For 2022, Calderon is competing in all the road and street course events for AJ Foyt Racing, while handing over the #11 ROKiT car to JR Hildebrand for the ovals. But given the current testing restrictions, it has a been a tough season of acclimation for the 29-year-old Colombian since she knows so few of

De Silvestro made her return to IndyCar in last year’s Indianapolis 500 with Paretta Autosport, a female-forward team. But for this year team owner Beth Paretta has elected to use the funding she has raised to run three IndyCar races – Road America this weekend, Mid-Ohio in July and Nashville in August – as she targets

The Briton fractured his right hand in a heavy double-impact crash in the Indianapolis 500 last month and was forced to sit out last weekend’s Grand Prix of Detroit. He was advised by the IndyCar medical team of potential longer-term complications were he to have to deal with the bumps and curbs of the rough

Rossi delivered his first podium since Portland last year after charging up from 11th on the grid and running a brave three-stop strategy. After climbing to sixth in the opening laps, he made his first stop as early as lap four in order to ditch the alternate-compound tyres, so he could spend the remainder of

Power started 16th on the grid, but ran Firestone’s primary tyres in his opening stint, while the majority of his rivals went for alternates, which could lose some five seconds of pace over the course of a full stint. That persuaded Alexander Rossi to keep his first stint very short, although his car was fast

The Team Penske driver used a two-stop strategy to hold off a charging Rossi (Andretti Autosport), who was on a three-stop strategy, and take the chequered flag by just over a second. Having moved into the Top 10 by Lap 5, ahead of fellow primary-tyre runner Scott Dixon, Power continued his charge, passing Arrow McLaren SP’s Pato

Team Penske’s Newgarden delivered a 1m15.215s lap, an average of 112.477s, to go fastest by 0.133s and claim his 16th pole. Heading into the Firestone Fast Six on used reds, Helio Castroneves was the first driver to throw down a fast lap in Q3, a 1m15.453s tour of the bumpy 2.35-mile, 14-turn course. That survived

No cars had set a flying lap by the time the first incident occurred, as FP1 pacesetter Kyle Kirkwood was struggling with the brakes on his AJ Foyt car. After he let David Malukas by on his outside at Turn 7, he couldn’t slow down sufficiently and went back down the inside of the bemused

Before any car had turned a competitive lap, Kirkwood’s team-mate Dalton Kellett caused a red flag when his car ground to a halt in Turn 5, as an electrical issue within his steering wheel forced him to stop. Kellett is already destined for a six-spot grid penalty for an unapproved engine change, since his Indy

The seven-time IndyCar race-winner was confirmed on Thursday as an Arrow McLaren SP driver from 2023, his departure from Andretti Autosport having been confirmed on Wednesday. “I think it’s been very obvious what Zak Brown [McLaren Racing CEO] and Taylor [Kiel, AMSP team president] have done over the last couple of years,” said Rossi, explaining his

Speaking in Detroit at a media conference with the team’s new signing for 2023 Alexander Rossi, and in light of last week’s announcement that Pato O’Ward was staying onboard through to 2025, Kiel was inevitably quizzed on whether Rosenqvist would retain his seat in the team. “Felix is doing what he needs to do,” replied

IndyCar announced in February that it was delaying the start of its 2.4-litre hybrid era by a year, due to a supply chain issue with the hybrid components from Mahle. Since then a 2.4-litre engine from each manufacturer, Chevrolet and Honda, has been tested on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with Penske and Ganassi respectively, but

The 12th IndyCar race on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s road course – seems an age ago now – started in drizzle, went dry, the drizzle returned, and then it became full-on wet. It made for an intriguing event, which involved 471 passes – 362 for position – and there were 10 lead changes among six drivers, one

It was confirmed on Wednesday that Rossi will leave Andretti Autosport after scoring seven wins, including the 2016 Indianapolis 500, in his seven seasons with the team. The 30-year-old, who will be replaced at Andretti by Kyle Kirkwood, will join Pato O’Ward at Arrow McLaren SP after the Mexican’s contract at the team was extended

The Briton had qualified 19th for his first Indy 500, but lost ground at the start of the race and was running in a net 26th when he lost the rear of the car at Turn 2 on lap 69. The car spun through 270 degrees, striking the SAFER barrier with first the nose and

