Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon set the fastest time in third practice for Sunday’s IndyCar race at Watkins Glen ahead of Alexander Rossi. Ryan Hunter-Reay completed the top three, with Helio Castroneves in fourth. Dixon, who also topped second practice on Friday, waited until late-on in the 45-minute session to show his true pace, as

Indy Lights race winner Zachary Claman De Melo is likely to race a second car for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing in IndyCar’s season finale at Sonoma. The Carlin driver, who lies fifth in the Lights championship coming into this weekend – the series’ last race of the year – won at Road America in June,

Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon led the way in a red flagged second practice session for the penultimate IndyCar race of the season at Watkins Glen. Dixon’s team-mate, Max Chilton, caused the session to be stopped briefly with 22 minutes to go after slapping the barrier. Chilton lost control of his car in the second

Graham Rahal led a Honda 1-2-3-4-5 in opening practice for the penultimate IndyCar Series round at Watkins Glen. The Rahal Letterman Lanigan driver posted a 1m23.2626s lap to go to the top of the timesheets with seconds to go, displacing Andretti Autosport’s Alexander Rossi by just over two tenths of a second. Rossi, whose contract

Last season’s Indianapolis 500 winner Alexander Rossi will remain part of the Andretti Autosport IndyCar set-up for 2018, having signed a new two-year deal. Rossi, who made five Formula 1 starts back in 2015, switched to IndyCar last year and won the series’ premier race at the first attempt. As Andretti was evaluating whether it

Andretti Autosport has announced that it will retain its relationship with Honda after it had considered a switch to Chevrolet for the 2018 IndyCar Series. Andretti only won once in 2016, at the Indianapolis 500 with Alexander Rossi, and it began considering returning to Chevrolet power. But Andretti has now signed a “multi-year agreement” with

Will Power said cold tyres caused the frightening Gateway IndyCar crash in which Ed Carpenter’s car landed on top of him. Tony Kanaan had already spun into the wall during the parade laps, and when the race got under way properly polesitter Power lost control as Penske team-mate Josef Newgarden completed an outside-line pass on

Simon Pagenaud was left fuming at Penske team-mate Josef Newgarden’s wheelbanging pass for victory in the closing stint of Saturday night’s Gateway IndyCar Series race. Reigning champion Pagenaud had taken the lead of the race by just nosing out of the pitlane ahead of points leader Newgarden by a minimal margin under yellow. Pagenaud retained

Juan Pablo Montoya and Oriol Servia believe the 2018 IndyCar will be much more challenging to drive and entertaining to watch, after completing its first road course test. The two veterans are carrying out initial tests with the new aerokit on IndyCar’s behalf before it is distributed to teams, and gave the road course version

The road-course version of IndyCar’s universal 2018 aerokit has hit the track for the first time in testing at Mid-Ohio. Following the debut of the single-specification superspeedway kit in testing last week at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, series veterans Juan Pablo Montoya and Oriol Servia were again on hand on Tuesday to give the road-course variant

Josef Newgarden believes his Toronto IndyCar victory revived a championship bid he thought had been “killed” by poor Indianapolis results. Newgarden won in only his third start with Penske in Long Beach, but fell from third to sixth in the standings with poor results from the Indy road course race and 500 in May. Winning

Josef Newgarden headed a Penske 1-2-3 in the IndyCar practice session at Iowa, beating Will Power and Simon Pagenaud to the fastest time. Newgarden clocked in a 17.3397s lap (185.609mph) with seven minutes of the session to go, as the field started to run in qualifying trim in the latter stages. Power wound up just

Formula V8 3.5 championship contender Rene Binder is looking to IndyCar for a 2018 drive. The 25-year-old Austrian intends to take advantage of FV8 3.5 racing on the World Endurance Championship bill at Austin in September the day before the IndyCar finale at Sonoma to visit the American single-seater series. “I will watch the race

Honda has identified the flawed part behind the rash of reliability problems in its IndyCar season, including Fernando Alonso’s failure in the Indianapolis 500. Art St Cyr, president of Honda Performance Development, did not identify the component in question but described it as an internal part that has been used for three years and not

Esteban Gutierrez hopes IndyCar can use his presence with Dale Coyne Racing to bring a Mexican race back onto its calendar. The ex-Formula 1 and Formula E driver is standing in for the injured Sebastien Bourdais while the four-time Champ Car champion recovers from his Indianapolis 500 qualifying crash. The Puebla oval has been mooted

Mercedes DTM driver Robert Wickens has underlined that his surprise Road America IndyCar appearance was only a favour to friend James Hinchcliffe and not the precursor to a career change. Hinchcliffe’s regular Schmidt Peterson Motorsport team-mate Mikhail Aleshin encountered visa problems while trying to travel back from France having raced for SMP at the Le

Scott Dixon says the fact Honda could keep its IndyCar engine at full power for longer than Chevrolet was key to his surprise defeat of Penske at Road America. Ganassi driver Dixon qualified 1.6 seconds off the pace in fifth behind an all-Penske top four. But on race day he worked his way forward before

Alexander Rossi has rejected Tony Kanaan’s accusation that he was responsible for Kanaan’s massive crash in the Road America IndyCar race. Kanaan hit the wall hard at the fast kink on the Elkhart Lake track’s back section with nine laps of Sunday’s race to go. He had been rapidly closing on Rossi, who had a

Scott Dixon overturned a weekend of Penske dominance to win his and Ganassi’s first IndyCar race of 2017 at Road America. He narrowly fended off Josef Newgarden, who led a quartet of Penske Dallara-Chevrolets in second to fifth. A great restart after the first of two caution periods got Dixon ahead of Newgarden and he

Helio Castroneves led a Team Penske 1-2-3-4 in IndyCar qualifying at Road America, edging team-mate Will Power. Castroneves’s time of 1m41.3007s came in the final moments of the pole shootout and was just 0.0604 seconds faster than Power’s best effort after the four-mile Elkhart Lake track. Josef Newgarden was third, while reigning champion Simon Pagenaud