Firestone Indy lights test at PBIR.
Well, it would seem that my speculations on this recent posting were correct. Firestone held a private test for the Firestone Indy lights on the 2.034 mile 11 turn road course at Palm Beach International Raceway on January 26th and 27th. Among the teams that tested were Genoa Lights with Richard Phillipe, Sam Schmidt Motorsports with Charlie Kimball and Ana Beatriz, and Panther Racing with Pippa Mann and Martin Plowman. The teams were turning in times around the 1 minute 7 second range on the new road course which was just recently completed in the later half of 2008. Perhaps we will see the IndyCar Series here for testing sometime in the not so distant future.
These teams along with AFS/Andretti Green Racing drivers J.L. Hildebrand and Sebastian Saavedra will resume testing at Homestead Miami Speedway On January 28th and 29th.
