The most convincing, most complete driver we’ve seen in US open-wheel’s junior series over the past dozen years will begin his IndyCar career in 2022 with AJ Foyt Racing, the full-time team that has struggled most in recent seasons. It didn’t have to be that way. Except for Kyle Kirkwood, it did. There just weren’t

O’Ward enjoyed his first taste of F1 machinery at the end of last year in Abu Dhabi when he took part in the young driver test as a reward for scoring his maiden IndyCar win for the Arrow McLaren SP squad. The Mexican driver finished the year third in the IndyCar standings and was in

Herta will team up with NASCAR legend and fellow IndyCar driver Jimmie Johnson on the U.S. team at the ROC Snow & Ice World Final in Sweden on 5-6 February. Action sports legend Pastrana, who won last year’s Nitro Rallycross and American Rally Association titles, will miss the event due to multiple injuries sustained while

IndyCar and Motorsport Network launched the 2022 survey in 11 languages earlier this month, in collaboration with Nielsen Sports, to capture the views of racing fans everywhere. It features questions about fans’ favourite drivers and teams and – just like the fiercely-competitive nature of its track action – there’s strong competition for the #1 spot

When IndyCar’s current 2.2-litre V6 engines were introduced in 2012, Chevrolet won six straight manufacturers’ titles. But now Honda has won the last four. While that’s never been an accolade that garners much attention, it’s important to the OEMs themselves and it provides a clear indication that the momentum has swung toward Honda. Further evidence

Had Andretti’s plan worked out, Herta would have moved to F1 once granted an FIA super license, replaced in Andretti Autosport’s IndyCar squad by its Indy Lights champion Kyle Kirkwood. Instead, Herta has remained in the #26 car which he drove to three wins last season, and Kirkwood will spend his rookie season at AJ

Vincent Joseph Granatelli, son of charismatic STP promoter Andy Granatelli, was a crew chief when STP ran the famous turbine cars, and was also involved in the STP team’s brief flirtation in Formula 1, which saw Mario Andretti score a podium in a March 701. But Vince truly emerged from the shadow of his father

Calderon has been announced as the third Foyt driver in all 12 road and street courses on the 2022 IndyCar schedule. The Colombian has only had one day of testing – at Mid-Ohio last July – and will have just three more before the season starts at the end of February. But she feels that her

The 41-year-old New Zealander scored just one win last year and finished fourth in the championship, only the third time he has slipped outside the top three since 2006, in a remarkable run for the Chip Ganassi Racing legend. He was unfortunate that his strategy in the second Texas race stumbled due to an unfortunately-timed

Most drivers who have raced in the United States will vouch for Road America as one of the most thrilling road courses the nation has to offer. Many liken the 4.04-mile track located near Wisconsin’s Elkhart Lake to Belgium’s sprawling Spa-Francorchamps. Among them is Bruno Junqueira, for whom Road America has added meaning as a

The Indy Lights champion ran 75 laps of the Sebring Raceway’s 1.7-mile short course on Tuesday and ended the session content that the team is making strong progress in terms of dampers for street courses, and that Chevrolet, too, is making strides in driveability. This was Kirkwood’s first test with the Chevrolet-powered AJ Foyt team,

Penske has racked up 18 wins in the IndyCar blue ribband race at the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with its most recent wins coming in 2018 and 2019 courtesy of Will Power and Simon Pagenaud. But all four Penske entries struggled for qualifying speed at last year’s event, with rookie Scott McLaughlin the best-placed in

The seven-time NASCAR Cup champion had a predictably tough baptism to single-seater racing last year with Chip Ganassi Racing, managing a qualifying peak of 21st and a best finish of 17th. This year Johnson expands his schedule to take in all rounds on the calendar, including ovals on which he built his career in NASCAR.

