The announcement that McLaren Racing will be acquiring a 75% stake in the Arrow McLaren SP team was followed by a press conference with McLaren CEO Zak Brown, AMSP team founder Sam Schmidt, team co-owner Ric Peterson, team president Taylor Kiel and Arrow CEO Mike Long. In the course of his opening remarks, Brown said: “When

The announcement was made in Nashville ahead of the 11th round of the 2021 IndyCar Series, the second season of McLaren’s partnership with what was formerly known as Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. The team was originally founded by former Indy car racer Sam Schmidt in 2001, with Ric Peterson joining in 2013 to form Schmidt Peterson

As at Mid-Ohio, there is a separate start line and finish line around Nashville’s 2.17-mile course. While the finish line is after Turn 11, right outside the Nissan Stadium, the Tennessee Titans NFL team’s ground, the green flag will be waved ahead of Turn 9 as the 27-car grid returns off the Korean War Veterans

The Swede had struggled at several road and street courses this season – his third in IndyCar but his first at Arrow McLaren SP. Much of this struggle, for a driver who scored a win and a pole position at Chip Ganassi Racing, was attributed to Arrow McLaren SP’s unique set-ups which generate tyre temperatures

Herta advanced from his Q1 group on primary tyres, which meant the Andretti Autosport driver had a set of fresh red soft tyres for the final segment of qualifying, and he duly delivered a scintillating 1m13.6835s with his third lap to grab pole position in the top six pole shootout. In that context, six-time IndyCar

Sebastien Bourdais, Colton Herta, Alex Rossi and Graham Rahal were the first drivers to duck under the 1m20s barrier, with Jack Harvey soon joining them. Rossi’s Andretti Autosport then went down to a 1m18.8551s, while Herta and Pato O’Ward were discussing bumps knocking the steering-wheel out of their hands and causing them blurred vision. That

The IndyCar rookie has had an on-again, off-again agreement to return to Supercars for this year’s Bathurst 1000 ever since he headed Stateside at the end of 2020. The initial plans for him to compete in the Great Race with Dick Johnson Racing were scuppered by a tweak to the IndyCar calendar, however another schedule

Johnson currently only races on the road and street courses for Chip Ganassi Racing, with oval duty delegated to IndyCar veteran Tony Kanaan – who qualified fifth at the Indianapolis 500 after making it into the Fast Nine with the third-fastest run. Although seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Johnson has years of experience racing on ovals

The team will be renamed Juncos Hollinger Racing under the new partnership, and will return to the top level of US single-seater racing for the first time since the 2019 Indianapolis 500, in which Kyle Kaiser dramatically knocked out McLaren’s Fernando Alonso during Bump Day to make the field. Juncos had previously entered 12 of

Hulkenberg has made 179 starts in Formula 1 but so far has failed to land a podium finish, and has been out of a full-time drive since 2019 – but has been in contact with Ed Carpenter Racing’s team owner Carpenter. The German driver made three substitute appearances for Racing Point last year, covering for

Speaking on Motorsport.tv’s This Week with Will Buxton, Shank admitted that he and co-owner Jim Meyer had been “talking about ways to expand the relationship [with Castroneves] even before” the Brazilian claimed his record-equalling fourth Indy 500 triumph with MSR earlier this year, and that their sponsors were “really excited to do something more” with

Grosjean is set to make his oval race debut in the Gateway round of the IndyCar calendar on 21 August, having foregone Texas Motor Speedway’s double-header and the Indianapolis 500. The French driver will be part of a three-car Dale Coyne Racing entry next month, and turned 166 laps to finish the day eighth fastest

Harvey switched to the American open-wheel ladder system on the back of his fifth-placed finish in 2013’s GP3 season, finishing runner-up twice with the Schmidt Peterson Motorsports team in Indy Lights. The 2012 British Formula 3 champion was then unable to find a budget to stake his claim for an IndyCar seat, but made a

Last week Dale Coyne told Autosport: “So long as they continue to be in IndyCar, I think ‘Sulli’ and Jimmy will remain partners with us. They’re not going to go out on their own, and I don’t think other teams can give them what we give them.” However, Sullivan has painted a different picture of

Today’s announcement that Roger Penske and Penske Entertainment have boosted the IndyCar Series’ profile and its audience’s horizons with a new video game comes as no surprise. Penske has reached an exclusive agreement with Motorsport Games (NASDAQ:MSGM) to bring an official IndyCar game to market in 2023, which will open up an untapped mass-market of

