Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Indy Lights champion Patricio O’Ward believes if he and Harding Racing can “put everything together” then he can be challenging for wins in his first IndyCar season. The 19-year-old Mexican caused a sensation when he made the ‘Fast Six’ pole shootout in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Force India Formula 1 deputy team principal Bob Fernley has been named president of McLaren’s IndyCar programme. McLaren announced during the Brazilian Grand Prix weekend that Fernando Alonso would return to the Indianapolis 500 in 2019 with McLaren under a new

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jordan King will compete in the 2019 Indianapolis 500 with IndyCar team Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. King made his IndyCar debut with Ed Carpenter Racing in 2018, driving on the road and street courses in a shared ride with team boss Ed

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar chiefs are beginning formal talks about bringing Surfers Paradise back onto the calendar, possibly as soon as 2020. Discussions have been triggered by a meeting between 2014 IndyCar champion and ’18 Indianapolis 500 winner Will Power and Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The 2019 Indy Lights champion will receive an increased financial prize for winning the series, despite Mazda’s withdrawal from the Road to Indy scheme at the end of this year. Mazda announced earlier this year it will end its $5million annual backing

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The McLaren Formula 1 team’s 2019 Indianapolis 500 effort will be a “separate team”, rather than an affiliation similar fashion to its partnership with Andretti Autosport in ’17. McLaren’s first attempt on the Indy 500 with Fernando Alonso came in an Andretti-run

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso will return to the Indianapolis 500 with McLaren in 2019 as he bids to complete motorsport’s unofficial Triple Crown. The two-time F1 world champion will step away from McLaren’s grand prix team at the end of this season, but beyond

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Mayor of Rio de Janeiro has announced there will be an IndyCar race in the city in 2020, but series officials have denied any such deal has been done. Mayor Marcelo Crivella said that he had received representatives from the IndyCar

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. James Hinchcliffe says he is glad Schmidt Peterson Motorsports did not buy him a seat in the 2018 Indianapolis 500 after he failed to qualify. Bumping returned to the Indy 500 in 2018 after a surge of interest pushed entries beyond the

Mari Hulman George, who served as chairman of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Holman & Company from 1988 to 2016, has died aged 83. Hulman George, whose father Anton “Tony” Hulman Jr. saved the facility from almost certain demolition after World War II in November 1945, was a pioneer as co-owner of a team that

Former Schmidt Peterson Motorsports general manager Piers Phillips has joined Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing as president to oversee its involvement in IndyCar, IMSA and the new Jaguar i-Pace eTrophy Series. Bobby Rahal, David Letterman and Mike Lanigan’s team currently fields two Honda-powered cars in the IndyCar Series, two works BMW M8s in the GT Le

Marco Andretti has invested in his #98 IndyCar entry for next year, when it will officially be Andretti Herta Autosport w/ Marco Andretti & Curb-Agajanian. Bryan Herta Autosport joined forces with Andretti Autosport to run the #98 car prior to the 2016 season, with Marco Andretti switching across from the #27 entry to replace Alexander

Marcus Ericsson has admitted his Formula 1 experience will raise the pressure on him considerably when he joins the IndyCar Series with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports for 2019. After five years on the F1 grid, Ericsson will become James Hinchcliffe’s full-time team-mate at SPM next year while retaining a test driver role with current employer Sauber.

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi Racing says it was impressed by IndyCar signing Felix Rosenqvist’s pace compared to championship-winning team-mate Scott Dixon on his first test using IndyCar’s universal aerokit at Barber. Rosenqvist, who was announced as Ganassi’s second 2019 driver last month, had driven

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alexander Rossi and Tony Kanaan were among three drivers to take part in IndyCar’s first test at the Austin circuit that will join the series’ schedule from 2019. Andretti-Autosport driver Rossi and AJ Foyt’s Kanaan were joined by an unnamed Carlin driver

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sauber Formula 1 driver Marcus Ericsson will switch to IndyCar in 2019, driving for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports as full-time team-mate to James Hinchcliffe. Ericsson has raced with Sauber for the past four seasons, and will have made 97 F1 starts when he

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has invited IndyCar boss Mark Miles to the Gold Coast to discuss bringing the series back to Surfers Paradise. According to the Gold Coast Bulletin newspaper, Palaszczuk has extended the invite to Miles as part of an ambitious

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Injured IndyCar driver Robert Wickens has offered more detail on his definition of himself as a paraplegic in his recent posts on social media. A spinal cord injury was among the severe injuries Wickens sustained in his horrific accident at Pocono in

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar driver Robert Wickens has clarified the severity of his injuries in an Instagram post filmed during his ongoing rehabilitation. Wickens suffered extensive injuries after a severe crash at Pocono in August that curtailed what had been an impressive maiden IndyCar season

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Zak Brown has confirmed McLaren will not compete full-time in IndyCar next year, but says there is a chance Fernando Alonso could contest the Indianapolis 500 again as a one-off. Alonso announced in mid-August that he would not race in Formula 1

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s Graham Rahal believes IndyCar has found a better package for superspeedways such as the Indianapolis 500, after testing revised aerodynamics and tyre compounds. This year’s Indianapolis 500 race was criticised, with the new-for-2018 universal aerokit replacing the drafting

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IMSA SportsCar Championship team Scuderia Corsa will expand to become a part-time IndyCar team in 2019, with Chip Ganassi Racing outcast Ed Jones signed to drive. Jones will compete in 13 of IndyCar’s 17 2019 races, including the Indianapolis 500 and all

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa has defended his decision to speak out against IndyCar safety standards following Robert Wickens’s serious crash at Pocono in August. Wickens suffered severe injuries and is undergoing rehabilitation in Indianapolis after recently speaking publically for the first

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. James Hinchcliffe hopes his 2019 Schmidt Peterson Motorsports team-mate has a similar driving style to Robert Wickens, as he feels the DTM convert raised the level of his IndyCar performances. Wickens joined the series in 2018 and made an immediate impression by

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi Racing has signed Felix Rosenqvist for the 2019 IndyCar season, partnering him with reigning champion Scott Dixon. Rosenqvist’s Formula E future has been uncertain during the electric championship’s summer off-season and he was linked with a move to IndyCar with

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar will hold its 2019 pre-season test at Austin next February, ahead of the venue’s first round on the series’ schedule the following month. The Formula 1 circuit, which will join the IndyCar schedule next year, will host the series’ two-day open

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya believes a full season in IndyCar is Fernando Alonso’s best chance of winning the Indianapolis 500 and completing his ‘triple crown’ bid. McLaren’s IndyCar ambitions remain “fluid”, with Autosport understanding that a decision is now more

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dale Coyne Racing has approached McLaren Formula 1 driver Stoffel Vandoorne over an IndyCar seat for 2019, in a move the team’s boss believes the Belgian is “cautiously interested in”. Vandoorne’s F1 future appears bleak after McLaren opted to sign Carlos Sainz

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andretti Autosport will take an even bigger step forward for the 2019 IndyCar season, predicts championship runner-up Alexander Rossi. The ex-Formula 1 driver and 2016 Indianapolis 500 winner produced Andretti’s strongest title bid since Ryan Hunter-Reay’s ’12 crown this year and finished

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlin Racing is expecting to add an extra fulltime entry in the 2019 IndyCar Series and will also enter two cars in Indy Lights next year. Carlin explained that the team’s progress and IndyCar proving to be popular with drivers has resulted