Got a link to this "teaser" in the email for "Team Redline Extreme," which is allegedly going to field an entry for the Indy 500. Team Readline Extreme is a combination off SH Racing, which as secured sponsorship from REDLINE Extreme energy drink and KV Racing Technology, which is owned by Kevin Kalkhoven and Jimmy Vasser.
WHO will drive it? I'm guessing Katherine Legge (based on exactly nothing). She's a fav of Kalkhoven, back in Indy and said she would be popping some news coming right up here.
Congratulations Mr. or Ms. PR Person, your video teaser was intriguing enough to get me to post it. News release would have gone unremarked upon. Here's the pretty well done "teaser." STAY TUNED to see who the REAL DRIVER IS!!
I am confused. That is clearly a Panoz DP-07 (roll hoop, no airbox, flares over the front springs/shocks, elevated nose with a suspended front wing), but it's positively festooned with Honda stickers. Are they going to allow the Panozeseses to run at Indy this year, so long as they're retrofitted with the Honda Indy V8? If so, right there's your story, Pressdog. Forget who's driving for Redline, this is a game changer. We'll have like 60 cars trying to qualify! Alert Robin Miller and his platoon of "run what ya brung" letter writers!
Posted by: The Speedgeek | February 28, 2011 at 01:19 PM
I think it's clearly a DP-01 for film purposes only. Kind of a stunt double standing in for now for the real Dallara. "Make it look like a Dallara," kind of thing. KK probably has 9 DP-01s sitting around, so they painted one up for the "teaser."
Posted by: pressdog | February 28, 2011 at 01:25 PM
A poster on TrackForum said he was told by SH that their driver would not be a 500 rookie.
Posted by: Concerned Fan | February 28, 2011 at 03:31 PM
I just like to nerd out over cars that don't belong with the series that they're puroprted to be in (like this case) or have the wrong livery (like the Benetton F1 car in the Speedway museum) or are generally based off of some race car and have a generic paint scheme (I'm a nusiance in the cheap toy isle, where little plastic cars are still patterned after 1978 Tyrrells and the like). That's all. Ergo, this was like catnip to me, if easily identified catnip.
Posted by: The Speedgeek | February 28, 2011 at 04:05 PM
Dale Coyne had a DP-01 painted up in Boy Scout colors last year, so this not even the first DP-01 to play the role of a Dallara on TV. ;)
Posted by: ThatGuy | February 28, 2011 at 05:20 PM
DAMN. Not Katherine? SHIT. Another hope CRUSHED. Still, we can hope ...
Posted by: pressdog | February 28, 2011 at 05:35 PM
Come on we know who the driver is going to be, white helmet and white firesuit....it's the STIG!!!!
Posted by: Stone | February 28, 2011 at 06:29 PM
I'm still thinking it's Scheckter, perhaps.
Posted by: Zachary | February 28, 2011 at 08:21 PM
It's the Stig. No, it's Tanner Foust. No, it's Paul Tracy. No, it's Bourdais...
Posted by: Br!an McKay | March 01, 2011 at 12:04 AM
I think they should let me drive, I have never driven an open wheeled race car, but I have been to a few autocross days. They don't even have to pay me.
Posted by: BMW E46 Tuning | March 01, 2011 at 11:42 AM
Gonna throw Townsend Bell in there. Why? Because I CAN.
Posted by: Filip Cleeren | March 01, 2011 at 02:33 PM
She'd fit right in with the rest of the clowns at KV Racing.
Maybe they can hire Marco Greco for a seat at Indy as well.
Posted by: Blake Knotts | March 02, 2011 at 09:22 AM
Kinda forgot Townsend is bound to race for Sam obviously.
Posted by: Filip Cleeren | March 04, 2011 at 05:16 AM
They were givng out samples of the Redline drink at the St. Pete GP this past weekend so I accepted one on the way out but wisely didn't consume it on the spot but instead took it home. Then I looked at the label. Then I googled it/checked reviews. If any of what I found can be believed...you are apparently much more likely to die from drinking this stuff than from racin'. Like, by a lot. So...(he said naively)this concerns no one?? Cuz if they give away this stuff at the 500, knowing that crowd (Cred: my wife's from Indy and we go every year for approx last 20 years so yes, I know of what I speak)...somebody gonna chug it and die.
Posted by: Ken Wilson | March 28, 2011 at 09:30 PM
No offense, but if there's a facebook like button, it'll be much easier for me to share.
Posted by: Elliptical reviews | November 30, 2011 at 12:59 AM