogan's Dario Franchitti as drivers. Paul and Dario in those white, green, and gold KOOL cars would be defining drivers in those golden era of CART.

Dario struck first, winning Road America, Vancouver, and Houston in 1998, finishing third in the standings.

Come 1999, and Dario won Toronto, Detroit, and Surfers Paradise, whilst Paul Tracy won at Milwaukee and Houston. Dario finished second to Juan Pablo Montoya on countback, whilst Paul Tracy finished third.

This was Team Green's finest hour.

Paul Tracy won at Long Beach, Road America, and Vancouver in 2000 to finish fifth, but Dario struggled, and more than that, the two gained a reputation for crashing into each other. They crashed into each other at Houstin in 1998 (which Dario won), Gateway in 1999, Chicago in 2000...they were quite literally doing it once a year.

That wasn't the end of it either, since it happened again in Denver in 2002.

Anyway, also in 2001, Michael Andretti enters the story.

Now, Michael had worked with Barry Green at Kraco, but after that, Michael joined his father at Newman/Haas. From 1989 to 1992, Mario and Michael were teammates, and when Mario retired at the end of the 1994 season, it paved the way for Michael to return to Newman/Haas through the end of the 2000 season.

However, Michael wanted to race in the Indianapolis 500, and Newman/Haas was a CART diehard team. Thus, in 2001, Michael partnered with Motorola, Kevin Savoree, and Kim Green to create a satellite entry in the form of Team Motorola.

Michael won Toronto in 2001 and Long Beach in 2002 with Team Motorola, while also finishing 3rd and 7th, respectively, at Indianapolis in those years.

For 2002, Paul Tracy and Dario joined him, in 7Eleven sponsored cars - really a business-to-business (B2B) deal between KOOL and 7Eleven, effectively saying "come buy your cigarettes here!" - and Paul Tracy was pulling off a pass for the lead on Helio Castroneves as the caution came out.

Helio was deemed to have been ahead as Paul complained on the radio, saying that it was the IRL trying to cheat a CART driver out of the win, but the race finished under caution and Castroneves won his second consecutive Indy 500.

For 2003, Michael bought out Barry, with Kim Green and Kevin Savoree initially staying on as smaller partners.

Thus, Team KOOL Green became Andretti Green Racing, and they moved over to the IRL Indycar Series.

Dario Franchitti remained in the #27 car, picking up the Motorola sponsorship, while the 7Eleven sponsorship led to the other two cars becoming the #7 and the #11. The #7 would be driven by Michael Andretti through the end of the Indianapolis 500, while the #11 would be taken over by Tony Kanaan - Paul Tracy had refused to move over to the IRL, so he signed for Forsythe in CART instead.

Dan Wheldon, in a Jim Beam sponsored #26 car, would effectively replace the retiring Michael Andretti after the Indy 500.

In 2004, with the team adding on Bryan Herta in a fourth car - the XM Satellite Radio sponsored #7 - Andretti Green Racing would become the Indycar superteam. They had more cars than anybody else, their Honda engines were better than the Toyota and Chevrolet engines the competition were running, and the likes of Wheldon, Kanaan, and Franchitti would go on a tear.

Tony Kanaan would win the 2004 championship, Dan Wheldon finished second.

Dan Wheldon won the 2005 championship, Tony Kanaan finished second.

Also in 2005, the team achieved two massive milestones.

First, they swept the top four positions at the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. The race in Florida was the first IRL event on a road or street circuit rather than an oval, and Andretti dominated it.

Dan Wheldon first, Tony Kanaan second, Dario Franchitti third, and Bryan Herta fourth.

Second, they won their first Indianapolis 500, capping off a career year for Dan Wheldon.

With Wheldon going to Ganassi for 2006, while Chevy and Toyota pulled out - meaning Penske and Ganassi now had those same Honda engines that Andretti was so successful with - marked a bit of a stumble for the team.

Nevertheless, with Marco Andretti replacing Wheldon in the #26, Michael returned for the Indianapolis, the father-son duo finishing second and third, narrowly losing out to Penske's Sam Hornish.

Still, Tony Kanaan won at Milwaukee and Marco won at Sonoma.

2007 marked a return to form, with Dario Franchitti winning at Indianapolis, Iowa, Richmond, and Chicagoland to take his first championship. Five wins for Tony Kanaan ensured he finished third in the standings as well.

Also, Danica Patrick took over the #7 car, putting a woman in top machinery in Indycar for the first time. She'd finish seventh that year, behind Dario and Tony, but ahead of eleventh placed Marco.

In 2008, Tony would win at Richmond to finish third in the standings again, however, the biggest story around Andretti Green Racing that year was Danica Patrick winning at Motegi. Now, a lot of people diminish this win, saying that half the Indycar world was in Long Beach for the the final Champ Car race.

However, those people don't seem to say that for all the wins that Tony, Dario, and Dan Wheldon got for that team.

Furthermore, at this point, the IRL had won the war. Scott Dixon, Helio Castroneves, all the Andretti guys...sure it wasn't a peak field, but neither was Champ Car at this point. There is a reason that the two series had no choice but to merge.

In any case, the team was on a bit of a decline as well, with the team going winless in a 2009 season where Danica beat out TK by seven points to be Andretti's top driver that season, finishing fifth.

Ryan Hunter-Reay would join the team in 2010 - now rebranded from Andretti Green Racing to Andretti Autosport - and lead them back towards the front of the field, eventually winning the championship in 2012 and the Indianapolis 500 in 2014.

