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Unfiltered Race Notes… The Kitten is Still a Kitten Edition

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Eric Hall

Ok. Here we go again! Regular full disclosure: I’m on DVR but I have no idea how this ended… Self enacted twitter ban successful! No pre-race. The DVR programming kicked in during opening ceremonies. No complaints here. I just want … Continue reading →

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Into The Crystal Ball – The Beautiful Facility Edition

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Eric Hall

Sunday will mark the fifth time the Verizon IndyCar Series descends upon the quiet, green hills of central Alabama and the beautifully manicured grounds of Barber Motorsports Park. The purpose built motorcycle track has found an unlikely partner with indycar … Continue reading →

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How I Saw It… 2012 Super Review Part The Final, The People Edition

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Eric Hall

2012 was the year of competition. Even with an unproven hardware package, the fight from the front to the back of the field was close and intense all year long. A new car, new engines, the reworked rulebook, a cleaned … Continue reading →

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I Have A Bad Feeling…

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Eric Hall

As I type this on Tuesday afternoon, we are all waiting with bated breath for Curt Cavin to tell the masses that there is a lit fire in the bell tower, that a decision has been handed down concerning the … Continue reading →

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RVM… The Black Eye Edition

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Eric Hall

No nice intro, just straight into the rant this week: It Just Keeps Getting Worse – I thought… I think, we all thought that we had seen the worst of what TGBB could muster. In true form, he goes above … Continue reading →

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Into the Crystal Ball… Mid-Ohio Edition

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Eric Hall

Sold out camping… historic road circuit… double header weekend with the same machinery that runs the 24 hours of Le Mans… This is the type of right turn weekend we need more of… Created in 1962 and kicking off its … Continue reading →

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RVM… That was Anticlimactic Edition

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Eric Hall

Very rarely, in indycar, does the prerace the hype did not live up to the actual event. (Ed: Is that because there is never any hype before a race??) The newly configured track looked to be home run on paper, … Continue reading →

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Into the Crystal Ball… Edmonton, New and Improved Edition

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Eric Hall

November of last year we received the crushing news that the Edmonton round of the 2011 season, scheduled to take place at the airport, would be cancelled. The track had to be revised to keep the main runway open for … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Toronto

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Eric Hall

Sorry, loyal reader, for being late on the post. I wanted to really collect my thoughts on the race. There has been a large amount of nay saying about the race in general. True, the track and pits looked like … Continue reading →

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Rookie Orientation and Various Ramblings

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Eric Hall

Summer has officially started in Indiana. On Wednesday, the temperature crept into the 80s with a fair amount of humidity. Thursday under gorgeous blue skies the rookie orientation practice marked the start of official on track activity for May. Today … Continue reading →

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