A year ago, after running Palou as a rookie in IndyCar, Dale Coyne predicted his former charge would go on to shine at Chip Ganassi Racing. Palou had taken a podium for DCR at Road America – only his third IndyCar start and second on a US road course – and had also qualified five
Month: December 2021
The British squad has revealed that it will field a pair of McLaren 720S GT3s in the two-weekend Asian Le Mans Series in February and will continue with the new cars for further GT3 campaigns through the year that will be announced at a later date. Garage 59 team principal Andrew Kirkaldy said: “Garage 59
Castroneves, who this year became the fourth member of the four-time Indy 500 winners’ elite, joins a long list of motorsport megastars for the event which will be held in Pite Havsbad, Sweden, between 5-6 February next year. Other drivers already confirmed include current Formula 1 drivers Sebastian Vettel, Mick Schumacher and Valtteri Bottas, while
Dallara first entered the top-flight of US single-seater racing back in 1997 and has been sole supplier since 2009, the year after the Indy Racing League and Champ Car World Series merged to form what is currently known as the IndyCar Series. The current chassis, originally called DW12 in honour of its test driver, the
The 2018 Indy Lights title rivals won five IndyCar races between them last season, with the former remaining in title contention until the final round at Long Beach where his Arrow McLaren SP entry was an early retirement. The pair will team up with Herta’s 2022 Andretti Autosport IndyCar team-mate Devlin DeFrancesco and sportscar stalwart
The Kiwi has enjoyed success in Europe in the past, particularly during his time as a factory McLaren GT driver. He won the 2016 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup with Rob Bell and Come Ledogar for Garage 59, thanks to race victories at Monza and Paul Ricard. That same season he finished third in the
The former Lamborghini factory driver will join an all-Pro lineup as the German-based squad steps up from International GT Open with two McLaren 720S GT3s. Lind will join team regular Christian Klien and 2015 Blancpain Sprint champion Vincent Abril, who took a best finish of fourth in the DTM this year. Team owner Patryk Krupinski
Malukas, who scored seven wins in Lights and took the championship fight with Kyle Kirkwood down to the wire, also tested impressively with Coyne at Barber Motorsports Park in October, ending the day top of the times by a substantial margin. Malukas will partner with two-time Indy 500 winner Takuma Sato, who was confirmed by
Arrow McLaren SP IndyCar driver O’Ward took part in the young driver test in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday as a reward for scoring his first victory earlier this year, having made a bet with McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown. O’Ward completed 92 laps in the McLaren MCL35M at the Yas Marina Circuit, and said afterwards
Hinchcliffe, 35, scored six wins across his 11-year career at this level, putting together three in the space of just 10 races in 2013 driving for Andretti Autosport. Yet arguably his most memorable moment was scoring pole for what was then the Schmidt Peterson Motorsports team at the 2016 Indianapolis 500, just a year after
Johnson, who unveiled his Carvana livery on NBC’s Today show on Wednesday morning, spent his rookie season competing in the 12 road and street courses on the 2021 schedule. But the NASCAR ace tested on the oval at Texas Motor Speedway and completed the IndyCar Rookie Orientation Programme at Indianapolis Motor Speedway shortly after the
And now Al Unser, four-time Indianapolis 500 winner, three-time Indycar champion, has left us at the age of 82 barely seven months after elder brother Bobby, leaving a similar-sized hole in the ranks of US open-wheel legends. He never relished the spotlight like Bobby, and would never have dreamt of being as strident, but while
Vosse made the claim after Rossi tested one of WRT’s Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evos at Valencia last week and revealed that he is working towards running the seven-time MotoGP world champion in the Pro class of next year’s GT World Challenge Europe. “Valentino is a legendary rider, but he is also impressive as a
IMS president Doug Boles stated on Friday that Unser had “died peacefully in his beloved Chama [New Mexico] home after a 17-year battle with Cancer.” As part of the Unser dynasty, “Big Al” was a fixture at the Indy 500 for three decades, his 27 starts the third highest number of appearances in history. He
Karam will be aiming to make his ninth start in the Memorial Day Weekend classic, his eighth with Dennis Reinbold’s team, while for Ferrucci it will be a fourth Indy entry. Dreyer & Reinbold Racing has entered and qualified 43 cars in the Indy 500 dating back to 1999 with a best finish of fourth
The 44-year-old Japanese driver, who spent the last four seasons at Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing and racked up three wins including the team’s – and his – second Indy triumph, will drive the #51 entry vacated by Andretti Autosport-bound Romain Grosjean. As first reported by Autosport in September, Coyne and Sato have been negotiating for
The success of Formula 3000 champions Juan Pablo Montoya, Bruno Junqueira and Sebastien Bourdais in Champ Car meant there was great expectation on the shoulders of 2003 king Bjorn Wirdheim when he headed Stateside in 2005. A money shortfall at his HVM squad, which couldn’t afford to go testing, and the lack of an experienced
After news broke last week that the RPM team’s storied #43 would be under new majority ownership next year, the rebranded organisation officially revealed its new name during a news conference on Tuesday, in which it was revealed that the team will run two Chevrolets for Erik Jones and Ty Dillon. Jones, who recently signed
Reigning FE champion De Vries lapped the 1.7-mile configuration of the track in 52.552 seconds, setting his best time on his 25th of 62 laps. Vandoorne, Williams Formula 1 reserve Jack Aitken (Ed Carpenter Racing) and Juncos Holinger’s 2022 IndyCar driver Callum Ilott were also in attendance at the four-car evaluation test. De Vries, who
With the US Air Force pulling its support for the #20 car which oval specialist and team owner Ed Carpenter shares with a road/street course driver, ECR has been freed up to enter discussions with non-American drivers. As a result, 2012 IndyCar champion Ryan Hunter-Reay’s candidacy for the ride has looked weaker and 26-year-old Aitken has emerged
Airline entrepreneur Maury Gallagher, the owner of the GMS squad that claimed Truck titles in 2016 and 2020 with Johnny Sauter and Sheldon Creed, has also acquired two charters in the agreement and will run two cars during the 2022 season. Erik Jones signed a contract extension with RPM in August and should remain in
After four winless seasons in Indy Lights, the 28-year-old Canadian joined Foyt in 2020 for a partial campaign of eight races, before switching up to a full-time seat piloting the #4 entry in 2021. His best result was 12th on the Gateway oval, while his top finishes on road/street courses were 18th places at Barber