One-time IndyCar champion Will Power says he “won’t play games” and influence the title fight between his Penske team-mates Josef Newgarden and Simon Pagenaud, as well as Andretti’s Alexander Rossi. Power, who finished second in testing at Laguna Seca on Thursday, says he will help Penske in the title fight, but only by taking the

Alexander Rossi says qualifying for this weekend’s IndyCar double-points season finale will be “critical” as overtaking at the series’ return to Laguna Seca is expected to be tough. Laguna Seca returns for the first time since 2004, and while the current generation of Indycar allows for closer racing than its predecessor, overtaking is expected to

Chip Ganassi Racing’s rookie star Felix Rosenqvist says the IndyCar Dallara-Honda is the most difficult car he has needed to master in his career. Despite not turning 28 until November, Rosenqvist has enjoyed a remarkably varied career since winning the Formula Renault Asia title back in 2007. His path since then has encompassed Formula Renault,

IndyCar plans to conduct its first on-track test with its Red Bull Advanced Technologies-developed aeroscreen cockpit protection device at Indianapolis next month. A full-day test session has been scheduled for October 2 on the oval, and driving duties will be shared between Ganassi’s five-time Indycar champion Scott Dixon and Penske driver Will Power. Dixon originally

IndyCar leader Josef Newgarden says he is not “very comfortable” heading into the final round with a 41-point margin over prime rival Alexander Rossi given the series’ double points system. Usually an IndyCar race win awards 50 points, but the bigger score available for Laguna Seca later this month means Andretti Autosport driver Rossi can

IndyCar team boss Sam Schmidt was disappointed Marcus Ericsson was an unused substitute by Alfa Romeo at Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix, and reckons his driver is “pretty pissed” too. Ericsson missed the penultimate round of the IndyCar season at Portland after being released by his Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsport team to fulfil his reserve

Penske’s Will Power took victory in IndyCar’s Portland race, while team-mate Josef Newgarden’s fifth place finish ensures he heads to the Laguna Seca season finale with a commanding championship lead. Polesitter Colton Herta comfortably headed the chasing pack, with Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon and Power in close contention in what became a two-stop race

IndyCar’s 2020 calendar includes a return to Richmond for the first time since 2009, replacing Pocono after its seven-year run on the schedule. Richmond hosted IndyCar racing from 2001 to ’09 but fell off the calendar due to the costs of putting on the event and a lack of sponsorship. Pocono had come under fire

James Hinchcliffe will stay on with what will become McLaren Racing SP into the 2020 IndyCar Series season. McLaren’s new partnership with what is currently Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsport means a switch from Honda to Chevrolet engines. Hinchcliffe, an SPM driver since 2015, has long-standing ties with Honda and well-placed sources had suggested American Honda

Harding Steinbrenner Racing’s Colton Herta secured the second pole position of his rookie IndyCar season in qualifying at Portland, nudging out Will Power with the last lap of the session. Herta, who also took pole at Road America, initially completed a series of laps on the slower, black-walled Firestone tyres in the early stages of

Sebastien Bourdais topped the second practice at IndyCar’s Portland round moments before crashing, while Colton Herta set the quickest lap across the two sessions. Bourdais’ Dale Coyne Racing-run car had just edged prior pacesetter Will Power of Penske by 0.0289s when he locked up going into the final corner and hit the tyre wall. But

Ex-Formula 1 driver Marcus Ericsson admits his IndyCar future is uncertain now his Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports team has joined forces with McLaren for 2020. The former Sauber driver switched to IndyCar for 2019 following the loss of his F1 drive and retained links to F1 by becoming Alfa Romeo’s third driver. Ericsson is 17th

Penske’s Josef Newgarden has hit out at IndyCar rookie Santino Ferrucci for causing the championship contender to spin at the last corner of the Gateway race. Dale Coyne Racing’s Ferrucci had led 97 laps of the total 248 laps before he dropped to sixth due to an untimely caution but recovered to fourth at the

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s Takuma Sato says the support he has received since his involvement in a multi-car accident at Pocono has helped make his IndyCar Gateway victory more special. Sato came under fire from some quarters who believed he was the instigator of the five-car accident on the first lap of the last IndyCar

Takuma Sato held off Ed Carpenter to take victory in IndyCar’s Gateway race, just a week after shouldering the blame for causing a lap-one crash at Pocono. Sato qualified fifth but was forced to climb from the back of the field after running wide on marbles early on, cycling into the lead near the finish

