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Sept/Oct 2018 Vol. 51 No. 7

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Friends…

Family…

Racers…

… Three separate groups that frequently blur lines be-tween them in auto racing. In both the grandstands andpit areas of superspeedway to local grassroots shorttracks, people form close personal connections- the kindwhich bring high emotion to the surface and then bond-ing in their hearts.

The grid was already pushed into place when I arrived atIndiana's Anderson Speedway for the Little 500. Thehigh-banked quarter-mile oval was hosting its 70th run-ning of this dramatic pavement sprint car race. The line-up staged 11 rows of three cars for the 33-car field,mimicking its main event in which it served as a Memori-al Day undercard for- the Indianapolis 500.

Driver names popped to a short track nerd like me- EricGordon, Shane Hollingsworth, Jerry Coons Jr., and vet-eran Ken Schrader. National short track names rich inUSAC history graced the grand event ready to unfold.

FriendsI walked through the turn-four gate, across the 17-degreebanked corner, and up to the frontstretch where the Little500 field sat in formation for pre-race ceremonies. Look-ing over the sharp-looking sprint cars, I made a leisurelystroll through all 11 rows. The front row is where I landedfor some New England Modified lore.

Bobby Santos III qualified on the outside of the front row,a name well known to current fans of the NASCAR Whel-en Modified Tour. Santos was the 2010 series championwhere he is still a participant and winner.

Being around the sport for over four decades, I remem-ber as a young fan in New England, watching Santos'grandfather race. Santos was not around his car at themoment that I approached the black machine. Some out-going and friendly crewmembers were welcoming andeagerly talked about the Santos-driven car and upcom-ing 500-lap race within an hour of the green flag.

The team filled me in on their week of practice and quali-fying at Anderson and how their race was shaping up.They moved the car off of the grid in an attempt to diag-nose an unknown noise coming from the rear. Thebrakes, wheels, and rear housing were given quicklooks. An uncertain but not overly concerned expressionfilled the team's faces as the sprinter was pushed back tothe grid.

The crewmembers' friendly talk with me resumed withoutmissing a beat. I had not met this group of guys before,but I was taken in as a team member and a friend.

By Patrick Reynolds for www.speedwayreport.com

FamilyI found Santos to say hello as he was dressed in his firesuitduring driver introductions on the frontstretch stage. We spokeabout me watching his grandfather race Modifieds at theThompson Speedway in Connecticut in the 1970s."Wow, that's unbelievable," said Santos. "How old are you?"I guessed I pulled off a younger age in my appearance to San-tos.

Strolling over to Santos' infield pit area for the 500, I continuedto chat with crewmembers about the uniqueness of this event.His Dad describes their pit equipment and logistical setup.The Little 500 features live infield pitting for tires and fuel. Sta-tions are set up on the infield of the quarter-mile oval on thecrossroads for the figure-eight track. Gravity-fed elevatedtanks were used for refueling. Air jacks and pneumatic knock-off-style guns were at the ready for tire changes.

Sprint cars are not equipped with transmissions or onboardstarters. The Anderson infield has a command center for pushtruck dispatches. When a pit stop is complete, the crew wavestheir arms and a truck is radioed to a car's pit stall to push offand send the car back onto the track in action.

These aspects lend high value to the fans' entertainment.Teams will easily go down a few laps during green-conditionstops and there is a frantic attention waving from teams duringcaution stops where multiple cars hit pit road.

RacersSantos ran near the front of the Little 500 throughout. The pitcrew made sharp and quick work in their refueling and tirechanging duties. They were about to connect with their driverbeyond tires and mechanics.

Santos crashed on the backstretch just past the 300-lap mark.His crippled machine with its broken suspension sat in its pitstall where mere moments earlier, it was primed to make acharge for the 500 win.

Santos climbed up through the sprint car's roll cage and out ofhis ride. He slammed his helmet and Hans device to the pave-ment. The look on his face was pure anger. His scowl wasframed in sweat.

He marched with purpose out of the infield towards the racingsurface near turn four as the field circulated under caution. Thecrash helmet that just survived Santos' throw to the asphaltwas back in his hand and about to take another ride.

He was clearly looking to launch the helmet at the car drivenby what Santos felt was the offending driver who caused his

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crash. One of his own crew members ran out to him andgrabbed his arm to prevent the obvious intent. Santossnapped his arm and shook the grip of his teammate.With anger in his eyes, he threw the helmet at the car inhis crosshairs. It ricocheted off the sprinter's side androlled back toward the infield. With the message deliv-ered, the angry Santos and unsuccessful crewmemberreturned to the pit area, emotions and tension high withinthem both.

The crew wore disappointed expressions as the racecontinued. Santos cooled off. The team gathered theirequipment. Smiles were nowhere to be found.

