Ilott struck the Turn 1 wall on lap 6 of the race, and had to limp around a whole lap, to get his punctured right-front tyre replaced. That put him a lap down, so when the full-course caution came out for Scott Dixon being in a tyre wall on lap 20, his team delayed his
The Chip Ganassi Racing driver moved to the top of the standings by finishing third behind first-time winner Kyle Kirkwood and his Andretti Autosport team-mate Romain Grosjean. Ericsson, who started on the front row on a street course for the first time, lost out to Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden in the pits when the majority
The Swiss driver started third in Long Beach and was closely tracking his polewinning Andretti Autosport team-mate Kyle Kirkwood for most of the race. But having pitted a lap before Kirkwood – by team design, to respond to Josef Newgarden making his final stop – he didn’t have the fuel to allow him to use his huge
On lap 20, O’Ward dived down the inside of six-time IndyCar champion Dixon in Turn 8. It was a very late manoeuvre, but the Arrow McLaren driver’s wheels were fully alongside those of the Ganassi car. The pair made contact that sent Dixon spearing into the tyre wall. “I was on the inside, he decided
Passing was at a premium in Sunday’s race and Larson struggled to run mid-pack most of the day, but he moved into the top-five by staying out when most others pit for a caution on Lap 305 of 400. While under another caution on Lap 343, Larson pit but took on only two new tyres
The second-year driver, who joined Andretti from AJ Foyt Enterprises for 2023, started on pole before leading 53 of the 85 laps, briefly losing the lead to Josef Newgarden of Team Penske. But a great overcut on both Newgarden and Grosjean at the second pitstop saw him emerge in front and hold steady to the
Mark Webber could be forgiven for wanting to pinch himself just to make sure that the past year hasn’t been a dream. This is not surprising really, for a driver who, in his quest to become the first Australian in over a decade to hold down a regular place in Formula 1, has managed to
In an interrupted Q2 segment of qualifying for the Grand Prix of Long Beach, Kirkwood didn’t take fresh tyres for the final run, having been securely in the top six when the red flag fell with a minute to go. That left him with a fresh set of Firestones for the Fast Six showdown, and he
Kirkwood left it until the final two minutes of the session to take the top spot, with a 1m06.2878s clinching him his first series pole. Having topped his group in the first part of qualifying, Kirkwood finished third in Q2 behind championship leader Pato O’Ward and Romain Grosjean, with his quickest time 0.13s off the
Less than five minutes into the 1h45m session, the red flags were waved after Callum Ilott hit the apex kerbs at Turn 5 before finding the tyre wall in his Juncos Hollinger Racing entry. Barely three minutes after the session restarted, Rinus VeeKay pulled a wheelie over the same kerb, meeting the same fate in the
The Andretti Autosport cars set the early pace, with Romain Grosjean and then Colton Herta taking turns at the top, before Ganassi’s 2021 champion Alex Palou deposed Herta to claim top spot with 1m07.2416s. Then Marcus Ericsson demoted team-mate Palou from P1 with a 1m07.2233s, while 2022 Long Beach winner Josef Newgarden slotted into fifth. Not
McLaren is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, which was marked in Formula 1 by branding its 2023 challenger the MCL60. Ahead of the month of May, McLaren’s IndyCar arm is also celebrating the British brand’s rich history with three throwback liveries on its full-time entries, all commemorating a historic McLaren win in the Triple
Ware missed Sunday’s NASCAR Cup race at Bristol with a statement from his Rick Ware Racing squad saying it was “to focus on a personal matter”. The 27-year-old was arrested on 10 April and charged with felony assault by strangulation – inflict serious injury, as well as misdemeanour assault on a female. Ware has nearly
Bell, who inherited the lead by staying out between Stages 2 and 3, led the final 100 laps but had to ward off repeated challenges, with the last coming from Reddick in the final five laps. Reddick, who won Stage 2, pitted for new tyres during the break and put them to good use to
Robby Gordon wants to be the next Indycar racer in Formula 1. He’s on his way to the top. His first car race was in the Daytona 24 Hours sportscar race and his first single-seater start was in an Indycar. But in between, he destroyed Formula 3000 and Winston Cup machines. I first came across
NASCAR took William Byron’s #24 and Alex Bowman’s #48 cars back to the R&D Centre after the Richmond round for what it called “further inspection”. The teams were found to have made illegal modifications to the greenhouse of both cars. The #24 and #48 teams have each been docked 60 driver and owner points, as
