Doug in Murrieta, Calif.
A.) Robin Miller: Twenty-nine lead changes, non-stop passing and five-abreast restarts usually make for a great show and that’s what we got. I could hear the crowd (even though I was wearing headsets) go wild when Helio went from 12th to first and a lot of you folks stood for most of the final 30 laps. It was priced reasonably and there were more people than 2012. Glad you’ve made a fan out of your wife.”
A memorial service will be held Wednesday, Oct 30th, 2013 at 7pm with family greeting from 6-7pm at St Joseph Catholic Church, 1375 S. Mickley Ave, Indianapolis, to be followed by a meal and refreshments in the church hall. William (Bill) Stewart, 67, died Oct 25th, 2013 at home surrounded by loving family and friends. Bill graduated from Mt Vernon High School in Ohio and went to Southwest Missouri State University. Bill was a member of the United States Air Force and served in Vietnam. He is a member of The American Legion. In later years Bill worked for Speedway Engine Development as a Track Support Engineer. Bill loved his racing and some of his favorite memories were his years working with PDM Racing. In 2006 Bill married his love, Jenny and especially enjoyed the years they got to travel the world together racing.
In 2012 Bill was diagnosed with ALM Leukemia and was awarded 100% service-related disability as it was a direct result of his service in Vietnam and coming in contact with Agent Orange. Bill was preceded in death by his parents John & Freda Stewart. He is survived by his wife. Jenny; his brother, Dave; his sister, Beth; his son, John (Heather); daughters, Dana (Matt) and Jeanine; his step-daughters, Nikki and Kelly; and his grandchildren, Emma, Julia and Grey.
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“National Speed Sport News” reports from India:
Sebastian Vettel wrapped up his fourth consecutive Formula One drivers’ championship in style with a convincing win in Sunday’s Indian Grand Prix at the Buddh Int’l Circuit. The German, whose victory also secured a fourth straight constructors’ crown for Red Bull, finished half a minute clear of Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg, with Lotus’s Romain Grosjean an impressive third after starting 17th. Vettel jumped into the lead at the start of the race, but dropped back through the field after making an early stop to remove the less durable soft tires. Ferrari’s Felipe Massa then moved ahead, followed by the Mercedes duo of Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton. But when they too stopped, the second Red Bull of Mark Webber moved into P1, the Australian having started on the medium-compound rubber.
Vettel, meanwhile, stormed back through the pack until he was in a position to reclaim the lead from his team mate when Webber was forced to use the soft tires. When both men had completed all of their stops, Vettel held a 13-second lead over Webber, but the Australian was soon ruled out of contention when an alternator problem forced him to retire. Vettel was then left with a healthy lead over Lotus’s Kimi Raikkonen, and although the Red Bull team was nervous a similar problem to Webber’s might bite Vettel, the 26-year-old cruised to the checkered flag to record his sixth successive win.
Raikkonen, who had tried an ambitious one-stop strategy, fell back towards the tail end of the race. He lost positions to Rosberg and then begrudgingly to team mate Grosjean, who’d charged through the field after starting 17th. Massa, McLaren’s Sergio Perez and Hamilton also found their way past Raikkonen as the Finn’s tires continued to lose performance and in the end he was eventually forced to pit, emerging in seventh where he stayed to the finish. The top ten was completed by the Force India pair of Paul di Resta and Adrian Sutil in eighth and ninth, and Toro Rosso’s Daniel Ricciardo in tenth.
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Saturday’s Dan Wheldon Pro Am Karting Challenge in New Castle, IN raised $100,000 for the Alzheimer’s Association. After a final lap incident involving three karts, Big Machine Records’ Marino Franchitti and Machine of Awesome’s Ed Carpenter were declared co-winners of the 100 minute race. Marino was substituting for his injured brother Dario.