The two manufacturers are represented by sister brands Cadillac and Acura, respectively, in the IMSA SportsCar Championship, where they just completed the maiden season of a hybrid-infused GTP class over nine races in 2023. In the build-up, the series allowed each manufacturer to create its own powerplant, with rules in place such as a total

Grosjean – who has 1.4million followers on X, formerly known as Twitter – will join Canapino, the 33-year-old former Argentinian Touring Car sensation at Juncos-Holinger following his split with Andretti Autosport. Canapino remains in the team’s Chevrolet-powered #78 entry for his second season in IndyCar after scoring a best finish of 12th at St Petersburg, Texas and

After IndyCar’s Indianapolis Road Course race in May, Romain Grosjean was fourth in points with only Alex Palou, Pato O’Ward and Marcus Ericsson ahead of him. He’d scored two poles and two runner-up finishes, even though he’d been taken out of the lead battle in the St Petersburg season opener by Scott McLaughlin, and crashed

The former Formula 1 driver will race the #77 Chevrolet-powered entry, replacing the recently vacated seat of Callum Ilott and teaming alongside soon-to-be series sophomore Argentinian former touring car star Agustin Canapino. “I’ve been closely following JHR’s ascension in the past few seasons,” Grosjean said. “The team has showcased significant growth, and I am eager

Team Penske’s two-time IndyCar champion made his top-class debut in IMSA at Petit Le Mans, partnering Matt Campbell and Felipe Nasr in the factory Porsche entry which finished fourth. When asked to explain how driving the 963 compared to an IndyCar, he replied: “It’s all pretty challenging compared to where I’ve come from. The IndyCar

The Dane was hired by Ed Carpenter Racing after impressing in a recent test at Barber Motorsports Park, and will make his IndyCar debut next season with a road and street course deal in addition to contesting the Indianapolis 500 in a third car. Team owner Ed Carpenter will take over Rasmussen’s regular #20 machine

Fittipaldi will prioritise his RLL programme next year, but he still has the scope to retain his links with Haas, for whom he competed in the last two races of the 2020 season as replacement for the injured Romain Grosjean. With the IndyCar season ending on 15 September, he will potentially be free for the

The 2020 Formula 2 runner-up and former Ferrari Academy driver made his IndyCar debut with Ricardo Juncos’s team in the final three rounds of 2021, and subsequently finished 20th and 16th in points during full-time campaigns with the team. In a statement, the team said ‘both parties have mutually decided to part ways, effective immediately’

The challenging schedule for the 19-year-old driver has been put together by CGR’s managing director Mike Hull. It begins with an IndyCar evaluation on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course (27-28 October), followed by an FIA World Endurance Championship rookie test at Bahrain International Circuit (5 November). He will then test a previous generation Formula

There is no doubt Kyle Kirkwood was one of the breakout stars in IndyCar in 2023. In his second year competing in North America’s premier open-wheel championship, first with Andretti, the 24-year-old Floridian visited Victory Lane for the first time in his career on the Streets of Long Beach, and then repeated the feat in at Nashville.

The 23-year-old Dane will contest the road and street events in the team’s #20 Chevrolet-powered entry, along with being in a third entry for the 108th Running of the Indianapolis 500. Rasmussen, who was only nine years old when he claimed his first karting championship in Denmark, arrived in the United States in 2018 and

Bobby Rahal, co-owner of RLL, revealed the team has retained the former Red Bull reserve driver as part of a plan to eventually expand to a fourth entry. “We exercised our option with Juri,” Rahal said. “We see Juri as a long-term play as well. “We’d like to run a fourth car. We’re not making

The 27-year-old, who is currently a reserve and test driver for Haas Formula 1 Team, will drive the team’s #30 Honda-powered entry. Fittipaldi, the Brazilian-American grandson of two-time F1 world champion, 1989 IndyCar champion and two-time Indy 500 winner Emerson Fittipaldi, returns to the series after having made nine starts in 2018 and 2021 for

Kirkwood is coming off his second season in North America’s premier open-wheel championship, and first with Andretti in which he captured two victories, including the first of his career in the Grand Prix of Long Beach in April. When the 25-year-old captured the Indy NXT championship in 2021, he became the first driver to ever

The hybrid assist unit, which is a common system fitted to the current 2.2-litre engines, is set for competition next season. Since the 2023 season concluded on 10 September at Laguna Seca, preparation has ramped up with the new addition wrung out at all the different track disciplines, including Gateway (short oval), Barber Motorsports Park

