IndyCar rookie Felix Rosenqvist says his third-place on the St Petersburg grid felt like “a gift” not a result on merit. Rosenqvist has looked close to his reigning champion Chip Ganassi Racing team-mate Scott Dixon’s pace throughout pre-season testing and practice at the season-opener. He went on to beat Dixon to third on the grid

Team Penske’s Will Power took his eighth St Petersburg pole position ahead of the IndyCar season opener, edging team-mate Josef Newgarden in the closing stages. The Penske duo left it late into the six-minute final segment to take the top times away from Chip Ganassi Racing duo Felix Rosenqvist and Scott Dixon. Power’s time of

IndyCar Series team boss Trevor Carlin says his squad’s deal to assist McLaren’s Indianapolis 500 assault with Fernando Alonso “should be a win-win” for all concerned. Carlin confirmed the long-mooted deal in St Petersburg on Saturday morning. McLaren personnel, including Gil de Ferran and Bob Fernley, are following his team this weekend during the IndyCar

Robert Wickens says racing in IndyCar again remains his primary “dream” following the severe spinal injury he suffered in his Pocono crash last year. Wickens has been rehabilitating and documenting his fight to walk again since sustaining multiple injuries in the horrific crash in August 2018. This weekend in St Petersburg he is making his

Ryan Hunter-Reay put Andretti Autosport on top of the St Petersburg IndyCar practice times with the first one-minute lap of the weekend on Friday afternoon. Ed Carpenter Racing’s Spencer Pigot joined him in that bracket as all teams got their first taste of the softer-compound Firestones. Hunter-Reay’s team-mate Marco Andretti had been the early pacesetter

Australian racer James Davison will pilot a third entry for Dale Coyne Racing in this year’s Indianapolis 500. Davison, 32, will reunite with the team with which he contested the race in both 2015 and ’17 for this May’s 103rd running in association with Jonathan Byrd’s Racing, Hollinger MotorSport and Indy Lights squad Belardi Auto

Ganassi’s rookie signing Felix Rosenqvist was fastest in his first official IndyCar session in opening St Petersburg practice, while fellow Swedish newcomer and Formula 1 convert Marcus Ericsson was third. Rosenqvist was the first driver into the 1m02s bracket, as the rookies – who are granted an extra set of tyres for the weekend –

Reigning Indy Lights champion Patricio O’Ward will contest 12 IndyCar rounds with Carlin this year, including the Indy 500. The 19-year-old made his IndyCar debut with Harding Steinbrenner Racing at the Sonoma season finale last year, impressing by reaching the ‘Fast Six’ qualifying shootout at his first attempt, before finishing ninth in the race. He

Andretti Autosport does not head into the 2019 season as title favourite despite its resurgence last year, according to the team’s chief operating officer Rob Edwards. Alexander Rossi and Ryan Hunter-Reay finished second and fourth respectively in the championship standings last season, taking five wins and four pole positions between them. Team-mate Marco Andretti added

Marcus Ericsson is preparing for his IndyCar debut this weekend after joining Schmidt Peterson Motorsports from the Sauber Formula 1 team. Here, he describes the main differences between the championships. You’ve done five days in an IndyCar – or four-and-a-half days because of rain at Laguna Seca. Do you feel underprepared compared with your F1

Will Power feels he is in the greatest form of his IndyCar career and is aiming to double up on series titles and Indianapolis 500 victories this season. In 2018, the year he also won the Indy 500 for the first time, Power became the most successful IndyCar driver in Team Penske’s history and scored

Graham Rahal believes other racing championships cannot match IndyCar’s recent rise, and that it is one additional manufacturer away from “absolutely taking off”. Rahal, who has been in top line American open-wheel racing since he joined Newman Haas Lanigan Racing for Champ Car’s final season in 2007, says he has noticed significant improvements in IndyCar’s

Andretti Autosport believes the potential of driver Colton Herta is enough to justify its tie-up with Harding Steinbrenner Racing in 2019, after Herta impressed in IndyCar testing last month. Herta, son of Champ Car and IndyCar race winner Bryan, topped three of four sessions in IndyCar’s ‘Spring Training’ test at Austin, as HSR used Honda

