Motor

Linus Lundqvist Louis Foster Michael d’Orlando Superlicence points and various junior single-seater series have been in the news recently thanks mainly to Colton Herta and his failure to secure the necessary credentials to race in Formula 1. This year, ...

Former AlphaTauri F1 target Herta extends Andretti deal to 2027

Colton Herta has agreed a new contract with Andretti Autosport to race for the IndyCar team through the 2027 season. Herta has taken seven wins and nine poles in his four-year IndyCar career, with the 22-year-old finishing seventh, third, ...

Major changes for IndyCar’s Force Indy diversity project

Road to Indy gets a new name The old ladder The new ladder The Force Indy team that aims to encourage African American participation in IndyCar and its supporting series has undergone a major reshuffle for 2023. Previously, the ...

What IndyCar’s latest convert can learn from a fellow ex-F1 junior

With Marcus Armstrong looking likely to nab the second seat at Dale Coyne Racing with HMD, three ace Formula 2 drivers will have switched to IndyCar over the last three consecutive years. Armstrong’s old roommate and ex-Ferrari Driver Academy ...

The IndyCar nomad tasked with a 2023 revival

“It’s so tough for drivers in my position right now that are trying to make it, or else we’re going to flip burgers.” It’s frankly ridiculous that new full-time AJ Foyt Racing driver Santino Ferrucci would be considering anything ...

Which surprise IndyCar testers are in line for race seats?

Test classification RACING TOWARDS A 2023 SEAT: MARCUS ARMSTRONG WHERE THE FE AND IMSA STARS FIT IN The intriguing wildcard shout for 2023 Thursday’s Sebring IndyCar test was exclusively filled with drivers who haven’t driven an IndyCar around a ...

Who will follow Alonso/Montoya in McLaren’s extra Indy 500 car?

The new favourite The known quantity An outsider that still fits the bill The NASCAR stars So far McLaren’s extra Indianapolis 500 car has provided an entry for two ex-Formula 1 stars that each bring a unique benefit to ...

What we learned from Palou court documents emerging

Palou’s contract and the end of the case Palou contract ends in 2023, period of exclusivity until September Something we still don’t know: What Ganassi gets out of this Court documents from the lawsuit between 2021 IndyCar champion Alex ...

Will Mc Laren expand at the Indy 500 + what are Busch chances?

McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown reckons Kyle Busch racing at the Indianapolis 500 could be a big story for IndyCar and says his team has contacted the two-time NASCAR Cup champion, but also played down his chances of joining ...

Ex-IndyCar race director Barnhart joins restructured Mc Laren

Former IndyCar race director Brian Barnhart will take over as general manager of the Arrow McLaren SP team, with ex-Red Bull Formula 1 engineer Gavin Ward leading a restructured team as racing director. Barnhart was the series’ long-term race ...

Johnson steps back from full-time Ganassi IndyCar programme

NASCAR legend Jimmie Johnson will not continue full-time in IndyCar next season and says he is considering his next racing project. The 47-year-old, who raced full-time for Chip Ganassi Racing in 2022, says the Le Mans 24 Hours, a ...

Dramatic Indy Lights prize reduction has huge consequences

The revelation that the scholarship prize fund for winning Indy Lights has been more than halved has far-reaching consequences – and not just for runaway 2022 champion Linus Lundqvist and his hopes of graduating to IndyCar. It’s also an ...

IndyCar deserves a chance to make up for past F1 failures

If Colton Herta’s Formula 1 switch had come to fruition for 2023, the element I’d have been on tenterhooks for was not how his F1 career started but how it ended. Michael Andretti, Jacques Villeneuve, Alex Zanardi, Cristiano da ...

What Power did to reverse his IndyCar trend and be champion again

Depending on your own personal opinion, an athlete’s mental approach is either talked about too much or too little in modern sport. In racing, we’ve had a real-life case study of the impact it can have happening under our ...

What Palou saga resolution means for rest of IndyCar 2023 grid

Alex Palou’s contract saga conclusion was supposed to turn the key that set the IndyCar silly season in motion, but instead its two major players – Palou and Felix Rosenqvist – are staying put. So, what does that all ...

Rosenqvist on withstanding an IndyCar ‘hurricane’ and what’s next

It’s easy to forget during the Alex Palou affair just how many were impacted. Yes, this is motor racing and there are bigger problems in the world, but the situation left a path of uncertainty in its wake for ...

Did Power win the 2022 IndyCar title or his rivals lose it?

The honours went to the best driver Lifetime achievement award He punished rivals’ off days Laguna Seca qualifying sealed it for me The fact Will Power won just one race in the 17-round 2022 IndyCar Series season en route ...

Busch’s blockbuster NASCAR move comes with Indy 500 green light

Two-time NASCAR Cup champion Kyle Busch says IndyCar teams should “call me up” about potential Indy 500 rides now that his contract allows him to do it. The 37-year-old Busch will have a new NASCAR employer in Richard Childress ...

Every full-time 2022 IndyCar driver ranked

25 – Dalton Kellett 24 – Kyle Kirkwood 23 – Devlin DeFrancesco 22 – Jack Harvey 21 – Conor Daly 20 – Helio Castroneves 19 – Jimmie Johnson 18 – Takuma Sato 17 – Simon Pagenaud 16 – Rinus ...

The moments that cost each of Power’s IndyCar title rivals

Josef Newgarden Points after Iowa race two if Newgarden won Final points if Newgarden won Iowa race two Scott Dixon Marcus Ericsson Scott McLaughlin Will Power is as worthy an IndyCar champion as they come but, as in any ...