The guys talked among themselves. Bonding, connect-ing, and looking ahead to another race. The track boundcrewmember sat in a lawn chair with his pursed lips andunhappy expression. Santos' anger from crashing hadsubsided.

The Little 500 raced on as the sprint cars roared. Santoswalked over to the lawn chair and exchanged no wordswith his friend. No words were needed. The two bumpedfists and expressed camaraderie that words could not.The team assessed the car's damage, gathered theirtools, and waited until the end of the race so they couldload up and head back to the shop.

Kody Swanson celebrated his second Little 500 winmere feet away from Santos' pit area as their equipmentwas packed into the hauler.

Disappointed on this night, the typical forward vision hadthe group's looking ahead to another race.

In victory or defeat, racers' bonds are as tight as the lugsholding the wheels on.

Friends.

Family.

Racers.

Patrick Reynolds is a former professional NASCARmechanic who hosts Speedway Report live on Facebook

Mondays 7:30 pm ET/ 4:30 pm PT and uploaded onhttp://speedwayreport.com/ .

Follow on Twitter @SpeedwayPat.

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- Ryan Hunter-Reay dominates Sonoma for second win of 2018- Scott Dixon claims record-tying fifth IndyCar Series title- Honda wins 11 races, 2018 Manufacturers' Championship

Ryan Hunter-Reay led 80 of 85 laps to win today's INDYCARGrand Prix of Sonoma season finale, while Scott Dixon finishedsecond to secure a record-tying fifth IndyCar Series Drivers'Championship. Honda's 11th race win of 2018 cemented thecompany's seventh Indy car Manufacturers' Championshipsince 1994.

Starting from the pole, Hunter-Reay dominated the 17th andfinal round of the 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series, turning over thelead only during routine pit stops to score his second win of theyear, and 18th career Indy car victory.

Dixon, who came into the season finale leading primary rivalAlexander Rossi by 29 points, was content to shadow Hunter-Reay throughout the contest, with his second-place result morethan enough to claim the title and tie the legendary A.J. Foyt asthe only drivers with five career Indy car championships.

Throughout the Verizon IndyCar Series season, Dixon demon-strated remarkable consistency, finishing sixth or better at 14 ofthe 17 rounds, including race victories at Detroit, Texas andToronto. His 44 career victories is tops among all active driv-ers, and ranks him third on the all-time Indy car win list, behindonly Foyt with 67 and Mario Andretti with 52.

In all, Honda teams and drivers posted 11 victories in 2018,clinching the company's seventh championship in competitionwith other manufacturers. For the second consecutive season,all five Honda teams scored at least one victory in 2018, andmultiple race winners in addition to Dixon included Rossi withthree wins, and Hunter-Reay with two. Additional race winswere scored this year by James Hinchcliffe, Sebastien Bourdaisand Takuma Sato.

Rossi's championship efforts appeared to be blunted when hecollided with teammate Marco Andretti on the opening lap. Thecontact resulted in a damaged front wing and tire, leading to anunscheduled pit stop for repairs at the end of the first lap. Heresumed, but at the tail end of the lead lap, and briefly went alap down to the leaders mid-race.

But a caution flag on Lap 43, the result of Graham Rahal stall-ing on course, gave Rossi and his Andretti Autosport team theopportunity they needed. Having regained the lead lap and pit-ted for a set of softer-compound "Red" Firestone tires just priorto the yellow, Rossi restarted in 11th position when the greenflag waved again on Lap 49. He rapidly advanced through mid-field, gaining five positions in the next six laps to move into sev-enth. Rossi gained two more positions, to fifth, by Lap 70.However, the rapid pace took a toll on his tires, and Rossi'schallenge ended as his lap times increased, and he faded inthe closing laps to finish seventh.

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By Joe Jennings

For the third consecutive year, Watkins Glen Internation-al has been voted as the favorite track by NASCAR'sfans in a poll conducted by USA Today. The resultswere announced by WGI president Michael Printup dur-ing a press conference leading into NASCAR weekendat the famed road course.

Printup attributed the favorable results to his social me-dia team. "Our guy was on it all the time - Facebook,Instagram and Twitter -- along with our state and localpoliticians," he said. "They jumped into the social atmo-sphere, too, to help us with our promotions. I am reallyproud of our fans for jumping on the social networking.We did it proud and hard."

To keep the facility up to date, the track has invested up-wards of $54 million over the last 10 or 11 years with an-other $1.2 million in 2018, according to Printup. "It is allabout the fan experience, the media experience and thecorporate experience. Each segment has somethingwith the intent of appeasing them," he said. "The bucketcan never get emptied because we always need moremoney for these capital improvement projects."

Printup said it is the atmosphere and the memories thatendear the track to the fans. New social party deckshave helped too, and the investment in these structureswas relatively small. Being in the picturesque FingerLakes is another positive as does the intense racing thattakes place.

In the future, Printup said an earlier starting time for theMonster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race would appealto many fans and farther down the road is the possibilityof running the Cup race on the long 3.4-mile course,which is a mile longer than the circuit used by the stockcars over the years.

The Verizon IndyCar Series and IMSA's WeatherTechSportsCar Championship Series among others competeon the longer course.

To prepare for the long course, television would have toaddress cabling and fibering issues along with infrastruc-ture issues such as rest rooms. "My druthers are to beable to race 'The Boot' someday, as we think it wouldadd more excitement, and I think the drivers are for it aswell," Printup commented.

Said A. J. Allmendinger, a Glen winner, "I wish we ran'The 'Boot,' as it would make the race really exciting andseparate the field a little more."

For NASCAR weekend, the campgrounds were packedand the family atmosphere was festive - all the ingredi-ents that went into WGI achieving first place again in thepopularity poll among NASCAR tracks

The weekend was further enhanced when second-generationdriver Chase Elliott scored his first Monster Energy NASCARCup Series victory in the Go Bowling at The Glen 90-lap mainevent.

To make it even more thrilling, Bill Elliott, his Hall of Famefather, served as one of the team's three spotters and he got tovictory lane before his son did. Interestingly, the senior Elliottwon his first Cup race on the road course at Riverside Racewayin 1983. Also, he copped his lone Xfinity Series win at TheGlen.

22-year old Chase Elliott celebrates in victory lane atWatkins Glen International.

Chase Elliott receives victory hug from his proud father, Bill Elliott

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Indianapolis Motor Speedway Press Release

Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett has declared Monday,Sept. 24, 2018, "Scott Dixon Day" in the city to honor theINDYCAR driver's great accomplishments.

According to theproclamation, whichwent into effect at12:01 a.m., Dixon,an Indianapolis resi-dent, is being hon-ored for hislegendary racing ca-reer, which includeswinning the 92ndIndianapolis 500 in2008 and five Veri-zon IndyCar Serieschampionships. Dix-on won his fifthchampionship onSept. 16 at SonomaRaceway in Califor-nia. With that fifthtitle, the 38-year-oldNew Zealand nativeis second in totalnumber of Indy car

championships behind only A.J. Foyt.

The proclamation honors Dixon on the same day as theworld premiere of the documentary, "BORN RACER," atthe IMAX Theater in the Indiana State Museum. The film,which takes an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at Dix-on's 2017 racing season, will be available nationwide onDVD and digital download on Oct. 2. For more informa-tion about "BORN RACER," visit bornracermovie.com.

INDYCAR is using the hashtags #DixonDay and #Born-RacerMovie on its social platforms to highlight the land-mark day for the five-time champion.

The proclamation of "Scott Dixon Day" from MayorHogsett reads:

TO ALL WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME,GREETINGS:

WHEREAS, Scott Dixon, a native of New Zealand,brought his racing talents to Indianapolis 20 years ago,where he still lives with his wife, Emma, and their twodaughters Poppy and Tilly; and

WHEREAS, in 2008, Scott won the 92nd Indianapolis500 from pole position, and throughout his impressivecareer, he has won 44 IndyCar races, placing him thirdon the all-time IndyCar wins list; and

WHEREAS, on September 16, 2018 in Sonoma, Califor-nia, Scott made history when he won his fifth IndyCarchampionship, becoming the runner-up for total numberof IndyCar championships behind the legendary A.J.

Foyt. He is also the longest-tenured driver to compete for theChip Ganassi Racing team, completing his 17th season withthe team in 2018; and

WHEREAS, today, the City of Indianapolis celebrates ScottDixon's growing list of racing accomplishments with the worldpremiere of "Born Racer," a documentary about his career andthe Chip Ganassi Racing team, at the Indiana State Museum,and we honor Scott for his incomparable accomplishments inracing;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH H. HOGSETT, MAYOR OFTHE CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM SEP-TEMBER 24, 2018 TO BE:

SCOTT DIXON DAY

in the City of Indianapolis, and I ask all citizens to join me in thisobservation.

Photo by Andrew S. Hartwell

Bill Yoder with his special friend Earl Krause, theannouncer for the Indy Car Race on Sunday, August 19,

2018 at Pocono International Speedway.Thanks go to Joe Mattioli for the photo, taken in

the Sky Tower.

Earl has worked every race since 1971.

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INDYCAR and Texas Motor Speedway announced a four-yearextension agreement today for the Verizon IndyCar Series tocontinue racing at the 1.5-mile superspeedway through 2022.

