Full-time entries now have their race engines installed, and for the first time this week, cars were pitting off Turn 4 rather than the deceleration lane. This caused a couple of issues, JR Hildebrand locking up the front wheels of his AJ Foyt Racing on pit entry and Christian Lundgaard locking the rears of his
Month: May 2022
Dixon’s four-lap average around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was 234.046mph, making it the fastest ever pole run in Indy history, and the second fastest run of all time. (Arie Luyendyk’s famous 236mph run in 1996 was not set on Pole Day). The six-time champion praised the whole Ganassi operation for that achievement, and also for
Initially, Blaney took the chequered flag ahead of Denny Hamlin but a caution was displayed on the final lap for Ricky Stenhouse Jr who crashed into the backstretch wall. Under normal NASCAR rules Blaney would have been declared the winner, but under the special rules for Sunday night’s All-Star event, the winner had to take
Dixon had booked his place into the Fast Six by going fastest in the preceding Top 12 session, edging Rinus VeeKay for pace with a 233.510mph run. Last to take to the track in the final part of qualifying, the six-time IndyCar champion and 2008 Indy 500 winner delivered two laps over 234mph and even
The two Saturday qualifying sessions at Indianapolis determined the positions outside of the top 12 and track temperatures had dropped by the end of the initial runs of the second segment. Callum Ilott of Juncos Hollinger Racing was the first to do a retake run and improved by 0.7mph but only gained three places, and lost
Pato O’Ward made the initial run with an average of 233.037mph, but it was eclipsed by the very next runner, VeeKay. The Ed Carpenter Racing driver, who started fourth and third for his first two Indy 500s, delivered an opening lap of 234.702mph, and although his fourth lap dropped to 232.655mph, his average was a
The air at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was dense and relatively still this morning, vastly different from yesterday’s hot and gusty conditions, and the speeds reflected this as drivers attempted four-lap qualifying simulation runs. In Group 1, Jimmie Johnson turned the fastest lap with the aid of a tow, a 233.961mph, and turned a 233.7 four-lap
As the wind started to drop, and track temperature went down, the 2013 Indy 500 winner embarked on a qualifying simulation run and turned laps of 231.392mph, 230.419mph, 230.668mph and 229.589mph. That meant an average of 230.517mph which vaulted him to the top ahead of by far the quickest rookie, David Malukas. Twice he completed
Sato, who led practice on the opening day before Wednesday’s running was called off due to rain, put the Dale Coyne Racing car on top of the speed charts with a lap of 227.519mph, just 39.5572s around the iconic 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Endorsing the promise shown by the Coyne cars in traffic was his
Last season Helio Castroneves joined an exclusive club of four-time winners, and now sits alongside the likes of AJ Foyt, Rick Mears and Al Unser as the most successful drivers to compete at the Brickyard. Many will be trying to stop him from claiming win number five this year, including reigning IndyCar champion Alex Palou
Lotus. It is one of the most iconic names in the world of motorsport. And yet, despite its illustrious history, it has been over a decade since the brand released a new car dedicated to racing. But that long wait is finally over as, earlier this month, the next chapter of Lotus’s story began with
Castroneves went on to score the fourth, record-matching Indy 500 win of his career, while Palou finished half a second down, but believes he learned a lot during his battle with the Brazilian veteran. “There was a lot I was able to learn just because it was my first time doing some stuff like defending,
NASCAR announced in March that it plans to take its new Next Gen stock car, which debuted in the Cup Series this season, to the Le Mans 24 Hours as a Garage 56 entry in 2023. Garage 56 is the entry that the Automobile Club de l’Ouest sets aside for the “technology of tomorrow and
RAM Racing pair Ian Loggie and Jules Gounon won the race on the road after a red flag during the pitstop cycle meant the race was restarted in the pre-pitstop order. But they were classified fifth when British GT officials elected to add their seven-second pitstop success penalty – having finished second in race one
Dale Coyne’s team has a history of fast cars around Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but Sato is the first driver to have arrived at the team having already scored triumphs in the Memorial Day Weekend classic and therefore having knowledge of what it takes to succeed there. Sato was second fastest in the test here in
