17-04-2021

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Roger Penske announces Force Indy, new USF2000 team aiming to hire Black men and women

Following his initial test in July on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, where Team Penske driver Will Power helped coach him through his first day back in a race car in two years, Myles Rowe was named the full-season 2021 driver for Force Indy, a new USF 2000 team backed by Roger Penske's Race for Equality and Change program on Tuesday.

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The team, which aims to hire Black men and women from its driver and crew to those in PR, was unveiled in December with the hope of giving opportunities to those who previously might not have either been drawn to racing or seen the sport as a realistic goal.

And those include Rowe, the 20-year-old driver who won the 2018 Lucas Oil Formula Car Race Series title a couple of years after he won the Procup Karting Championship during his first full year of racing at 12 years old. He's also competed in the TAG Junior category in Superkarts USA, World Karting Association and the United States Pro Karting series. Despite his success at the levels of racing that he hoped would lead to the Road to Indy ladder series one day, Rowe, who is a junior at Pace University studying film and screen studies, had struggled to find the support to take that next step.

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© Provided by Force Indy Myles Rowe was announced Tuesday as the inaugural driver for USF 2000 team Force Indy in 2021.

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That was, until Power, an avid offseason kart racer, noticed Rowe's talent and, along with his team owner, helped put Rowe in front of the right people and on the fast-track to becoming the second driver given a boost from Penske's new diversity effort within IndyCar, following Paretta Autosport driver Simona de Silvestro.

'We vetted many deserving young men and women and chose Myles based on his ability and performance, inside and outside of the cockpit,” said Force Indy team principal Rod Reid, who also runs a local Indianapolis program, NXG Youth Motorsports, to help introduce racing to under-represented communities. “(Rowe) understands Force Indy’s mission of building a diverse team of talented individuals. He’s a great fit for the team.”

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We are conducting driver evaluation sessions for the Force Indy driver position with @skipbarberracing. This week we are hosting rising stars Myles Rowe and Nicholas Rivers @cota_official!

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Added Rowe: 'It’s a blessing for sure. I didn’t expect to get started in open-wheel in this way. It’s definitely a once in a lifetime opportunity, and I’m very grateful for it.

'I’ve been working hard for this moment; with all of the practice I’ve put in since I was 12 years old. So, when the opportunity came forth, it was a relief, honestly.”

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We are pleased to announce our inaugural driver for the 2021 Cooper Tires USF2000 Season, Myles Rowe.

Welcome to the team @mylesroweracing!

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— Force Indy Race Team (@forceindy99) February 9, 2021

Since the Race for Equality and Change program was announced July 4, it's taken several steps beyond just a monetary push to help improved the series' diversity efforts. Rowe took on his first of multiple tests at IMS July 27, followed by the promotion of Jimmie McMillian to Penske Entertainment Corp.'s chief diversity officer from IMS' legal counsel in October.

Two months later, Force Indy was formally announced, where Reid said they were already deep into research for their driver who would take the wheel for their inaugural season. At the time, both Reid and Penske said the goal of the team, which will have technical support from Team Penske and is based near the team's Mooresville, N.C., headquarters, would be to grow up the Road to Indy ladder and eventually field a full-season IndyCar entry and a driver in the Indy 500.

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They're joined in North Carolina by Paretta Autosport, which last month announced a technical partnership with Team Penske to field veteran IndyCar driver Simona de Silvestro in a car to attempt to qualify for this May's Indy 500. The goal of the team, run by long-time motorsports leader Beth Paretta, is to transform into a full-season team by 2022.

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Rowe, Reid and the team will make their debut during the season-opening weekend at Barber Motorsports Park April 15-18.

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This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: Myles Rowe announced as inaugural USF 2000 driver for Force Indy in 2021

  • What is INDI Library?

    INDI Library is a collection of programs designed to control astronomical equipment including:

    • Telescopes
    • Cameras: CCDs, CMOS, and DSLRs
    • Domes
    • Focusers
    • Filter Wheels
    • Spectrographs
    • Radio & Photon Detectors.
    • Rotators.
    • Adaptive Options.
    • Many more!

    It is based on the INDI protocol which is designed to support control, automation, data acquisition, and exchange among hardware devices and software frontends. INDI stands for the Instrument-Neutral-Distributed-Interface, and was developed by Elwood C. Downey of ClearSky Institute.

