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Newgarden and Dixon started from the front row at the Long Beach finale but were beaten to victory lane by Colton Herta, and claimed second and fourth in the final points standings. Penske driver Newgarden, who won the 2017 and 2019 championships, was effusive in his praise for Palou and said the Spanish driver should

The Andretti Autosport driver stayed out too long on Firestone’s primary compound tyre in Q1 and grazed the wall before switching to the softer alternate compound, when a bent toe-link gave out and left him unable to progress to Q2. But despite getting caught up in the early incident triggered by Ed Jones spinning championship

McLaughlin seemed underwhelmed with his race at Long Beach, with the caution flags disrupting his strategy, limiting his progress to 11th place having started 13th. However, with fellow IndyCar rookie Romain Grosjean eliminating himself from the Long Beach race by brushing the wall at two-thirds distance, McLaughlin clinched the Rookie of the Year title by

The 2016 IndyCar champion and 2019 Indy 500 victor has accumulated 15 wins in IndyCar so far, four of them with the Arrow McLaren SP team under its Schmidt Peterson Motorsports guise, and 11 in his last seven seasons at Roger Penske’s squad. As predicted by Autosport in August, 37-year-old Pagenaud will replace Jack Harvey

O’Ward lost his points lead to Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou in Portland two races ago and came into the finale 35 points behind the leader at the rescheduled season finale on the streets of Long Beach. At the end of the opening lap O’Ward was hit from behind by Ed Jones of Dale Coyne

Ticktum, who scored his second win of the Formula 2 season in Sochi this weekend, and currently lies fourth in the points table, said that IndyCar, DTM and Formula E were all options for him in 2022, having conceded that his F1 hopes had gone. Tindall told Autosport: “He’d certainly make a great IndyCar driver.

When Team Penske’s Will Power ground to a halt without gears at Turn 10 and brought out a yellow, O’Ward – at that point sixth fastest – and championship leader Alex Palou slowed dramatically, while others did not. The rules stipulate that all drivers shall reduce speed by a minimum of 15% (or greater if

At the 2021 finale in Long Beach this weekend, President and CEO Mark Miles was asked about venturing outside of the US, especially in light of the fact that the championship this year is being fought between Spain’s Alex Palou and Mexico’s Pato O’Ward. The last IndyCar race staged outside the US was on a

Newgarden took the top spot with a 1m08.224s in the Fast Six shootout, with reigning champion Scott Dixon claiming second having missed out on pole when he caught Helio Castroneves around the street circuit in the final part of qualifying. Castroneves’ initial time of 1m08.482s was good enough for third, ahead of Simon Pagenaud, Felix

The 40-year-old joined the team in 2010 and won the first title following the series’ switch to the ubiquitous Dallara DW12 in 2012. He then won the Indianapolis 500 in 2014 after a tight battle with Helio Castroneves and, aside from a slump to 12th in 2016, has finished in the top 10 in the

Grosjean, 35, scored three podium finishes in his first season in America’s premier open-wheel series, and came into the series off the back of his 10-year Formula 1 career, which ended prematurely with his horrendously fiery crash in the 2020 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. “We are thrilled to welcome Romain to the Andretti Autosport family,”

With three wins and five other podium finishes – including runner-up last weekend at Laguna Seca – Chip Ganassi Racing’s series Palou arrives at the finale with a 35-point margin over his nearest opposition, Arrow McLaren SP’s Pato O’Ward. Even if O’Ward wins the race, and gains the bonus point for pole, the bonus point

It was confirmed on Sunday morning that Arrow will continue to be title sponsor of the IndyCar squad, as well as a partner of McLaren’s F1 team. The renewal is a key element to the IndyCar team’s expansion, which was confirmed last month as McLaren Racing acquired a 75 percent stake, and its third car

Franchitti, who works with both Palou and Dixon in his role as driver advisor at Chip Ganassi Racing, says that the working relationship between them this year has been key to Palou’s remarkable first season with the team.  Franchitti won three of his titles with Ganassi and Dixon was his teammate throughout his five-year stint

During the 25th anniversary event of two-time series champion Zanardi’s famous ‘the pass’ move on Bryan Herta at the Corkscrew in 1996, Grosjean paid homage to the great Italian by overtaking a number of cars at the signature corner of the Laguna Seca track – including six-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon. Grosjean, whose future IndyCar