Get unlimited access for free You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar’s 2019 season UK television coverage will switch to Sky Sports and be broadcast on its Formula 1 channel. The new multi-year agreement means that every IndyCar qualifying session and race – including the Indianapolis 500 – will be shown on

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar has overhauled Indianapolis 500 qualifying weekend so that both the front and back of the grid are decided on the Sunday. Last year ‘bumping’ took place on the Saturday, with the 33 fastest qualifiers going through to a second

Sage Karam will enter the Indianapolis 500 with Dreyer & Reinbold Racing for the fifth time in six years. Bar a full season with Ganassi in 2015, the 23-year-old’s IndyCar career so far has been focused on Indy 500 entries with DRR – starting with a ninth place on his debut five years ago. The

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pippa Mann will race in the 2019 Indianapolis 500 for Clauson-Marshall Racing. The US Auto Club National sprint car champion team has announced it will partner with Ross Motorsports, Indiana Donor Network and its Driven2SaveLives campaign to field an entry

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar is reintroducing the LED displays on cars to help fans follow on-track action and to aid its safety team as it attending to crashes in 2019. The previous-generation matrix LED system was ditched just four rounds into the 2018

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso will run the number 66 on his return to the Indianapolis 500 with McLaren this year. Alonso – who returns to complete the Indy 500 as the final part of his bid for the ‘Triple Crown’ of motorsport

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar has revealed plans to introduce a new cockpit protection device from this year’s Indianapolis 500, after declaring “work remains” before it can implement its windscreen solution. All cars taking part in an open test at Indianapolis in April will

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andretti Autosport driver Alexander Rossi finally loosened the stranglehold that Colton Herta’s Harding Steinbrenner Dallara-Honda had over IndyCar’s ‘Spring Training’ test at Austin in the final session. With his last flyer of the day, 2016 Indianapolis 500 winner and ’18

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Colton Herta was fastest for the third straight session in IndyCar’s ‘Spring Training’ test at Austin on Wednesday morning. The Harding Steinbrenner Racing Dallara-Honda driver left it until 13 minutes to go in the two-hour session before turning up the

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Colton Herta held onto the top spot in the solo Harding Steinbrenner Racing entry on day one of IndyCar’s ‘Spring Training’ test at Austin. Herta’s 1m46.6258s lap of the United States Grand Prix Formula 1 venue – which hosts IndyCar

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Colton Herta put Harding Steinbrenner Racing on top in the opening two hours of IndyCar’s ‘Spring Training’ pre-season test at Austin, with his final lap of the session. The Indy Lights runner-up’s best lap of 1m48.7443s around the 3.427-mile course

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andretti Autosport has announced a formal partnership with fellow IndyCar team Harding Steinbrenner Racing through its technology arm. Andretti supported Harding in its first full IndyCar season in 2018, providing at-track help in the season finale at Sonoma. But a

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar champion Scott Dixon believes his new Ganassi team-mate Felix Rosenqvist can cause as much of a stir in his rookie season as Robert Wickens did in 2018. DTM convert Wickens was sixth in the championship in his first IndyCar

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Indy Lights champion Patricio O’Ward says he is investigating every possible option for the 2019 IndyCar season after his last-minute split from the Harding Steinbrenner Racing team. O’Ward’s $1million prize for winning the feeder series comprises three IndyCar rides including

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning Indy Lights champion Patricio O’Ward has been released from his contract with Harding Steinbrenner Racing after just one IndyCar race. O’Ward made a startling IndyCar debut with what was then Harding Racing at the Sonoma finale last year, qualifying

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar’s first open test of the 2019 campaign at Laguna Seca was the first step in figuring out the answers to the key questions formed over the off-season. The biggest question is whether reigning champion Scott Dixon and Chip Ganassi

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Charlie Kimball will compete in just five IndyCar races with Carlin in 2019, including the Indianapolis 500. Kimball confirmed on social media that he will also race at Texas, Pocono, St Petersburg and Laguna Seca. The Florida-based arm of Carlin