DETROIT, MI - JUNE 03: Eventual race winner Graham Rahal (15) during the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix Race 1 on June 3, 2017, on the streets of Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by James Black/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) The 2018 IndyCar season’s doubleheader begins Saturday with the 2018 Dual in Detroit Race 1. Here’s how to watch IndyCar live, on TV and online. The Verizon IndyCar Series doubles up this weekend with the 2018 Dual in Detroit, the season’s only doubleheader. Fans don’t want to miss this back-to-back event, so we’re telling you how to watch IndyCar online and watch IndyCar live on Saturday to see part one. Last year, the Raceway at Belle Isle Park was dominated by Graham Rahal, who won not only this race but both races. Rahal comes to Detroit sitting sixth in the 2018 season; two more wins would easily push him into the top of the IndyCar championship fight with Will Power, Alexander Rossi, Josef Newgarden and Scott Dixon. But really, these two races are fair game for anyone, as drivers have had just six days to turn things around from the Indianapolis 500 and now have to run two more races in 48 hours. This is an exercise in endurance for the entire Verizon IndyCar Series, and a quick chance for teams to try and make up some points they didn’t gain in last Sunday’s double-points action. You can either climb back up, or if you struggle here after a rough ride at the Indy 500, it could be the pothole from which your 2018 IndyCar season does not recover. It’s big for IndyCar teams, and it’s big for race fans because it’s double the action, so of course you want to watch IndyCar this Saturday! Why wouldn’t you? How do you watch IndyCar online and/or live? Here’s how you can watch the Dual in Detroit Race 1 live, on TV or via live stream: Date: Saturday, June 2 Start Time: 3:30 p.m. ET Race: 2018 Dual in Detroit, Race 1 TV Channel: ABC Live Stream: Stream 1 | Stream 2 For complete coverage of the 2018 IndyCar season, follow the Motor Sports category at FanSided.<doc-sep>DETROIT – The disgust on his face Saturday was apparent. After finishing second in the first leg of the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix doubleheader, Ryan Hunter-Reay was far from satisfied. The podium was nice, but he desperately wanted a win. On Sunday, he got one. The Andretti Autosport star snapped a 42-race winless streak and surged into the middle of the championship chase in the weekend's second race. Hunter-Reay was trailing teammate Alexander Rossi late but was closing in on him when Rossi locked up his brakes and rolled into the runoff area. From there Hunter-Reay put it on cruise control, as he won by nearly 12 seconds. See you in the winner's circle: Hunter-Reay is making a habit of visits to the winner's circle in 2018. With his win, he now has three podiums, including two in a row. Joining him in the winner's circle is Indianapolis 500 champion Will Power, who once again flies the flag for Chevrolet. With the podium, he retakes the championship. Chip Ganassi Racing's Ed Jones finished third, earning his second podium of the year and first since Long Beach. Insider:With Detroit victory, Scott Dixon continues ascent into IndyCar's elite You must remember this: With apologies to Hunter-Reay this race will long be remembered for its delayed start. Just moments before the green flag flew, Mark Reuss, General Motors Executive Vice President of Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain, crashed the pace car into the Turn 2 wall. The Corvette ZR1, worth an estimated $123,000, took significant damage. Fortunately, Reuss and his passenger, IndyCar official Mark Sandy, did not suffer any major injuries. The race was delayed more than 30 minutes while the debris was cleared from the track. More:Pace car crashes ahead of IndyCar Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix Drive another day: Another race, another rough finish for Sebastien Bourdais, who spun out in Turn 1 and dropped to the back of the pack for a 21st place finish. In the beginning of the season, the four-time champion looked poised to contend for his fifth, but ever since the Indianapolis 500, he's plummeted down the championship standings. At Indy, he spun and crashed, settling for a 28th-place finish. On Saturday, he did possess one of the faster Hondas and came in 13th. Now, as the series heads to Texas, Bourdais is 115 points back of Power and on the outside of the championship picture. Quote of the day: "I was hoping for better than we were. But it was close. We're going to have to go back and try and make our weaknesses a little bit stronger tomorrow and see where we can come out. "— Ryan Hunter-Reay. Mission accomplished, Mr. Hunter-Reay. His car was a rocket ship, and he finally broke through for the win. More:IndyCar at Belle Isle: Honda dominates on Chevrolet's turf Championship update: Power is back in control of the championship with 309 points. His longtime rival Scott Dixon is just five points back, while Alexander Rossi sits third with 297 points. Hunter-Reay is fourth with 278 points. I stink: I picked Graham Rahal and Simon Pagenaud to win this weekend's races. After crashing Saturday, Rahal fared well Sunday but finished fifth. Meanwhile, Pagenaud and the No. 22 car were off all weekend. The Penske star and 2016 champion was never a threat to win this weekend, finishing 17th on Saturday and 10th on Sunday. Bad weekend for him and a bad weekend for me. Follow IndyStar Motor Sports Insider Jim Ayello on Twitter and Facebook: @jimayello.