Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Harding Racing IndyCar team has replaced Gabby Chaves with Conor Daly for this weekend’s race at Toronto as it evaluates its 2019 driver line-up. Harding moved into IndyCar for the 2018 season having taken part in last year’s Indianapolis 500, and

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Will Power believes concerns over IndyCar’s 2018 machine on ovals are “normal” because drivers calling for higher downforce levels are trying to hide their weaknesses. Power took pole for last weekend’s short oval race at Iowa, more than a month after winning

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. James Hinchcliffe says the final laps of the Iowa IndyCar race were the “worst-case scenario” for his lead and forced him to make a “tough” strategy call to win. Josef Newgarden had built a lead approaching nine seconds in the race, but

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports driver James Hinchcliffe took his first IndyCar victory in over a year in baffling fashion at Iowa. Hinchcliffe made what appeared to be the decisive move for victory with 40 laps remaining of the 300, sweeping to the inside

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Will Power took pole position for this weekend’s IndyCar race at Iowa, while Andretti’s Ryan Hunter-Reay managed to prevent a Penske one-two-three on the grid. Josef Newgarden made it a provisional Penske lockout after 19 drivers had set a two-lap average on

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pietro Fittipaldi says he is on target for his IndyCar return at Mid-Ohio next month after testing a kart for the first time since his leg-breaking World Endurance Championship accident. Fittipaldi, who has been rehabilitating with renowned orthopaedic surgeons Doctors Terry Trammell

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar points leader Scott Dixon believes a change to the front wing of Dallara’s aerokit would help improve racing on road courses. Despite IndyCar’s switch from downforce-heavy manufacturer aerokits to the spec package for 2018, Dixon pointed out that this year’s cars

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The IndyCar Series has reached agreement to keep Road America on its calendar at least through 2021. The championship’s arrival at the famous 4.014-mile Elkhart Lake track in 2016 was the first top-level American single-seater event there since Champ Car’s final season

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Defending IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden led all but one lap at Road America to secure a dominant victory. Newgarden ended the race in a three-way fight between himself, Ryan Hunter-Reay and Scott Dixon after the final round of a conventional three-stop strategy

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Josef Newgarden and Will Power defeated Andretti Autosport in a head-to-head shootout for a Penske one-two in qualifying for IndyCar’s Road America race. Alexander Rossi, who enters the weekend second in the championship standings, led team-mate Ryan Hunter-Reay after the first of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. AJ Foyt Racing team president Larry Foyt has confirmed that one-time Indianapolis 500 winner Tony Kanaan and IndyCar rookie Matheus Leist will remain with the team in 2019. It marks the first time that Foyt has kept its drivers for a second

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar will not return to Phoenix for the 2019 season, ending its three-year spell on the calendar. The oval returned to the series in 2016 after a 10-year hiatus but then provided two pedestrian races under the manufacturer aerokits. The racing improved

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Josef Newgarden topped both IndyCar free practice sessions at Elkhart Lake, as drivers got their first taste of the new-for-2018 aerokit at the famous Road America circuit. Newgarden’s Penske-Chevrolet clocked a 1m42.6279s – an average of 140.804mph – to claim top spot

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Bourdais says IndyCar’s 2018 universal aerokit is not to blame for the “over the top difficult” racing on ovals this season. While IndyCar’s race at Phoenix – where racing has often been dull – was entertaining, the Indianapolis 500 did not

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Leading IndyCar drivers believe that the series must be careful in how it opens the 2018 car up to development, fearing a cost rise that would “kill” smaller teams. Autosport revealed earlier this month that IndyCar is evaluating opening development ‘boxes’ to

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar race-winner Sebastien Bourdais reckons double Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso had things “almost too easy” in his first Indianapolis 500 attempt last year. Alonso has made clear his desire to return to Indy in the future – and his McLaren

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown says expansion into IndyCar in 2019 is “looking favourable”, although the company is still in the process of completing due diligence on the possibility. Brown attended IndyCar’s Detroit double header earlier this month along with McLaren racing

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The aerodynamic developments IndyCar will allow teams in 2019 will not be defined until August at the earliest. IndyCar is set to open up development ‘boxes’ for teams but it has yet to finalise what can and cannot be altered from the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden accused officials of being “inconsistent” after the penalty that spoiled his Texas race. Polesitter Newgarden was struggling with the race-day set-up on his Penske Dallara-Chevrolet, suffering severe blisters on one set of tyres and a deflation on

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske’s Will Power says a breakdown in communication with his spotter was the cause of his crash with Dale Coyne Racing’s Zachary Claman de Melo in the Texas IndyCar race. Power had qualified third in a Penske 1-2-3 led by Josef Newgarden

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Simon Pagenaud says that his late battle with Andretti’s Alexander Rossi over second place in the Texas IndyCar race gave him “grey hair”. Pagenaud became the lead Penske driver as the team struggled with tyre blistering in Saturday night’s race. The 2016

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports driver Robert Wickens has blamed Ed Carpenter for causing their crash in IndyCar’s Texas race, believing that drivers were getting “really desperate” in their on track behaviour. Wickens, alongside Andretti’s Alexander Rossi and Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon, had

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon surged into the IndyCar championship lead after a controlled victory at Texas Motor Speedway, taking advantage of Penske’s woes. Penske had taken a 1-2-3 in qualifying with Josef Newgarden leading Simon Pagenaud and Will Power, but two

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden led a Penske 1-2-3 in qualifying for the Texas oval race, ahead of team-mates Simon Pagenaud and 2018 Indianapolis 500 winner Will Power. Newgarden’s leading two-lap average speed of 220.613mph was set when he hit the track

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing has announced a multi-year IndyCar contract extension with driver Graham Rahal. Rahal has driven for the team co-owned by his IndyCar legend father Bobby Rahal, David Letterman and Mike Lanigan since 2013, taking five of his six IndyCar

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Le Mans-winning race engineer Leena Gade is in talks about potentially joining the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing IndyCar team after her abrupt exit from Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Autosport has learned. Gade left SPM shortly after James Hinchcliffe failed to qualify for the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alexander Rossi is “kicking himself” over the mistake that cost him the lead of the second Detroit race, admitting he should have considered the bigger picture of IndyCar’s title race. Andretti driver Rossi started the double-header weekend just two points behind series

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ed Carpenter Racing’s Spencer Pigot says IndyCar debutant and Haas Formula 1 junior Santino Ferrucci caused a “silly” crash at Detroit that did not show respect for full-time drivers. Ferrucci drove the #19 Dale Coyne Racing-run car in Detroit after Pietro Fittipaldi’s

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chevrolet has described the incident in which General Motors’ executive VP of global product development crashed its Corvette ZR1 pace car before IndyCar’s second Detroit race as “unfortunate”. GM’s Mark Reuss crashed the Corvette on the parade lap before the second race,

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andretti Autosport’s Ryan Hunter-Reay grabbed his first IndyCar win for three years in the second Detroit race, passing team-mate Alexander Rossi in the closing laps. The race was defined by a mix of two and three-stop strategies. As was the case in