Meanwhile, James Hinchcliffe won at St. Pete, Sao Paulo, and Iowa in 2013 to give the team that one-two punch again.

2015 was another struggle, only winning a single win - Detroit Race 1 with Carlos Munoz - but the team bounced back in 2016, with Alexander Rossi winning the Indianapolis 500 in the Andretti/Herta #98.

Takuma Sato in the #26 would give the team back-to-back Indianapolis 500 victories with his win in 2017, the first ever for a Japanese driver.

Then in 2018, wins at Long Beach, Mid-Ohio, and Pocono, Alexander Rossi would finish second in the championship.

Wins at Long Beach and Road America in 2019 would give Rossi another title challenge, finishing third this time.

Rossi - and Andretti proper - would go winless in 2020, but the affiliated Harding-Steinbrenner car of Colton Herta won the second race at Mid-Ohio.

On top of wins at COTA and Laguna Seca in 2019 before Harding-Steinbrenner joined up with Andretti, this marked Colton's ascendancy at the team his dad once drove for. He would finish third in the standings in 2020.

He won St. Pete, Laguna Seca, and Long Beach in 2021 but regressed to fifth, whilst Rossi, Hunter-Reay, and the returning Hinchcliffe all went winless.

A win for Herta at the first IMS Road Course race and a win for Rossi at the second marked a somewhat better 2022, but with Penske and Ganassi continuing their dominance of the series, while Arrow McLaren emerged as best of the rest, it marked a serious decline for Andretti. Especially once Rossi left Andretti to join an expanding Arrow McLaren team.

To add insult to injury, Rossi in ninth was Andretti's best car in 2022.

This got even worse in 2023, when Rossi's replacement, Kyle Kirkwood won at Long Beach and Nashville, but he was eleventh, and Colton Herta was tenth.

This was bad.

The team was making a lot of noise about trying to get into Formula One, and it even rebranded to Andretti Global as part of those efforts, but how were they going to build their own car for Formula One when they weren't even doing well in a spec series like Indycar?

More bad news for 2024 as DHL left the #28 car - most recently driven by Romain Grosjean - to sponsor Alex Palou for 2024. Andretti Global went from four car super team in 2005 to mid table in 2024 - they needed to consolidate resources if they wanted to get back to the front.

So they did.

Colton Herta in the #26 and Kyle Kirkwood in the #27 remained, but the #28 was taken over by Marcus Ericsson, while the #29 of Devlin DeFrancesco went away entirely. The four-car team was down to a comparatively sleek three, and they hoped to consolidate resources.

Well, wins at Toronto and Nashville Superspeedway ensured Colton Herta finished second in the standings, while Kyle Kirkwood was seventh, and Marcus Ericsson was fifteenth.

The team bounced back somewhat, and things looked good in the offseason.

Sure, Andretti seemed no closer to joining Formula One than they had before, but they consolidated resources to improve in Indycar, while getting ready to move into their fancy new headquarters in Fishers, Indiana.

There was some grumblings that two teams held out on signing Indycar's charter agreement all the way up until the final moment, but it wasn't exactly clear who the holdouts were.

Then Michael Andretti announced he was stepping back at Andretti Global. That...was interesting. That could mean he was the hold out, or maybe not.

It could mean that Towriss seized control of the team, or maybe not.

It could be a ploy to win over the Formula One teams, or maybe not.

It's unclear what will happen to Andretti Global going forward, but this is the story of what has happened to Andretti thus far.

[anandrettisimp]

It’s that time of year again, the milk selection for the Indy 500.

I’m gonna preempt you lot by answering some questions:

Do they offer lactose free/alternative milks?

Yes, the American Dairy Association are on record saying they will offer alternatives if requested.

Of the field that I’m aware of Scott Dixon is vegan (though this is since he won his only 500) as is Conor Daly while Will Power is lactose intolerant (but he’s colourblind and says his favourite drink is chocolate milk, survival skills is none with this man). As you can see, none have select it.

Why Milk?

Back in 1936 Louis Myers asked for a glass of buttermilk after his victory as he had always been told by his mum it was a refreshing drink to have on hot days. He’d also had it after his 1933 victory but he hadn’t actively asked for it them. It faded for a while, in fact for a couple of years it was instead a silver jug in the style of a water bucket filled with iced water as "Water From Wilbur" and given by track president and three time winner Wilbur Shaw. In 1956 with the dairy sponsor (including money towards the winner purse) a bottle of the white stuff was back and has been ever since.

Now they use to still have buttermilk as an option until quite recently. The reason it was dropped is that rather than it being the drinking kind they had, it was rather cultured buttermilk which is more of a baking ingredients.

Has anyone drank something other than milk?

Yes, in 1993 Emerson Fittipaldi, wanting to promote his grove back home drank orange juice.

It went down badly.

Even though he did drink the milk after (at team owner Roger Penske’s insistence), it was during an ad break for tv watchers. He would apologise and donate $5,000 from the Dairy Association to charity.

He still got booed at the next race in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, aka America's Dairyland.

….