<doc-sep>There was a crash before today's IndyCar race even started. But instead of something like the crash Roberto Guerrero had on the pace lap at Indy or the start of the first US 500, this crash was the pace car itself. The Corvette ZR1 was the pace car for this weekend's Detroit IndyCar Grand Prix. Mark Reuss, GM's top product development exec and a huge race fan and proponent of motorsports, was driving the car on the pace laps when it went wrong. This is one of the weirdest things we've seen at a race in a long time. Reuss appears to be ok, and the race will start after this is cleaned up, but Oriol Servia will be driving the pace car. This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. OH WOW. The pace car has crashed. #DetroitGP pic.twitter.com/2YFdExRVWV — IndyCar on NBC (@IndyCaronNBC) June 3, 2018 This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. At the conclusion of the race, Chevrolet issued the following statement about the pace car crash: We are thankful that there were no serious injuries. Both the pace car driver and the series official were taken to the infield care center, where they were checked, cleared and released. It is unfortunate that this incident happened. Many factors contributed, including weather and track conditions. The car’s safety systems performed as expected It rained earlier in the day, but weather at race start was 70 and sunny. The track was dry. Update: Mark Reuss said the following on Facebook about the crash (via NBC Sports) I want to thank you all for your well wishes today. I am ok. I have driven this course many many many times. I have paced this race in the wet, cold, hot, and calm. On Z06’s, Grand Sports, and other things. It is never a casual thing for me, but an honor to be asked. Today I let down my friends, my family, IndyCar, our city and my company. Sorry does not describe it. I want to thank our engineers for providing me the safety I know is the best in the world. Reuss's own statement is far better than the one GM issued, which bordered on being a joke. It should also be noted that Reuss has driven the pace car for this event on numerous occasions without incident. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io<doc-sep>When the sun sets over Belle Isle on Sunday evening, some 100,000 race fans will have squeezed onto the western edge of Detroit's most iconic park to watch the Detroit Grand Prix the last four days. They can thank Roger Penske. Though not everyone who loves Belle Isle feels grateful. Some see the race as a nuisance and worry about the environmental effect the race has on the island. A handful of protesters arrived again last week to voice displeasure with the setup. Penske doesn't want a fight. He just thinks it's too bad the folks complaining can't quite see the long view. Or at least his long view. Read more: Will this be last Grand Prix on Belle Isle? What's the cost of an IndyCar steering wheel? "I think if you step back and you weigh what we've brought to Belle Isle, from the standpoint of investment and what the conservancy has done, what we've done to the western end of the island, I don't think we should have a problem," he said last week during the Grand Prix's media day at the Detroit Yacht Club. "I just wish there was a way to rationally sit down with people to try to explain the benefits. We're not in a situation where we want to get into a fight on anything. We want to continue to try to make it easier for everybody on Belle Isle." Penske chose his words carefully. Which isn't surprising, considering his role in a handful of the city's recent marquee events and his reputation as someone who can negotiate uneven terrain. The bottom line, he said, is that the race "is an event for Detroit. (We are) showcasing our city. Trust me, that's worth a lot to this city." That part is hard to argue. Perceptions matter. Whether you are a race fan or not. And while the gorgeous aerial shots of the race and the island — which highlight the green of the trees and the blue of the water — won't do anything to solve Detroit's most intractable issues, the images help contradict so many deeply ingrained views. Views that aren't always fair. But views that are reality. Penske knows the perspective well. He heard it when he first started working on luring the Super Bowl to Detroit. It sounded impossible back in the early 2000s. Back then, downtown didn't even have a nationally recognized brand-name hotel, at least not one associated with luxury. The idea that Detroit could host the country's largest sporting event seemed ludicrous. Once the NFL awarded the city the big game, Penske remembers