The Spaniard, heading into his second season in IndyCar, produced a 1m06.472s lap to take top spot ahead of Andretti Autosport’s Colton Herta, who went just 0.017s short of displacing him. Three-time Barber winner and two-time series champion Josef Newgarden slotted into third just 0.006s further back for Team Penske. Defending series champion Scott Dixon

The seven-time Cup champion is set to drive the #48 Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda for all 13 road and street courses on the 2021 IndyCar schedule, with 2004 IndyCar champion Tony Kanaan taking over the car for the four oval races including the Indianapolis 500. Having raced at the Cup level for two decades, winning 83

Rossi, who battled for the 2018 and 2019 IndyCar titles, slumped to ninth in the points table last season, as Andretti Autosport struggled for race day performance in the first two-thirds of the season, and then saw pitstop issues hamper them on strong days such as the Indianapolis 500. Ahead of Sunday’s season-opener at Barber

IndyCar has used its current 2.2-litre twin-turbo V6 engines since 2012, with manufacturers Chevrolet and Honda finding ever-smaller areas in which to improve and gain an edge. IndyCar president Jay Frye said recently that he expects the series to be “pushing” 900 bhp on road and street courses by 2025 with the new engines, with

The two-time Formula 1 world champion set out to complete the famous triple crown of motorsport which includes winning the Monaco Grand Prix, Le Mans 24 Hours and the Indianapolis 500. Having notched up success at Monaco (2006 and 2007), and Le Mans (2018 and 2019), he is now only missing victory on the famous

Toronto is currently set to be the 11th round of the 2021 IndyCar Series season, on 9-11 July, but travel restrictions to Canada as the country tackles its third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic have cast doubt on a highly popular event, which was canceled last year, too. Not only does a temporary street course

Chevrolet struggled last year even at 1.4-bar turbo boost for qualifying, with rookie Rinus VeeKay of Ed Carpenter Racing being the only runner to qualify in the Fast Nine against Honda-powered rivals. On race day, at 1.3-bar turbo boost, the Chevrolet drivers could match the Hondas but had to lean off the fuel mixture sooner

Returning two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Juan Pablo Montoya says he was encouraged by his pace in IndyCar’s Indianapolis Motor Speedway test, despite moments that “scared the hell out of me”. The 2000 and 2015 winner is attempting to qualify for his first Indy 500 since 2017 in a third Arrow McLaren SP entry, having concentrated

The Team Penske driver’s top speed of 226.819mph was 2.392mph quicker than the fastest effort on Thursday, a 224.427mph achieved by Sebastien Bourdais in the rookies and refreshers session. Graham Rahal (Rahal Letterman Lanigan) and Will Power (Penske) were the first to break into the 225mph bracket around the 2.5-mile oval, but this was exceeded

VeeKay crashed at Turn 1 at IMS on his fifth lap of the test, spinning at almost 220mph before slamming into the wall with the right side of his car. He stepped out of the car flexing his left hand, and it was later confirmed that he’d broken the top bone of his index finger

The car, which will be sponsored by long term Foyt partner ABC Supply, will also carry the #1 that Foyt’s Bowes Seal Fast Trevis-Offenhauser ran when he defeated Eddie Sachs at the Speedway in May 1961. Foyt would win Indy again in 1964 – the last Indy victory for a front-engined roadster – 1967 and

The former Haas Formula 1 development driver finished fourth in the 500 last year for Dale Coyne Racing, and earned rookie of the year honours in a 2019 season which yielded three fourth-place finishes on the Texas, Pocono and Gateway ovals. Ferrucci switched to the second-tier NASCAR Xfinity Series for 2021 with Sam Hunt Racing

The two-time 500 winner was announced as the team’s third, Indy-only driver last December, alongside full-timers Pato O’Ward and Felix Rosenqvist. Arrow McLaren SP revealed on Monday that Montoya’s orange and white entry will pay tribute to Revson’s effort in qualifying for the 1971 edition of the Memorial Day Weekend classic. That year, the works team

Fittipaldi is due to race the #51 Dale Coyne Racing with Rick Ware Racing-Honda in the four oval races on the 2021 NTT IndyCar Series schedule, subbing for Romain Grosjean who will compete in the 13 road and street course races. Meanwhile Cody Ware, son of Rick Ware, will attempt to qualify a third Coyne

The 21-year-old, who won the Indy Lights title in 2018 and finished fourth in his rookie season in IndyCar last year, lapped the 1.44-mile speedway in 23.325s, an average speed of 222.25mph. That means the Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet driver has now led the last three group tests, lending credence to the theory that his blend