If you have any more questions then just reblog with them and I’ll try and answer~

[thisisyourdriverspeaking]

Qualifying for the Indy 500 is here so in honour of that, this is Indycar 2024 number two songs. Enjoy. Consider this as a hype playlist if you want 😂

Helio Castoneves (10th May 1975) - Minnie Riperton - Lovin' You

Takuma Sato (28th January 1977) - Julie Covington - Don't Cry For Me Argentina

Katherine Legge (12th July 1980) - Odyssey - Use It Up And Wear It Out

Scott Dixon (22nd July 1980) - Olivia Newton John & Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu

Ryan Hunter-Reay (17th December 1980) - St Winifred's School Choir - There's No One Quite Like Grandma

Will Power (1st March 1981) & Ed Carpenter (3rd March 1981) - Ultravox - Vienna

Romain Grosjean (17th April 1986) - Cliff Richard & The Young Ones - Living Doll

Marco Andretti (13th March 1987) - Ben E King - Stand By Me

Colin Braun (22nd September 1988) - Phil Collins - Groovy Kind Of Love

Graham Rahal (4th January 1989) - Angry Anderson - Suddenly

Agustin Canapino (19th January 1990) - Kylie Minogue - Tears On My Pillow

Marcus Ericsson (2nd September 1990) - Betty Boo - Where Are You Baby?

Josef Newgarden (22nd December 1990) - Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby

Alexander Rossi (25th September 1991) - Salt-N-Pepa - Let's Talk About Sex

Felix Rosenqvist (7th November 1991) - U2 - The Fly

Conor Daly (15th December 1991) - George Michael & Elton John - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me

Kyle Larson (31st July 1992) - Snap! - Rhythm Is A Dancer

Jack Harvey (15th April 1993) - Snow - Informer

Scott McLaughlin (10th June 1993) - Ace Of Base - All That She Wants

Tom Blomqvist (30th November 1993) - Elton John & Kiki Dee - True Love

Pietro Fittipaldi (25th June 1996) - Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds - Three Lions

Alex Palou (1st April 1997) - Spice Girls - Who Do You Think You Are?

Santino Ferrucci (31st May 1998) - Brandy & Monica - The Boy Is Mine

Kyle Kirkwood (19th October 1998) - 911 - More Than A Woman

Callum Ilott (11th November 1998) - E-17 - Each Time

Linus Lundqvist (26th March 1999) - Boyzone - When The Going Gets Tough

Pato O'Ward (6th May 1999) - Offspring - Why Don't You Get A Job?

Colton Herta (30th March 2000) - Moloko - The Time Is Now

Christian Rasmussen (29th June 2000) - Black Legend - You See The Trouble With Me

Marcus Armstrong (29th July 2000) - Ronan Keating - Life Is A Rollercoaster

Rinus Veekay (11th September 2000) - Sonique - Sky

Christian Lundgaard (23rd July 2001) - D12 - Purple Pills

Sting Ray Robb (3rd September 2001) - Five - Let's Dance

David Malukas (27th September 2001) - DJ Otzi - Hey Baby

Theo Pourchaire (20th August 2003) - Ultrabeat - Pretty Green Eyes

Kyffin Simpson (9th October 2004) - Ronan Keating - I Hope You Dance

Nolan Siegel (8th November 2004) - Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath

All added to this playlist 😊😊

[randomvarious]

1998 San Francisco Playlist (YouTube)

Really ain't nothin' like the city of San Francisco when it comes to the music. The hippie-psychedelic Haight-Ashbury vibes of the 60s ended up getting baked into the cyber-psychonautic underground rave scene of the 90s; there's been a whole bunch of house music; a rich folk tradition; Bay Area hip hop developed into its own oft-overlooked entity; a pretty deep pocket of turntablism; and, of course, plenty of indie rock too. Quite a mix of scenes, and I'm obviously missing a bunch too!

So this week I'm giving you all something that feels like a long-forgotten CD that some college kid who was attending school in San Francisco may have burnt back in 1998. It's an eclectic, completely underground mix of electronic, hip hop, and a little bit of indie too; and it's been collecting dust at the bottom of a drawer now for over 25 years!

We kick off with a dubby deep house remix of Paris' A Reminiscent Drive's "Two Sides to Every Story" by SF native Charles Webster—14.4K plays on YouTube across a handful of uploads—and then we follow that up with a mix of UK group Globo's "Breakdown" by legendary breakbeat/trip hop pioneer Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto, who started calling the Golden Gate City his home in 1993—under 500 plays on that one as of right now. A little after that we get more breakbeat from a *very* obscure duo called Astralabe, whose cinematic, tribal-psychedelic masterpiece, "Guimbri Dub (Self-Cremating Fire of Passion Remix)," appears to be the only song that they ever released, and is included exclusively on an uncredited DJ mix called The Vertical Iris; currently sitting at a measly 92 plays.

Then on the hip hop side of things, we have some lo-fi dustiness from Double Life and Raw B called "Cycles of the Mind," as well as a 7-plus-minute medley by Sacred Hoop, DJ Marz, and Z-Man called "Not Our House," which I think can only be best described as Tony Hawk Pro Skater soundtrack vibe. Those songs have 28.8K and 6.6K plays, respectively. And then for some killer turntablism, we've got a few tunes, including something from DJ Badrok called "1-800-Coming Correct," which has a little under 400 plays.

There's also a fat, buzzy bassline drum n bass remix by a guy named DJ Abstract of "Dukes Up," the original version of which is by someone who simply went by the name of W, that has a little over 6.5K plays (sorry about the super annoying part at the end of it 😕); and a couple tunes that show the versatility of a dude named Cole Marquis, whose solo indie folk tune, "48's," only has a little over 140 plays, and his much peppier, college/indie rock, keyboard-aided bop, "Dirt Bike Rider," by his band The Snowmen, has a little over 170 plays.