Kirkwood arrives in IndyCar with a phenomenally strong reputation from Road to Indy’s junior open-wheel categories, the first driver to claim the championship in USF2000, Indy Pro 2000 and Indy Lights. However, Andretti Autosport, with whom he raced in Indy Lights, were unable to create a slot for him in IndyCar, after Michael Andretti’s Formula

After finishing second and third in the IndyCar championship in 2018 and 2019 respectively, Rossi has suffered over the past two seasons, collecting a total of six podium finishes and taking ninth and 10th in the end-of-season points tallies. Over the same period, Herta has scored four wins and been third and fifth in points,

The 21-year-old Mexican finished third in last year’s championship, just a year after claiming fourth, and the 2018 Indy Lights champion also nailed his first two wins in IndyCar. But the second half of the season saw O’Ward struggling to find a set-up that didn’t overwork his rear tyres on road courses and lose him

Castroneves, who took his fourth Indy win last May in his first race with the Jim Meyer-Michael Shank-owned organisation, has moved from part-time to full-time with the Ohio team. This year, Jack Harvey has departed to be replaced by Castroneves’ former Team Penske teammate Pagenaud, and the Brazilian veteran is anticipating strong performances right out

In the ongoing discussion over IndyCar’s 2023 engine regulations, which will see engine capacity increase from 2.2-litres to 2.4 with hybrid units added on, Dixon, Will Power, Josef Newgarden and Graham Rahal have asked the series to reduce the weight of the cars overall. “I would say IndyCar right now is more of a junior

The 33-year-old Californian, a former rising star in open-wheel racing, has become recognised as one of the world’s finest sportscar drivers in recent years, and in 2023 will be one of the aces in the Porsche Penske Motorsport line-up. In preparation for the project, Penske will enter the FIA World Endurance Championship this year, running

The Chip Ganassi Racing driver scored three wins and five other podium finishes in 2021 on his way to the title, beating Team Penske rival Josef Newgarden and Arrow McLaren SP’s Pato O’Ward. Palou, who only made his IndyCar debut in 2020 with Dale Coyne Racing, has a best oval finish to date of second

O’Ward, who scored his first two IndyCar victories in 2021 and finished third in the championship with Arrow McLaren SP, was awarded his first F1 test with McLaren in last month’s Abu Dhabi rookie test. The Mexican raved about his experience and has long expressed his enthusiasm for F1, having had a brief spell as

Mercedes offered Grosjean the chance to test its 2019 W10 car following the French driver’s departure from F1 at the end of 2020, where the horrific accident he endured at the Bahrain Grand Prix proved to be his final race in the championship. To allow Grosjean to sign off on a higher note, Mercedes had

The Swede struggled to match new team-mate Pato O’Ward on road and street courses in the first two-thirds of last season after joining from Chip Ganassi Racing, and his cause was hurt by a major shunt in Detroit that forced him to miss two races. However, for this year the team’s director of trackside engineering

With Ganassi again running four cars full-time in 2022, but with NASCAR legend but IndyCar sophomore Jimmie Johnson electing to run the full season including ovals, Kanaan has seen his open-wheel schedule reduced to just the 500. “I’m really happy to be back,” said the 2013 Indy 500 winner and 2004 IndyCar Series champion. “Obviously

Calderon will thus become the first female driver to race for IndyCar legend AJ Foyt and will join reigning Indy Lights champion Kyle Kirkwood and Dalton Kellett to form a three-car team at 12 of the 17 IndyCar rounds in 2022. ROKiT Group, a global media company which backed Sebastien Bourdais’ Foyt car last year,

The 32-year-old Canadian, who suffered a severe spinal injury in a crash during the 13th race of a startlingly strong rookie IndyCar campaign in 2018, announced his return to racing as he joins the Bryan Herta Autosport Hyundai team. In a media conference that followed the announcement, Wickens admitted that his amazing rehabilitation from a litany

Wickens has been rehabilitating since his brutal accident in IndyCar’s race at Pocono in August 2018, in which he suffered a thoracic spinal fracture, spinal cord injury, neck fracture, tibia and fibula fractures to both legs, fractures in both hands, a fractured right forearm, fractured elbow, a concussion, four fractured ribs and a pulmonary contusion.

Ed Carpenter Racing has announced it has signed Conor Daly as a full-time driver in its #20 car for the 2022 IndyCar season. Daly, who drove the #20 car at the road and street courses during the past two seasons while team owner Ed Carpenter contested the ovals, will now take over the entry for

The 20-year-old Dane finished 12th in his second season of F2 in 2021 with ART Grand Prix, slipping back from seventh in a 2020 rookie season that featured two wins. Lundgaard made his IndyCar debut with RLL on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course last August and qualified an impressive fourth – having only managed

The ex-McLaren Formula 1 driver, who conquered the Indy 500 as a rookie in 2000 with Chip Ganassi Racing and then won it for Team Penske in 2015, will again join Arrow McLaren SP’s full-time drivers Pato O’Ward and Felix Rosenqvist at both the Grand Prix of Indianapolis and the 500. A team release stated