Rossi has been with Michael Andretti’s team since he arrived in IndyCar from Formula 1 in 2016, and scored seven wins including the 2016 Indianapolis 500. He finished second in the 2018 championship and third in 2019. However, for a variety of reasons – misfortune, slow pitstops and some driving errors – the 30-year-old Californian has not

At one point in Sunday evening’s media conference with the Indianapolis 500 winner, someone asked Marcus Ericsson a question about being the overlooked driver in the Chip Ganassi Racing team. It wasn’t a question without merit. There’s six-time champion Scott Dixon – one of the pillars at Ganassi for more than two decades. There’s Alex

Chip Ganassi and Ed Carpenter Racing drivers locked out the Fast Six pole shootout, but while Ganassi ended up first and third with Ericsson and Tony Kanaan, ECR’s best representative at the flag was Conor Daly in sixth. Daly climbed from 17th on the grid to 12th in the early laps and made his first pitstop

The seven-time NASCAR Cup champion was contesting his first Indy 500 and only his second oval race in an open-wheeler after adding ovals to his road-course-only 2021 schedule. After a strong Month of May for the five-car Ganassi squad, with his four team-mates making the Fast Six pole shootout, Johnson impressed by qualifying 12th. In

Ericsson held off Pato O’Ward to score his maiden Indy 500 win, only his third in IndyCar competition after arriving from F1 in 2019, and the fifth for Ganassi’s storied team since 2000. Polesitter and 2008 Indy victor Scott Dixon had led for 95 laps but a pitlane speeding penalty dropped him out of contention

Chip Ganassi Racing’s Dixon became the all-time lap leader for the biggest open-wheel race in America, surpassing Al Unser Sr’s record of 644 laps led on lap 133 of the 2022 Indy 500. Dixon started the day third on the list and passed Ralph dePalma’s mark of 612 just before half distance. Polesitter Dixon looked

Ericsson, who had been leading by three seconds before the red flag came out for Jimmie Johnson’s shunt, employed a series of weaving defensive manoeuvres down the straight over the final two lap shootout to stave off the Arrow McLaren SP driver’s attack over the penultimate lap. But on the exit of Turn 4 O’Ward

Following the final round of stops, in which his Chip Ganassi Racing team-mate Scott Dixon had led 95 laps but was penalised for speeding in the pitlane, Ericsson emerged in third behind the two Arrow McLaren SP cars of Felix Rosenqvist and Pato O’Ward. But he passed the pair of them to take the lead,

Ericsson had picked up the lead following the final series of pitstops, moving past O’Ward as the Mexican driver rejoined behind Arrow McLaren SP team-mate Felix Rosenqvist. This was after Scott Dixon, who had led the majority of laps in the race, was caught speeding in the pitlane on his final stop and thus had

The 36-year-old Andretti Autosport driver, who scored 10 podium finishes in F1 before switching to IndyCar for the 2021 season, will be making only his third oval start in the Indy 500. He made his oval debut at Gateway’s 1.25-mile World Wide Technology Raceway last year, finishing 14th, and retired due to mechanical dramas at

The 24th Indy 500, held in 1936, was the first to feature the Borg-Warner Trophy as the award for the winner, and the first time the winner was given the official pace car. But it’s what winner Louis Meyer did immediately after the race that initiated the most unusual of traditions. Meyer, born in Manhattan and

The 22-year-old had just completed his 43rd lap of the 90-minute session when his car twitched at Turn 1, the back end stepping out and sending him into the outside wall. In the impact with the SAFER barrier, firstly with the rear-right corner before the right-front corner connected, the car’s nose elevated and the air

Shell’s new fuel will consist of a blend of second-generation ethanol derived from sugarcane waste and other biofuels. Currently, the fuel used by IndyCar is a variation of E85, which contains 85% ethanol and 15% high-octane racing fuel. The new renewable fuel offers at least a 60% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to the

Following his win at Barber Motorsports Park earlier this month, O’Ward hinted a new deal was imminent and this was confirmed by McLaren CEO Zak Brown mere days later.  Prior to Sunday’s Indianapolis 500, which O’Ward will start from seventh position, the team confirmed that the 23-year-old Mexican would indeed be staying on. “I am incredibly

“I never felt I won anything before I had actually won it, except one time,” says 1999 Indianapolis 500 winner Kenny Brack, “and that was when I made the comeback to Indy in 2005.” Brack had broken both ankles, a leg, his sternum and back in the 2003 Indy Racing League crash at Texas that