This playlist is ordered as chronologically as possible.

Reminiscent Drive - "Two Sides To Every Story (Love From San Francisco Remix)" Globo - "Breakdown (mixed by Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto)" Daisy Glow - "Right On! (User Friendly mix)" Astralabe - "Guimbri Dub (Self-Cremating Fire of Passion Remix)" Rasco - "Cordless Mics" Cole Marquis - "48's" Double Life feat. Raw B - "Cycles of the Mind" Live Human - "Almost Live" Sacred Hoop feat. DJ Marz & Z-Man - "Not Our House" DJ Badrok - "1-800-Coming Correct" Apollo, Vinroc, Shortkut & Richness - "Live at Cue's" W - "Dukes Up (DJ Abstract's One A.M. mix)" Snowmen - "Dirt Bike Rider"

And here's a list of the compilations and mixes that were used to put this thing together:

Club H Vol. 2 by Harry the Bastard (2000, Statra Recordings) The Chemistry Set (1998, Hypnotic Records) The Vertical Iris (1998, ZoëMagik Records) Observation of Ruins (1998, Baraka Foundation) Cleaning House: A Devil in the Woods Compilation (1999, Devil in the Woods) Cue's Hip Hop Shop Volume One (1998, Dogday Records) Eclectic Electric (2000, eMusic)

And this playlist is also on YouTube Music.

So you've got about 66 minutes of some pretty obscure 1998 San Francisco underground music here, the likes of which I don't think anyone else besides that hypothetical college kid that I made up before would ever put together 😁.

Going back to the 70s next week with an update to a genre playlist that I haven't touched in a *very* long time 👀.

Enjoy!

More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!

Like what you hear? Follow me on Spotify and YouTube for more cool playlists and uploads!

[dystini]

Indycar Driver Lore

Indycar Driver Lore Masterlist

Scott Thomas McLaughlin

Birthdate: June 10, 1993 Hometown: Christchurch, New Zealand Residence: Charlotte, North Carolina Height/Weight: 6’0”/185lbs

Rookie Year: 2021

Team: Penske

Follow him on: Instagram Twitter Twitch

Very active on Twitter. Frequently snarky. Very much worth a follow. Frequently streams Iracing on Twitch.

Career Stats

2020: Team Penske - 35th Overall 2021: Team Penske - 14th Overall 2022: Team Penske - 4th Overall 2023: Team Penske - 3rd Overall

Cohosted (as of 2024 on indefinite hiatus) fan-favorite behind-the-scenes video series Bus Bros with teammate Josef Newgarden. Bus Bros Playlist

2020 tested with Team Penske at Sebring and Texas. Raced St Petersburg. 3 time series/season champion in Supercars

IMSA 2023 Tower Motorsports – Daytona 24, won Sebring 2024 Tower Motorsports – Daytona 24

-married his wife, Karly Paone (originally from Long Island, NY.), in Malibu, California, in December 2019. They have a cavoodle named Chase. -Enjoys football, iRacing, puzzles, traveling, and golf. He has a weekly golf round with Nascar driver and Team Penske teammate Ryan Blaney -Racing heroes are Rick Mears in Indycar and Greg Murphy in V8 Supercars -Cohosts fan-favorite behind the scenes video series Bus Bros with teammate Josef Newgarden -Carolina Panthers fan, but he also likes the New York Knicks for basketball -played in the 2023 PGA Arnold Palmer Pro-Am Invitational -Celebratory rolls from the car he sometimes has referred to as a "Wombat Roll"

Iconic/memorable moments

Scott McLaughlin's Celebrates with a Shoey at Road America | 2022 NTT IndyCar Series Scott McLaughlin Wins First Indycar Race | Firestone Grand Prix Of St. Petersburg 2022 Scott cannot handle spicy food, as seen in Bus Bros, ep9 The inflatable sheep Month of May prank Jeff the Eagle (2:15) Scotty the cow? INSIDE THE RACE // SCOTT MCLAUGHLIN AT LONG BEACH Over the Wall: Scott McLaughlin, Ash Vandelay chat off-track activities | INDYCAR Ep. 39 - Indy Car Driver Scott McLaughlin | Real Talk with Mike Burke CHEVY PACE CAR // SCOTT MCLAUGHLIN AND SIMON PAGENAUD 2022 Indianapolis 500: Scott McLaughlin crashes hard into wall after turn three | Motorsports on NBC Scott Mclaughlin's In-laws and In Awe of Indy 500 Scott McLaughlin Explains "Tall Poppy" Syndrome | Romain Grosjean What’s Scott McLaughlin’s last Google search? Scott McLaughlin on his COTA IndyCar test Indy 500 Walk & Talk with Scott McLaughlin and RACER's Marshall Pruett presented by Skip Barber The Indy 500 Interview: Scott McLaughlin Relive Scott McLaughlin and Romain Grosjean's IndyCar battle in St. Pete | Motorsports on NBC 2022 Texas Motor Speedway Finish // Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin Q&A with Scott McLaughlin at 2020 IndyCar Spring Training OVER THE WALL // SCOTT MCLAUGHLIN AT PLAYING THE NEWLYWED GAME WITH THE BUS BROS: SCOTT MCLAUGHLIN & JOSEF NEWGARDEN!!!!PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY

Scott McLaughlin Wins In iRacing Challenge Finale Will Power Bustin Balls of Scott McLaughlin. Hilarious! Google Search - Scott McLaughlin Pennzoil Yellow Submarine Traditions with INDYCAR Driver Scott McLaughlin Doug and Drivers season 2: Scott McLaughlin Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin | Hot Seats with Hinch PLAYING THE NEWLYWED GAME WITH THE BUS BROS: SCOTT MCLAUGHLIN & JOSEF NEWGARDEN!!!!

