It’s not often that a seasoned sportscar veteran gets a shot at a professional single-seater gig in their mid-30s. But although his IndyCar career lasted just one race, which was ended by an engine failure, Lucas Luhr can claim to be part of that select club after his 2013 cameo at Sonoma for the Sarah

Speaking at the announcement that Devlin DeFrancesco will complete the team’s four-entry IndyCar line-up for 2022, the Andretti Autosport CEO opened up on the negotiations  to secure a stake in the Swiss F1 team.  “I’d just like to put an end to some of these rumours that the deal fell through because of financial reasons. That

The Italian-Canadian driver, who scored nine top-five finishes in this year’s Indy Lights championship and finished sixth in the standings, performed impressively in his first two IndyCar tests with the Andretti Autosport team, at Sebring Raceway short course and Barber Motorsports Park. He will race the #29 car alongside team-mates Colton Herta, Alexander Rossi and Romain

Hulkenberg has been without a full-time race seat since losing his F1 drive with Renault at the end of 2019. He retains an F1 role as Aston Martin’s reserve driver, having made two substitute appearances for the Silverstone-based team last season. To evaluate a potential future move into IndyCar, Hulkenberg took part in a test

With Michael Andretti’s four-car team set to run Colton Herta, Alexander Rossi, Romain Grojsean and Devlin DeFrancesco in 2022, Kirkwood currently has only three IndyCar entries – part of his Road To Indy scholarship worth $1.25m – set in stone for next year. Andersen Promotions, which ran Indy Lights up until this week when IndyCar

The German hadn’t driven a single-seater since his stand-in appearance for Racing Point in the 2020 Eifel Grand Prix, when he finished eighth in place of a COVID-stricken Lance Stroll. Hulkenberg, who remains an Aston Martin F1 reserve driver, told Autosport in the Circuit of the Americas paddock last weekend that the test was an

Hulkenberg is to take part in the rookie test for the Arrow McLaren SP team at Barber Motorsports Park next week in order to give him a first taste of IndyCar. The team has been evaluating a third car programme to run alongside regulars Pato O’Ward and Felix Rosenqvist. Brown noted that the current plan

The German’s participation in the rookie test is being billed as a chance to sample an IndyCar, with a view to seeing if he would like to one day pursue a race programme. There is a clear opportunity on the horizon for 2022, with the team evaluating a programme to run a third car alongside

The former CFO of the Boston Grand Prix organisation which was trying to bring an IndyCar race to the city’s Seaport district, Casey was indicted in September 2020 for channelling funds for his own personal gain and laundering the proceeds of the scheme, which he failed to report as income. According to WCVB5.com, the website

Current ART Formula 2 driver Lundgaard will join Graham Rahal and Jack Harvey as the third full-timer in the Honda-powered RLL team in a multi-year agreement. The Alpine Academy driver made a huge impression on his IndyCar debut on the IMS road course in August by qualifying fourth. With Formula 1 not an option for

Lundgaard, a member of the Alpine Formula 1 team’s junior programme, made his IndyCar debut at August’s Indianapolis road course race after impressing Bobby Rahal’s team at a Barber test. The 20-year-old stunned the paddock with a fourth place in qualifying on his debut and went on to finish 12th despite suffering food poisoning overnight.

Hulkenberg will drive for the Arrow McLaren SP squad, while Sargeant will appear for AJ Foyt Racing, as two of at least six drivers taking part in the driver evaluation/rookie test on 25 October, which will also feature cars run by Ed Carpenter Racing, Dale Coyne Racing and Andretti Autosport. Hulkenberg admitted last month that

O’Ward will take part in the post-season F1 test at the Yas Marina Circuit in December after winning a bet with McLaren chief Zak Brown by scoring his first IndyCar victory in Texas earlier this year. To prepare for his F1 test, O’Ward visited McLaren’s UK base in Woking last week, completing three days in

The 22-year-old Andretti Autosport beat HMD Motorsport rival David Malukas to the title and won half of the season’s 20 races, continuing his record of winning every championship on the Road to Indy ladder. Kirkwood earned a $1,369,425 scholarship for three IndyCar races in 2022 – including the Indianapolis 500 – but is fully focused

The Briton, whose decision to leave Meyer Shank Racing was announced back in July, was confirmed as the driver of RLL’s newly full-time #45 entry for 2022 on Monday. He will join Graham Rahal at the squad, while the departure of RLL’s 2020 Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato was announced last week – with Christian

