Felix Rosenqvist will join Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet for the 2021 IndyCar season, as predicted by Autosport. After two years at Chip Ganassi Racing, in which he secured the 2019 Rookie of the Year title, a win and two other podiums, it has now been confirmed he will take over the #7 Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet from

Chip Ganassi Racing has renewed its deal with ex-Formula 1 racer Marcus Ericsson, and the Swede will continue with the IndyCar team on a multi-year contract. After a solid rookie season with what was then Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, highlighted by a runner-up finish in Detroit, Marcus Ericsson left to join Ganassi for his sophomore

Newly crowned six-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon said he was left highly impressed by Arrow McLaren SP’s Patricio O’Ward in the Mexican’s first full season in the series. The 2018 Indy Lights champion, O’Ward came into the season with just eight IndyCar starts to his name, having driven only half a season with Carlin in

Reigning Australian Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin says his IndyCar debut was “awesome” despite crashing out of the St Petersburg season finale. McLaughlin, who will join Team Penske full-time in the US series next season, made steady progress in the first half of the race moving from his 21st starting spot to 17th just before half

Newly-crowned IndyCar champion Scott Dixon says AJ Foyt’s outright title record of seven championships is “obviously going to be the goal” next season. Dixon and title rival Josef Newgarden survived a chaotic and bruising 100-laps at the St Petersburg Grand Prix to move from 11th and eighth on the grid to finish third and first

Scott Dixon clinched his sixth IndyCar championship in a thrilling final race of the season at St Petersburg, which was won by Dixon’s main title rival Josef Newgarden. The 2019 series champion was the only driver who could prevent Dixon from claiming his sixth title, but he needed to win the race and for Dixon

Rinus VeeKay, who will today earn IndyCar’s Rookie of the Year title, will remain at Ed Carpenter Racing for a second season in 2021. Last year’s Indy Lights runner-up has started turning his pace and aggression into results in recent races and his highlight came in the Harvest Grand Prix’s first race three weeks ago,

Josef Newgarden says he has not changed his approach to the IndyCar finale at St Petersburg, despite needing to win to have any chance of denying Scott Dixon the title. Neither driver made it through to the final ‘Fast Six’ segment of qualifying and will start from eighth (Newgarden) and 11th positions respectively. Defending series

Will Power says that he’s willing to give up a victory in the IndyCar Series finale at St. Petersburg to help title-challenging team-mate Josef Newgarden if the situation arises. Team Penske driver Newgarden is the only driver who can prevent Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon from clinching a sixth title, having trimmed the Kiwi’s championship

Will Power topped the final qualifying session of the 2020 IndyCar season at St Petersburg, where title contenders Josef Newgarden and Scott Dixon will start from eighth and 11th respectively. Team Penske driver Power set two laps good enough for pole position in the final ‘fast six’ qualifying session, with his last effort of a

Colton Herta headed an Andretti Autosport 1-2 in opening practice for the IndyCar season finale on the streets of St Petersburg as Scott McLaughlin impressed on his series debut. Seven months after the season was due to get underway at the track, before the escalating COVID-19 pandemic caused the event to be postponed and rescheduled

Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato will continue with the Rahal Letterman Lanigan team in next year’s IndyCar Series. The 43-year-old Japanese driver first raced for RLL in 2012 before four largely fruitless years with AJ Foyt Racing and a single season with Andretti Autosport, yielding the 2017 Indy 500, before returning to Bobby Rahal’s

McLaren would have considered signing Kevin Magnussen to its IndyCar team had it not already finalised its line-up for 2021, according to Zak Brown. Magnussen announced on Thursday that he would be leaving Haas at the end of the year after four seasons with the team, with his chances of remaining in F1 appearing slim.

