About three seconds after the green flag dropped at Sao Paulo, a very unsurprising thing happened: all hell broke loose. And as the thick clouds of baking soda & chaos had cleared, Mario Moraes opted to park his car on Marco Andretti’s forehead. Yeah, well — whadayagonnado? Welcome to Brazil, folks — step lively now. This [...]

The general demeanor inside the Flag Room: festive. (But understaffed.) So begins the 2010 IndyCar season.

There are many delightful perks of this job, and I’m grateful for them all. But perhaps none are more wonderful than the cover-fire it provides for otherwise impossible weekend debauchery.   Case in point, come Sunday, my house will likely be in complete & awful disarray — and my two toddlers amped out of theirs skulls on fruit punch and Skittles. [...]

Four days until Sao Paulo, people. Let’s get our heads on. Go or no-go.

Like many of you I have become intrigued at the recent announcement of Simona De Silvestro’s participation in the IZOD IndyCar series. Probably for different reasons, though, since I get the impression many of you are frothy with concern over her as a driver because of her gender.  This is not news, friends – not [...]

The new IndyCar.com springs to life sometime today. And if the temporary landing page is any indication — and I’m fairly certain that it is — then we’re all in for a treat. Blood splatterings, jet fighters, knife-wielding hippos, mosh pits, Rorshach tests (IT LOOKS JUST LIKE MOTHRA!!), swank condominiums, futuristic Zeppelin airships … it’s all there. It’s a magical time to be [...]