Category: Firestone Indy Lights
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Pippa Mann: “Next year I’ll be back – and stronger”
“Going out to do a qualifying run on one of the ovals is, to me, one of the most special sensations out there,” says Indy Lights driver Pippa Mann. “When a car’s absolutely right on an oval it’s mega.”
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Indy Lights: Romancini wins thriller as Plowman looks to future
Mario Romancini won the final Indy Lights race of 2009 with a last-gasp lunge for the line to snatch victory from champion-elect JR Hildebrand in the second-closest finish in the history of the series.
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It’s all happening in America this weekend
A quiet weekend in European racing allows attention to switch to the other side of the Atlantic – where no fewer than four open-wheel series all have their final races.
Categorised under: Archive, Atlantic Championship, Firestone Indy Lights, IndyCar Series, Star Mazda Championship
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Indy Lights: Hildebrand wins title in wheel-to-wheel thriller
J.R. Hildebrand was confirmed as the 2009 Indy Lights champion during a fast-paced and closely fought Chicagoland 100 in which all the cars on the lead lap finished within three quarters of a second of each other.
Tagged as: Daniel Herrington, Firestone Indy Lights, JR Hildebrand, Martin Plowman, Pippa Mann, videos
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Indy Lights: Hildebrand heads home to victory
JR Hildebrand ran away with the Carneros Indy 100 at the Infineon Raceway while his team-mate Sebastian Saavedra, sent to the back as penalty for an engine change, carved through the field to finish seventh.
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Indy Lights: Top-5 for Plowman as Davison cruises to win
A year ago James Davison won the Mid-Ohio Indy Lights race under bizarre circumstances in a rain storm – this season he returned to do it the conventional way, leading from pole to flag and giving Vision Racing its first-ever victory.
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Indy Lights: Hildebrand increases championship lead
JR Hildebrand led every lap of an uninspiring Indy Lights Grand Prix of Edmonton to win from pole and extend his championship lead to 69 points over team-mate Sebastian Saavedra.
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Indy Lights: Saavedra cleans up after storm
Colombia’s Sebastian Saavedra won the Indy Lights Grand Prix of Toronto from pole, grabbing back the lead on lap 18 after losing it when the field pitted to change tyres on a track drying out from a pre-race thunderstorm.
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Indy Lights: Hildebrand rewarded as closest rivals all falter
JR Hildebrand won a final-lap shoot-out in the Indy Lights Corning 100 at Watkins Glen after Wade Cunningham became the third championship front-runner to crash out of the race, bringing out a safety car.
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Indy Lights: Horror crash for Pippa Mann in Iowa
British Indy Lights driver Pippa Mann escaped unscathed from the Miller Lite 100 at the Iowa Speedway despite a high-speed crash in which her car was sent into the wall at speed, went airborne and finally skidded down the track on its roof.