Indianapolis Archives - World of Speed

Avg102015 by Blaž Štremfelj50 Comments

Pedrosa in a fight with his engine and Rossi

Dani Pedrosa missed the podium finish by a hair in the Indianapolis race after battling Valentino Rossi throughout the race. The Spaniard is now fully recovering from arm surgery at the start of the season, while the Repsol Honda team has also improved the motorcycle, so Pedrosa in Indianapolis has promised a lot after winning second place from the race. But already at the start he was overtaken by Jorge Lorenzo, who then, together with Pedrosa's teammate Marco Marquez, ran far ahead. Pedrosa then drove most of the race in third place, but Rossi approached him from the background, with whom they clashed in the tenth lap. Pedrosa made a minor mistake in the tenth turn of the penultimate lap, with which he dropped the Italian on a Yamaha in front of him, which Š

October242014 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

Kurt Busch and Susie Wolff at RoC

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The race of champions has been organized since 1988 and will be on the program this season as well, but this year for the first time in Barbados. Let’s mention that the race was canceled last year, and this year it will be scheduled for December 500th and 1th at Bushy Park Circuit. The title will be defended by Romain Grosjean, a Lotus Formula One racer who will fight alongside Tom Kristensen of Le Mans legend. This year's Indianapolis 2012 winner Ryan Hunter-Reay will also join, and rallycross rider Peter Solberg will not be missing either. Attendance was also confirmed by Susie Wolff. Susie is a former DTM Series racer and current Williams-Martini F73 team development racer. Wolff has not competed in the DTM since 4, and even then she won only XNUMX points out of XNUMX races! Otherwise, he has only four rankings on stage for zm

Avg92014 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

On the first Rossi, on the second Marquez

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Marc Marquez was the fastest in the second free practice for the Indianapolis Grand Prix after the fastest time of the first practice was recorded by Valentino Rossi. The current champion said after the first practice that the old track configuration was more in line with his Honda, but in the second he still improved Rossi's time by more than half a second, to 1: 32.882. The Spaniard was closest to Italian Andrea Ianone, who was 0.222 seconds slower, and the third fastest time was set by Jorge Lorenzo, another three tenths of a second lower. Andrea Dovizioso was fourth ahead of Dani Pedroso and Stefan Bradl.

Avg182013 by Blaž Štremfelj50 Comments

Marquez crowned the perfect weekend with another victory

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Marc Marquez is the winner of the Inidanapolis Grand Prix. The Spaniard lost two places at the start, but soon made up for them during the race and led to the finish line with more than a three-second advantage over his teammate at Repsol Honda, Dani Pedrosa, and Jorge Lorenzo at Yamaha. Fourth was Italian Valentino Rossi, who managed to overtake Cal Crutchlow and Alvaro Baoutisto in the last laps, who finished the race in fifth and sixth place, respectively. Stefan Bradl was seventh, and Ben Smith was happy to take eighth place in the last corner as a gift from Ducati racers Nicky Hayden and Andrea Doviziosa, who got involved in a duel and drove off the track in the last corner.