    Control systems are often written for a specific device or range of devices. When one or more of the device parameters change, the software needs to be modified to accommodate the change. That is, the software frontend and hardware backend are tightly coupled.

    INDI Control Protocol INDI resolves this problem by providing a framework that decouples low level hardware drivers from high level front end clients. That is, clients that use the device drivers are completely unaware of the device capabilities. In run time, clients communicate with the device drivers and build a completely dynamical GUI based on the services provided by the device.

    INDI Library primary components are:

    • Server: Central hub for communication between drivers and clients.
    • Driver: Software to control device and provide its properties in a standard format.
    • Client: Front-end software that enables the user to interact with the devices.

    In essence, INDI provides the capacity to describe any device and its parameters to any INDI-compliant client. Once you have a client, you can develop as many devices as you can without any changes on the client side. But this is not all! Since INDI's protocol is based on XML, it can be easily parsed and nested in other frameworks. For example, you can incorporate INDI in RTML to place observational constraints on your devices. Furthermore, remote control of devices is seamless with INDI's server/client architecture. Distributed devices can be controlled from one centralized environment. Finally, INDI drivers are scriptable using INDI scripting tools. You can use these command line tools in your favourite language to have complete control of the device. These tools enable developers to provide scheduling and automation frameworks for their devices.

  • What are INDI drivers?

    INDI driver is what communicates directly to your device. A driver may connect to one or more physical devices. It is responsible for controlling the device parameters and for defining them to clients. Drivers send a list of supported device properties to clients where they are parsed and presented to the end users.

    For more information on INDI drivers, please refer to INDI Developers Manual.

  • What is INDI Server?

    INDI server is the hub that sits between your devices and your clients. It reroutes traffic for control and data acorss distributed networks. Each device or client in the network is a node and may communicate with other nodes whenever desired. The server supports broadcasting, chaining, and marshalling of data. Moreover, the server support dynamic startup and shutdown of devices upon request.

  • What are INDI Clients?

    Clients are the software frontends that communicate with the hardware drivers. They usually communicate with INDI hardware drivers via INDI server, though they can communicate with the drivers directly. There are many types of clients, most notably:

    • Generic GUI clients like KStars, jINDI, or Xephem. Such clients generate a dynamic GUI to offer users a control panel to control the device.
    • Clients for tablets & smart phones (e.g. Andriod Client).
    • Logger clients to record messages, alarms, and data exchanged between devices and clients.
    • Watch dog clients to insure safe and proper operation of devices.
    • Automated scripts to carry on complex and coordinates operations on devices.

  • Which devices can INDI control?

    Thanks to the generic nature of INDI, INDI can virtually control any device. While our focus is astronomical instruments, there is nothing that prevents you from writing an INDI driver for your toaster! Currently, INDI Library supports a growing number of telescopes, CCD, focusers, filter wheels and video capture devices. For a complete list, please visit INDI devices page. If your device doesn't exist in the devices list page, there is a couple of things you can do:

    • Ask your device manafacturer to provide an INDI driver.
    • Write your own INDI driver for the device. Refer to INDI Developers Manual on driver development HOWTO, the manual also includes many tutorials and examples.
    • If you lack programming knowledge and have the technical specification for your device, you may send the information to INDI Development mailing list. One of the developers might be interested in developing a driver for your device.

  • How can I use INDI?

    INDI Library is shipped with many Linux distributions today by default. Check if your distribution includes one of INDI compatible clients. Ideally, GUI clients should take care of establishing INDI server and providing users with a list of supported drivers.

    INDI is also available for Mac OS via Homebrew, MacPorts, the INDI Web Manager App, the INDI Starter App, as well as being bundled with KStars for Mac OS.

    Support for Windows port of INDI Library is under progress. Nevertheless, you may opt to use wINDI which is a complete implementation of INDI under .NET. You may use the INDI version shipped with your client, or at your option, you may download the latest stable INDI release from the download section.

    All INDI compatible clients can also connect to local and remote INDI servers. So you should first start INDI server, then configure your client to connect to it. INDI server must be running on the same physical machine connected to the device. For example, to start INDI server to run the LX200 GPS telescope on localhost and listening on default port 7624, type: