Following the success of the most recent F1 global fan survey in partnership with F1, Motorsport Network and Nielsen last October, the latest effort sees a new survey launched on North America’s top level open-wheel racing series ahead of the 2022 season. Fans have the chance to make their voices heard and the survey is

His sole victory of the year came in the second Indianapolis road course race, after passing polesitter Pato O’Ward for the lead and fending off Romain Grosjean to claim the win. Power previously had to endure watching a near-certain victory at the first race of the Detroit double-header slip from his grasp, as his car

The 24-year-old Spaniard, who won his maiden IndyCar title in his first season with Ganassi in 2021, will be added to Ganassi’s roster along with fellow Ganassi IndyCar drivers Scott Dixon and Marcus Ericsson. Palou and three-time Daytona outright winner Dixon will drive the team’s #01 Cadillac DPi-V.R alongside full-time drivers Renger van der Zande

Following his test of a Formula 1 McLaren in the autumn of 2018, Jimmie Johnson wasn’t reticent regarding his post-NASCAR career. No plans were in place but he said he wanted to try out IndyCars – on road courses specifically – and he wanted to return to sports-prototypes, where he had impressed in occasional forays

Ward, formerly a Red Bull engineer in Formula 1, replaced Brian Campe on Newgarden’s car in 2018, and therefore played a major role in 13 race wins and a series championship for the Penske driver. It’s believed that Ward will take an ‘overseeing’ role at Arrow McLaren SP, while Craig Hampson, the squad’s R&D engineer

Australia-born Kalkhoven recently stepped down from his position as director and chairman of the board at Cosworth, a company he bought from Ford along with Pi Research in 2004. The KV Racing team he co-founded with Jacques Villenueve’s manager Craig Pollock ran Tony Kanaan to victory in the 2013 Indianapolis 500, before being disbanded after

A year ago, after running Palou as a rookie in IndyCar, Dale Coyne predicted his former charge would go on to shine at Chip Ganassi Racing. Palou had taken a podium for DCR at Road America – only his third IndyCar start and second on a US road course – and had also qualified five

Castroneves, who this year became the fourth member of the four-time Indy 500 winners’ elite, joins a long list of motorsport megastars for the event which will be held in Pite Havsbad, Sweden, between 5-6 February next year. Other drivers already confirmed include current Formula 1 drivers Sebastian Vettel, Mick Schumacher and Valtteri Bottas, while

Dallara first entered the top-flight of US single-seater racing back in 1997 and has been sole supplier since 2009, the year after the Indy Racing League and Champ Car World Series merged to form what is currently known as the IndyCar Series. The current chassis, originally called DW12 in honour of its test driver, the

The 2018 Indy Lights title rivals won five IndyCar races between them last season, with the former remaining in title contention until the final round at Long Beach where his Arrow McLaren SP entry was an early retirement. The pair will team up with Herta’s 2022 Andretti Autosport IndyCar team-mate Devlin DeFrancesco and sportscar stalwart

Malukas, who scored seven wins in Lights and took the championship fight with Kyle Kirkwood down to the wire, also tested impressively with Coyne at Barber Motorsports Park in October, ending the day top of the times by a substantial margin. Malukas will partner with two-time Indy 500 winner Takuma Sato, who was confirmed by

Arrow McLaren SP IndyCar driver O’Ward took part in the young driver test in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday as a reward for scoring his first victory earlier this year, having made a bet with McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown. O’Ward completed 92 laps in the McLaren MCL35M at the Yas Marina Circuit, and said afterwards

Hinchcliffe, 35, scored six wins across his 11-year career at this level, putting together three in the space of just 10 races in 2013 driving for Andretti Autosport. Yet arguably his most memorable moment was scoring pole for what was then the Schmidt Peterson Motorsports team at the 2016 Indianapolis 500, just a year after

Johnson, who unveiled his Carvana livery on NBC’s Today show on Wednesday morning, spent his rookie season competing in the 12 road and street courses on the 2021 schedule. But the NASCAR ace tested on the oval at Texas Motor Speedway and completed the IndyCar Rookie Orientation Programme at Indianapolis Motor Speedway shortly after the

And now Al Unser, four-time Indianapolis 500 winner, three-time Indycar champion, has left us at the age of 82 barely seven months after elder brother Bobby, leaving a similar-sized hole in the ranks of US open-wheel legends. He never relished the spotlight like Bobby, and would never have dreamt of being as strident, but while