In an elongated and ongoing IndyCar silly-season, Harvey’s departure from Meyer Shank Racing was the first – and arguably most surprising – piece of concrete news. Soon he was linked with the team co-owned by Bobby Rahal, David Letterman and Mike Lanigan, but all parties involved remained publicly mute on the subject. However, in August

Like Jimmie Johnson who was also in action at IMS today, Grosjean’s attempt to complete the Rookie Orientation Programme was stymied by rain, just a few laps shy of completing the third and final phase, which requires the rookie to run 15 laps over 215mph. But the former Formula 1 driver, who has switched to

As expected, the former Formula 1 driver’s latest term with the team co-owned by Bobby Rahal, David Letterman and Mike Lanigan has ended after a four year stint, during which Sato won at Portland in 2018, Barber and Gateway in 2019 and the Indy 500 in 2020, his second triumph at the fabled Indianapolis Motor

The famous Ford squad has today formally locked in its Bathurst 1000 driver line-up, with Anton De Pasquale and Tony D’Alberto teaming up in the #11 and brothers Will and Alex Davison in the #17. McLaughlin, meanwhile, will miss his highly-anticipated Great Race return following an on-again, off-again saga influenced by evolving schedules in both

Bud Denker, president of Penske Corporation which not only owns IndyCar but also the Detroit Grand Prix, made a presentation this week to local council members to move the track nearer the site of the original Detroit course, which held Formula 1 races from 1982 through ’88, then Indy cars from ’89 through ’91. According

The IndyCar rookie of the year agreed to return to the race this year as part of he and Team Penske’s divorce with Dick Johnson Racing in late 2020. That plan was scuppered shortly afterwards by a change to the IndyCar schedule, before another scheduling change, this time for Supercars, re-opened the door for a

O’Ward racked up his first two IndyCar wins and four other podium in 2021, taking the fight to eventual champion Alex Palou down to the last round of the season. Unfortunately his #5 Arrow McLaren SP car was tagged at the hairpin by Ed Jones at the end of the first lap of last Sunday’s

Josef Newgarden and Scott Dixon have praised 2021 IndyCar champion Alex Palou for being the most complete of the young drivers in the series. Newgarden and Dixon started from the front row at the Long Beach finale but were beaten to victory lane by Colton Herta, and claimed second and fourth in the final points

McLaughlin seemed underwhelmed with his race at Long Beach, with the caution flags disrupting his strategy, limiting his progress to 11th place having started 13th. However, with fellow IndyCar rookie Romain Grosjean eliminating himself from the Long Beach race by brushing the wall at two-thirds distance, McLaughlin clinched the Rookie of the Year title by

The 2016 IndyCar champion and 2019 Indy 500 victor has accumulated 15 wins in IndyCar so far, four of them with the Arrow McLaren SP team under its Schmidt Peterson Motorsports guise, and 11 in his last seven seasons at Roger Penske’s squad. As predicted by Autosport in August, 37-year-old Pagenaud will replace Jack Harvey

A calm fourth place in the Grand Prix of Long Beach was enough for the Chip Ganassi Racing driver to seal the championship by 38 points ahead of two-time champion Josef Newgarden, whose runner-up finish was enough to push him well clear of Pato O’Ward in the final standings. Despite three early engine-change penalties and

O’Ward lost his points lead to Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou in Portland two races ago and came into the finale 35 points behind the leader at the rescheduled season finale on the streets of Long Beach. At the end of the opening lap O’Ward was hit from behind by Ed Jones of Dale Coyne

When Team Penske’s Will Power ground to a halt without gears at Turn 10 and brought out a yellow, O’Ward – at that point sixth fastest – and championship leader Alex Palou slowed dramatically, while others did not. The rules stipulate that all drivers shall reduce speed by a minimum of 15% (or greater if

The 40-year-old joined the team in 2010 and won the first title following the series’ switch to the ubiquitous Dallara DW12 in 2012. He then won the Indianapolis 500 in 2014 after a tight battle with Helio Castroneves and, aside from a slump to 12th in 2016, has finished in the top 10 in the

At the 2021 finale in Long Beach this weekend, President and CEO Mark Miles was asked about venturing outside of the US, especially in light of the fact that the championship this year is being fought between Spain’s Alex Palou and Mexico’s Pato O’Ward. The last IndyCar race staged outside the US was on a