Josef Newgarden took his eighth career pole for the IndyCar round at Gateway, while title rival Alexander Rossi will start the race from 11th on the grid. Newgarden, who was champion for Team Penske-Chevrolet in 2017 – winning that season’s Gateway round – set a two-lap average of 186.508mph to beat the provisional pole time

The Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing IndyCar team has defended its driver Takuma Sato over his part in the five-car opening lap crash at Pocono last weekend. Andretti duo Alexander Rossi and Ryan Hunter-Reay ran side-by-side with Sato on the opening lap heading towards the second corner before the RLLR driver appeared to squeeze Rossi, leading

Reigning IndyCar champion Scott Dixon, race winner Will Power and Indianapolis 500 victor Simon Pagenaud have defended the Pocono tri-oval after an airborne crash for the second successive year. Takuma Sato was accused by Alexander Rossi of moving down into him, in an incident which also collected Ryan Hunter-Reay, James Hinchcliffe and Felix Rosenqvist, the

IndyCar title contender Alexander Rossi slammed fellow Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato for causing a five-car crash at Pocono a year on from Robert Wickens’ devastating accident at the track. Rossi, after a poor start from the front row, was drafted down to Turn 2 by Andretti Autosport team-mate Ryan Hunter-Reay on the inside and

Will Power secured his first victory of the IndyCar season for Team Penske, as the race at Pocano was abandoned for weather and featured a huge crash at the start. Power moved up to third before the race was red flagged on the opening lap after an incident which involved five of the cars in

IndyCar championship leader Josef Newgarden will start tomorrow’s race at Pocono from pole position after rainfall led to the cancellation of qualifying at the tri-oval. The opening practice session was initially delayed after low cloud cover stopped the medical helicopter from getting to the circuit. Around an hour into the delay, IndyCar officials sent the

IndyCar race winner Colton Herta looks set to leave the Harding Steinbrenner team for the 2020 season, with Andretti Autosport and Arrow McLaren SP eager to sign the rookie. Herta scored a pole position at Road America and won at the Circuit of the Americas earlier in the season, and is considered one of the

Leaving Honda for Chevrolet was a “big negative” in Schmidt Peterson Motorsports’ partnership with McLaren in IndyCar, but the deal was a “no-brainer”, according to team boss Sam Schmidt. Schmidt’s team will merge with McLaren for a full season of IndyCar next year under the Arrow McLaren Racing SP banner with Chevrolet power, in what

Fernando Alonso is “yet to show interest” in a full season of IndyCar competition, according to McLaren Formula 1 CEO Zak Brown. McLaren will partner with Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports in a two-car IndyCar team next year, which will mark its first full season in America’s top single-seater category since 1979. Alonso was part of

Sam Schmidt hopes to find a way for James Hinchcliffe to remain with his IndyCar team despite its 2020 McLaren/Chevrolet deal potentially clashing with his Honda backing. Hinchcliffe, now in his fifth year with what is currently Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, is currently under contract with the team through to the end of the 2020

McLaren will enter the IndyCar Series full-time from 2020 in partnership with Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, running two Chevrolet-powered cars. Double CART champion Gil de Ferran will lead the management of the new programme. McLaren, which last ran a full-season ‘works’ team in top-line American single-seater racing in 1979, began its current IndyCar foray when

Conor Daly will return to Andretti Autosport for IndyCar’s 2019 season finale at Laguna Seca. Daly drove for Andretti at the 2019 Indianapolis 500 and finished 10th on his first outing for the IndyCar team. He then subbed for Max Chilton at Carlin for the oval races after the ex-Formula 1 driver opted against racing

The IndyCar Series has delayed its next engine formula until 2022 so it can integrate a hybrid system in a bid to attract more manufacturers to join Honda and Chevrolet. The hybrid system will work in parallel with the Ilmor-built Chevrolet and Honda Performance Development-built Honda engines to produce more than “900 horsepower”. IndyCar’s new

Indy Lights championship leader Oliver Askew says his test IndyCar test with Chip Ganassi Racing in a current-spec IndyCar next week can “open doors” and is the “biggest opportunity” he has had in his career. Askew, 22, has impressed in his junior career, winning the Mazda Road to Indy Shootout at Laguna Seca in 2016

Ryan Hunter-Reay says he was “baffled” by IndyCar points’ leader Josef Newgarden’s late attempt to steal a podium at Mid-Ohio. Hunter-Reay ended an 11-race streak without a podium to seal third behind the duelling Chip Ganassi Racing-run cars of Scott Dixon and Felix Rosenqvist, but a last lap clash threatened to ruin his race. At