Two-time IRL race-winner Robbie Buhl is part of a new IndyCar Series team, Citrone/Buhl Autosport, that aims to contest this year’s Grand Prix of Indianapolis and the Indianapolis 500. The team is a partnership between former Dreyer & Reinbold Racing co-owner Buhl, who beat the likes of Adrian Fernandez and Bryan Herta to the 1992

James Hinchcliffe will return to Andretti Autosport to contest at least three IndyCar rounds this season, including the Indianapolis 500, after being dropped by Arrow McLaren SP last October. The 33-year-old Canadian, who won three times in as many seasons with the team between 2012 and 2014, will drive a sixth Andretti entry backed by

IndyCar owner Roger Penske has announced the prize fund for the Indianapolis 500 will rise by $2million, and that the controversial guaranteed starting spots concept will not be adopted. The overall pot for this year’s race will be $15m, the biggest in the event’s history, while the winner will receive at least $2m. While qualifying

Penske’s two-time Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin will take part in IndyCar’s oval rookie test at Texas on Friday. McLaughlin drove on both days of IndyCar’s ‘spring training’ test at Austin on Tuesday and Wednesday in preparation for his debut in the Indianapolis road course race, and will be back in Penske’s #2 car this week

Penske’s Will Power played down the issue of rain water leaking into his cockpit from IndyCar’s new-for-2020 aeroscreen during the ongoing test at Austin. At the two-day test at the Circuit of the Americas beginning on Tuesday, drivers were met with rain and fog as well as low temperatures, meaning most drivers did not run

Third-generation IndyCar racer Marco Andretti hopes that returning for a second spell at Rob Wilson’s renowned driving school will help him rediscover his best form. Andretti, who races for the Andretti Herta Autosport team run by his father, Michael, scored a best finish of sixth as he finished 16th in the standings last season, which

IMSA sportscar champion Felipe Nasr and McLaren Formula 1 test and development driver Sergio Sette Camara will share the #31 Carlin-Chevrolet IndyCar entry in 2020. Nasr’s best results in junior formulae came with the Trevor Carlin-run team, winning the British F3 championship in 2011, and finishing third in the 2014 GP2 (now Formula 2) championship

Former Formula 1 driver Max Chilton will race for Carlin at all 12 road and street courses and the Indianapolis 500 during the 2020 IndyCar season. After failing to qualify for last year’s Indy 500, a race where he finished fourth and led more laps than any other driver in 2017, Chilton elected to stand

McLaren has revealed the livery in which its cars will run in on its return to IndyCar. The design features prominent use of McLaren’s traditional papaya orange, which is complimented by black paint on the nose, wings and sidepods. McLaren withdrew from US open-wheel racing at the end of 1979 when the Ron Dennis/John Barnard

Team Penske’s three-time IndyCar champion and four-time Indy 500 winner Rick Mears believes Supercars racer Scott McLaughlin has the talent to succeed in an IndyCar. Penske confirmed earlier this week that double Supercars champion McLaughlin – who races for DJR Team Penske in Australia – will make his IndyCar debut in the Indianapolis road course

Double Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin will make his IndyCar debut with Penske on the Indianapolis road course. The DJR Team Penske Supercars driver – who tested for Penske at Sebring last month – will campaign the #2 Team Penske-Chevrolet as reigning IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden takes over the #1 for 2020. “This is an amazing

Four-time Champ Car champion Sebastien Bourdais will contest a limited IndyCar schedule with AJ Foyt Racing in 2020, sharing a car with outgoing veteran Tony Kanaan and rookie Dalton Kellett. Bourdais, whose main campaign this year is in the IMSA SportsCar Championship with JDC-Miller Motorsports after he lost his IndyCar drive at Dale Coyne Racing,

Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet co-owner Sam Schmidt says IndyCar ‘deserves and needs’ Fernando Alonso to contest the Indianapolis 500, after rumours suggested Honda rejected plans for Andretti Autosport to run Alonso. Andretti ran the two-time Formula 1 world champion’s entry with McLaren in the 2017 edition of the race, at which Alonso qualified fifth and was

Former IndyCar and NASCAR racer John Andretti has died at the age of 56 after a long battle with colon cancer. Andretti revealed three years ago that he was battling stage four colon cancer, and while a strong course of chemotherapy that year led to him being given the all-clear, it returned in Spring 2018.

