This concludes our broadcast day.
After utilizing the media center at Homestead Miami Speedway for 3 days. I finally took time to notice what a great well built facility it is. I overhead members of HMS stating that the facility cost roughly $8 million to build. It is definitely money well spent since everyone from the media, to the drivers, and PR reps seemed to be pretty comfortable. 
The final testing sessions proved to be productive ones for Ryan Briscoe and Team Penske. They were the first and only team to break the 212 mph mark. At the backend of the field is Stanton Barrett once again. You have to keep in mind that Team 3G with Stanton in the cockpit had only turned 150 laps in an IndyCar on an oval prior to tonights testing. Team 3G managed to raise there best lap from 201 mph on Monday night to 206 mph tonight. This is a pretty drastic improvement despite the fact that they remained the slowest overall. After spoke with team owner Steve Sudler and he was pleased with improvement and is confident that Team 3G will continue to pick up the pace into the 2009 season. I managed to speak with Ryan Hunter-Reay and he is currently trying to work on a putting something together with HVM. He spent yesterday evening watching the test session from HVM’s pit box. Hopefully the two can bring some sort of sponsorship deal together.
February 26th, 2009 at 23:33
I wish Stanton Barrett would just be an owner and allow a real talent ot drive for him and get results, please his sponsors, and make him money. By Barrett running, the results and sponsor exposure will be poor. Barrett cant even run top 30 in nascars 2nd tier division, what makes him think he can run 200mph every weekend and handle the roadcourses? If Brent Sherman came from stock cars and ran Indy Lights, thats where Barrett should be
February 27th, 2009 at 07:59
The transition did take getting used to for Stanton. I spent some time over the past few days talking with owner Steve Sudler and his outlook on things came across as promising. Even he is not expecting Team 3G to come out of the box and win races or even run at the front. This is a learning year for the team. Keep in mind that up until Monday night Stanton had never drove an IndyCar. His fastest speed Monday night which was not general knowledge since they didn’t have timing and scoring streaming from IndyCar.com was around 201 mph. Over the 3 sessions the he had they were able to get the fast speed up up to 206. Granted, this is still 6 mph slower than Briscoe, but it is definitely a drastic improvement. Am I saying that this is going to be a great year for them…Absolutely not. Expect to see gradual improvements.