Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar points leader Alexander Rossi dominated a wet qualifying session in Detroit to seize the Andretti Autosport driver’s second pole position of the 2018 season. The session was split into two halves in a format unique to Detroit, with the fastest group

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon claimed his first win of the 2018 IndyCar season, holding off Ryan Hunter-Reay in the first of this weekend’s races in Detroit. In a race that featured a mixture of strategies, Dixon utilised a two-stop approach while

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marco Andretti claimed his first pole position since Pocono 2013 for the opening race of IndyCar’s Detroit double-header, beating Robert Wickens by almost half a second. In a truncated qualifying format unique to the double-header in Detroit, the field was split into

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Scuderia Corsa is working towards a 2019 IndyCar full-season programme after its successful Indianapolis 500 outing with Oriol Servia. The team, which has won titles in the IMSA SportsCar Championship and taken class podiums at the Le Mans 24 Hours, partnered with Honda-powered

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The latest Autosport video looks at why so many IndyCar veterans crashed out of the 2018 Indianapolis 500 and predicts who will star in this weekend’s Detroit double-header. Drivers including Danica Patrick, Helio Castroneves, Sebastien Bourdais and Tony Kanaan all crashed out

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports’s Robert Wickens says he found it hard to follow the various strategies at play during his first Indianapolis 500. SPM endured a torrid Month of May in which Wickens’s team-mate James Hinchcliffe failed to qualify for the Indy 500

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The 2018 Indianapolis 500 was the latest test for IndyCar’s new car package and this week’s Motorsport Show discusses whether it helped or hurt the racing. The universal aerokit reduced downforce dramatically for 2018, causing drivers to lift off through the four

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stefan Wilson says he knew he was “screwed” while he led the final laps of the Indianapolis 500 due to a failed “win-or-bust” fuel gamble. Andretti driver Wilson was second under a caution on lap 192 of 200, between the similarly off-sequence

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Will Power says his Indianapolis 500 win ended his “whole frustration” of feeling like he might go his whole career without the recognition earned from winning IndyCar’s biggest race. Power took his first Indy 500 victory after seeing off Ed Carpenter midway

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon says he is unsure what IndyCar can do to alter its new-for-2018 car in order to improve racing at the Indianapolis 500. The majority of this year’s race was run single-file with drivers holding gaps of around

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske team president Tim Cindric says Helio Castroneves will return to the Indianapolis 500 in 2019 with the team. Castroneves moved from IndyCar to Penske’s new-for-2018 IMSA SportsCar Championship programme with Acura for the current season. He competed in both the Indianapolis

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Will Power says he started screaming on the last lap of the 2018 Indianapolis 500 because he knew he was going to win the race. Power’s first Indy 500 victory came after he saw off the challenge of Ed Carpenter following a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Indianapolis 500 runner-up Ed Carpenter says he is kicking himself for not attacking race winner Will Power on an earlier restart when he had the chance. Carpenter scored his best Indy 500 finish, beating his fifth position in 2008, having started the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danica Patrick says she does not understand what caused her to crash out of the 2018 Indianapolis 500, her final career race. Patrick’s planned 2018 swansong began in the NASCAR Cup series season-opening Daytona 500 with Premium Motorsports where she was collected

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Will Power took Penske’s 17th Indianapolis 500 victory after a six-lap dash following Tony Kanaan’s late crash caused the seventh caution in an attrition-filled race. Power made his final stop on lap 171 of 200 running a conventional five-stop strategy like most

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda believes it no longer has the edge at the Indianapolis 500 given how Chevrolet has improved its IndyCar engine. Only two Honda-powered entries – Dale Coyne Racing’s Sebastien Bourdais and Ganassi’s Scott Dixon – made it into last weekend’s ‘Fast Nine’

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The high-speed chess game era of the Indianapolis 500 looks set to be ended by the 2018 Indycar, with its subtle differences set to put greater emphasis on driver skill. In 2017 the manufacturer aerokits were frozen ahead of the following year’s

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves says that “amazing talent” Danica Patrick does not get enough respect, ahead of her final career race this weekend. Patrick will complete her motorsport farewell with the Indy 500, driving for Ed Carpenter Racing, after finishing

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. AJ Foyt Racing’s Tony Kanaan set the pace on Carb Day, IndyCar’s final practice session ahead of the 2018 Indianapolis 500. Foyt had impressed in qualifying for the race with Kanaan and rookie team-mate Matheus Leist taking 10th and 11th. In the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske’s Josef Newgarden says that James Hinchcliffe’s bumping from the 2018 Indianapolis 500 is a “great” and “sad” story for IndyCar. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports’s Hinchcliffe dramatically failed to qualify for the Indy 500 after a troubled late second run and he ran

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske’s Helio Castroneves believes Indianapolis 500 pole lap speeds could exceed 235mph when the IndyCar series introduces its new engine that is predicted to produce more than 900bhp. Castroneves qualified sixth fastest for Sunday’s Indianapolis 500 with a four-lap average speed of

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. This weekend’s Indianapolis 500 looks set to be the most unpredictable race in recent memory and Autosport has picked the drivers most likely to win the 102nd event. The ‘Fast Nine’, which sets the front three rows of the grid, was dominated

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren boss Zak Brown has confirmed that Gil de Ferran is undertaking an advisory role that covers both Formula 1 and a potential IndyCar project. De Ferran was drafted in to advise Fernando Alonso ahead of his Indianapolis 500 programme last year

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The bumping of James Hinchcliffe, the new 2018 car’s challenges, and Danica Patrick’s form are among the topics discussed in Autosport’s preview of the Indianapolis 500. With Schmidt Peterson Motorsports and its driver Hinchcliffe confirming it will not buy him into the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsport’s star Le Mans-winning engineer signing Leena Gade has split with the team after just five IndyCar races, Autosport has learned. Gade, who achieved three Le Mans 24 Hour victories as an Audi race engineer, joined SPM in January, replacing

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. James Hinchcliffe says his Schmidt Peterson Motorsports IndyCar team is no longer pursuing any method of getting him into the Indianapolis 500 field after his failure to qualify. Hinchcliffe and Pippa Mann both missed the cut in qualifying last weekend as the

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The next generation of Indycar will not feature a divisive design similar to Formula E’s Gen2 “Batmobile” car, says the series’ director of aerodynamic development Tino Belli. IndyCar used design consultant Chris Beatty to help style the 2018 universal aerokit into a

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dreyer & Reinbold Racing’s Sage Karam topped a shortened eighth practice session for the Indianapolis 500 as Schmidt Peterson Motorsports driver Robert Wickens crashed. Karam set his 226.461mph benchmark early in the session after a 30-minute delay due to moisture, with another

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dale Coyne Racing’s Pietro Fittipaldi believes it is important to “live” the Indianapolis 500 experience after his World Endurance Championship crash ruled him out of the race in 2018. Fittipaldi is currently recovering from a complex fracture of his lower left leg

Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Indianapolis 500 polesitter Ed Carpenter says his 230mph opening qualifying lap that helped secure pole position ‘blew his mind’. Carpenter started his four-lap run with a 230mph opener, with Penske’s Simon Pagenaud getting closest to that benchmark with a first qualifying lap