Ultimately Jamie Chadwick’s debut Indy NXT weekend was a scruffy affair that will have some of her doubters grinning with glee. But those doubters could well be looking for somewhere else to direct their negativity towards once Chadwick has settled ...
Pato O’Ward looked close to tears. Every sentence in his post-race interview was choked out after he’d been robbed of a St Petersburg IndyCar victory by fators totally out of his control. “We did everything right,” he said. “There’s always ...
Colton Herta called reigning IndyCar champion Will Power an “ass” after a collision that took him out of the St Petersburg season opener, one that ensured all four Andretti cars were involved in major incidents. Herta started second and harried ...
A huge airborne crash in IndyCar’s St Petersburg season opener left five drivers lucky to walk away relatively unscathed. The incident started with Scott Dixon easing Felix Rosenqvist into the outside wall at Turn 3 when fighting for seventh. Dixon ...
Romain Grosjean looked set to begin his third IndyCar season with his long-awaited first series victory but instead a collision with Scott McLaughlin left him out of the race and raging. A very apologetic McLaughlin accepted full responsibility for the ...
After 10 years without an IndyCar title and another season without a title challenge for rising star Colton Herta, it was clear Andretti Autosport had to improve in 2023. With Romain Grosjean grabbing his first pole for the team, Herta ...
Last year’s IndyCar season produced eight different race winners, and a champion who most had written off as being in the twilight of his career – and who only won one race before emerging on top from a five-way title ...
While the phrase is unlikely to catch on, IndyCar is currently in a period I like to call ‘hushed Herta’. It’s the term I give to a period of time – usually the IndyCar off-season but it can reoccur – ...
In 2021, Meyer Shank Racing won the Indianapolis 500 in its first IndyCar race running two cars. It’s a team that has grown used to rapid success, but sustaining it in IndyCar has been a struggle lately. Last year its ...
Looking ahead to the 2022 IndyCar season off the back of four consecutive Honda manufacturers’ title successes, it would have been hard to imagine Chevrolet winning 11 of that year’s 17 races. But such was Chevrolet’s driveability upgrade for 2022 ...
Across the car design itself, racing in the wet, racing on ovals and even the format of qualifying sessions, IndyCar has implemented one of its biggest raft of changes in recent years for 2023. It could have a big impact ...
Getting beaten by your two team-mates in 31 out of 34 competitive sessions (qualifying and races) in a season is always going to pile the pressure on a driver for the following year. Luckily for Jack Harvey, he’s been in ...
Even though she tries to make an Indianapolis 500 return happen every year, after 10 years away you may have been forgiven for assuming Katherine Legge wouldn’t get another chance at the race. But the driver who has driven everything ...
Where should IndyCar race, and why? It’s a question I love to ponder, so when my pals at The Race asked if I’d indulge them with my point of view I was happy to oblige. So some rules, firstly I’m ...
Tony Kanaan, the 2004 IndyCar champion and 2013 Indianapolis 500 winner, has revealed that this year’s Indy 500 will be his final attempt at the race. The announcement effectively marks his retirement from IndyCar after a career stretching back to ...
When Alexander Rossi admitted he was still needing name tags as he got to know his new Arrow McLaren team at IndyCar’s pre-season test at Thermal, it was hardly surprising. What was a shock was his admission that McLaren has ...
A McLaren-Honda reunion in Formula 1 isn’t as outrageous an idea now as that might have sounded even a few months ago. But what would it mean for the IndyCar team? In America, teams regularly run with competing manufacturers in ...
“Well, I believe that I deserve a seat and he beat me, so there’s your answer,” said Sting Ray Robb, when asked about the person he finished runner-up to in Indy Lights last year – who isn’t joining Robb in ...
Kyle Kirkwood’s 2022 IndyCar season felt doomed from the get-go given his marriage with a struggling AJ Foyt Racing team, but the driver who perhaps unquestionably has the best resume in US junior single-seater history got it all wrong, too. ...
Full-time IndyCar driver Conor Daly will attempt to qualify for NASCAR’s biggest race, the Daytona 500, alongside six other stock car races in a tie up with champion boxer Floyd Mayweather’s team. Daly follows some of American motorsport history’s top ...