The 2019 Verizon IndyCar Series race at the oval in Fort Worth,Texas, is scheduled to be run under the lights once again, onSaturday, June 8. In conjunction with the sanctioning agreementannouncement, Texas Motor Speedway announced that DXCTechnology, the world's leading independent, end-to-end IT ser-vices company, will return as the race sponsor of what will againbe titled the DXC Technology 600.

"INDYCAR is pleased to continue its long relationship with TexasMotor Speedway, a partnership that stretches to 1997," saidMark Miles, CEO of Hulman & Company, which owns INDYCARand Indianapolis Motor Speedway. "This oval track annually pro-duces some of the most exciting racing of the season, contrib-utes to the diversity of the schedule and helps us continue theoval heritage of Indy car racing. It's good to know that Texas willremain a mainstay of the Verizon IndyCar Series for years tocome."

Texas Motor Speedway has been a staple of the INDYCARschedule since the track opened in 1997. It has hosted 30 Indycar races in that time, the most recent won by Scott Dixon inJune. TMS hosted two series races a year from 1998-2004, adoubleheader on the same night in 2011 and a single race in allother years since 1997.

"Texas Motor Speedway is the second home of Indy car racing,and we are thrilled to extend our partnership with the VerizonIndyCar Series and with DXC Technology," said Eddie Gossage,president of Texas Motor Speedway. "We are pleased to havenegotiated a sanction agreement that allows Texas MotorSpeedway to move forward with INDYCAR. Our company hasinvested significant dollars into the sport and a tremendousamount of effort growing the sport through the years."

Texas Motor Speedway has earned the reputation for producingtight, exciting racing, with three of the nine closest finishes in In-dy car history occurring at the track. When Graham Rahal wonthe 2016 Texas race by 0.008 of a second over James Hinchc-liffe, it was the narrowest margin of victory at TMS and the fifthclosest on any Indy car track throughout history.

Among tracks on the anticipated 2019 INDYCAR schedule, onlythe Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval (102 races), the streetcourse in Long Beach, California (35), and Mid-Ohio Sports CarCourse (34) have held more Indy car races than Texas MotorSpeedway. The new agreement will extend TMS' relationshipwith INDYCAR to more than a quarter of a century.

"So many great moments in this sport have occurred at TexasMotor Speedway," Gossage said. "This is and always will be'America's original nighttime Indy car race.' Photo finishes andvictory lane drama have been the standard over the years.

"No other track has seen as many Verizon IndyCar Series racesover the last two-plus decades. Texas Motor Speedway hasbeen good for Indy car racing and Indy car racing has been goodfor Texas Motor Speedway."

The entire 2019 Verizon IndyCar Series schedule is expected tobe announced in September.

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MONSTERENERGY IMSA NHRA

FORMULA NASCAR VERIZON WEATHERTECH MELLOONE CUP INDYCAR SPORTSCAR YELLO

Jan 7Jan 14Jan 21Jan 28 DaytonaFeb 4Feb 11 Daytona PomonaFeb 18 DaytonaFeb 25 Atlanta PhoenixMar 4 Las VegasMar 11 Phoenix St. PetersburgMar 18 Fontana Sebring * GainesvilleMar 25 Australia MartinsvilleApr 1Apr 8 Bahrain Texas Phoenix* Las VegasApr 15 China Bristol Long Beach Long Beach *Apr 22 Richmond * Birmingham HoustonApr 29 Azerbaijan Talladega CharlotteMay 6 Dover Mid-Ohio AtlantaMay 13 Spain Kansas * Indianapolis *May 20 Charlotte * TopekaMay 27 Monaco Charlotte IndianapolisJune 3 Pocono Detroit x2 Detroit * ChicagoJune 10 Canada Michigan Texas * VirginiaJune 17 BristolJune 24 France Sonoma Elkhart Lake NorwalkJuly 1 Austria Chicago Watkins GlenJuly 8 Great Britain Daytona * Iowa Mosport EppingJuly 15 Kentucky* TorontoJuly 22 Germany Loudon Lime Rock* DenverJuly 29 Hungary Pocono Mid-Ohio SonomaAug 5 Watkins Glen Elkhart Lake SeattleAug 12 MichiganAug 19 Bristol * Pocono VIR BrainerdAug 26 Belgium St. Louis *Sep 2 Italy Darlington Portland Indianapolis +Sep 9 Indianapolis Laguna SecaSep 16 Singapore Las Vegas Sonoma ReadingSep 23 Richmond * St. LouisSep 30 Russia CharlotteOct 7 Japan Dover DallasOct 14 Talladega Road Atlanta * CharlotteOct 21 United States KansasOct 28 Mexico Martinsville Las VegasNov 4 TexasNov 11 Brazil Phoenix PomonaNov 18 HomesteadNov 25 Abu DhabiDec 2Dec 19Dec 16Dec 25Dec 30

* Saturday Race + Monday Race

2018 Racing Schedules Compiled by Steve Mayer

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