Few figures in global motorsport have made as much of an impact as Penske, 85, who receives the award that was created to recognise the handful of very special individuals who have not only contributed a massive amount to the sport during a long career, but who will also leave a lasting legacy. For some

Ricciardo is facing a stint on the F1 sidelines as he waits to see if a race seat opens up for 2024. He is widely tipped to return to Red Bull Racing next year in a role that could include reserve and test duties and promotional runs. Over the Abu Dhabi weekend he explained why

Ricciardo has insisted that he wants to focus on a return to a top F1 seat in 2024, and has not given any serious thought to trying another category. However, he has indicated that he is not keen to try ovals should IndyCar racing ever become an option for him. O’Ward, who has spent time

Kiel announced his departure from AMSP just 10 days after the final round of the 2022 IndyCar season, concluding a near 15-year term at a team which, when he started, was known as Sam Schmidt Motorsports and was better known for its Indy Lights success. Most recently, he helped turn the team into regular podium

The 2007 McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner, who finished 26th in this year’s Indy 500 in a car entered by DragonSpeed with Cusick Motorsports, has a best finish at the event of 15th in 2018 with Andretti Autosport in 2018. He made his Indy 500 debut with KVSH Racing in 2016 and also entered the 2021

The 16-year-old Oregon native showed strong form in his second year of USF2000 in 2021, driving with Pabst Racing to five podiums and ultimately finishing fourth in the championship. He then jumped off the open-wheel ladder to compete in sportscars this past season, competing for United Autosports in the WEC, and racing PR1/Mathiasen MotorSports in

While David Malukas is staying on for his second season in the series driving the Coyne with HMD Motorsports entry, it appears that the full-time Coyne with Rick Ware Racing seat will be taken by Formula 2 race-winner Marcus Armstrong. Sato’s funding, again largely from Honda Japan and Panasonic, will likely be sufficient only for

There’s something about Alexander Rossi that suggests that moving to Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet is already doing him good. His once languid air and occasionally insouciant replies have all but disappeared. It’s like he’s gained a couple of tenths through sheer enthusiasm for his new role: he looks and sounds genuinely eager. The change has probably

The Awards, which date back to 1982, celebrate the top drivers and competition machines each year. The nominees in the eight categories open to public vote in 2022 have now been revealed (below). Autosport.com subscribers and magazine readers are able to vote for the nominee they think performed best in each category. The categories open

The squad’s extra entry for the Indy 500 will be driven by the Brazilian veteran, who will make his 22nd start in the Memorial Day Weekend classic. Despite running a part-time schedule since 2020, Kanaan, the 2013 Indy 500 winner, proved he still has what it takes by finishing third in last season’s 500, qualifying sixth

With Kenny Brack having recently picked Indianapolis Motor Speedway as his favourite track for this series, we were worried Rick Mears would do the same. Because how could we then say ‘no’ to Indy 500’s four-time winner, six-time polesitter and 11-time front-row starter? Yet thankfully it wasn’t an issue, because Mears picked the Milwaukee Mile

2021 IndyCar champion Palou made his F1 race weekend debut on Friday, taking part in practice for the United States Grand Prix with McLaren. It came as part of a deal for Palou to conduct F1 running with McLaren through its testing of previous cars programme alongside his race duties for Chip Ganassi Racing in

Herta’s current contract was due to take him through to the end of the 2023 season but, knowing that the contracts of several other drivers are coming up for renewal in the same period, team owner Michael Andretti has taken Herta off the market early. The Californian had been in the frame for an AlphaTauri

Palou, who made his debut in an official Formula 1 session by contesting FP1 for McLaren at Circuit of The Americas on Friday, already has a superlicence. But the Chip Ganassi Racing IndyCar driver, who will remain with the team next year after a protracted tug-of-war with Arrow McLaren SP, believes that AMSP rival and fellow McLaren

Palou, who will remain with Chip Ganassi Racing in IndyCar next year after a lengthy contractual tug of war over his services with Arrow McLaren SP, made his official F1 bow at the Circuit of the Americas in FP1 for the US Grand Prix. Replacing Daniel Ricciardo for the hour-long session, 2021 IndyCar title-winner Palou turned in a best

The 2019 Formula 2 championship runner-up was told by Williams in September that he would not be retained after three seasons of racing with the team. The 27-year-old Canadian has since been linked to various IndyCar drives, including to the seat left vacant at Chip Ganassi Racing by the retirement of Jimmie Johnson from full-time racing.