IMS president Doug Boles stated on Friday that Unser had “died peacefully in his beloved Chama [New Mexico] home after a 17-year battle with Cancer.” As part of the Unser dynasty, “Big Al” was a fixture at the Indy 500 for three decades, his 27 starts the third highest number of appearances in history. He

Karam will be aiming to make his ninth start in the Memorial Day Weekend classic, his eighth with Dennis Reinbold’s team, while for Ferrucci it will be a fourth Indy entry. Dreyer & Reinbold Racing has entered and qualified 43 cars in the Indy 500 dating back to 1999 with a best finish of fourth

The 44-year-old Japanese driver, who spent the last four seasons at Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing and racked up three wins including the team’s – and his – second Indy triumph, will drive the #51 entry vacated by Andretti Autosport-bound Romain Grosjean. As first reported by Autosport in September, Coyne and Sato have been negotiating for

The success of Formula 3000 champions Juan Pablo Montoya, Bruno Junqueira and Sebastien Bourdais in Champ Car meant there was great expectation on the shoulders of 2003 king Bjorn Wirdheim when he headed Stateside in 2005. A money shortfall at his HVM squad, which couldn’t afford to go testing, and the lack of an experienced

Reigning FE champion De Vries lapped the 1.7-mile configuration of the track in 52.552 seconds, setting his best time on his 25th of 62 laps. Vandoorne, Williams Formula 1 reserve Jack Aitken (Ed Carpenter Racing) and Juncos Holinger’s 2022 IndyCar driver Callum Ilott were also in attendance at the four-car evaluation test. De Vries, who

With the US Air Force pulling its support for the #20 car which oval specialist and team owner Ed Carpenter shares with a road/street course driver, ECR has been freed up to enter discussions with non-American drivers. As a result, 2012 IndyCar champion Ryan Hunter-Reay’s candidacy for the ride has looked weaker and 26-year-old Aitken has emerged

After four winless seasons in Indy Lights, the 28-year-old Canadian joined Foyt in 2020 for a partial campaign of eight races, before switching up to a full-time seat piloting the #4 entry in 2021. His best result was 12th on the Gateway oval, while his top finishes on road/street courses were 18th places at Barber

The deal, announced back in August, formalises the IndyCar squad becoming part of the McLaren Racing organisation. McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown will chair a five-person board, which comprises the previous team owners, Sam Schmidt and Ric Peterson, along with three people appointed by McLaren Racing. Taylor Kiel will continue as president of Arrow McLaren

After being unable to nail down a seat in IndyCar next season, Askew links up with Andretti’s FE team to partner Jake Dennis at the team following the departure of Maximilian Guenther to Nissan e.dams. Through his time in IndyCar and the Road to Indy ladder, Askew has raced at a number of street venues

Andretti Autosport has been strong on street courses for the past four seasons, and Rossi believes his quarter of the team made a breakthrough on natural road courses in the final third of this season. But he says the team is still missing vital speed on ovals other than Indianapolis, which next year will comprise

Earlier this month, Detroit City Council approved moving the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix from Belle Isle, where the race has been held since 2007, back to downtown, where it originated back in 1982 as a Formula 1 event, before evolving into an IndyCar race in 1989. The new track will use some of the original

Ex-McLaren Formula 1 driver and 2015 GP2 Series champion Vandoorne will get the opportunity to test an Arrow McLaren SP on 6 December, as McLaren CEO Zak Brown suggested he would in September, because the team plans to expand to three entries by 2023. That same day at Sebring, reigning FE champion De Vries’ opportunity

Had it not been for an out-of-the-blue phone call, 1999 Macau Grand Prix winner Darren Manning believes he could still be racing in Japan to this day. Certainly, without the approach that resulted in the Yorkshireman racing for Derrick Walker’s Champ Car team in 2003 when he was on the brink of joining Team Impul

Indy Lights champion Kirkwood was confirmed this morning as the #14 AJ Foyt Racing-Chevrolet driver for 2022, and Larry Foyt believes this will help his team lure staff to bolster the engineering line-up. Kirkwood has proven himself by becoming the first driver to win the championship at each level of the Road To Indy, accumulating

Kirkwood, who won the championship in all three categories on the Road To Indy between 2018 and ’21, scored 10 wins on his way to the Lights title, but his erstwhile team owner Michael Andretti couldn’t find a berth in his IndyCar team for the 23-year-old. However, the youngster’s contract meant he wasn’t allowed to