Before the final hour got underway, the field was split in two to practice running the high line, and it went largely incident-free, until Conor Daly had a spin out of Turn 4, thankfully keeping his Ed Carpenter Racing car off the wall. Rookie Benjamin Pedersen in the #55 AJ Foyt Racing machine had to
Rosenqvist headed Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon with McLaren’s Alexander Rossi, third fastest in the session. Team owner/driver Ed Carpenter, in his first outing of the 2023 season, set the bar with an average of 218.375 mph over two laps, with a 1mph difference between Laps 1 and 2. This was immediately beaten by
McLaughlin’s best effort pipped Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward by 0.0238s around the 1.5 mile oval, with O’Ward’s team-mate Alexander Rossi third fastest. In the cool of the morning and with IndyCar having allowed extra downforce components this weekend, and drivers able to catch some strong tows, speeds looked startlingly good. McLaughlin, who qualified and finished
Autosport understands the 2014 and 2022 champion, whose current contract finishes at the end of this current season, is signed up for 2024 and ’25 with both parties considering ’26 as an option. Power was unwilling to comment on the subject while team president Tim Cindric had not yet responded to Autosport’s inquiry at time
Marciello and Gounon claimed the Endurance Cup crown last year together with fellow AMG factory driver Daniel Juncadella after following podiums at Imola and Paul Ricard by winning the Spa 24 Hours, while Marciello also earned the overall GTWCE crown after finishing second in the Sprint Cup with Boguslavskiy. The Russian 22-year-old has driven for
Project 91’s stated intention is to field “world-class drivers from other disciplines to compete at NASCAR’s highest level”. After fielding Raikkonen at Watkins Glen last year, Marks said he’d increase the programme to “six to eight” Cup races in 2023, while retaining its focus on road courses. Raikkonen also finished 29th place at the NASCAR
The 1992 Indianapolis 500 saw 10 former winners start the race – but none of them won it. The highest-placed former winner that day was four-time Indy victor Al Unser Sr of Team Menard, who managed to coax the notoriously fast-but-fickle Buick engine past the chequered flag. He was 10 seconds behind the winner, his
The final 10 laps of the Cup event won by Tyler Reddick took almost an hour to complete, with a trio of overtime restarts required following a series of Turn 1 multi-car pileups after restarts, which resulted in car and tyre damage causing cautions for debris. In total, there were five restarts in the final
At least Kimi Raikkonen had faced the NASCAR Cup experience once before, arriving at the Circuit of the Americas having been booted out of last year’s race at Watkins Glen and into the tyrewall, so at least he knew what he could expect. Fellow F1 world champion Jenson Button joined him at COTA, and they
NTT has been the title sponsor of IndyCar since 2019 and will continue in that capacity with this multi-year extension that goes into effect in 2024. NTT and NTT DATA will also continue as the official technology partner for IndyCar, the series, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR Brickyard weekend. “NTT is an excellent
Suarez was running in the top-five and in contention for the win as the race went into the first of three two-lap overtimes, but got shoved off the course and into Martin Truex Jr. heading up the hill to Turn 1. The contact was instigated by his Trackhouse Racing team-mate Ross Chastain bumping into Bowman, who then
The 2009 Formula 1 world champion was making the first of three planned outings in the Cup Series this year in a Rick Ware Racing Ford, as he gears up to a return to the Le Mans 24 Hours with Hendrick Motorsport’s Garage 56 NASCAR programme. Button finished 18th as the best of the road
On his second Cup outing with the Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet squad, Raikkonen started 22nd in Sunday’s race and ran in the midfield for most of the day. However after a late caution brought the field back together, the Finn eyed an opportunity to gain track position. Having pitted just before the yellow flag, he stayed
Toyota driver Reddick and poleman William Byron’s Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet spent much of Sunday’s race trading the lead, but the former Richard Childress Racing man moved out front for the final time on lap 64 of what was originally scheduled as a 68-lap race. To preserve the win, however, Reddick had to fight off repeated challengers in
The 2007 world champion is making his second race outing in the NASCAR Cup Series at Circuit of the Americas this weekend, rejoining the Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet team with which he made his debut at Watkins Glen last year. The Finn, who retired from F1 at the end of the 2021 season after making 349