2024 Cheating scandal Team Penske hit with penalties over Push to Pass use; O’Ward declared St. Petersburg winner How Team Penske took push-to-pass beyond the limit Scott’s Statement McLaughlin responds to St. Petersburg disqualification

Scott is known as a friendly and humble guy in the paddock who seems to get along with most drivers. He's got a playful personality. He likes to celebrate his wins with a "wombat roll", or doing a somersault in victory lane when he exits his car. While appearing in inflatable costumes and a pink "Glamping Squad" t-shirt in episodes of Bus Bros, Scotty still has fun without his partner-in-crime Josef Newgarden; he wore an inflatable Pikachu costume to a race in Australia during the 2022 IndyCar offseason, and his wife wore a matching Pikachu hoodie dress. Scotty might be the easygoing guy everyone wants to have a beer with off-track, but on track he is a fierce competitor. He and the Thirsty 3's (his #3 Penske squad) enjoy a cult following.

Credit – @dottieapple

Fanfic Lore

Nickname: ScottyMac

Frequently paired with teammate Josef Newgarden. As of 2024 there has been a cooling of their friendship as Josef pulls back to focus on racing/the championship.

[eurovision-revisited]

Eurovision 2003 - Wrap Up

2003 is an iconic Eurovision year. They year that ended the dark period. The year they fixed the voting. The year the girl bops broke through. The year the right song won (sorry Belgium). The hosts were fun, the small budget was spent in the right places, the controversy was confined to a single delegation whose outrages seem to me, more and more like a politically confected response to the problems and allegations surrounding the voting in 2002 - and even they had a good song.

Look at how many of the Eurovision qualifiers made it into my list this year. The winner hasn't been this high since 1993! In the current songfestival.be top 500, there are 6 songs from 2003, up 3 from 2003 - a 100% increase!

That's not to say that the national finals weren't good. They were and they chose well. Melfest (and the Nationaal Songfestival) alighted on its modern structure and stuffed itself with what Sweden loves most. Iceland and RÚV outdid themselves by organising a national final that was filled with Icelandic musical talent that could only have been bettered if they'd managed to get Björk and Sigur Rós. Poland put on its first national final with Krajowe Eliminacje and instantly had national flavour and quality as if it had been going for many year.

Around Europe, several names, who would come to be synonymous with Eurovision over then next two decades, were entering with their débuts. There was disco, there was indie, there was Europop, there was jazz and metal and schlager and folk and experimentation. There were even songs in made-up languages. Wherever you look around Europe in 2003 there's improved quality and huge variety.

The voting sequence of 2003 is possibly the best one ever. There were few technical problems and the ones they did have didn't effect the outcome. The hosts have a few moments of the usual cringe, but their styling and looks cannot be beaten. Latvia is a very, very cool country and despite a lot of criticism before hand, the evening itself was a triumph.

The inventive set design and the magnificent green room would set the minds of future production design teams alight with ideas and possibilities. If any year demonstrates what can be achieved with creativity on a budget - even if the first thing that comes to the mind of the average Eurovision fan thinking back to 2003 is modelling clay.

So many things went well. Even better for 2004, the EBU are letting everyone in. Announced prior to the final, the semi-final era is upon us. No more relegations! Everyone can take part now - even Europe's small countries and microstates who left during the 1990s. Eastern Europe can finally be properly welcomed to the Eurovision family. Everything is awesome again!

Goodbye Riga, we'll miss you. It's onto Istanbul and the third first time winner in a row. Türkiye, show us what you can do.

[eliotheeangelis]

hii … i’ve seen your tags from the classical drivers post and i was wondering if you know where i can get some more info about these drivers - the old guard like i call them in my mind - except from their biography on google.

or you know if you have some must watch races from them?

Aw thank you so much for the ask! I'm regretting including so many drivers in my tags! This is going to be all over the place because my knowledge of these guys has kind of built up organically (I’ve been following F1 for too long haha) but I will try my best.

(I would just say one word of warning - if you google any of these guys be careful, as sadly several of them were killed racing and it’s really easy to accidentally see videos or photos of their crashes. Search with care!)

I'll start with Elio de Angelis because he's literally my fave - @riccardo-and-elio 's site Unfinished Symphony is the place to go - there are articles, photos, videos and so much more, as well as her other social media channels (the youtube is fantastic!) Her tumblr blog is great for Riccardo Patrese content too!

This article is great for a general introduction to Elio. This article is good too but just be warned that it describes his fatal accident in a bit of detail.

Also have to shout out eliodeangelis.info because that’s where I learned about him first!

Must watch Elio race? Austria 1982 of course! (watch from 8.20 onwards for the very tense ending!)

Nigel Mansell - I don’t know where to start with Nigel… he’s a dork he’s dramatic he’s flamboyant he’s my special little guy. This video is probably the best introduction.

His best race? There’s a lot to choose from, but for me it’s the 1987 British Grand Prix

Ayrton Senna’s opening lap at Donington 1993 should be required watching for all F1 fans!

