O’Ward qualified third for IndyCar’s season-opener and held station there for most of the race, behind Andretti Autosport’s Romain Grosjean and Colton Herta in the first stint, then behind Team Penske’s Scott McLaughlin and again Grosjean in the middle stint. The Mexican was therefore in prime position to inherit the lead when McLaughlin and Grosjean

The Arrow McLaren driver took over the lead following the clash between polesitter Romain Grosjean and Scott McLaughlin, and was working hard to hold off the charging Ericsson in the closing stages of the event. But exiting the final corner at the end of lap 96, O’Ward’s Chevrolet engine suffered a flash plenum fire which

Following a poor final restart, Ericsson was applying pressure to leader O’Ward in the closing stages of Sunday’s race when the Mexican ace suffered what was described as a “plenum event” that briefly zapped the car’s power under acceleration from the final turn. With Ericsson just 0.6s behind, the delay was enough to see the

Team Penske driver McLaughlin and Andretti Autosport’s Grosjean were battling over the lead after the final round of pitstops, having earlier almost come together at Turn 4 after the first pitstop sequence. With 28 laps to go, leader McLaughlin emerged from the pits on cold tyres, with Grosjean – on recently changed and fresh hot rubber

Ericsson’s late move on O’Ward to secure victory arrived after polesitter Romain Grosjean and Scott McLaughlin collided while dueling for the lead the sent the duo into a tyre wall. This allowed Arrow McLaren’s O’Ward to hit the front, but a small engine issue for the leader allowed Ericsson to slip past and sprint away

There are so many reasons to be enthusiastic about the 2023 IndyCar season, and we have outlined the potential storylines of excitement and intrigue here. But there is another reason why IndyCar and its followers need this year to be thoroughly absorbing; it may help distract from the series fumbling and bumbling over the introduction

Fellow Andretti driver Kyle Kirkwood began the final qualifying session at a disadvantage, having used two sets of fresh alternate Firestones to get out of Q1, so had no fresh alternates for the last segment. However, that issue seemed small when he slid straight on at the final turn, and missed the tyre barrier to

Two-time St. Petersburg winner Josef Newgarden became the first driver of the session to make contact with the wall, bending the rear toelink of his Team Penske car at the exit of Turn 10. Meanwhile, the Chip Ganassi Racing team was looking strong in the early minutes of the session, with Indy 500 winner Marcus

The first red flag of the session was caused by Benjamin Pedersen locking up into Turn 4, the car trying to swivel left, and making hard contact with its left front wing against the wall. The second red flag was caused by a concrete patch of the track on the exit of fifth-gear Turn 3

A cast list of drivers largely staying the same, and largely in the same places, might lead you to expect the 2023 IndyCar season to be a rerun of 2022. This belief could be compounded by the fact that the campaign ahead will be the 12th for the 2.2-litre twin-turbo V6s from Chevrolet and Honda,

Power, the 2014 and ’22 champion, led his Penske teammates Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin in a Penske 1-2-4 in the 2022 points standings, with Ganassi’s Scott Dixon, Palou and Marcus Ericsson filling out places 3-5-6. But Power said there were other teams he is watching warily. “I think you’ll learn over the first five

A 27-car field will take to the start as the 2023 IndyCar Series kicks off on the streets of St. Petersburg.  Although the 2.2-litre engines are unchanged ahead of the adoption of hybrid power for 2024, several noteworthy technical changes have been made including the adoption of Shell’s 100% renewable fuel lauded in testing by

Among its most significant changes, IndyCar has mandated stronger rear-wheel tethers and a more ‘forgiving’ steering arm, which is designed to take more punishment without breaking. In the cockpit, the large U-shaped device that incorporates the rear headrest with the side padding has been redesigned to include a larger amount of cushioning to protect a

Parent company Bridgestone Americas says that major strides have been made during the off-season to incorporate more sustainable and bio-circular materials into its IndyCar products, which it believes will make the upcoming season the most sustainable to date. The alternate, softer compound Firestone Firehawks used in last year’s Music City Grand Prix on Nashville’s streets

The 2004 IRL IndyCar champion and 2013 Indy 500 winner revealed on Wednesday that he would call time on his Indy career for good after contesting oval-only schedules since 2020. He had planned to step away at the end of 2020, only for the pandemic to wreck his planned farewell tour. The 48-year-old Brazilian will bow out

