Ilott struck the Turn 1 wall on lap 6 of the race, and had to limp around a whole lap, to get his punctured right-front tyre replaced. That put him a lap down, so when the full-course caution came out for Scott Dixon being in a tyre wall on lap 20, his team delayed his

The Chip Ganassi Racing driver moved to the top of the standings by finishing third behind first-time winner Kyle Kirkwood and his Andretti Autosport team-mate Romain Grosjean. Ericsson, who started on the front row on a street course for the first time, lost out to Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden in the pits when the majority

The Swiss driver started third in Long Beach and was closely tracking his polewinning Andretti Autosport team-mate Kyle Kirkwood for most of the race. But having pitted a lap before Kirkwood – by team design, to respond to Josef Newgarden making his final stop – he didn’t have the fuel to allow him to use his huge

On lap 20, O’Ward dived down the inside of six-time IndyCar champion Dixon in Turn 8. It was a very late manoeuvre, but the Arrow McLaren driver’s wheels were fully alongside those of the Ganassi car. The pair made contact that sent Dixon spearing into the tyre wall. “I was on the inside, he decided

The second-year driver, who joined Andretti from AJ Foyt Enterprises for 2023, started on pole before leading 53 of the 85 laps, briefly losing the lead to Josef Newgarden of Team Penske. But a great overcut on both Newgarden and Grosjean at the second pitstop saw him emerge in front and hold steady to the

In an interrupted Q2 segment of qualifying for the Grand Prix of Long Beach, Kirkwood didn’t take fresh tyres for the final run, having been securely in the top six when the red flag fell with a minute to go. That left him with a fresh set of Firestones for the Fast Six showdown, and he

Kirkwood left it until the final two minutes of the session to take the top spot, with a 1m06.2878s clinching him his first series pole. Having topped his group in the first part of qualifying, Kirkwood finished third in Q2 behind championship leader Pato O’Ward and Romain Grosjean, with his quickest time 0.13s off the

Less than five minutes into the 1h45m session, the red flags were waved after Callum Ilott hit the apex kerbs at Turn 5 before finding the tyre wall in his Juncos Hollinger Racing entry. Barely three minutes after the session restarted, Rinus VeeKay pulled a wheelie over the same kerb, meeting the same fate in the

The Andretti Autosport cars set the early pace, with Romain Grosjean and then Colton Herta taking turns at the top, before Ganassi’s 2021 champion Alex Palou deposed Herta to claim top spot with 1m07.2416s. Then Marcus Ericsson demoted team-mate Palou from P1 with a 1m07.2233s, while 2022 Long Beach winner Josef Newgarden slotted into fifth. Not

McLaren is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, which was marked in Formula 1 by branding its 2023 challenger the MCL60. Ahead of the month of May, McLaren’s IndyCar arm is also celebrating the British brand’s rich history with three throwback liveries on its full-time entries, all commemorating a historic McLaren win in the Triple

Robby Gordon wants to be the next Indycar racer in Formula 1. He’s on his way to the top. His first car race was in the Daytona 24 Hours sportscar race and his first single-seater start was in an Indycar. But in between, he destroyed Formula 3000 and Winston Cup machines. I first came across

If you were fortunate enough to watch the IndyCar action from last week’s second round at Texas Motor Speedway, you may still be raving about the racing. If you’re a Pato O’Ward or Arrow McLaren fan, you will feel slighted that he lost his last chance to snatch the lead from eventual winner Josef Newgarden

Following last weekend’s second round of the 2023 IndyCar Series at TMS, the Honda-powered team co-owned by Bobby Rahal, David Letterman and Mike Lanigan stayed on to give Legge her speedway refresher test. RLL is entering a fourth car for her at next month’s 107th running of the Indianapolis 500, 10 years after her last

Newgarden dominated the first half of the 250-lap race around the 1.5-mile track, but following the second round of pitstops, O’Ward got around the #2 Penske and pulled away to a seven second lead, lapping everyone up to and including third-placed Romain Grosjean of Andretti Autosport.  However, a timely caution pulled the McLaren back into

The 2021 IndyCar champion found himself in the fight for victory at the 1.5-mile oval before ultimately losing out to eventual winner Josef Newgarden, who took the win by 1.2s from Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward.   Palou, whose final pitstop had come 25 laps before those of Newgarden and O’Ward, commented: “I didn’t know they were