Three-time Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin says he’ll be “doing cartwheels, going crazy” if he finishes in the top 10 on his IndyCar debut with Team Penske. McLaughlin, who earlier this month wrapped up his third consecutive Supercars title with DJR Team Penske, was due to make his IndyCar race debut on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Both IndyCar title contenders Josef Newgarden and Scott Dixon head into the finale uncertain of how strong their cars are on a street course given the lack of 2020 running. With the COVID-19 pandemic-caused cancellations of Long Beach, Detroit and Toronto, while St. Petersburg has been shifted from season-opener to season-closer, this weekend the IndyCar

Michael Andretti says he’s confident of Andretti Autosport maintaining a five-car programme in IndyCar next year and returning to the restarted Indy Lights series with four cars. Andretti’s multiple championship-winning and Indy 500-winning team has been the subject of much speculation during silly season, with rumours of the team cutting back from five cars to

Oliver Askew has been given clearance by the IndyCar medical team to return to action for this weekend’s season finale in St. Petersburg with Arrow McLaren SP. The reigning Indy Lights champion was forced to miss the Harvest Grand Prix two weeks ago after complaining of balance issues at the end of the second Mid-Ohio

Newly crowned Formula E champion Antonio Felix da Costa has been called up by Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing to test an IndyCar for the first time in his career. The DS Techeetah FE driver is set to drive the Honda-powered Dallara at Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama, which lost its 5 April slot on the

Felix Rosenqvist is set to leave Chip Ganassi Racing at the end of the IndyCar season to partner Pato O’Ward in the Arrow McLaren SP team in 2021. Multiple sources have confirmed to Autosport that the Swedish driver will next week end his time at Ganassi, where he made his race debut with the team

Pato O’Ward will remain with the Arrow McLaren SP team for the 2021 IndyCar season, having shown “incredible form this year” according to team co-owner Sam Schmidt. The 2018 Indy Lights champion has been one of the stars of IndyCar this year despite it being his first full season in the top tier of American

Three-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves is aiming to announce his 2021 plans in the next four weeks, with a return to IndyCar “the ideal” option. Castroneves, who is currently focusing on his IMSA title challenge with Acura Team Penske alongside Ricky Taylor, has been speaking with several IndyCar teams about returning full-time to the

Oliver Askew will not be retained by Arrow McLaren SP for 2021, but may still race for the team in the IndyCar finale at St. Petersburg. Reigning Indy Lights champion Askew had scored a podium at Iowa Speedway and was leading the rookie standings up until the August Indianapolis 500 when he suffered a heavy

Roger Penske says his team’s Supercars plans and the future of Scott McLaughlin are still undecided, ahead of the Kiwi’s entry into IndyCar’s season finale in a fourth Penske-run car. Toward the end of 2014, Penske entered the Supercars championship after buying a 51% stake in Dick Johnson Racing. The rebranded DJR Team Penske ran

2014 IndyCar champion Will Power will have a hand in the design of a new $175 million circuit in his hometown of Toowoomba. Plans for the Will Power Centre for Motorsport and Driver Training Excellence were formally unveiled last week, the Wagner Corporation leading the development with a $95 million pledge. The Queensland state government

After another frustrating weekend five-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon says the Chip Ganassi Racing team still has a tough job ahead to clinch the title at St Petersburg. Following on from two 10th place finishes at Mid-Ohio, Dixon could only bag a ninth and an eighth from the two races on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s

Will Power converted pole into victory at IndyCar’s Harvest Grand Prix at Indianapolis despite intense pressure from Colton Herta, as Josef Newgarden trimmed Scott Dixon’s points lead. Penske driver Power made a strong start to maintain the lead as Herta locked up at Turn 1 – but maintained second ahead of Andretti Autosport stablemate Alexander

IndyCar has pushed back the introduction of its hybrid power unit formula to 2023 in an effort to spread out costs for teams and manufacturers in an uncertain economy. The hybrid formula is part of a multi-year contract extension IndyCar has reached with Honda and Chevrolet, which promises a continuation of manufacturer competition and also

Will Power took pole at the Indianapolis road course for the second Harvest Grand Prix race, while championship contenders Josef Newgarden and Scott Dixon will start ninth and 15th respectively. In the first qualifying group, Alex Palou of Dale Coyne Racing with Team Goh used two fresh sets of red tyres to set a 1m09.2s

IndyCar owner Penske Entertainment has announced significant steps in its Race for Equality & Change initiative to improve diversity within the series and at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. These include a major expansion of its relationship with NXG Youth Motorsports (NXG), a non-profit organisation that introduces minority students to motorsport, and the appointment of a

Reigning IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden says he has “no room to be mediocre” and a “perfect” run if he is to beat Scott Dixon to the 2020 title. Newgarden claimed his third victory of the season in Friday’s opening Harvest GP race on the Indianapolis road course, when Chip Ganassi Racing’s five-time champ Dixon could