Cassidy, fresh off a runner-up finish for Envision Racing in last weekend’s Formula E round in Hyderabad, tested the Honda-powered Ganassi car of 2021 IndyCar champion Alex Palou at Sebring on Tuesday. Driving the sole Honda-powered car in action in the eight-car test, the 28-year-old New Zealander turned 156 laps of the 1.7-mile short course,

Less than a month after declaring that he didn’t expect to make a decision over his future until he finished the Indy 500 in May, the 48-year-old Brazilian has declared that his 390th Indy car start will be his last. The 2004 Indy car champion and 2013 Indy 500 winner retires with 17 wins at

O’Ward lapped the 1.7-mile Sebring short course in 51.882s, around a quarter second faster than his new team-mate Alexander Rossi and his longer-standing team-mate Felix Rosenqvist who was a tenth further back. All three were able to outpace Felipe Nasr, Porsche Penske Motorsport’s sportscar ace, who nonetheless did a fine job in the #2 Team

The former Formula 1 ace lapped the 1.7-mile short-course in 52.059s, a mere 0.03s faster than Kirkwood, the 2021 Indy Lights champion who arrives at Michael Andretti’s squad after spending his rookie season with AJ Foyt Racing. Callum Ilott was the fastest Chevrolet runner in third, as per the second day of testing at Thermal

After finishing a strong second in the inaugural Hyderabad E-Prix last Saturday, Cassidy has flown straight to Florida to take part in a group test for Ganassi, driving one of its four Honda-powered Dallara IR18s at Sebring. Cassidy’s contract with Envision is up for renewal at the end of the 2023 Formula E season, giving

Rick Mears announced his retirement in speech at the Team Penske dinner in December 1992, one week after he turned 40. It came at the end of an unusually torrid year for the man who had only the previous season cemented his status at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with a memorable triumph over Michael Andretti to

Hendrickson, a global manufacturer and supplier of suspension systems and components for commercial vehicles, will back the team’s #44 entry for the 107th running of the Indianapolis 500. Legge, 42, is one of nine women to have competed in the Indy 500, but last raced there in 2013. Since then, she has made a name

From a humble truckie’s mate to mechanic, race engineer and now an experienced team manager, Chris Mower has filled just about every position going on a race team in a career spanning over 30 years on both sides of the Atlantic in single-seaters and sportscar racing. He followed in the footsteps of father Derek by

During this offseason, something calling itself the IndyCar Drivers Association sent a letter to five very senior members of Penske Entertainment, asking for IndyCar to step up its marketing. It was, by most accounts, an ill-conceived and ill-constructed missive from a loose band of drivers, and apparently it went down like a cup of cold

VeeKay joins Steven Thomas, Scott Huffaker and Mikkel Jensen in the #11 ORECA – Gibson 07. The Dutchman is set for his third Daytona 24 Hours after contesting this year’s edition with Racing Team Nederland, an entry which was run by TDS. The Dutch team finished second alongside Frits van Eerd, Giedo van der Garde

Chevrolet and Honda have swivelled their resources from testing their 2.4-litre engines to cooperating with each other and working with a new hybrid component supplier after it became clear that the proposed component from Mahle would be insufficient for the rigours of IndyCar racing and would not be ready in time for the 2024 season.

Two-time IndyCar champion Newgarden and his race-winning team-mate McLaughlin will share the team’s ORECA-Gibson 07 with 2021 Formula Regional Americas champion Kyffin Simpson and the team’s 2022 LMP2 champion John Farano. Along with Farano’s title, the Rick Capone-run squad won the teams’ title this year as Farano and Louis Deletraz racked up two wins and

The accolade, launched in 2021 and first won by Jean Todt, recognises an individual who has given a lifetime of service to the sport and who leaves a lasting legacy for future generations. As well as his success across Formula 1, the Indianapolis 500, Trans-Am, Can-Am and sportscar racing, Penske also became the first team

Following Jimmie Johnson’s departure, the car will be run as #11, and Armstrong will team up with New Zealand compatriot and six-time champion Scott Dixon, 2021 champion Alex Palou and 2022 Indy 500 winner Marcus Ericsson for the 12 non-ovals on the 2022 calendar. The 22-year-old had been in negotiations with Dale Coyne Racing before

Three front runners emerge when Autosport asks two-time CART Indycar champion Gil de Ferran for his favourite team-mate, before the 2003 Indianapolis 500 winner selects a driver he spent but one season racing alongside back in 1990. Their careers might have gone in different directions, but de Ferran and David Coulthard have been firm friends