One-time IndyCar champion and 2013 Indianapolis 500 winner Tony Kanaan will contest a five-round programme with AJ Foyt Racing in 2020, which will be his last season in the series. Kanaan will drive Foyt’s #14 car at all five oval events, four of which he has won previously. A press release announcing the 2004 champion’s

Ex-Formula 2 racer Santino Ferrucci will continue with Dale Coyne Racing for 2020 NTT IndyCar Series, and now occupies the Vasser-Sullivan entry vacated by Sebastien Bourdais. Ferrucci will drive the #18 SealMaster-sponsored car, having spent his first full season in the category piloting the #19 car – which is now occupied by ex-Super Formula racer

One-time race winner Charlie Kimball has landed a full-time IndyCar drive with AJ Foyt Racing in 2020, having contested only a handful of rounds last season. Kimball spent the first seven years of his IndyCar career with Chip Ganassi Racing, before switching to Carlin for the team’s inaugural season at the top of U.S. open-wheel

Penske has admitted that Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin could make his IndyCar race debut in 2020, following his successful first test at Sebring on Tuesday. McLaughlin tested a Penske-run Indycar at Sebring and lapped just one second slower than the pacesetting time of 52.3 seconds set by Indy Lights champion Rinus Veekay for Ed Carpenter

Penske’s two-time Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin says his neck was “torched” after testing an IndyCar for the first time on Monday. McLaughlin, who won the 2018 and 2019 Supercars titles with DJR Team Penske, completed “around 140 laps” of the short course at Sebring with Penske’s IndyCar squad as part of the championship’s rookie testing

McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown says he made “pretty stupid” mistakes during the team’s failed 2019 Indianapolis 500 assault, but will “do things differently” during its 2020 IndyCar campaign. Though last year’s entry was McLaren’s second Indy 500 attempt with double Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso, it decided to run its own programme rather

The Penske Corporation has completed its purchase of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, IndyCar and IMS Productions. It was revealed last November that Penske – which competes in IndyCar and at the Indianapolis 500 with its own team – had agreed to buy the three businesses, and the deal has now been completed. Penske Corporation becomes

New Dale Coyne Racing driver Alex Palou says securing an IndyCar seat was “a dream and a goal to fulfil” for two years. Palou impressed the outfit during a test at Mid-Ohio in July, but team owner Dale Coyne admitted earlier this month he was worried Honda would decide to keep the Spaniard in Super

Super Formula race winner Alex Palou will compete in the 2020 IndyCar Series, driving for Dale Coyne Racing in a link-up with Le Mans 24 Hours-winning squad Team Goh. As previously reported by Autosport, Palou was on a DCR shortlist that included ex-Schmidt Peterson Motorsports driver James Hinchcliffe, left without a seat at the new

After a long-term tie-up with Sebastien Bourdais at both Newman/Haas Racing and Dale Coyne Racing, Craig Hampson will join Arrow McLaren SP as race and R&D engineer for 2020. Hampson, who has fulfilled a similar role in the past at Andretti Autosport, has accumulated more than 30 wins, four Indy car (Champ Car) titles and

Former Indycar driver and motorsport safety innovator Bill Simpson has died following a stroke. Between 1968 and 1977, Simpson made a total of 52 Indycar starts, with a best finish of sixth place at Milwaukee in 1970. His earlier drag racing exploits first triggered his interest in safety after a severe crash in 1958 left

Reigning Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin will test a Penske-run Indycar at Sebring next month, driving a top-line single-seater for the first time. The DJR Team Penske driver has been continually linked to a NASCAR future with Penske, with team owner Roger Penske stating that any switch to NASCAR would be done gradually and through the

Conor Daly will compete in IndyCar road and street course races for Ed Carpenter Racing in 2020, and will also drive a third car in the Indianapolis 500. It means Daly will race in all but four races of the 2020 IndyCar season, handing over the car to team owner Ed Carpenter for the Texas,

Dale Coyne has confirmed that James Hinchcliffe, Super Formula’s Alex Palou and Formula 2’s Sergio Sette Camara are on his shortlist of drivers to replace Sebastien Bourdais for 2020. Hinchcliffe, a six-time IndyCar race winner and 2016 Indy 500 polesitter, found himself dropped by Arrow McLaren SP in October as the team elected to replace

Sebastien Bourdais will leave the Dale Coyne Racing IndyCar squad following the recent collapse of a proposed sponsorship deal for the 2020 season. Four-time Champ Car champion Bourdais has raced for Coyne for the past three seasons, and recently tested IndyCar’s new aeroscreen protection device with the team. The split is expected to be formally

2019 Indy Lights runner-up Rinus VeeKay has been announced as the driver of Ed Carpenter Racing’s #21 entry for the 2020 IndyCar season. The 19-year-old Dutchman racked up six wins and seven pole positions for Juncos Racing in Indy Lights this year, and impressed Carpenter in his initial IndyCar tests at Portland and Mid-Ohio. He