Month: September 2022

Yahoo, Allan’s driver, Scott McLaughlin qualified on the pole, mine, Josef Newgarden 2nd BUT WAIT… Josef will be starting eighth because of a grid penalty. 8th that’s in the thick of things the first corner is a killer. I am nervous, off we go in our new T-shirts

Our seats were pretty amazing, Section C4, Row 9, seats 36 & 37 at the action packed chicane. Pace lap, Allan in the lead blue car, me sucking fumes in 8th.

I’m nervous, but surprising the field makes it through with no incidents.

Camera down, I’m watching the race!

Outcome SUCKED, Allan’s driver for the dominant win, my driver with the loss. Race recap click here

Here’s Allan’s car in the lead.

Problem now is, Scott may beat Josef costing me my winning dinner.

Stay tuned, last race of the season is next Sunday!

You can’t imagine how happy we are to be here! We Ubered today, none of that walking stuff for us anymore!

Our seats are on what we think, is the best corner – the chicane. We don’t like when cars crash but it is exciting thinking they will make it through this time!

We’re, ok I’m, not taking many photos, so off to the paddocks to take a photo of our guys. Allan’s and my driver are both Penske, a first.

Penske has 3 drivers, mine; Josef Newgarden, Allan’s Scott McLaughlin, and the much no longer liked Will Power. He was my driver for several years but our radios have shown us which drivers are the asses!

Team Penske area

What is the team telling Scott? He’s the yellow guy. OK even I fell bad for him!

This stopped yesterday’s practice, dropping sign leaking hydraulic. Second photo today’s back to almost normal

Qualification results 🙁

Let’s go racing!!

We stayed at Columbia River RV because we thought it was an easy, 50min walk to the track.

Turns out not so much, we ran out of sideways, shared the road with tractor trailers. Today’s do something that scares you is done!

Saw 2 support races, the USF2000 and the IndyPro 2000,

Visited Jimmie Johnson’s display

then, finally the IndyCar practice 1. That didn’t go so well…

There was an inident, we didn’t see from our seats that caused a red flag. When they announced a monitor was damaged and hydraulic fluids were leaking onto the track we knew it was time to call it a day.

Tomorrow qualifying we hope!

Downtown Portland exploring day

For our first IndyCar race since Toronto in 2019. Allan’s worried I’m jinxing the race cause we were in St. Pete’s, FL for the 2020 race that ended up being cancelled at the last minute.

It was a nice, uneventful drive which is always good. Passed many dams and even more trains. Even managed to add 3 more states to our “been to” map that’s on the top of this page.

Our home for the next week, Columbia River RV Park