Every year at Long Beach the crowd gathers on Saturday to catch a glimpse of celebrities driving around the racing circuit pretending to be real drivers. And by that I mean fans of the race imbibe lots of adult beverages and cheer for famous people to go all Death Race on each other while a [...]

Astute race fans as well as drunken kids chillin’ on boats in the St Pete harbor know this week the series moves back to American soil, where fans have a distinct set of expectations for our athletes. We expect uniforms to be profusely stained with sweat, mud, blood, and or oil – but ALWAYS properly [...]

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 [...]

To the chagrin of perhaps as many as two of you, it’s been painfully obvious that I have not been much of a contributor at The Silent Pagoda lately. (Well, since October. If that’s “lately.”) Please forgive my sins of omission against this hospitality tent cum Snake Pit of the lawless blogger infield, as I [...]

Earlier today you may have thought you saw a post relating to what might have been the newest iteration of the ever popular IndyCar 2-seater. You know, the thing you can actually pay to ride around actual tracks and go like 180 mph while Davey Hamilton or Arie Luyendyk Jr. peels your face off and runs you right [...]

Welcome to Homestead, which for those of you less adept at using Google Maps is located just outside of Miami, Florida. Two things we know about Miami: (1) Miami is full of hot, dumb people (don’t blame me – that’s the actual headline!) and (2) thousands of these allegedly hot and dumb locals will be [...]

When we last left Chicagoland we were reeling from a race so close that the winner had to be determined AFTER the race when (ahem) an improperly installed transponder in Scott Dixon’s car incorrectly showed him as the race winner. Dixon had already pulled into Victory Lane before the error could be corrected, depriving the [...]