Josef Newgarden jumped to the front with an inspired Penske strategy call and then fended off Alexander Rossi to win the Texas Motor Speedway IndyCar race. Championship leader Newgarden had spent the first half of the race mostly in the lower part of the top 10, but pitted to top up with fuel during the

Takuma Sato claimed his second pole position of the 2019 IndyCar Series season in qualifying at Texas Motor Speedway. The Rahal Letterman Lanigan driver, who won from pole at Barber Motorsports Park two months ago, produced a two-lap average of 220.250mph. Thursday practice pacesetter and reigning champion Scott Dixon’s first lap put him on course

Carlin driver Max Chilton has stepped away from driving duties for the remaining oval races on this year’s IndyCar schedule. The former Marussia Formula 1 driver joined IndyCar for 2016 and has started all but one race held since then, after failing to qualify for this year’s Indianapolis 500. He also scored his best IndyCar

Fernando Alonso has no plans to contest the full IndyCar season next year as part of his on-going bid to complete the unofficial triple crown of motorsport. The two-time Formula 1 world champion has revealed that if he returns to the Indy 500 in 2020, after his failure to qualify this year with McLaren, it

Ex-Formula 1 driver Marcus Ericsson says he did not expect his IndyCar learning curve to be as steep as it has been, after securing his first podium at Detroit. Ericsson finished second in the Detroit finale after timing his three-stop strategy around the various caution periods that arose during the race. A late red flag

IndyCar champion Scott Dixon says his first victory of 2019 in the Detroit finale was “redemption” after “feeling a bit of an idiot” for his first race crash. Dixon failed to finish his race since Texas in 2017 and his crash in the Detroit opener meant it was the first time he had not reached

Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon bounced back from an opening race error to win a crash-strewn Detroit finale, as ex-Formula 1 driver Marcus Ericsson took a first IndyCar podium. Dixon, who crashed out of Saturday’s wet/dry encounter, cycled to the front in an attrition-filled 70-lap race on Sunday to propel himself back into title contention.

Penske’s Josef Newgarden and Andretti Autosport’s Alexander Rossi continued to dominate IndyCar’s Detroit Grand Prix weekend by again locking out the front row, with the former sealing pole position. Newgarden had to overcome group two qualifying, which was red-flagged after rainwater from the tyre barrier and tarpaulin at Turn 6 suddenly spilt across the track

Scott Dixon says he and Ganassi have no choice but to take a more aggressive approach in terms of aiming for race wins, as his IndyCar title hopes faded in Detroit. Five-time champion Dixon claimed only 17th at the Indianapolis 500 and made a rare error in the opening Detroit race on Saturday. Dixon clipped

Josef Newgarden narrowly beat Alexander Rossi to victory during a caution-filled wet/dry first IndyCar race of the weekend in Detroit. Team Penske driver Newgarden was a low-key third through the opening stint but a fortuitously-timed sole pitstop ensured he leapt Rossi, and he held off his Andretti rival through to the chequered flag. The start

The first of this weekend’s two IndyCar Series races at Belle Isle has been delayed indefinitely due to thunderstorms. The opening Detroit race was scheduled for 15:50 local time but a delay of at least an hour is expected due to the weather conditions. An advisory for fans at the circuit stated: “Inclement weather is

Andretti Autosport’s Alexander Rossi claimed pole position for the first race of IndyCar’s double-header around the streets of Belle Isle in Detroit. An acrobatic lap from Rossi in the faster Group 2 session netted the American his sixth career pole, as he beat Scott Dixon by two-tenths of the session. Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden was

Alexander Rossi topped Friday IndyCar practice in Detroit, but Indianapolis 500 winner Simon Pagenaud halted the afternoon session by smacking a wall. The red flag for that incident prevented most of Rossi’s rivals setting a representative time on the alternate compound tires. Rossi’s Andretti Autosport Dallara-Honda had jumped half a second clear of the first

IndyCar rookie and new Red Bull junior Patricio O’Ward will not contest the remaining two oval races he was originally lined up to enter with Carlin. Reigning Indy Lights champion O’Ward signed to drive for Carlin this season after breaking his ties with Harding Steinbrenner Racing in February. Originally O’Ward was supposed to start all

McLaren CEO Zak Brown says that the company’s future involvement in the Indianapolis 500 is not tied to a decision by Fernando Alonso to continue with the team. Alonso failed to qualify for this year’s race after facing a catalogue of problems and McLaren is reviewing how and if it will tackle the race in