While there has been much talk of a youth movement within IndyCar in 2021, as Patricio O’Ward and Rinus VeeKay have become winners in their second full-time seasons in the series, and Colton Herta is again prevailing within the Andretti Autosport team, Newgarden believes it is Palou who is currently the “most complete” of them

Two-time IndyCar champion Newgarden secured Team Penske’s first win of the season following an unlucky pair of races at Detroit and Road America, in which he had led the most laps but was denied from taking either win late on. Ericsson made Newgarden work for the win, however, and began to quickly erode the Penske

Newgarden had led the most laps in the previous two IndyCar encounters at Detroit and Road America, but flagging tyres and mechanical issues contrived to deny him victories in either event. But with pole, Newgarden was able to keep ahead of fellow front-row starter Colton Herta in the early stages, eventually building a three-second lead

Newgarden made it through to the Fast Six final stage of qualifying and lapped the 2.238-mile Mid-Ohio course in 66.673 seconds at an average speed of 121.919mph, to shade Herta by just 0.031s. These two appeared to be in a league of their own, as Will Power slipped up on what should have been his

Calderon, who also remains on the Alfa Romeo Formula 1 team’s books as a test and development driver, will pilot Sebastien Bourdais’ #14 Dallara-Chevrolet on Tuesday July 6 following this weekend’s Mid-Ohio IndyCar race. The chance comes thanks to ROKiT, the primary sponsor of the #14 car that also backs the 28-year-old Colombian racer in

Jean-Karl Vernay is a man in demand. He recently combined his winning WTCR debut as a Hyundai factory driver with a class runner-up finish in the Nurburgring 24 Hours and is the only member of the manufacturer’s WTCR roster pulling double duty in the new Pure ETCR electric tin-top series. But the 33-year-old’s career might

Ganassi made the surprise announcement on Wednesday at the NASCAR Hall of Fame, ending his 20-year run as a NASCAR team owner. His entire operation has been bought by Trackhouse Entertainment Group and Trackhouse Racing, which will field two cars in the premier stock car series from 2022 using CGR’s two NASCAR charters that guarantee

Rosenqvist had to miss the second race in the Detroit Grand Prix weekend as well as the Road America round held the following week, due to a huge wall-moving shunt in the opening round in Motown. Although the Swede, in his third year of IndyCar racing, did not break any bones, he did stay in

Some of the drivers involved were sceptical of the size of the Andretti/Meyer Shank team force at the Indianapolis 500, comprising five full-timers – Ryan Hunter-Reay, Alexander Rossi, Colton Herta, James Hinchcliffe and Harvey – along with part-timer Helio Castroneves and Indy 500 one-offs Marco Andretti and Stefan Wilson. Harvey admits that was a cumbersome situation

The IndyCar Series will switch to 2.4-litre twin-turbo V6s with hybrid power in 2023, and Penske says that the appeal of this formula goes beyond IndyCar’s current engine suppliers Chevrolet and Honda. “We’re in conversations right now with two really good possibilities,” he said. “Timing is always everything. COVID has put a lot of things

Arrow McLaren SP driver O’Ward recently battled from 16th on the grid to score his second win of the IndyCar season in Detroit, putting him into the thick of the championship fight. The 22-year-old’s performances have drawn praise from across the racing world, with Red Bull Formula 1 driver Sergio Perez saying his compatriot has

The 21-year-old was set to finish third after seeing off the challenge of Team Penske’s Will Power, but moved up to second behind Alex Palou when Power’s race-leading team-mate Josef Newgarden was cruelly slowed by a late gearbox failure. The result marked Herta’s second podium of the year, after winning at St. Petersburg, and was

The pole-sitting Team Penske driver led 32 of the 55 laps and looked set to secure his and the team’s first win of a disappointing season – having also missed out on a likely victory in the previous race at Detroit by a late charge from Patricio O’Ward. But at the last of four restarts,

Alex Palou reckons he had a faster car than Josef Newgarden towards the end of the Road America IndyCar race, and enjoyed his “lucky” victory despite the Penske driver’s problem. Newgarden had led the majority of the proceedings at the Elkhart Lake circuit, before an inability to find sixth gear on the final restart allowed

Newgarden had controlled the entire race through four caution periods but, on the final restart preceding a two-lap shootout to the end, the two-time champion’s car was stuck in fifth gear and left the Penske driver having to drive at a crawl. Palou could simply nip past before Turn 1, and put together a healthy