Herta, who led 91 of the 95 laps, was under greatest threat during the race whenever he reached backmarkers, allowing championship leader Alex Palou to close up to within a second of the Andretti driver. Asked by Autosport if he felt it was time for IndyCar to wave blue flags at backmarkers and encourage them

Grosjean, who this week is expected to be confirmed at Andretti Autosport, switched to IndyCar after five increasingly frustrating years at the Haas Formula 1 team bled away the career momentum he had gathered with 10 podiums for the Lotus team. His F1 career came to an end in an even more abrupt manner than

O’Ward qualified sixth and finished fifth at the Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey but championship leader Alex Palou of Ganassi qualified fourth and finished second. The result left O’Ward trailing by 35 points heading into next Sunday’s season finale at Long Beach. Consequently, even were O’Ward to clinch all bonus points and win the race,

Herta suffered a late scare after running over an animal, asking his team to check any damage to his front wing – but the Andretti Autosport driver was given the all-clear. He only had to stay ahead of Palou, who spent the second half of the race having to contend with traffic and a resurgent

Of particular note is St. Petersburg shifting forward to February, and the second round being Texas Motor Speedway, which reverts to a one-race weekend after hosting two races this year. The Detroit event at Belle Isle will move back to its usual week after the Indy 500, but becomes a single race for the first

With tomorrow’s race set for 95 laps, compared with 90 run in 2019, teams and drivers are likely to struggle to stretch their tyre life for increased stint length. Fuel-wise, the race is expected feasible on three stops, as per this same event two years ago, but with the track surface at Laguna Seca being

Speaking after topping the 45-minute Friday practice at the California circuit, which returns to the calendar this year after a planned double-header race in 2020 was cancelled due to then pandemic, title challenger Newgarden said it had been difficult to get an understanding of the tyre performance given the limited running on the high-degradation circuit.

The three-time Supercars champion delivered a 1min10.8755sec lap of the 2.238-mile course, an average speed of 113.675mph, which put him 0.1469sec clear of Andretti Autosport’s 2019 Laguna Seca pole-winner Colton Herta. Third fastest was championship leader Alex Palou, the only Chip Ganassi Racing driver in the Top 10, with Simon Pagenaud and Will Power fourth

The Arrow McLaren SP driver held a 10-point advantage into last week’s Portland race, but Palou’s victory on a day when O’Ward could only muster a 14th place finish has transformed the landscape of the title battle with two rounds to go. O’Ward is one of three drivers seeking to dethrone Palou, with Team Penske’s

The former Formula 1 driver, now a 12-year veteran of the IndyCar Series, has six wins to his name, two of which are at the Indy 500 with Andretti Autosport in 2017 and RLL last season. Although Coyne insisted that there are still “four or five drivers in the mix” for a DCR seat in

The 40-year-old, who won on only this fourth start for the team at Long Beach in 2010, went on to score 14 more wins including the 2014 Indianapolis 500, and also won the championship in 2012. However, after two winless seasons – three should he not triumph in final events of this year’s campaign at

Team Penske’s 2017 and ’19 champion finished fifth in the Grand Prix of Portland climbing from 16th on the grid, and comprehensively beating erstwhile points leader Pato O’Ward, who could only finish 14th. But with his other two title rivals Alex Palou and Scott Dixon finishing first and third in their Chip Ganassi Racing-Hondas, Newgarden

Aside from a disrupted one-day test on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s road course, the Grand Prix of Portland was Ilott’s first experience of IndyCar. It was also the first race at the top of US open-wheel racing for Ricardo Juncos’ ace junior formula team since the 2019 Indianapolis 500. It was expected that the 2020

Harvey started second and finished fourth in the season’s second round at St. Petersburg, but then suffered a largely miserable run of nine races that emulated much of his ill fortune in 2020. The Portland race looked like it might be another missed opportunity; despite being third fastest in first practice and fifth fastest in

At the start of the race, polesitter Palou beat fellow front-row starter Alexander Rossi of Andretti Autosport, the latter also being jumped by the Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda of Scott Dixon, who had started third. Dixon moved right to protect the inside line and started drawing alongside Palou, but got a tap from the Arrow McLaren