Polesitter Felix Rosenqvist didn’t last a lap in the lead, the Arrow McLaren losing out to Scott Dixon’s Ganassi entry at the end of the first lap, and then Penske’s Newgarden, and fellow McLaren drivers Pato O’Ward and Alexander Rossi demoted him to fifth. Newgarden and Dixon swapped the lead twice before Newgarden moved to the

Event organisers have elected to push forward the race start to ensure the encounter runs to its full intended length of 250 laps.  The command for “Drivers, start your engines” at Texas Motor Speedway was originally scheduled for 11.10am local (Central) time with the green flag dropping at 11.15am, driver introductions will now commence at

It means that Bryan Herta will now call the shots for 2021 Indy Lights champion Kyle Kirkwood, while Scott Harner will oversee Herta. The decision comes as a surprise just one race into the season for two reasons. Firstly, the Herta father-son combination had seemed far more harmonious – and more productive – than when Michael Andretti

Before the final hour got underway, the field was split in two to practice running the high line, and it went largely incident-free, until Conor Daly had a spin out of Turn 4, thankfully keeping his Ed Carpenter Racing car off the wall. Rookie Benjamin Pedersen in the #55 AJ Foyt Racing machine had to

Rosenqvist headed Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon with McLaren’s Alexander Rossi, third fastest in the session.     Team owner/driver Ed Carpenter, in his first outing of the 2023 season, set the bar with an average of 218.375 mph over two laps, with a 1mph difference between Laps 1 and 2. This was immediately beaten by

McLaughlin’s best effort pipped Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward by 0.0238s around the 1.5 mile oval, with O’Ward’s team-mate Alexander Rossi third fastest. In the cool of the morning and with IndyCar having allowed extra downforce components this weekend, and drivers able to catch some strong tows, speeds looked startlingly good. McLaughlin, who qualified and finished

Autosport understands the 2014 and 2022 champion, whose current contract finishes at the end of this current season, is signed up for 2024 and ’25 with both parties considering ’26 as an option. Power was unwilling to comment on the subject while team president Tim Cindric had not yet responded to Autosport’s inquiry at time

The 1992 Indianapolis 500 saw 10 former winners start the race – but none of them won it. The highest-placed former winner that day was four-time Indy victor Al Unser Sr of Team Menard, who managed to coax the notoriously fast-but-fickle Buick engine past the chequered flag. He was 10 seconds behind the winner, his

NTT has been the title sponsor of IndyCar since 2019 and will continue in that capacity with this multi-year extension that goes into effect in 2024. NTT and NTT DATA will also continue as the official technology partner for IndyCar, the series, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR Brickyard weekend. “NTT is an excellent

Chip Ganassi Racing’s six-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon was driving for Honda around the 14-turn 2.439-mile course, while Team Penske’s two-time and reigning champion Will Power took the wheel for Chevrolet. Although the test was for 2024 – when IndyCar will introduce a hybrid system mated to the 2.2-litre, twin-turbo V6s – the event was shrouded

Mark Miles, president and CEO of Penske Entertainment, and vice president Michael Montri toured the track and the facilities of the Termas racetrack which has hosted MotoGP since 2014 and is a regular on the domestic TC2000 touring car series calendar. The pair were accompanied by Juncos Hollinger Racing team co-owner Ricardo Juncos and Ricardo

The careers of Anthony Davidson and Takuma Sato overlapped at several junctures. The pair finished first (Sato) and second as Carlin team-mates in the 2001 British Formula 3 championship, then were reunited for 2003 when Sato arrived as a race driver at the BAR Formula 1 team where Davidson was a test and reserve driver.

In the opening round of the season at St. Petersburg, the Rahal Letterman Lanigan driver slid into the wreck of Rinus VeeKay’s Ed Carpenter Racing car on lap 42 of 100, at the Turn 4 tyre wall. The RLL machine then had to absorb a second impact as Kyle Kirkwood’s Andretti Autosport entry struck it on the

The 2012 IndyCar champion, who has 18 Indy car wins to his name was a fixture at Indianapolis Motor Speedway from his sixth-place finish for Rahal Letterman Lanigan in 2008 until 2021, his 12th start for Andretti Autosport. Hunter-Reay has started from the Indy front row twice and has accrued six top-10 finishes. Yet his

IndyCar fans have been left so many questions to ponder after last weekend’s Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. In no particular order, we wonder if Andretti Autosport had pitted Romain Grosjean a lap earlier in his first stint – before his green alternate Firestones gave up and lost him time – whether Team Penske’s Scott