Lundgaard lapped the 11-turn, 1.786-mile Exhibition Place street course with a best lap of 1m04.1567s, and will start ahead of Scott McLaughlin (Team Penske) and Pato O’Ward (Arrow McLaren) after a thrilling Fast Six session that was only decided on the final laps. Palou confessed he didn’t get a good enough lap in on the

Herta topped the 45-minute session around the 11-turn, 1.786-mile Exhibition Place street course with a best lap of 1m00.5657s. With rain threatening, the track was busy right from the start of the session as teams tried to get runs in before the showers took hold. Herta set the early pace at 1m03.5437s before Scott Dixon

Blomqvist has been called up from Meyer Shank Racing’s Acura IMSA SportsCar Championship squad to replace Simon Pagenaud in its #60 Honda-powered entry. Pagenaud is recovering from concussion-like symptoms and hasn’t been cleared by IndyCar’s medical team for this weekend’s event. Blomqvist, the 29-year-old Briton who is the son of World Rally champion Stig, has

Kirkwood topped the 75-minute session around the 11-turn, 1.786-mile Exhibition Place street course with a best lap of 1m00.8075s. Chip Ganassi Racing’s rookie Marcus Armstrong set the early pace at 1m03.8989s as drivers encountered a track that was bumpier than ever after a brutal winter in the Canadian city. Sections of the track had been

IndyCar Series’ medical staff did not clear Pagenaud to compete at Toronto this weekend, as the Frenchman continues his recovery from the effects of a dramatic barrel-rolling crash that took place in Saturday’s practice at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Instead of running Conor Daly again as substitute driver, it will parachute its IMSA SportsCar Championship

McLaren Racing chief Brown says Palou’s IndyCar results this year have been “very impressive”, alongside which the 26-year-old Spaniard has conducted multiple tests in its TPC (testing previous car) F1 programme. Palou is currently 110 points clear of his IndyCar opposition after a stunning first half to the season for Chip Ganassi Racing that has

Chip Ganassi Racing ace Dixon has conceded his Spanish team-mate is going to be “tough to overcome” after scoring his fourth win of 2023 in the midpoint race of the season at Mid-Ohio last weekend. Palou is enjoying his best-ever start to an IndyCar campaign that threatens to eclipse his results in 2021, when he

Herta has qualified on pole for the most recent races at Road America and Mid-Ohio, but having slumped from first to fifth in the former after a strategy error, he was the architect of his own downfall on Sunday when he was caught speeding in the pits. Herta had already lost the lead to series

The AJ Foyt driver cost race winner Alex Palou a 5s chunk of the lead that he’d built up, and while it didn’t impact the outcome of the result, it left Palou frustrated. Drivers aren’t obliged to give up their position, especially when it comes to going a lap down in case a full-course yellow

Championship dominator Palou took control during the middle stint of his two-stop strategy, moving clear of pole position winner Colton Herta of Andretti Autosport, who once again suffered painful misfortune that cost him a podium finish when he was caught speeding in the pitlane. Poleman Herta led the field to green and held the top

Daly, who was fired from his Ed Carpenter Racing ride ahead of the most-recent Road America round, will return to the series at the wheel of MSR’s Honda-powered AutoNation/SiriusXM spare car. IndyCar medics didn’t sign off Pagenaud to contest qualifying, and a follow-up test did not provide the suitable clearance for the 2019 Indianapolis 500

Herta lapped the 13-turn, 2.258-mile road course with a best time of 1m06.3096s, and will start ahead of Graham Rahal (Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing) and Kyle Kirkwood (Andretti). Last year’s pole-winner, Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward, spun out of qualifying during the opening stage and so will start at the back of the grid. Fast Six

Pagenaud reported a brake failure at the end of the 180mph backstretch at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. The 2016 champion and ’19 Indy 500 winner’s Meyer Shank Racing car hit the grass verge at barely abated speed, before becoming airborne. As it hit the gravel, which is on a downslope at ‘China Beach’, the

Power topped the 45-minute session around the 13-turn, 2.258-mile road course with a best lap of 1m06.4905s. Andretti Autosport’s Colton Herta set the early pace at 1m07.7772s before a red flag for Pagenaud’s huge somersault at Turn 4, the Frenchman immediately radioing-in to report that he’d suffered a complete brake failure. His Meyer Shank Racing

O’Ward topped the 75-minute session around the 2.258-mile road course with a best lap of 1m06.4935s, ahead of points leader Alex Palou (Chip Ganassi Racing). Josef Newgarden set the early pace with a lap of 1m07.3573s in his Chevrolet-powered Team Penske entry, but was then shaded by Arrow McLaren’s Felix Rosenqvist at 1m07.3249s and Will