Canapino will remain in the team’s Chevrolet-powered #78 entry for his second season in IndyCar, having taken a best finish of 12th at St. Petersburg, Texas and Toronto in 2023. The 33-year-old came into the series having zero experience on the tracks, and with a background as a multi-time touring car champion in Argentina, no

Newgarden co-drove in the 10-hour sportscar classic, which ended the 2023 IMSA SportsCar Championship on Saturday, with Felipe Nasr and Matt Campbell in a Porsche Penske Motorsport 963. They finished fourth in the LMDh machine, which also races in the World Endurance Championship with the factory Penske squad. When asked if he’d like to race

It was a season of surprisingly few race winners, with Alex Palou sweeping to the championship with a round to spare and Josef Newgarden cleaning up on the majority of the oval tracks.  More: The factors that fuelled Palou’s 2023 IndyCar domination But there were still two first-time visitors to victory lane, in Kyle Kirkwood and

The 2022 Indy NXT champion was forced to sit on the sidelines for the majority of the season, but turned his only opportunity into a proverbial golden ticket heading into next year. While other Indy NXT champions received a $1 million prize to move up to the IndyCar Series, he was forced to accept a

It wasn’t supposed to be this easy. IndyCar’s USP is the high number of potential race winners in its pack for such a high-level open-wheel racing series. But Alex Palou defied this logic in 2023, making his second title appear routine on track with five victories. Off the track, however, it was an altogether more

The 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion stepped into the No. 6 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet (normally piloted by Alexander Rossi) and was efficient going through each of the three phases, doing 72 laps in total with a fastest of 217.898mph.  “It was fun,” said Larson, who will drive the No. 17 entry for the team next

Palou dominated the 2023 IndyCar season, scoring five wins, 10 podiums and two poles en route to his second title, which he secured with a round to spare. Despite this, Palou remains critical of his own performances and dismissed the notion that he is a complete driver. “It’s not super far, but it’s far enough

The 29-year-old Briton will be one of three participants on Wednesday, alongside Chip Ganassi Racing’s Marcus Armstrong and Linus Lundqvist, with 2021 NASCAR Cup champion, Kyle Larson, getting his first taste of IndyCar machinery with Arrow McLaren on Thursday. The programme consists of three controlled speed phases at the 2.5-mile superspeedway that are required ahead

The 37-year-old Swiss-born Frenchman shared the latest update via social media, with a statement that also acknowledged his departure from the team, which recently became known as Andretti Global. The former Formula 1 driver said he “expected to continue racing with the fine people of Andretti Autosport in the coming years,” adding that he was

The formation will include focus on the commercial side and “may evolve over time,” according to a joint release from the respective teams. Additionally, there will be a combined strategic focus. With both organizations being powered by Team Chevy, it provides a more seamless opportunity to also look at the possibility to develop talent, extending

Gavin Ward’s title is changing from racing director to team principal, which comes as a reflection of his responsibilities of overseeing the programme. Ward, who joined the Arrow McLaren team in July 2022 and took on his current role ahead of the 2023 season, will continue to report directly to McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown.

Argentina has been under heavy consideration to host IndyCar’s first race outside of North America since Sao Paulo in 2013. Conversations and interest increased after Ricardo Juncos, the Argentine IndyCar team owner, pulled off demonstration runs last November at Autodromo Termas de Rio Hondo in Santiago del Estero and Autodromo Oscar y Juan Galvez in

The Florida-born driver joined the team at the start of 2023, his sophomore year in the IndyCar Series, and earned two victories at Long Beach and Nashville, driving the Andretti’s #27 Honda-powered entry. He finished up the year with five additional top 10s, a pole and led 88 laps en route to 11th in the

The writing had been on the wall for several years, but the inevitable separation of the IndyCar Series and Texas Motor Speedway finally came with the arrival of the 2024 schedule. A relationship that began in 1997, the two transitioned through nearly every phase possible in the best and worst ways. The reality, though, is

Askew and newly crowned Indy NXT champion Christian Rasmussen will both test with ECR at the 2.3-mile track with the aim of earning a seat in the #20 Chevrolet alongside Rinus VeeKay for the 2024 season.  After last competing in the series in 2021, Askew told Autosport: “There’s nothing that would make me happier than