Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota will not renew its 44-year-old title sponsorship of IndyCar’s Long Beach Grand Prix, ending what organisers claim is the longest running commercial deal in the history of motorsport. The manufacturer was involved in the very first Long Beach GP in September

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Autosport understands McLaren Formula 1 driver Fernando Alonso will test a 2018 Indycar in the coming months, an opportunity the driver admits is possible. IndyCar confirmed to Autosport earlier this week that it was working with McLaren on a plan to enter

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren is working on a plan to enter IndyCar full-time with double Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso in 2019, according to series chief Mark Miles. Alonso announced on Tuesday that he would not compete in F1 in 2019, but left the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Scott Dixon says he held “moderate” talks with rival IndyCar teams ahead of re-signing with Chip Ganassi Racing, but no option was serious enough for him to move. Dixon had been linked to teams including Penske and a prospective two-car McLaren IndyCar

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Scott Dixon has agreed terms to remain at Chip Ganassi Racing on a new multi-year IndyCar deal. Despite speculation linking Dixon to the mooted McLaren IndyCar project, as well as existing teams Andretti and Penske, the 38-year-old will remain with Ganassi into

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Indianapolis 500 winner and Penske driver Will Power says he needs IndyCar points leader Scott Dixon to have a downturn in form if he is to win the championship. Power’s 2018 season has been blighted by misfortune, as he crashed out at

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Watkins Glen International president Michael Printup says he has started preliminary discussions with IndyCar officials about the series returning to race at the New York track as early as 2021. IndyCar last raced at Watkins Glen from 2016-2017 after a street race

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Force India Formula 1 reserve driver Alfonso Celis Jr will make his second IndyCar outing of the season at Portland later this month. The Mexican, who made his debut in the series at Road America in June, will rejoin Juncos Racing

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar will introduce new guidelines to determine whether a driver is eligible to race in the series in its own version of Formula 1’s superlicence requirements for 2019. It is understood that IndyCar’s resurgence – attracting four additional teams for the current

Mazda will end its support of the Road to Indy programme at the end of 2018 after nine years, affecting the Indy Lights, Pro Mazda and USF2000 IndyCar feeder categories. Launched in 2011, the programme provided scholarships for the champion of each category, with recent Indy Lights champions such as Spencer Pigot, Ed Jones and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Michael Shank Racing is planning to undertake a 10-race IndyCar programme in 2019 as a continuation of its partnership with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, ahead of an intended future full-time expansion. The sportscar outfit signed a deal to run Jack Harvey for six

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports driver Robert Wickens says he was frustrated by the “comical” blue flag situation he encountered while trying to lap slower cars during IndyCar’s Mid-Ohio race. Wickens was on a three-stop strategy compared to race winner Alexander Rossi’s two-stop option,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar title contender Alexander Rossi says he and Andretti team manager Rob Edwards decided his winning strategy at Mid-Ohio in the opening laps of the race. Polesitter Rossi was the only driver to make a two-stop strategy work, despite the likes of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alexander Rossi executed a perfect two-stop race to take his second IndyCar victory of the season at Mid-Ohio, with the Andretti Autosport driver being the sole exponent of the strategy. From pole position, Rossi led comfortably throughout the opening stint from Penske’s

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andretti Autosport driver Alexander Rossi claimed his third IndyCar pole position of the season in a disrupted session at Mid-Ohio. Rossi only completed a single flying lap in the fast six using the red Firestone tyres, but a time of 1m04.6802-seconds was

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ryan Hunter-Reay set the pace in IndyCar Friday practice at Mid-Ohio in his Andretti Autosport Dallara-Honda. Hunter-Reay’s 1m05.1950s in the afternoon session on the ‘red’ soft-compound tyres was only one second off Will Power’s 2017 pole time with the high-downforce manufacturer aerokits.

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Conor Daly will continue in the #88 Harding Racing car for IndyCar’s Mid-Ohio weekend, extending regular driver Gabby Chaves’s spell on the sidelines. Daly lost his full-time IndyCar seat with AJ Foyt Racing at the end of 2017 and made an Indianapolis

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Texas Motor Speedway is interested in moving its IndyCar round to the weekend after the Indianapolis 500 as part of discussions over a new contract with the series. This year’s Texas round was the last in its current contract with IndyCar. Venue

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dale Coyne Racing’s Pietro Fittipaldi returned to the cockpit of an Indycar at Mid-Ohio on Tuesday and completed around 100 laps ahead of his comeback next weekend. Fittipaldi suffered a complex fracture of his lower left leg and a broken right ankle

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren’s IndyCar ambitions may have may have “missed the boat” for the 2019 season, says Carlin team boss Trevor Carlin. The Formula 1 team has hinted it is considering a two-car IndyCar team for next season, and has held discussions with engine

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sonoma says its IndyCar exit is more for financial reasons than because nearby Laguna Seca is returning and taking its season finale slot. Track president Steve Page confirmed that Sonoma would not be seeking an alternative date for 2019. “We will definitely

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Laguna Seca will return to the IndyCar calendar in 2019, replacing Sonoma as the season finale for the next three seasons at least. The three-year agreement was approved on Tuesday by the Monterey County Board of Supervisors, which oversees operation of the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Bryan Herta has explained why Marco Andretti was forced to make a penultimate lap ‘splash and dash’ pitstop that prevented the IndyCar driver from taking fourth in Toronto. Andretti had to climb his way up the field after a mistake in qualifying

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Wickens and Simon Pagenaud say their “dogfight” for second place in IndyCar’s Toronto race was on the limit of acceptable battling. The pair’s fight began after Pagenaud’s Penske crew’s quicker pitstop allowed the 2016 IndyCar champion to jump Wickens for second

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske’s Josef Newgarden could not explain his crash while leading the IndyCar race in Toronto. Polesitter Newgarden led the field until the pace car was called on lap 30 of 85 after Andretti’s Ryan Hunter-Reay ran off track at Turn 3 and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon extends his championship lead with a dominant victory on the streets of Toronto as his IndyCar title rivals all suffered calamities. Dixon inherited the race lead when pole-sitter Josef Newgarden hit the wall on the restart after

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden took his third pole of the season for of this weekend’s race in Toronto. Newgarden set his best lap of the session, 59.4956 seconds, as he took the chequered flag, after starting the final qualifying session last

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi Racing driver and IndyCar championship leader Scott Dixon topped both Friday practice sessions ahead of the Toronto race. Dixon’s fastest time of 59.0751 seconds came in the second session, a period in which most teams used the softer Firestone red-walled

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports IndyCar driver James Hinchcliffe says his win at Iowa will not stop people talking about his failure to qualify for the 2018 Indianapolis 500. Hinchcliffe’s Indy 500 near-miss led to SPM parting ways with his race engineer Leena Gade

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Endurance Championship LMP1 privateer team DragonSpeed is speaking to IndyCar on Wednesday as it plots a one-car entry for 2019. DragonSpeed intends to run its LMP1 driver Ben Hanley in IndyCar, began work on the potential programme last month and has