Dixon lies fifth in the championship after the first five rounds of the season and only 34 points off the lead, but has yet to finish higher than fifth in a race. He had to come back from a lap down after running out of fuel in last weekend’s Grand Prix of Indianapolis to finish
Juffali, who spent her formative seasons racing in British junior single-seaters, has established Theeba Motorsport for an assault on this year’s GT Open International series with a Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo shared with Adam Christodoulou. Theeba, which is racing under Saudi licence, will make its debut this weekend at Paul Ricard at the second GT Open
Japanese veteran Sato ran only four laps in the morning’s two hour session, unhappy with the aero balance of his car, but shone in the afternoon to top the timesheets at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The 2017 and 2020 Indy winner got a strong tow from several cars on his 63rd of 64 laps and lapped
Busch passed his brother Kyle Busch and Kyle Larson in the final laps on Sunday to claim his first win since joining the 23XI Racing team for 2022, that is co-owned by Hamlin and basketball legend Michael Jordan. It was only the second win for the NASCAR team after Bubba Wallace took victory in a
Pole position, fastest lap and victory by leading every lap was about as unequivocal as you could get in race two of the Magny-Cours weekend. And perhaps the most concerning aspect for ASP’s rivals was that the result barely looked in doubt throughout the one-hour encounter. “The car was amazing all weekend, and when it’s
The 2004 Cup champion Busch dominated much of the race, leading a race-high 116 laps, but emerged behind his younger brother’s Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota after a round of pit stops under caution. Following the restart, as Kyle Busch led the field, Kurt fell back to fourth before mounting a charge back to the front. After Hendrick
Daly finished fifth in a chaotic race hampered by changeable weather, that was made worse by visibility issues when peering through the aeroscreen, fitted to his Ed Carpenter Racing entry. Daly reported he had water building up around the dividing ridge in the centre of his aeroscreen in the worst of the wet conditions in
Despite starting from 14th, Herta ended up leading 50 of the 75 laps, on his way to victory in a chaotic weather affected race held on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. The race started in wet conditions but Herta quickly switched to the red walled slicks on lap 3 before rain showers doused the
It was an action-packed 12 hours for the quartet, particularly during a wild stint from Habul early in the race that included two drive-through penalties for restart infringements and a spin at the final corner. However the car stayed on the lead lap all day, before flawless stints from Stolz and Gounon in the last
The Andretti Autosport driver led 50 of the 75 laps completed before the race hit its two-hour maximum duration. He headed Simon Pagenaud, who scored his best result since switching from Team Penske to Meyer Shank Racing over the off-season, while polesitter Will Power (Penske) took the lead of the championship by finishing third. With a
As predicted, it was a difficult start to the round-the-clock race with more than an hour of full pre-dawn running in foggy conditions. However race control has mostly let the race run despite the obvious visibility challenges, the safety car only used to retrieve a crashed MARC car from the top of the Mountain. That
After the second practice session on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.439-mile road course, 18 of the 27 cars finished within half a second of top spot, so small mistakes were expected to be costly in qualifying. Power took pole in the Fast Six shootout by a mere 0.042s ahead of reigning champion Alex Palou (Chip
The cooler autumn temperatures and ban on tyre warmers under the event’s temporary Pro-Am rules meant drivers were able to constantly improve on a single tyre set during the two 15-minute qualifying sessions. The organisers had originally planned to stage a top 10 shootout, before concerns over the operating window for the Pirelli tyres prompted a meeting
The 2014 IndyCar champion’s pole time of 1m09.766s on worn red tyres, just pipping his Chip Ganassi Racing rival on 1m09.809s, was the 64th of his US open-wheel career and leaves the Australian just three poles short of Mario Andretti’s record tally. Palou delivered on a day when his Ganassi team-mates all fell in Q1
The Mercedes driver took advantage of an IndyCar driver evaluation day at Sebring last December, with MSR slotting him into a car for a day-long test at Sebring. De Vries emerged fastest in the four-car test, ahead of Callum Ilott (Juncos Hollinger), his Formula E team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne (Arrow McLaren SP), and Jack Aitken (Ed