Kanaan, who has claimed the 2004 IndyCar title and has 17 IndyCar Series wins to his name since joining America’s premier open-wheel class in 1998, hung up his helmet after racing a fourth car for McLaren in this year’s 107th running of the Indy 500. His new role is to provide guidance and strategy for on-track

Ganassi heads into this weekend’s halfway IndyCar round at Mid-Ohio holding a 1-2 in points with Palou leading Ericsson by a whopping 74 points. Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden is the best non-Ganassi driver, a further seven points behind. Palou has already equalled his win tally from his title year with CGR in 2021. Meanwhile Ericsson,

After finishing runner-up to Mick Schumacher in the 2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship, Callum Ilott made his IndyCar debut in 2021 with Juncos Hollinger Racing at Portland. At the time, he was a test driver with the Ferrari Driver Academy and was Alfa Romeo’s second reserve driver in Formula 1, sharing the role with Robert Kubica.

Rossi first spoke out about the topic after he felt was ‘jumped’ on a number of restarts at the Indy 500 in May. Then a video tweeted by IndyCar’s social media team showing Jack Harvey’s start at Road America last weekend, from his nose-mounted camera, sparked Rossi to criticise the way starts and restarts are

Palou scored his third win of the season at Road America on Sunday, extending his lead to 74 points over his team-mate Marcus Ericsson. In securing his team’s 250th race victory, the 2021 champion is now 81 points clear of best non-Ganassi driver Newgarden. But the Indianapolis 500 winner, who finished second on Sunday, shrugged off the deficit as

Palou had a healthy 5s lead over Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden going on to the final lap but came across Armstrong on the approach to The Kink – one of the fastest and most fearsome corners in American motorsports. Armstrong – who previously tumbled down the order due to a strategy error – had gone

Dixon finished just two-tenths of a second behind Arrow McLaren’s O’Ward, who punted him out of the Long Beach Grand Prix in April. The six-time champion was livid with the move, which O’Ward was unrepentant over, and declared: “If that’s how the series wants us to race, then I guess it’s all gloves off from

Chip Ganassi Racing’s Palou was running second to Andretti Autosport’s Colton Herta when he ran wide at Turn 5 just before half distance, allowing Team Penske’s Newgarden to get a run on him into the uphill left-hander at Turn 6. As they arrived in the braking zone, Indy 500 winner Newgarden squeezed him at the

Poleman Herta led for 33 of the 55 laps and held a 1.2s lead over Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou at the start of the final stint. But the fact he pitted a lap earlier than the majority of his rivals at the four-mile track meant he had to drive his car to a higher

Andretti Autosport’s Herta made his final pitstop a lap sooner than Palou and paid the penalty in the closing stages, as he was forced to lower his pace and tumbled back to finish fifth. Josef Newgarden (Team Penske) finished second, ahead of a closely matched Pato O’Ward (Arrow McLaren) and Scott Dixon (Ganassi). Poleman Herta

Power’s car had to be rebuilt after a bizarre crash in Saturday morning’s practice session with six-time champion Scott Dixon, who didn’t see the Australian coming after he’d spun and allowed Grosjean to pass. Dixon then immediately drove into Power’s path, wrecking both cars, which led to a physical altercation when Power shoved his shoulder

On the recently-repaved 4.048-mile road course, Dario Franchitti’s qualifying track record of 1m39.866s remained out of reach despite the new high-grip surface. The Fast Six shootout was an intriguing battle, with most cars running the harder primary tyres but Arrow McLaren’s practice pacesetter Alexander Rossi gambled on the softer alternates. O’Ward set the early pace

Dixon spun his Chip Ganassi Racing car on the exit of Canada Corner and let Andretti Autosport’s Romain Grosjean past him as he got back up to racing speed. But Dixon then suddenly swerved left into the path of Team Penske’s Will Power, who was on a hot lap. The pair collided, smashing the left-front

Rossi topped the 45-minute session around the fabled 4.048-mile road course with a best lap of 1m41.9112s. While the track is much faster on the racing line, thanks to the track’s first full repave since 1995 that took place last October and November, there’s a huge grip disparity off-line which has been catching out the

Rossi topped the 75-minute session around the fabled 4.048-mile road course with a best lap of 1m41.779s, with times massively faster than last year’s pace thanks to the track’s first full resurface which took place last October and November, since 1995. It also meant that tyre squeal from the natural understeer characteristics of the Dallaras