Raikkonen and Button, the F1 world champions of 2007 and 2009, will start 22nd and 24th respectively for the first NASCAR road course of the season, while sportscar racer Jordan Taylor starred on his first outing subbing for the injured Chase Elliott at Hendrick Motorsports by setting the fourth-quickest time. 23XI Racing Toyota driver
Erik Jones is 21st in the series standings, after finishing eighth at Atlanta Motor Speedway last weekend in his first top-10 of the season, while rookie team-mate Noah Gragson is 27th following his a personal best finish of 12th. Since last November when the former Petty GMS Racing team announced its new part-owner in seven-time Cup Series champion Johnson,
The 2009 Formula 1 world champion is making his NASCAR debut this weekend aboard the #15 Rick Ware Racing Ford Mustang, with technical support from Stewart-Haas Racing. In the only 50-minute practice session this weekend, he ran 13 total laps and logged the 28th quickest time out of 39 entries. He was 1.770s slower than pace-setter
Among the 39 entries for Sunday’s race at COTA are past Formula 1 champions Kimi Raikkonen and Jenson Button, Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Jordan Taylor and IndyCar racer Connor Daly. Team Penske racer Cindric, the 2022 Daytona 500 winner, had an extensive sportscar background himself before embarking on his full-time NASCAR career. While
Chip Ganassi Racing’s six-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon was driving for Honda around the 14-turn 2.439-mile course, while Team Penske’s two-time and reigning champion Will Power took the wheel for Chevrolet. Although the test was for 2024 – when IndyCar will introduce a hybrid system mated to the 2.2-litre, twin-turbo V6s – the event was shrouded
Despite continuing with Audi for the DTM, Abt announced in February that it would enter the 24 Hours for the first time since 2017 with a Lamborghini GT3 EVO2 and contest several rounds of the Nordschleife-based Nurburgring Endurance Series (NLS) in preparation. It finished eighth in last weekend’s opening NLS round with Lamborghini factory driver Marco
Mark Miles, president and CEO of Penske Entertainment, and vice president Michael Montri toured the track and the facilities of the Termas racetrack which has hosted MotoGP since 2014 and is a regular on the domestic TC2000 touring car series calendar. The pair were accompanied by Juncos Hollinger Racing team co-owner Ricardo Juncos and Ricardo
The careers of Anthony Davidson and Takuma Sato overlapped at several junctures. The pair finished first (Sato) and second as Carlin team-mates in the 2001 British Formula 3 championship, then were reunited for 2003 when Sato arrived as a race driver at the BAR Formula 1 team where Davidson was a test and reserve driver.
In the opening round of the season at St. Petersburg, the Rahal Letterman Lanigan driver slid into the wreck of Rinus VeeKay’s Ed Carpenter Racing car on lap 42 of 100, at the Turn 4 tyre wall. The RLL machine then had to absorb a second impact as Kyle Kirkwood’s Andretti Autosport entry struck it on the
The 2014 Cup Series champion’s Stewart-Haas Racing Ford will switch from its regular #4 to use the #29 in a throwback paint scheme reminiscent of the design which adorned Harvick’s Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet when he won his first Cup race in 2001. His breakthrough victory at Atlanta over Jeff Gordon came in just Harvick’s third series start with
The 2012 IndyCar champion, who has 18 Indy car wins to his name was a fixture at Indianapolis Motor Speedway from his sixth-place finish for Rahal Letterman Lanigan in 2008 until 2021, his 12th start for Andretti Autosport. Hunter-Reay has started from the Indy front row twice and has accrued six top-10 finishes. Yet his
The 2018 McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner joins incumbents Rob Bell and Marvin Kirchhofer in McLaren’s factory roster, with Joe Osborne and Euan Hankey understood to no longer be works contracted. Gamble has raced in sportscars since 2019, most notably winning the European Le Mans Series LMP3 crown in 2020 with United Autosports. The 21-year-old
Kevin Harvick appeared in command on his way to win at Phoenix when a late-race caution for a spin by Harrison Burton sent all the lead-lap cars into the pits. The top six each took on only two new tyres, but Kyle Larson was first off pitroad, only for another crash shortly after the restart
The Swiss-Italian is a former member of the Ferrari Driver Academy and was a Sauber Formula 1 test and reserve driver in 2015. He won the FIA Formula 3 European Championship in 2013 with Prema and spent three seasons in GP2 before switching to GT racing in 2017, joining the Mercedes-AMG driver roster a year
IndyCar fans have been left so many questions to ponder after last weekend’s Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. In no particular order, we wonder if Andretti Autosport had pitted Romain Grosjean a lap earlier in his first stint – before his green alternate Firestones gave up and lost him time – whether Team Penske’s Scott
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