driving around downtown looking at all the boarded-up and abandoned buildings and wondering how he and his committee would make them presentable. "We were driving around when we were trying to fill or paint buildings in 2006," he said. Now? "People are buying those places for hundreds of thousands of dollars. That's the difference." Not that he wants the credit. He'd rather give it to the Ilitch family and Dan Gilbert and the Kresge Foundation and the Ford Foundation and the army of volunteers who've all made Detroit a viable option for national events. That's fair. Those folks have given time and effort and money. A lot of local and state politicians and business leaders have, too. Look, it's not perfect. The rejuvenated city center remains largely disconnected from many of the poorest neighborhoods. Even the QLINE which Penske helped get built, serves as a kind of metaphor for the redoubled corridor that runs from downtown up to New Center … cut off from many folks who need transportation the most. Yet the QLINE, unfinished project that it is, remains a symbol of what is possible. It's a start. Like the Super Bowl was. Like the Grand Prix is. Penske and his Super Bowl committee had to treat downtown as if it were a dilapidated stage in need of a makeover. They essentially hung a curtain up for the world to hide our scars. Or at least some of them. It worked. Just as our increasingly vibrant downtown now serves as its own kind of curtain against the neighborhoods that need so much attention. Penske is content to stay behind that curtain and keep working. Except on race days, when he's fine stepping onto the stage, to oversee one of the most formidable racing operations in the history of the sport. Or on some race weeks, like this one, when he gets to show off the city — and region — he considers his home. Penske said he happened to be in the right place at the right time when he got the nod to lead the Super Bowl effort. He insists there was already a core of committed Detroiters who were desperate to help the city move forward. That he just tapped into them. To this day, he remembers what then-NFL Commissioner, Paul Tagilabue, told him over dinner not long after Detroit won the bid: "He said, 'we want to bring our big event to cities to help them get better.' I always think about that," he said. It's why he wanted to bring the race back to Belle Isle in 2012. It's why he hopes the race will continue after this year — the contract with the state's department of natural resources is up. And it's why he wants the folks who worry the race occupies the island for too long — a little over two months from set up to teardown — might reconsider their perspective. "I'm not looking for trouble," he said. "This is not a business. We are doing this to support the city. (And) the city has a story to tell." A story Penske helped shape for more than a decade. From behind the curtain. From under the lights on stage. Catching up with IndyCar history on Belle Isle<doc-sep>
DraftKings Main MLB Picks June 3: Lester could be better than we think by Mike Marteny The 2018 IndyCar season’s doubleheader ends Sunday with the 2018 Dual in Detroit Race 2. Here’s how to watch IndyCar live, on TV and online. The Verizon IndyCar Series wraps up its busiest weekend Sunday with the second half of the 2018 Dual in Detroit. Who is going to take the second race victory in two days, and who’s going to go home cursing the concept of the IndyCar doubleheader? Marco Andretti impressed on Saturday by winning the pole for the first race—the first time he’d ever started up front for a road or street course, and his first Verizon IndyCar Series pole award in five years. Will he be able to find more success again on Sunday? He could certainly use it, as he’s looking to make a push for the 2018 IndyCar season championship. But so is everyone else in the field. Marco Andretti’s teammate Alexander Rossi has been sitting in second place for most of this IndyCar season and shows no signs of slowing down. He’d love to pick up a second victory in 2018 and punt himself security onto the top of the leaderboard. Don’t sleep on Will Power, who’s always strong on road and street courses and riding the hot hand off of his Indianapolis 500 victory. This is the third of four events over two weeks, following the Indy 500 and before the series heads to Texas Motor Speedway. There are a lot of points being handed out in a short period of time, so you want to watch IndyCar online and live on Sunday to see which driver leaves Detroit with the upper hand. The Dual in Detroit is the only double event of the 2018 IndyCar season, but that just means it has double the effect. You’ll want to watch IndyCar online or tune in live to find out who could end up in double the trouble. How do you watch IndyCar online and/or live? Here’s how you can watch the Dual in Detroit Race 2 live, on TV or via live stream: Date: Sunday, June 3 Start Time: 3:30 p.m. ET Race: 2018 Dual in Detroit, Race 2 TV Channel: ABC Live Stream: Stream 1 For complete coverage of the 2018 IndyCar season, follow the Motor Sports category at FanSided.