IndyCar underdog’s shock pole bid hints at very bright future

Rarely does a team go from 25th on merit to rightfully fighting for a pole and missing out by just 0.0193s. But that’s exactly what Callum Ilott and the single-car Juncos Hollinger Racing team achieved from last year’s Laguna ...

‘It’s not over yet’ – Why Power’s IndyCar rivals aren’t conceding

Josef Newgarden Scott Dixon Marcus Ericsson Scott McLaughlin Will Power It’s crunch time in the IndyCar championship, and for the finale its points leader delivered an almighty lap under intense pressure to take pole and break the IndyCar record ...

All you need to know about IndyCar’s five-way title decider

How will the title be won? What does the form of the contenders tell us? It’s all in the pits Will tyres play a major role? Rookie battle A guaranteed Swedish champion (no, not him) Drivers saying farewell More ...

A 1mph slip-up transformed IndyCar’s 2022 title race

Josef Newgarden has been the subject of a lot of the ‘he’s been unlucky, maybe he should be winning the championship’ talk heading into this weekend’s 2022 IndyCar Series finale, after his momentous five-win campaign. But Chip Ganassi Racing’s ...

The quirky Herta-like path behind Andretti’s new IndyCar prospect

The ‘accidental’ formula driver No time to waste A ‘dream’ now in sight Assuming he is as good as he’s looked so far on the Road to Indy, the timing is just a little bit off for Louis Foster. ...

Rivals’ F1 buzz can’t overshadow IndyCar’s huge 2022 breakout

Of the more than 40 full-time rookies that have come into IndyCar since reunification in 2008, only 10 won races in their sophomore year. Of those 10, three won more than one race. Simon Pagenaud in 2013, Alex Palou ...

Did Penske botch a title no-brainer by avoiding controversy?

Team orders are a dirty topic in motorsport, even more so when the discussion involves swapping the leader of the race. It feels like even the mere suggestion of swapping race winners would draw a stern face from Roger ...

How one driver could beat six to win the IndyCar title today

Will Power is leading the IndyCar championship with two races remaining and starts today’s Portland race from second. There are 105 points remaining over the next two races, but anyone not within 53 after today is out of contention. ...

All you need to know ahead of penultimate 2022 IndyCar round

Newgarden fastest in practice 1 Newgarden’s penalty New chicane added New liveries Palou latest in light of Piastri conclusion The Road to Indy Series finale IndyCar is back in action at the Portland road course that always throws up ...

The cultural contrast in IndyCar’s other title fight

You rarely get a driver that isn’t desperate to win an award when it’s on offer. But when it comes to rookie of the year honours in IndyCar, there’s a definite divide between the infectious enthusiasm of teams and ...

Indy 500 winner Ericsson plans unusual post-season home race

Indianapolis 500 winner Marcus Ericsson will race in Sweden for the first time since he was 16 in October, and will also compete against his younger brother Hampus as he appears in the Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia championship finale. ...

A big IndyCar win tally doesn’t guarantee you a title

Josef Newgarden has now achieved something that has only been done one other time in the last 10 years: he’s won five races in an IndyCar season. When the narrative of the strong level of competition in IndyCar is ...

IndyCar’s ‘too respectful’ rookie realises what he can really do

There were a lot of deeply endearing things about rookie David Malukas’s first IndyCar Series podium at Gateway. The admission that he dropped in behind third-placed Scott McLaughlin on the slowing-down lap because he had no idea where podium ...

Winners and losers from IndyCar’s Gateway race

DAVID MALUKAS AND DALE COYNE RACING JOSEF NEWGARDEN INDYCAR OVAL RACING JIMMIE JOHNSON WILL POWER PATO O’WARD ANDRETTI AUTOSPORT FELIX ROSENQVIST The final oval of the 2022 IndyCar Series season featured a two-hour rain delay that turned it from ...

IndyCar’s F1-linked trio: Do any of them really have a shot?

PATO O’WARD ALEX PALOU COLTON HERTA Not long ago it seemed like Formula 1’s interest in IndyCar talents might be higher than it had been in decades. Admittedly that was entirely down to the enthusiasm of one team – ...

IndyCar’s new milestone looked first inevitable, then doomed

The main theme of Will Power’s IndyCar story always used to be mind-blowing raw single-lap speed. Five poles with Team Australia in Champ Car’s final season in 2007. Two poles from six races in the part-time 2009 Penske programme ...

Power equals Andretti’s IndyCar pole record

Championship leader Will Power equalled Mario Andretti’s all-time record of 67 IndyCar poles by topping qualifying at the Gateway oval. Penske driver Power topped the earlier practice session then unleashed a 182.727mph two-lap qualifying average with a bold, high-line ...

We predict the winner of IndyCar’s seven-way title fight

Will Power Scott Dixon Marcus Ericsson Josef Newgarden Alex Palou Scott McLaughlin Pato O’Ward There are just three races left in the 2022 IndyCar season, which is tough to believe, and the championship fight is really close. It’s been ...

Ganassi’s IndyCar leader-in-waiting’s unusual career path

Scott Dixon was greeted in Toronto’s victory lane last month by an old friend. You’d be forgiven for missing this exchange, as the person in question wasn’t wearing the shirt of one of the four Ganassi cars, or one ...

2022 Maruti Suzuki Grand Vitara review, first impressions - hybrid SUV shows early promise

2022 Maruti Suzuki Grand Vitara: What’s promising? 2022 Maruti Suzuki Grand Vitara: What needs more examining? 2022 Maruti Suzuki Grand Vitara: Early impressions Maruti Suzuki Grand Vitara 2022 Full Spec Maruti Suzuki has been trying to break through the ...

First <67 68 69 70 >

Motor

TECH NEWS LATEST

CATEGORIES