NASCAR allowed Raikkonen and fellow series debutant Mike Rockenfeller, who will race for Spire Motorsports in the event, to drive an Action Express-run Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 test car as part of its Select Driver Orientation program at VIRginia International Raceway. The 2007 Formula 1 world champion will drive for Trackhouse in the road course race
Month: August 2022
The 42-year-old Finn will drive for Trackhouse on the Watkins Glen International road course with his appearance part of the team’s Project 91 initiative, which is looking to expand NASCAR’s reach by introducing talented international racing drivers to the Cup Series. The race at The Glen aboard a Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 on 21 August will
For three years, this writer has been predicting that Arrow McLaren SP is going to turn IndyCar’s Big Three into a Big Four. Indeed, AMSP and Andretti Autosport are worthy occupants of third and fourth place, in either order. Colton Herta (Andretti) and Pato O’Ward (AMSP) finished third and fourth in the championship in 2020,
The 2007 Formula 1 world champion will drive for Trackhouse Racing in the road course race at Watkins Glen on 21 August, driving a Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 alongside team-mates Daniel Suarez and Ross Chastain. It will mark his first outing in a motorsport event since he called time on his 349-race F1 career last December
Having started 14th, Dixon climbed to 11th. Under the second caution of the day he and most of his rivals pitted, but an air-jack failure dropped him to the back of the field. Then, after Graham Rahal knocked Pato O’Ward into Will Power, bringing both the Rahal Letterman Lanigan and Arrow McLaren SP cars to
Spire Motorsports announced Rockenfeller will drive the team’s #77 Chevrolet in the Cup race at Watkins Glen on the 21st August and at Charlotte Roval on the 9th October. The German will join former F1 stars Kimi Raikkonen and Daniil Kvyat on the NASCAR Cup grid at Watkins Glen later this month. Rockenfeller, 38, has
Palou finished third in a wild and unpredictable Nashville race, and has closed the gap to championship leader Will Power to 33 points. However, his Chip Ganassi Racing team-mates Scott Dixon – who won in Nashville – and Marcus Ericsson are only six and 12 points respectively in arrears of the Team Penske driver. Given
After a fuel strategy didn’t work out due to how the caution periods unfolded, Newgarden made a late pitstop under yellow and had to climb back up from 14th place. After moving up to 10th place, at the penultimate restart following a caution period he made a bold dive up the inside of three cars
Harvick had just made his final green-flag stop for tyres and fuel when Christopher Bell and Ross Chastain wrecked on lap 160 of 200 to bring out a caution. Bell had attempted to block an advance by Chastain and the two ended up crashing together at the Turn 4 wall, allowing the leaders to pit.
In a race delayed by almost two hours due to thunderstorms and then stalled by multiple caution periods and a late red flag, Dixon came through the carnage for his second win of the season by seeing off McLaughlin in a sprint to the finish. IndyCar points leader Will Power also suffered damage during the
During the weather delay at the Nashville race, Paretta Autosport announced an additional date to its original three-race roster for 2022. Although the team is not yet prepared to reveal the next title sponsor for the #16 Paretta entry, team principal Beth Paretta was able to confirm the team and Simona De Silvestro’s presence on
Andretti, 35, is the grandson of motorsports icon Mario Andretti. Andretti competed full-time as an IndyCar driver from 2006 to 2020, winning twice. Since then, he has made one-off appearances in the Indianapolis 500, a race he has started 17 times. Most recently, he earned the championship in Season 2 of Tony Stewart’s six-week Superstar
Scott McLaughlin delivered his second IndyCar pole with the fastest time at Nashville to beat a resurgent Romain Grosjean, after lightning during a rainstorm caused a 90-minute delay. Grosjean had put his Andretti car on top during the Fast Six, getting ahead of Christian Lundgaard – but McLaughlin eclipsed the Frenchman’s time late on –
McLaughlin had set the early running in the final practice session before qualifying with a 1m16.296s, and eventually topped the times with a 1m15.460s lap to pip team-mate Josef Newgarden by 0.294s as Will Power claimed third. After an early red flag, caused by Rinus VeeKay understeering into a wall at the cost of a nosewing
Rosenqvist’s position at the team is under threat due to the impending arrival of Palou, a matter that is set to go to court with Ganassi claiming it had the rights to continuing with the 2021 series champion next year. Arrow McLaren SP is expanding to three cars next year, but incumbent Pato O’Ward and new
A podium finish for Lundgaard at last week’s race on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course appears to have unlocked his confidence and as he lapped the bumpy 2.1-mile street track in Nashville he put in a 1m15.9695s to head the field by over two-tenths over Felix Rosenqvist. With an extra set of primaries to
The four-time Indy 500 winner has received an “unapproved engine change” since the last Saturday’s race on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, and will drop six places from wherever he finishes in tomorrow’s qualifying session on the streets of Nashville. According to IndyCar’s Rule 16.2.3.2, a fifth engine is eligible to earn engine manufacturer
There were a total of nine cautions in the 2021 Nashville race, so that 33 of the 80 laps were run under yellow, and there were two red-flag periods. This year, restarts will be held in the same place as the start which is the longest straight on the track, namely the Korean War Veterans
The 2019 Indy Lights runner-up joined ECR after leaving a highly positive impression on the team following initial testing, and in his rookie season VeeKay scored a pole position, a podium and two other top-five finishes on his way to the Rookie of The Year title. In May 2021, he won the Grand Prix of
Rossi led 44 of the 85 laps to record his eighth career IndyCar win and his first in more than three years. However, following post-race technical inspection last Saturday, the #27 Andretti Autosport was found to have reached minimum weight in a manner not allowed by the IndyCar rulebook. Rule 14.4.1.1. states that the minimum
Fans of Family Guy will be familiar with the several times when Peter Griffin has clumsily demolished the front of his pal Cleveland’s house while the occupant is in the bathtub. Suddenly the bathroom floor tilts forward, and Cleveland rides the porcelain down to his front lawn, yelling with increasing anxiety, “No, Noo, Nooo, Noooo!”
Just a couple of weeks after finishing a strong third in Toronto, Rosenqvist scored a highly convincing pole on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, and only a mechanical issue prevented the Arrow McLaren SP driver from contending for victory. However, although signed by McLaren for 2023, the 30-year-old Swede has not yet been informed
When Autosport speaks to Gary Davies, the chief engineer of fast-growing sportscar outfit Greystone GT, he has just finished painting his office in the team’s new workshop. Given he’s race engineering cars in GT Cup and European GT4, overseeing its maiden assault on British GT, and building the technical structure of an outfit that started
The team made the announcement in the wake of last weekend’s Spa 24 Hours round of the GT World Challenge round, a race it has won two times with the German manufacturer. WRT’s successes with two generations of Audi R8 GT3 contender since the team’s inception ahead of the 2010 season include victories in the
The Team Penske driver finished runner-up in the IndyCar championship standings three times in a row between 2010 and 2012 before finally clinching his first title in 2014. He was also close to the title in 2015, ultimately finishing third, and has only once finished outside the top five in the standings – with ninth