Grosjean, who scored 10 podiums in his nine-year F1 career, all for Lotus, today completed his third and final day of preseason testing for the Dale Coyne Racing with RWR-Honda team. He turned 120 laps of the 1.7-mile short course at Sebring International Raceway, sharing the track only with teammate Ed Jones, and Carlin-Chevrolet’s Max

Scott Dixon, Josef Newgarden, Alexander Rossi and Pato O’Ward were in action on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, using the push-to-pass system at 1.5-bar to simulate the burst of released energy from a KERS unit. IndyCar will replace the current 2.2-litre twin-turbo V6s with KERS-supplemented 2.4-litre twin-turbo V6s in 2023, with the target being a combined

Ericsson finished 12th in IndyCar last year but, although he showed vastly improved consistency compared with his rookie season at Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, he could not replicate the podium finish he scored in Detroit in 2019. The former Formula 1 driver says he must increase his one-lap speed in qualifying in order to demonstrate

The seven-time NASCAR Cup champion has tested at Barber Motorsports Park, Sebring and Laguna Seca, and has found that aside from trying to exploit his Chip Ganassi Racing Honda’s aerodynamic grip, he’s also been too “gentle” on his tyres on out-laps. He described an IndyCar as “a monster”, and has added Formula 3 outings to

The 2014 IndyCar champion and 2018 Indy 500 winner finished fifth in last year’s championship after two wins, five poles, a string of misfortunes and a couple of driving errors. Now as he approaches contract renewal time, Power says talk about his future won’t affect his style or approach to the season his 13th with

With the arrival of Scott McLaughlin from Supercars, Jimmie Johnson from NASCAR and Romain Grosjean from Formula 1, Rahal says that he believes every driver in the IndyCar Series has the potential to win. This makes it very different from his debut year at the top level, driving for Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing in Champ Car, the

The Mexican youngster earned huge praise from rivals for his first full IndyCar season after completing eight races with the Harding Racing and Carlin squads, finishing fourth in the championship with four podium finishes to his name. The 2018 Indy Lights champion finished runner-up three times, including at Road America to new team-mate Felix Rosenqvist

Speaking on the Rusty’s Garage podcast, Power explained that he met with Chip Ganassi Racing’s IndyCar boss Mike Hull at the end of 2007 to discuss a drive. However the Australian says Hull hinted that he lacked the “Chip Factor” and talks didn’t progress beyond the initial meeting. “We met at Starbucks,” said Power. “I’d

The  Canadian was abruptly dropped by Arrow McLaren SP at the end of 2019, leaving him scrambling to find a ride for 2020. Genesys, a “global leader in cloud customer experience and contact center solutions” stepped up to sponsor him in the #29 Andretti Autosport-Honda for three races – at Texas Motor Speedway, the Grand Prix

Since retiring from racing in 2008, 1993 Indy Lights champion Herta Sr has concentrated on team ownership with his eponymous Bryan Herta Autosport squad famously running Dan Wheldon to victory in the 2011 Indianapolis 500. Herta Sr has been a part-owner and strategist for the #98 Andretti-run car driven in recent seasons by Marco Andretti,

Rosenqvist won the IndyCar Series Rookie of the Year title in 2019 with sixth place in the championship driving for Chip Ganassi Racing, but last year slipped to 11th, despite scoring his first win in the series. For his third IndyCar season, he has joined Arrow McLaren SP, partnering team incumbent Patricio O’Ward. Asked about

Dixon spoke candidly to Autosport last year about how, despite scoring four wins and his sixth championship, there were several performances that left them either disappointed or bemused, citing the car’s performance with the tyres on some tracks, and difficulties with the handling of the car. Although he believes the issues have been overcome, he

Speaking to media ahead of Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet’s 2021 livery reveal, each driver was full of praise for the other, and stated their goal was to ensure they pushed each other this year in order to earn the team race wins. However, Rosenqvist said that it’s too soon to assess how they’ll compare and contrast

This will mark Chilton’s sixth season in the IndyCar Series and his fourth with the Carlin team after spending the first two years of his American single-seater career with Chip Ganassi Racing. The former Formula 1 driver cutback his IndyCar schedule in 2019 after failing to qualify for the Indy 500, removing the remainder of

Approaching his IndyCar debut at 45 years old, Jimmie Johnson is an old rookie. But he’s not just any old rookie. In a NASCAR Cup career that spanned 20 years and 686 races, he won seven championships and scored 83 race wins. Now he’s about to embark on an IndyCar career of currently indeterminate length,