Colton Herta was fastest in both sessions on Thursday and his Andretti team-mate Kyle Kirkwood and Ganassi’s Indianapolis 500 winner Marcus Ericsson split the honours on Friday. It was an intriguing two-day affair at the relatively new, $270 million facility ...
The Indianapolis 500 will have a conventional points allocation in the IndyCar Series this year, reversing the double-points rule that had been in place since 2015. It has been decided after review that the double-points rule “has proven to overly ...
IndyCar will visit a new venue this week, with testing at the uber-exclusive Thermal club on Thursday and Friday teeing up the 2023 season. The $270 million facility is usually reserved for its members – some of which are paying ...
IndyCar is one of the world’s closest-fought and most unpredictable top-level championships, with a spectacularly varied set of racing backgrounds among the drivers in its packed field. But which team has assembled the best line-up from that group, and whose ...
At best he’s perhaps a gifted genius capable of executing things mere mortal racing drivers wouldn’t even attempt. At worst he takes too many risks, causes incidents and jeopardises strong results. With Takuma Sato, IndyCar is never boring. Neither was ...
Imagine working on the Apollo Space programme, troubleshooting spy satellites, writing the software to design a hull of a destroyer battleship and winning the Indianapolis 500? It really feels like Chip Ganassi Racing’s Jim Hamilton has done it all, and ...
I get a bit tired of the aggressive and repetitive claims that ‘IndyCar’ doesn’t do enough with its marketing. It’s true, the series itself could invest more in its promotion – and we’re told it will in 2023. But it’s ...
Though Takuma Sato’s Ganassi deal marks the likely end of his full-time IndyCar career, it might give him his best ever shot at race victories in the rounds he’s going to contest – including the Indianapolis 500. While never an ...
If you move in circles where drivers come from established, European based elite championships into IndyCar or North American racing in general, you’re almost always met with the same interpretation when those drivers discuss their switch. ‘The culture is a ...
It’s been a tough three years for Robert Shwartzman. The Ferrari Formula 1 junior won the FIA Formula 3 title in 2019 but began a crucial F2 campaign that could have launched him on the path to stardom with the ...
It felt like Romain Grosjean’s IndyCar honeymoon period ended abruptly in 2022. He was the rebounding Phoenix, emerging off the back of his fiery 2020 Bahrain Formula 1 shunt to become IndyCar’s latest success story in 2021 with Dale Coyne, ...
If you come from a purely European racing background, it might be hard to understand why people are getting so excited about Kyle Larson doing the Indianapolis 500 in 2024. Especially if you’re aware that the history of drivers trying ...
American driver Sting Ray Robb has claimed the final full-time seat on the IndyCar grid and will race for Dale Coyne Racing in 2023. Robb won the 2020 Indy Pro 2000 championship, and then finished eighth and second in two ...
Dale Coyne Racing might have had a reputation for gambling on drivers with questionable ability over the years, but its recent choices have included a driver who needed one year with the team before becoming series champion, an ex-Formula 1 ...
Reigning IndyCar champion Will Power has withdrawn from what would have been his first Daytona 24 Hours after his wife Liz suffered complications with a surgical procedure. Power had been set to make his debut at the Daytona event alongside ...
Takuma Sato will join Chip Ganassi Racing and drive the IndyCar oval races, sharing a car with Marcus Armstrong for the 2023 season. Sato, a two-time Indianapolis 500 winner, replacing fellow Formula 1 veteran Romain Grosjean at Dale Coyne Racing ...
NASCAR champion Kyle Larson will contest the 2024 Indianapolis 500 with McLaren. The 30-year-old, who won the 2021 Cup Series title, has long held the ambition of racing in the Indy 500, and with this somewhat surprisingly early announcement, IndyCar ...
Indy NXT has outlined an increased prize structure that guarantees IndyCar races – including the Indy 500 – for its champion the following year. There was confusion over the formerly named Indy Lights Series prize structure last year as, although ...
Chip Ganassi Racing still has the tough task of trying to complete its 2023 line-up by securing an oval-only driver for its fourth car. But it’s already 2024 that’s looking far more interesting for its silly season to anyone watching ...
You might be forgiven for wondering why McLaren has put an engineer – in this case, ex-Red Bull Formula 1 ace and Penske title winner Gavin Ward – in charge as the effective team principal of its IndyCar team. Especially ...