If you don’t know much about Alain Prost and Senna and their rivalry, this is a great intro

Jo Siffert and Pedro Rodriguez are my fave 70s guys. Here’s them going side by side through Eau Rouge in the wet (when they were teammates!! Jackie Stewart called them deraged for this!). More on them in this article.

An intro to Gilles Villeneuve - . Must watch races for Gilles? Monaco 1981, Spain 1981.. and his three wheeled escapades at Zandvoort 1981

Niki Lauda’s career story

The tragedy of Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi - https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/gilles-villeneuve-didier-pironi-rivalry

Graham Hill is one of my favourites because he was absolutely hilarious – here’s a good compilation of his funny moments

He won Monaco five times (only Senna has won more races at Monaco) and is so far the only driver to win the “Triple Crown” of motorsport – that is, winning the Monaco Grand Prix, the 24 hours of Le Mans and the Indy 500. His best win? Probably Monaco 1965 – he was forced to take to an escape road to avoid an accident, and had to get out of his car and physically push it back on the track to carry on with the race – he came back from 5th to win!

Jim Clark is still probably the greatest driver of all time. There is a good (long!) BBC documentary on him available here. A compilation of his best races is here.

Last but not least here is a lovely tribute to Michele Alboreto, my favourite little guy.

I'm sure there is loads of stuff I've forgotten so please do feel free to add to this! But I think that's enough to get you started ;)

[f1]

McLaren reveals special Triple Crown-inspired livery for Monaco Grand Prix | 2023 Monaco Grand Prix

McLaren has unveiled the special livery it will run at the Monaco Grand Prix. The design inspired by motorsport’s ‘Triple Crown’ of races, all of which McLaren has previously won. Monaco and the Indianapolis 500 are two of the three events counting towards it, and both take place this weekend. The third element of the Triple Crown is next month’s Le Mans 24 Hours race for sports cars. McLaren, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary as a company, won the Indy 500 in 1974 and 1976 with Johnny Rutherford. Their first Monaco Grand Prix win did not come until in 1984 when Alain Prost started a run of nine wins in 10 years there for the team. Ayrton Senna went unbeaten on the streets of Monaco from 1989 to 1993, then Mika Hakkinen put McLaren on top again in 1998, his team mate David Coulthard won Monaco in 2000 and 2002. Victories for Kimi Raikkonen (2005), Fernando Alonso (2007) and Lewis Hamilton (2008) brought McLaren’s Monaco win count up to 15 – the most of any team. The highlight of McLaren’s brief Le Mans history was in 1995 when teams running its BMW-powered F1 GTR car finished first, third, fourth and fifth. The first of each of those wins have been incorporated into McLaren’s 2023 Monaco livery, with the rear of the car adorned in a Papaya orange harking back to Rutherford’s Indy 500-winning livery. The middle of the MCL60 is white, evoking the iconic liveries McLaren used through the eighties. The race-winning Le Mans livery was all-black, so the top of the MCL60’s nose will switch from orange to black as the front wing and the sides of the front-end of the chassis are already painted dark. McLaren’s four-car Indy 500 entry this weekend is also celebrating the brand’s history and Triple Crown success, with each of the cars using a different livery referencing those past wins. The F1 team will also run its special livery at next week’s Spanish Grand Prix. Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren M16C/D IndyCar McLaren F1 GTR Le Mans 24 Hours car McLaren ‘Triple Crown’ winners McLaren F1 GTR Le Mans 24 Hours car McLaren-TAG Porsche MP4/2 Formula 1 car McLaren M16C/D IndyCar McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 McLaren Monaco Grand Prix ‘Triple Crown’ livery, 2023 Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free 2023 Monaco Grand Prix Browse all 2023 Monaco Grand Prix articles via RaceFans - Independent Motorsport Coverage https://www.racefans.net/

[f1-analysis]

Only 4 drivers have ever qualified on the front row at every race in a season:

Nico Rosberg: 2016

Damon Hill: 1996

Prost 1993

Ayrton Senna: 1989 (Fangio 1956 and Ascari 1953 are also valid if Indy 500 if excluded) 

[mannytoodope]

Elizabeth Clark “Liz” Phair (born April 17, 1967) is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress.   She is one of the top names in pop-rock. Phair started her music career by self-releasing audio cassettes under Girly  Sound before signing with Matador Records. In 1993, she released her debut album Exile in Guyville with great reviews; Rolling Stones Magazine ranked it among the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in rock. The album is a mix of mid-‘90s alternative and pop-rock. She released her second album Whip-Smart in 1994. The album earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Vocal Performance. Phair released several successful albums throughout the ’90s. In 2003, she released her fifth album, Somebody’s Miracle, which had the hit single “ Why Can’t It” and reached 32 on Billboard Hot 100. She left significant record labels in 2010 and began releasing albums on her independent label, Girly Sound. As of 2011, Phair has sold over three million records worldwide. She started opening for The Smashing Pumpkins in 2016. Phair has recently re-released her first album on her record label, which included her earlier recordings. And in 2018, Matador Records released a special edition Exile in Guyville. I remember recommending  Liz Phair to my friend’s mom, and I think she picked  Exile in Guyville. Liz Phair went from” indie rocker girl” to mainstream success and kept her sound.

[dailyindycar]

British racing driver Nigel Mansell competing in the 77th Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indiana, 30th May 1993. Mansell finished in third place. (Photo by Pascal Rondeau/Getty Images) 

[indieephemera]

Flyer for the Indie 500 music festival, staged by Jiffy Boy Records at “Brandon’s Farm” in Vincentown, NJ on July 3-4, 1993.