Graham Rahal says IndyCar rival Sebastien Bourdais’ driving was dangerous ahead of their Indianapolis 500 collision that led to a multi-car accident and a red flag. Rahal was trying to overtake Bourdais on the inside when they tangled in the closing stages. “I just got a killer run, and I was lifting to just manage

IndyCar team owner Roger Penske has dismissed suggestions that his Indianapolis 500 winner Simon Pagenaud could lose his seat for 2020. Pagenaud won the IndyCar title in his second year with Penske in 2016, but went winless last season – leading to speculation that he might be dropped for his Indy 500 sparring partner Alexander

Alexander Rossi felt the main reason for his Indianapolis 500 defeat was a Honda straightline-speed deficit, and he was also fuming over pitstop delays and backmarker Oriol Servia’s driving. Rossi charged into contention in the second half of the race, and was achieving better fuel mileage in his Honda-powered Andretti Autosport car than eventual winner

Penske’s Simon Pagenaud won a ferocious late fight with Alexander Rossi to claim his first victory in the Indianapolis 500. Poleman Pagenaud had controlled most of the first half of the race, but Andretti Autosport driver Rossi’s car came on stronger after the third round of pitstops and began to rapidly advance towards the front.

Marco Andretti says being “less fixated” on lap times leaves him well-placed to end his family’s Indianapolis 500 drought in the 2019 race. Andretti is driving a dayglo-orange Andretti-Herta Autosport Dallara-Honda as he marks the 50th anniversary of his grandfather Mario’s Indy 500 win in the STP-liveried Hawk. Mario made 29 Indy 500 starts, his

Kyle Kaiser and Juncos Racing went from their Indianapolis 500 entry being in jeopardy to knocking Fernando Alonso and McLaren out of the race. David Malsher joins Julia Piquet at Indy to recount the full story of the underdog combination that began practice week reeling from sponsor pullouts then recovered from a crash to pull

AJ Foyt Racing driver Tony Kanaan led the last on-track session before the 2019 Indianapolis 500 as IndyCar teams made final tweaks and preparations on ‘Carb Day’. Following morning rain, the traditional Friday session was delayed 15 minutes and shortened to 80 minutes. Pacesetting 2013 Indy 500 winner Kanaan was delighted not so much with

IndyCar will introduce an aeroscreen cockpit protection device developed in partnership with the Red Bull Formula 1 team’s Advanced Technologies arm for the 2020 season. The ballistic screen will be anchored by titanium framework, and is the second phase of IndyCar’s driver safety enhancement after the recent addition of the Advanced Frontal Protection device. The

Any future McLaren Indianapolis project will be under its own banner, but it will consider a “strategic alliance” with a leading IndyCar team says CEO Zak Brown. In 2017 Fernando Alonso drove a full Andretti Autosport entry with McLaren branding at Indy, but McLaren opted to go it alone in ’19 bar some technical support

The underfunded Juncos Racing IndyCar team that knocked McLaren and Fernando Alonso out of the Indianapolis 500 has secured multiple new sponsors leading up to the race. At the start of Indy 500 practice week, team owner Ricardo Juncos revealed that his two main sponsors for the team’s second IndyCar race of the season had

From reliability problems to track time lost because the spare car was the wrong shade of orange, McLaren’s Indianapolis 500 project with Fernando Alonso went off the rails fast. Motorsport.com’s US editor David Malsher tells the full story of the list of disasters that led to the incredible scenes of proven Formula 1 champions Alonso

McLaren CEO Zak Brown says a “snowball effect” of mistakes led to its shock failure to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 with Fernando Alonso. Reports had hinted at a string of mistakes during the Indy build-up that included a missing steering wheel at the team’s first test at Texas Motor Speedway, delays caused by a

Fernando Alonso did not qualify for the 2019 Indianapolis 500. But 33 drivers ranging from rookies to past winners did and will contest IndyCar’s greatest race on Sunday. In the latest edition of the Autosport podcast, Tom Errington and Matt Beer join Edd Straw to look ahead to the Indy 500. As well as picking

McLaren did the right thing in taking Fernando Alonso’s shock failure to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 “on the chin”, reckons its Formula 1 driver Lando Norris. Alonso and McLaren entered this year’s Indy 500 hoping to be able to challenge for victory and take a win that would secure the two-time world champion the

Fernando Alonso and McLaren’s shock failure to qualify for the 2019 Indianapolis 500 prompted immediate questions about what could have gone so badly wrong. While Alonso was a contender for victory on his first attempt at the great race in 2017 until his Honda engine failed, his second visit to Indianapolis could hardly have gone