Helio Puts On His Dancing Shoes, Randy's Going To The Wind Tunnel, Drivers Keeping Busy

IndyCar season maybe over but that does not mean the drivers and those involved aren't keeping busy.

Back To The Dance Floor
Helio Castroneves returns to the ABC show Dancing With The Stars after winning the competition five years ago. This year, Castroneves competes against other past competitors on this "All-Star" season. His dance partner this season will be Chelsie Hightower. Julianne Hough was his dance partner five years ago. Season premier is tonight at 8:00pm on ABC.

Schedule To Be Released On Wind Tunnel
Next Sunday night on SPEED channel's show, Wind Tunnel, Randy Bernard will release the 2013 schedule with Bob Varsha and Robin Miller co-hosting. With the announcement late last week of Edmonton's departure, it is uncertain the goal of nineteen races will be met. Doubleheaders could make the goal attainable but the call has been for nineteen different venues. With the addition of Houtson and the belief Pocono will be added, other races being thrown around are the street race in Providence, NOLA Motorsports Park and a return of Kentucky Speedway.

Drivers Being Drivers
This past weekend, Pippa Mann competed in the Auto GP series at Sonoma Raceway and finished ninth and eighth in the two races. Takuma Sato headed to Japan and finished ninth in the Formula Nippon race at Sportland SUGO.

Ryan Hunter-Reay is scheduled to compete at Petit Le Mans with the SRT Viper in a little less than a month. Townsend Bell is expected to be at Petit with Alex Job Racing and their Lotus Evora.

That same weekend, a total thirteen drivers with a combined 881 starts, 71 wins and 76 poles in American open-wheel racing will take part in the V8 Supercars' Armor All Gold Coast 600 from Surfers Paradise. These thirteen drivers include nine drivers who competed this past season (Andretti, Bourdais, Briscoe, Conway, Hinchcliffe, Pagenaud, Power, Rahal and Wilson) and four other drivers (Nicolas Minassian, Franck Montagny, Max Papis and Mika Salo).

Rubens Barrichello is going stock car racing. No, not in NASCAR. He will compete in the season finale of the Stock Car Brazil series at Interlagos on December 9th.