Check out that lineup! Versus, Swirlies, Lilys, Small Factory... I’d travel to a farm in New Jersey today to see those four bands alone. Alas, I did not attend this two-day indie pop celebration, even though I was living only half a day’s drive away in Boston. (Here’s a person who did.)

You see, the need to drive there was an issue. Because I’m assuming any event taking place at a self-described farm is not exactly adjacent to public transit, and... I couldn’t drive. Even though I had turned 20 earlier that year, I wouldn’t get my driver’s license until later in 1993. Honestly, I probably could have gotten someone else to drive. I was likely just too lazy to make the trip given I was able to see most of these bands in my Boston-to-New York east coast corridor. In a dark and crowded rock club, a more natural habitat for this city girl.

[juergenklopp]

please rank your top 10 motorsports genders

Alright, folks. Buckle up.

TOP 10 MOTORSPORTS GENDERS

Disclaimer: This is a subjective list with no clear-cut criteria. Please direct your complaints elsewhere should you disagree. The ranking, aside from the Top 2, really is pretty arbitrary.

10. Young Valentino Rossi

Fresh faced bob and two-toned hair realness!

9. Formula Ford/BAR Honda Jenson Button

Baby butch lesbian Jenson, anyone? There's just something about how he made Y2K fashion his very own. He's cringe. It's camp. It's quintessential Jenson.

8. F3/Indy 500 Jacques Villeneuve

No further comment. No one can deny he's a manic pixie dream girl, but especially during these eras.

7. 2021 Iron Lynx/Alfa Romeo Callum Ilott

But user juncosracing, why didn’t you feature Spaghetti Strap Crop Top Callum? Well, I’ve been enough of a shill about that look. Let’s have some variety here. Someone should absolutely peer pressure him into crossdressing again, though.

6. GQ Germany 2019/Haas F1 Team 2022 Mick Schumacher

Gendery Jock Lesbian energy is hereditary. Scroll below for further evidence.

5. ICON El Pais/Ferrari Style Charles Leclerc

Put side by side, these two photoshoots show off Charles's range. He has the aesthetics for editorial shoots and the potential to follow Lewis's footsteps should he foray into fashion.

4. Williams-BMW Nico Rosberg

Britney, Britney, dear beautiful, gorgeous Britney. They simply don't make drivers like Nico anymore.

3. 1992-1993 Mika Häkkinen

I could put any Mika era on this list and I'd be correct, but this Mika's gender is off the fucking charts. No one's doing it quite like him.

2. Michael Schumacher

Schumi transcends era. The power of his sense of style and swagger is absolutely unmatched, but if I had to pick two, these are the Michael looks that most loudly screams gender to me. I want to be him so bad it’s making me absolutely stupid.

1. Lewis Hamilton

As with Michael, seven-time Formula 1 World Champions simply transcend gender. If I list all of Lewis's genders greatest hits, this post would be a hundred or so images long. Here are two of my picks.

[multifandomboii]

Hey everyone, I'll try not to ruin the mood, but let's remember all those amazing people whom we lost in 2021:

- Murray Walker, legendary former F1 commentator 1976-2009 (10.10.1923-13.03.2021)

- Max Mosley, former FIA president 1993-2009, lawyer and former racing driver (13.04.1940-23.05.2021)

- Jason Dupasquier, Number 50, Moto3 rider (07.09.2001-30.05.2021)

- Hugo Millán, Number 44, European Talent Cup rider (2006/7-24.07.2021)

- Carlos Reutemann, former F1 driver, 12x winner (12.04.1942-07.07.2021)

- Sir Frank Williams, founder of Williams Formula One Team (16.04.1942-28.11.2021)

- Nathalie Maillet, former Director of the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps (11.05.1970-15.08.2021)

- Ádrian Campos, former F1 driver and founder of Campos Meta Formula One Team and Campos Racing (17.06.1960-28.01.2021)

- Fausto Gresini, 2 times Grand Prix motorcycle racing champion and former manager of the Aprilia Racing Team Gresini MotoG team (23.01.1961-23.02.2021)

- Dean Berta Viñales, Supersport 300 World Championship rider (20.04.2006-25.09.2021)

- John "Johnny" Colum Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute, aka Johnny Dumfries, former F1 driver (26.04.1958-22.03.2021)

- Bobby Unser, former F1 driver, 3 times Indy 500 winner (02.20.1934-02.05.2021)

- Al Unser, former F1 driver, 4 times Indy 500 winner, brother of Bobby Unser (29.05.1939-09.12.2021)

- Nino Vaccarella, former F1 driver, winner of the 1964 24 Hours of Le Mans (04.04.1933-23.09.2021)

They may be gone, but they won't be forgotten! 🕊🕯

[dystini]

Indycar Driver Lore

Indycar Driver Lore Masterlist

Jack Joseph Murray Harvey

Birthdate: April 15, 1993 Hometown: Bassingham, England Residence: Indianapolis Height/Weight: 5’10”/168lbs

Rookie Year: 2018

Team: Dale Coyne Racing

Follow him on: Instagram Twitter

Career Stats

2017 1 race w/ Michael Shank Racing w/Andretti Autosport, 2 races w/ Schmidt Peterson Motorsports - 28th Overall 2018 1 race w/ Michael Shank Racing w/ Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, 5 races w/Meyer Shank Racing w/Schmidt Peterson Motorsports - 24th Overall 2019 10 races w/Meyer Shank Racing w/Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports - 21st Overall 2020 Meyer Shank Racing - 15th Overall 2021 Meyer Shank Racing - 13th Overall 2022 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing - 22nd Overall 2023 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing - 24th Overall (Fired with three races left)

A two-time INDY NXT by Firestone championship runner-up,

Has lived in both the United States and France but has remained grounded in his sense of home – the small village of Bassingham in Lincolnshire, England.

