Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar will trial its first attempt at a cockpit protection system by fitting a windscreen to the 2018 car at the Phoenix open test next week. Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon will test the device during the rookie oval testing day

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. American racing legend Mario Andretti says IndyCar’s 2018 car package is “going back to what the pure open-wheel, single-seater should be”. IndyCar officially launched the 2018 contender in Detroit on Tuesday, with the new universal aerokit designed to improve racing fitted

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar believes that the addition of four new teams to the series in 2018 proves its growth, after officially launching its new car package in Detroit on Tuesday. Carlin has committed two full-season entries to 2018, with Harding Racing running Gabby

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andretti Autosport driver Alexander Rossi says teams that have not participated in IndyCar’s 2018 pre-season testing with Honda or Chevrolet have a “big mountain to climb”. IndyCar has introduced a universal aerokit for the coming season – requiring sizeable changes to

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Audi LMP1 race engineer Lena Gade has joined IndyCar’s Schmidt Peterson Motorsports for the 2018 season and will lead James Hinchcliffe’s race team. Gade moves from Bentley Motorsport, which she had joined following Audi’s World Endurance Championship exit. She had

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Gabby Chaves will contest the full 2018 IndyCar season in a Harding Racing-Chevrolet entry. Chaves impressed in his first three outings for the team, which launched ahead of the Indianapolis 500 last year, in 2017 with a best finish of fifth

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports says it will not run Juan Pablo Montoya or Danica Patrick at the 2018 Indianapolis 500, but confirmed it will still field a third car. SPM had signed a deal with Tristan Gommendy and ex-Formula 1 team owner

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New Ed Carpenter Racing driver Jordan King says he needed reassurance from former GP2 team-mate Alexander Rossi about switching to IndyCar for 2018. The pair were GP2 team-mates at Racing Engineering in 2015, before Rossi made his switch to IndyCar full-time

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danica Patrick admits it is taking longer than she would like to find drives for her planned career finale in the 2018 Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500. Patrick announced her retirement from full-time racing at NASCAR’s Homestead finale in November

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-GP2 racer and single-seater journeyman Rene Binder will make his IndyCar debut in 2018 with Juncos Racing in a four-race deal. Binder, who won the last ever Formula V8 3.5 race in Bahrain last year, had targeted a move to IndyCar

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 2 driver Jordan King will join Ed Carpenter Racing for the road and street course races in the 2018 IndyCar Series. Sometime Manor Formula 1 test driver King, who spent 2017 in F2 with MP Motorsport, will race in 11

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar expects to hold talks with Dallara over the possibility of replacing its current Dallara IR12 car following the 2018 Indianapolis 500. The IR12 was introduced in 2012 amid complaints about its high costs, but the chassis is now expected to

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Attracting a third manufacturer remains a “big goal” for IndyCar, according to its president of competition and operations Jay Frye. IndyCar has not had three manufacturers since Lotus quit at the end of its dismal 2012 campaign. Honda and Chevrolet recently

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden says he feared for his ultimately-title-winning season after Honda dominated the opener in St Petersburg. Newgarden replaced Juan Pablo Montoya at Penske in last year’s off-season following his spell with Ed Carpenter Racing and was keen to

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Trevor Carlin says his team will likely have a “tough birth” in the 2018 IndyCar season because he estimates it was six weeks behind schedule at launch. Carlin announced it would step up to IndyCar with a two-car effort for Charlie

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda Performance Development says it does not want Formula 1-style hybrid elements to become part of IndyCar’s engines in the future. IndyCar has run 2.2-litre twin-turbo V6 engines since the double turbo layout became mandatory in 2013. Current engine suppliers Honda

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar is aiming to trial its shield cockpit protection system at February’s open test at Phoenix. The series had initially planned to run a version before the end of 2017 but has revised its timeframe in order to test a more

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske is “taking big swings” with set-up as it works to understand IndyCar’s new 2018 aerokit, says ’14 champion Will Power. Power and team-mates Simon Pagenaud and Josef Newgarden tested at Sebring across Tuesday and Wednesday last week. “Honestly, we’re just

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Munoz will return to Andretti Autosport, the squad for which he has twice finished second in the Indianapolis 500, to drive a sixth car in the 2018 race. While racing for Andretti in Indy Lights in 2013, Munoz qualified and

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Graham Rahal says his Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing team had to expand to two cars for the 2018 IndyCar season because of the challenge posed by the new aerokit. Rahal was the team’s sole driver for the last five seasons, winning

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Wickens says having minimal experience of IndyCar before the new universal aerokit will help him quickly adapt in 2018, following his first test of the new package. Wickens ended his DTM career after Mercedes’ decision to quit the championship at

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlin team boss Trevor Carlin says the team’s new IndyCar programme means it can offer drivers a clear career ladder from 2018 onwards. The British team announced on Tuesday that it would step up to IndyCar from 2018. That move marks

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar is considering an overhaul of the qualifying points system at the Indianapolis 500. At present all 33 Indy 500 qualifiers earn points, starting with 42 for the polesitter. That compares to the usual single point for pole at other races.

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Leading British single-seater outfit Carlin has announced it will join IndyCar in 2018. Carlin has signed its former GP2 driver Max Chilton to partner his ex-Ganassi team-mate Charlie Kimball in its two-car line-up, while Chevrolet will be its engine supplier. The

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi driver Scott Dixon pinpoints the introduction of unified aerokits to IndyCar in 2018 as the biggest dynamic shift by the series in over five years. The new-for-2018 aerokit will be standard across Honda and Chevrolet teams next year, bringing

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Michael Shank Racing and Schmidt Peterson Motorsports have confirmed a partnership that will run former British Formula 3 champion Jack Harvey in four 2018 IndyCar races. Harvey drove for SPM in the last two races of 2017 as the team rotated

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Michael Shank Racing and Schmidt Peterson Motorsports have confirmed a partnership that will run one-time British Formula 3 champion Jack Harvey in a partial 2018 IndyCar season. Harvey drove for SPM in the last two races of 2017 as the team

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar team Schmidt Peterson Motorsports has cancelled its Indianapolis 500 partnership with ex-Formula 1 team co-owner Didier Calmels and former Champ Car driver Tristan Gommendy. Gommendy had been confirmed for a first attempt at the Indy 500 back in September after

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar’s tyre supplier Firestone is set to ensure a greater difference between its two compounds and increase degradation for 2018. Firestone brought the gap between the black and red compound tyres closer for 2017 and the change led to races in

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marco Andretti and Alexander Rossi will swap places in Andretti Autosport’s IndyCar line-up for 2018, with Andretti moving to the Bryan Herta Autosport-entered car. The partnership between the two teams has been extended for a third year, and Andretti will switch