NASCAR fined Hamlin $50,000 and docked him 25 points for intentionally crashing into Ross Chastain and sending him into a wall at the end of the Cup race at Phoenix on 12 March. Hamlin wasn’t initially penalised at the time, but was given the penalty after he admitted on his podcast the next day that
If you were fortunate enough to watch the IndyCar action from last week’s second round at Texas Motor Speedway, you may still be raving about the racing. If you’re a Pato O’Ward or Arrow McLaren fan, you will feel slighted that he lost his last chance to snatch the lead from eventual winner Josef Newgarden
In a statement with its decision, the three-member panel said the team did violate NASCAR rules and upheld much of the harsh penalties issued to the team, including the $100,000 fine and four-race suspension for crew chief Trent Owens and the loss of 10 playoff points. The panel did, however, reduce the 100 owner and
“I’m convinced, without fail, I have the best driver in GT racing with me.” It’s quite a statement to make about your team-mate, but John Ferguson has every reason to believe just that about the driver he’ll be racing alongside in this season’s British GT3 Championship, which kicks off at Oulton Park this weekend. Regarded
Each organisation in the Cup is represented on the council, which is one of several that have regularly scheduled meetings with NASCAR officials. While no official reason for the owners’ absence was given, several news reports cited unnamed sources indicating it was related to the ongoing negotiations between NASCAR and Cup teams over the renewal
Following last weekend’s second round of the 2023 IndyCar Series at TMS, the Honda-powered team co-owned by Bobby Rahal, David Letterman and Mike Lanigan stayed on to give Legge her speedway refresher test. RLL is entering a fourth car for her at next month’s 107th running of the Indianapolis 500, 10 years after her last
There are numerous reasons for Super Touring being upheld as the British Touring Car Championship’s zenith over 20 years on. Close racing between cars that looked and sounded different, while bearing a similarity with those you might find in the supermarket car park, is surely a factor. But another is the glut of big-name drivers
Aron has mostly focused on his Prema management duties since finishing sixth in the 2018 European F3 season. But this year he will compete in GT World Challenge Europe with Theeba Motorsport, enter the ADAC GT Masters series with Haupt Racing Team and contest the Nurburgring 24 Hours as a Mercedes junior driver. During his
Newgarden dominated the first half of the 250-lap race around the 1.5-mile track, but following the second round of pitstops, O’Ward got around the #2 Penske and pulled away to a seven second lead, lapping everyone up to and including third-placed Romain Grosjean of Andretti Autosport. However, a timely caution pulled the McLaren back into
The fight for victory sparked into life after Noah Gragson slammed the outside wall, forcing the sixth caution of the race, which saw all the lead-lap cars pit with Martin Truex Jr retaining the lead off pitroad. With 55 laps to go, several cars started making what they hoped would be their final pitstops, with
The 2021 IndyCar champion found himself in the fight for victory at the 1.5-mile oval before ultimately losing out to eventual winner Josef Newgarden, who took the win by 1.2s from Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward. Palou, whose final pitstop had come 25 laps before those of Newgarden and O’Ward, commented: “I didn’t know they were
Polesitter Felix Rosenqvist didn’t last a lap in the lead, the Arrow McLaren losing out to Scott Dixon’s Ganassi entry at the end of the first lap, and then Penske’s Newgarden, and fellow McLaren drivers Pato O’Ward and Alexander Rossi demoted him to fifth. Newgarden and Dixon swapped the lead twice before Newgarden moved to the
Event organisers have elected to push forward the race start to ensure the encounter runs to its full intended length of 250 laps. The command for “Drivers, start your engines” at Texas Motor Speedway was originally scheduled for 11.10am local (Central) time with the green flag dropping at 11.15am, driver introductions will now commence at
It means that Bryan Herta will now call the shots for 2021 Indy Lights champion Kyle Kirkwood, while Scott Harner will oversee Herta. The decision comes as a surprise just one race into the season for two reasons. Firstly, the Herta father-son combination had seemed far more harmonious – and more productive – than when Michael Andretti
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