Brickyard Grand Prix. Grand-AM at Indianapolis

Rubens was shaking down a DP car west of indy at Putnam Park yesterday as he prepares for his Grand-AM debut. Here is this mornings writeup by Motorsports.com:

Tony Kanaan and Rubens Barrichello will be looking to make history at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Friday’s Brickyard Grand Prix by becoming the first driver to win two major events in the 104-history of the speedway.
“It took me 12 years to win the Indianapolis 500,” Kanaan said. “I don’t know what to think about winning a second race. It doesn’t matter what kind of race you do in Indianapolis, any driver wants to win, no doubt about it. I know we will have a competitive car on Friday, and I’m just glad to be part of it.”
They will be joined at the race by fellow open-wheel star Sebastien Bourdais, who is seeking his second consecutive victory in the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series race. All three drivers recently landed rides in Daytona Prototypes for the three-hour race that starts at 5:30 p.m. ET Friday (SPEED, same day coverage, 7:30 p.m. ET).
Kanaan, the reigning winner of the Indianapolis 500, will drive with DTM regular Joey Hand in Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates’ No. 02 NTT DATA BMW/Riley. Barichello, the 2002 winner of the U.S. Formula One Grand Prix, will drive the Doran Racing No. 77 3Dimensional.com Ford/Dallara with Doug Peterson. Bourdais, a four-time Champ Car titlist (2004-07) and winner of last year’s inaugural Brickyard Grand Prix for Starworks Motorsport, will team with Emilio DiGuida in the No. 4 8Star Motorsports Corvette DP.
Kanaan will have the advantage of using the new 4.5-liter BMW engine. Ganassi Racing will use the new powerplant in both of its cars, beginning at Indy, while Starworks will have the new engine in the No. 2 Riley for Ryan Dalziel and Alex Popow.

 

He finished a respectable 5th in his first run ever in a Prototype car.
He took a car that had been pulled out of a gravel trap early in the race and ran it into the lead for most of the latter part of the race before he had to come in for a splash near the finish.

Great to see my boy back racing in the states!!!

Go RUBENS!

MB

 

Forza Ferrari!!!

 

#61 Ferri Comp!!!
CH

 

Nice to see Ferrari take their place at the top and knock out the Porsches!

 

Porsches? BMW and those "Camaros" have won almost everything this season.

at Indy the PPM porsche was in contention until the gearbox broke really late, but otherwise it was all Ferrari and "Camaro".

 

I watched the race but missed the GP.

 

Nice article, COLUMN: Winning in a Ferrari at Indy - Racer.com

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