The race is intended to celebrate the Champ Car events that ran at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez track between 2002 and 2007. The drivers will use equally prepared 500hp V8-powered cars that usually take part in the Gran Turismo Mexico Series. The entry is led by five Mexican drivers who raced during the Champ Car

Sebastien Bourdais and Newman-Haas Racing were an unstoppable force in Indycar racing prior to the Frenchman taking up a long-awaited Formula 1 opportunity with Toro Rosso for 2008. After impressing in his 2003 Champ Car rookie season, taking pole on his debut and winning three times, he romped to four consecutive titles between 2004 and

Andretti, who switched from full-time IndyCar racing to Indy 500-only at the end of 2020, first raced the KULR-backed #98 Andretti Autosport last year at the Memorial Day weekend classic and finished 19th, while the same set-up this year saw him finish in 22nd place. As well as being Andretti’s primary sponsor in 2022 for

Multiple Formula 2 race winner Armstrong of New Zealand was in action at Sebring on Wednesday, along with four other drivers as part of a rookie evaluation day. Although he ended the day fourth fastest after turning 131 laps of the 1.7-mile short course, Coyne said that was not representative. He told Autosport: “We kinda

Although fuel levels and push-to-pass boost data was kept largely secret between the five teams that were testing at the Sebring short course, 28-year-old Blomqvist’s best effort was 0.33 seconds clear of his nearest opposition, Formula 2 race winner Juri Vips for Rahal Letterman Lanigan. Afterward, Blomqvist – who finished runner-up to Esteban Ocon in

The Hitech Grand Prix team-mates currently lie tenth (Vips) and 12th (Armstrong) in the 2022 championship, with one round remaining in Abu Dhabi. Both have previously expressed interest in switching to IndyCar, with former Red Bull junior Vips approached by a well-established team that then elected to retain its current line-up for 2022. Today Vips will

The Club’s lavish 470-acre plot surrounded by villas, restaurants and multi-car garages, first opened in 2012 and contains three tracks. On 2-3 February 2023 IndyCar will utilise a combination of the North Palm and South Palm circuits to create a 17-turn, 2.9-mile layout for the test. “We liken this to a preseason scrimmage,” said IndyCar

Let’s start with those who didn’t make our top 10. Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s midseason revival resulted in Graham Rahal progressing from contending for top 10s to fighting for top fives while rookie Christian Lundgaard was able to earn spots in the Firestone Fast Six and claim a runner-up finish in the IMS road course’s

Despite his abundant talent, rookie Kyle Kirkwood had several accidents in the Foyt #14 this past season so that in 10 of the 17 races, he was classified 20th or worse, the net result being the entry finished only 24th in the championship. While Larry Foyt and legendary A.J. Foyt are taking the risk of

Ferrucci, who made his initial forays into the IndyCar Series in 2018 with Dale Coyne Racing and spent his first two full seasons there, has been a part-timer for the last two seasons. He had five races in 2021 with Rahal Letterman Lanigan, while this year he competed for three different teams – RLL, Dreyer

Although Pato O’Ward and Felix Rosenqvist finished only seventh and eighth in the IndyCar drivers’ championship this year, they finished behind only Team Penske and Chip Ganassi Racing drivers – in other words, beating all Andretti Autosport entries. According to Arrow McLaren SP modelling, the progress that the team has made is notable, but reliability

Ward, who is a former race engineer to Josef Newgarden at Team Penske, left the squad last winter but due to legal reasons he couldn’t officially start working as Arrow McLaren SP’s director of trackside engineering until July. Now as racing director Ward will lead the technical performance team of Max Neyron (director of operations),

Daly, who just completed his third consecutive full-time season in IndyCar, will compete in the Cup race on 9 October at the Charlotte Roval – driving the #50 Chevrolet for The Money Team. The Money Team, co-owned by boxing legend Floyd Mayweather and William Auchmoody, made its debut this season at the Daytona 500. The

“I’m super excited to get going with the team,” said Pedersen, a dual citizen of Denmark and the USA. “I’ve spent a lot of time this season with AJ Foyt Racing learning the ins and outs of making the jump to IndyCar and it’s been really nice to do that in conjunction with my Indy