Among the drivers who have won on both the oval and road courses at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with wins on both circuits in 2015 while racing in INDY NXT.

Has 10 racing championship wins in his career, including the British Formula 3 title in 2012.

enjoys baking, target shooting, watching Star Wars and Marvel movies and watching soccer and American football.

has been roped into collecting baseball cards and star wars trading cards

-big star wars fan

-bakes, and is known to make very good cookies

Iconic/memorable moments

Jack Harvey Takes Flight with Red Bull Air Race Pilot Kirby Chambliss 2022 PACE CAR LAPS // GRAHAM RAHAL AND JACK HARVEY Christmas Questions with GRAHAM RAHAL and JACK HARVEY! GRAHAM RAHAL and JACK HARVEY Answer Thanksgiving Questions! HONDA PACE CAR // HELIO CASTRONEVES AND JACK HARVEY TRACK WALK WITH JACK HARVEY // FIRESTONE GRAND PRIX OF ST. PETERSBURG Jack Harvey reflects on the time he lived in the IMS president's basement Jack Harvey Explains His Dislike For IndyCar Silly Season IndyCar Driver Jack Harvey Joins Us at Indy 500 Media Day Who is Jack Harvey? Motorsport101 Interviews… IndyCar's Jack Harvey! Indycar driver Jack Harvey trains at gym to be race ready Jack Harvey, Max Chilton, and Simon Pagenaud go skeet shooting Jack Harvey snatches last spot in the Indianapolis 500 from teammate | Motorsports on NBC Doug and Drivers: Jack Harvey Almost Didn't Want To Race in America IndyCar driver Jack Harvey shows off his RV at IMS You Don't Know Jack! Playlist Go BTS with Jack Harvey at our Hy-Vee Commercial Shoot! Colton Herta & Jack Harvey Are Pumped For "Kenobi" | Indy 500 Happy Hour

Sweet and kind, Jack often spends extra time interacting with fans at races. A huge Star Wars nerd, he was thrilled to meet Adam Driver when he was the honorary starter at the 2023 Indy 500. Jack loves baking, especially cookies.

Fanfic Lore

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[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday Scottish Race Car driver Dario Franchitti.

Franchitti was born and raised in Bathgate, West Lothian, he attended Stewart’s Melville in Edinburgh

Dario started off racing carts - and at 11 years old, he won the Scottish Junior Championship. He followed that up with a British Junior Championship in 1985 and 1986. In 1988 won the Scottish Senior Title. From there, he moved on to formula car racing in 1992, where he joined Paul Stewart Racing. That year he was named the McLaren/Autosport Young Driver of the Year. After winning the championship in 1993, Dario moved up and won the British Formula Three Championship in 1994. Dario continued to race in Europe until 1996, where he was sponsored by AMG Racing and drove a Mercedes.

In 1996, Dario progressed to Champ Car racing in the US. After starting off with Hogan Racing, he switched to Team KOOL Green in 1998. In two seasons with Team KOOL Green, he won six races and seven poles. A crash during a practice run limited Dario’s progress for the next two years, only winning one race in 2001. Dario joined the Andretti Green team in the IndyCar Series in 2003. While his first few years were hindered by injury, he still was able to capture a couple of victories in 2004. In May 2007, Dario’s career reached an all-time high as he took home the Indianapolis 500! He also won his first career championship title in a final-race title decider with Scott Dixon. At the end of the season, Franchitti was named as BBC Scotland’s Sports Personality of the Year. In 2008 e went onto Nascar but found it difficult to make an impact and returned to the Indy circuit winning his second title in 2009, gain in a final race championship decider against Dixon and Team Penske’s Ryan Briscoe. He retained the title in 2010 and won his third consecutive and 4th overall title came in 2011.

On 6th October 2013, Franchitti was involved in a serious crash in the Grand Prix of Houston, when his car flew into catch-fencing after contact with the car of Takuma Sato. Franchitti suffered 2 fractured vertebrae, a broken ankle, and a concussion in the crash. Later he would learn that he had forgotten some of his past. A month later, on November 14, Franchitti announced his immediate retirement from motor racing on medical advice; he retired with 31 victories from 265 starts in his American open-wheel racing career, a tally which put him in a tie for ninth on the all-time wins list

The story doesn’t end their though as Dario added an unusual string to his bow in March 2020 he, became an esports champion in a special Legends Trophy race.

The event took part in a virtual race with famous names from across the ages of motorsport took part in a simulated race at Silverstone’s National Circuit. With all the drivers using Brabham BT44s, Franchitti inherited the lead when Juan Pablo Montoya collided with Emanuele Pirro in the first turn, he held the lead for the rest of the race, other drivers included Emerson Fittipaldi and David Brabham.

Franchitti married American actress Ashley Judd in December 2001 at Skibo Castle near Dornoch, they divorced in 2013 and remain on friendly terms.he has has since married Eleanor Robb, an Englishwoman. They have two daughters: Sofia and Valentina.  

These days, Dario Franchitti serves in a driver mentor/ coach role with the organisation he raced for in INDYCAR from 2009-2013.