Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports IndyCar driver Robert Wickens has been transferred to a hospital in Indianapolis, with further surgeries expected as he continues his recovery. Wickens is now set to undergo an operation on his “lower extremities” after breaking his right arm, both

Double Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso will sample a 2018-spec Indycar for the first time next week in a private test, McLaren has confirmed. As revealed by Autosport, McLaren and IndyCar are currently working together on a plan for the F1 team to join the American series next year with Alonso. Following Alonso’s announcement

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar Championship leader Scott Dixon topped the timesheets as IndyCar began its return to Portland, coming out on top ahead of Penske drivers Will Power and Josef Newgarden. After five hours of testing, Dixon’s fastest time was 58.3593 seconds, meaning he completed

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Felix Rosenqvist says his Formula E future is “complicated” amid speculation he could join the Chip Ganassi Racing IndyCar squad for 2019. The Mahindra Formula E driver put himself on Ganassi’s shortlist after impressing the IndyCar team during a series of successful

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Juncos Racing expects to expand to become a two-car team in IndyCar next season, although it expects to again have a rotating cast of drivers to help financially. The team last ran two cars in the 2017 Indianapolis 500 after a strong

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Munoz is due to make his first non-oval IndyCar start of 2018 at Portland this weekend in place of the injured Robert Wickens at Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Autosport understands. Munoz, who lost his full-time ride with AJ Foyt Racing at the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alexander Rossi says his “astronomical” fuel-saving three-stop strategy at Gateway was frustrating, but is the sort of aggressive tactic he will need to win the 2018 IndyCar title. Rossi was the only driver to complete a three-stop strategy in last Saturday night’s

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa has hit out at IndyCar’s safety following recent major incidents in both single-seater series. Massa was one of several drivers to speak positively on social media about F1’s introduction of the halo following its role in protecting

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Will Power insists he is still in the 2018 IndyCar title fight, despite trailing championship favourites Scott Dixon and Alexander Rossi with just two races remaining. The Penske driver won last weekend’s race at Gateway, moving past long-time race leader Dixon on

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske’s Will Power kept his slim 2018 IndyCar title hopes alive by winning as championship favourites Alexander Rossi and Scott Dixon duelled in a late strategic battle at Gateway. Power took the decisive lead on the 150th tour of the 243-lap race,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports has revealed that IndyCar driver Robert Wickens is now breathing without assistance for the first time since his serious Pocono crash. Wickens suffered heavily bruised lungs – as well as injuries to his arm, spine, legs and feet –

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar Series points leader Scott Dixon will start on pole position for Saturday night’s race at Gateway after qualifying was cancelled due to a day blighted by bad weather. Dixon’s title rival Alexander Rossi topped the only practice session run so far,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ryan Hunter-Reay is just going for race wins now his IndyCar championship bid has faltered, but will also try to help Andretti Autosport team-mate Alexander Rossi claim the title. Hunter-Reay, the 2012 IndyCar champion, took his first win for almost three years

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar has refuted Sebastien Bourdais’ criticism of the fence repair carried out following Robert Wickens’ Pocono crash last weekend. Wickens sustained serious injuries when he launched over Ryan Hunter-Reay’s car and into the catchfencing in an accident that caused a two-hour stoppage.

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi has ruled out expanding his IndyCar team back to a three or four-car line-up as its first year as a two-car outfit enabled him to “focus more”. Ganassi scaled back from four cars to two for 2018, releasing Max Chilton

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren’s progress towards a 2019 IndyCar entry with double Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso remains “a really fluid situation”, according to one of its potential partner teams. With under a month until the end of the 2018 IndyCar Series season, the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Injured IndyCar driver Robert Wickens’ team boss Sam Schmidt has renewed calls for safety changes on ovals following the Pocono accident. Wickens sustained injuries to his spine, lower extremities and right arm when his car was launched into the catchfencing over Ryan

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports will not enter the car raced this year by Robert Wickens at the Gateway IndyCar round following the crash in which he sustained major injuries. Wickens suffered major injuries after a huge shunt at Pocono Raceway last weekend, and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Wickens has undergone spinal surgery and remains in a stable condition, according a joint IndyCar and Schmidt Peterson Motorsports update. Wickens was airlifted to Lehigh Valley Hospital near Allentown in Pennsylvania after his crash in last weekend’s race at Pocono and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Wickens will undergo surgery on Monday evening for a spinal injury he suffered in his IndyCar Pocono crash. Wickens hit the rear of Andretti driver Ryan Hunter-Reay’s car in the early stages of the race, which sent him along the top

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Wickens broke both his legs and his right arm, as well as injuring his spine and bruising his lung in his IndyCar shunt at Pocono on Sunday. The Schmidt Peterson Motorsports driver collided with Ryan Hunter-Reay on lap six of the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andretti Autosport’s Alexander Rossi took a dominant win in the crash-delayed IndyCar race at Pocono, leading almost all of the 500-mile distance ahead of Penske’s Will Power. The event was halted for two hours by a violent crash that resulted in Robert

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Wickens has been airlifted to hospital after a vicious crash in the opening laps of the Pocono IndyCar race. IndyCar officials reported that Wickens was awake and alert, but no further details of his condition were released. The race was red-flagged

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar has reached a new multi-year agreement to continue racing at Texas Motor Speedway, despite the series being in talks with nearby United States Grand Prix Formula 1 venue Austin. TMS president Eddie Gossage had a non-compete ‘radius clause’ in the track’s

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Will Power said equalling AJ Foyt for the second-highest pole tally in Indycar history was an achievement he had never expected. Penske driver Power’s third pole of the 2018 IndyCar Series season at Pocono on Saturday elevated him to joint second with

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Team Penske’s Will Power took a crushing pole position for the 500-mile IndyCar race at Pocono Raceway, while points leader Scott Dixon of Ganassi only managed 13th. The result draws Power level with AJ Foyt on 53 poles, second in the all-time

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas Formula 1 development driver Santino Ferrucci will return to IndyCar for the two final races of 2018 after his controversial exit from Formula 2. Dale Coyne Racing is expanding to a three-car line-up to field Ferrucci alongside Sebastien Bourdais and Pietro

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes DTM boss Ulrich Fritz is not surprised Robert Wickens has established himself as an IndyCar frontrunner in 2018, because the touring car series prepared him well for the switch. Wickens was released from his Mercedes DTM contract a year early to

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marco Andretti has signed a new multi-year contract to remain with Andretti Autosport in its Bryan Herta affiliated IndyCar team. Andretti switched places with Alexander Rossi in the Andretti line-up ahead of the 2018 season and will stay in the #98 Andretti-run,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda says it would welcome Fernando Alonso to IndyCar for 2019, and has not ruled out an engine supply for McLaren should the Formula 1 team join the series. Speculation had suggested McLaren’s ill-fated stint with Honda engines in F1 had damaged