IndyCar

Former Penske driver Castroneves first joined MSR for a six-race campaign last year, and opened his account with victory in the 105th Running of the Indianapolis 500 to become the fourth four-time Indy 500 winner in history, joining AJ Foyt, Al Unser and Rick Mears in the pantheon of the Speedway greats. The win was

Will Power’s determined effort to maintain his cool has never been more sorely tried than at the races where the Australian has started further down than expected, or when circumstances have conspired against him. At both Barber Motorsports Park and Road America, the Australian had seemed to be set for a Fast Six slot when

Team Penske shifted the Brazilian veteran from IndyCar to the IMSA SportsCar Championship at the end of 2017, and he went on to score five wins in the Acura Team Penske ARX-05 over the next three seasons, culminating in winning the 2020 Prototype crown with Ricky Taylor. He made sporadic IndyCar appearances during this period

During speculation back in springtime that Vettel would call time on his F1 career, RLL founder and co-owner Bobby Rahal remarked that he would love to let the German ace test a car. Since then, the Aston Martin driver has announced that 2022 will be his final season in F1. Former F2 racer and F1

Lundgaard, who scored his first podium finish in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s second race on the road course last month, went on to score his highest grid slot in Nashville, and only slipped out of podium contention in the closing laps. He currently leads David Malukas of Dale Coyne Racing by 41 points in the

Ganassi drivers Scott Dixon, Marcus Ericsson and Palou are currently second, third and fifth respectively in the standings, with Palou only 33 points off points leading Penske driver Will Power. With 150-plus points available over the final three rounds, Palou still has strong hopes of defending the IndyCar crown he earned with Ganassi in 2021. Insight: Why the

Founded by Carl Haas and legendary film actor Paul Newman, the team is one of the greatest Indycar teams of the past 40 years, racking up 108 Indycar wins – in CART, Champ Car and IndyCar – between its debut in 1983 and its withdrawal from racing at the end of the 2011 season. Cars representing both ends

For three years, this writer has been predicting that Arrow McLaren SP is going to turn IndyCar’s Big Three into a Big Four. Indeed, AMSP and Andretti Autosport are worthy occupants of third and fourth place, in either order. Colton Herta (Andretti) and Pato O’Ward (AMSP) finished third and fourth in the championship in 2020,

Having started 14th, Dixon climbed to 11th. Under the second caution of the day he and most of his rivals pitted, but an air-jack failure dropped him to the back of the field. Then, after Graham Rahal knocked Pato O’Ward into Will Power, bringing both the Rahal Letterman Lanigan and Arrow McLaren SP cars to

After a fuel strategy didn’t work out due to how the caution periods unfolded, Newgarden made a late pitstop under yellow and had to climb back up from 14th place. After moving up to 10th place, at the penultimate restart following a caution period he made a bold dive up the inside of three cars

In a race delayed by almost two hours due to thunderstorms and then stalled by multiple caution periods and a late red flag, Dixon came through the carnage for his second win of the season by seeing off McLaughlin in a sprint to the finish. IndyCar points leader Will Power also suffered damage during the

During the weather delay at the Nashville race, Paretta Autosport announced an additional date to its original three-race roster for 2022. Although the team is not yet prepared to reveal the next title sponsor for the #16 Paretta entry, team principal Beth Paretta was able to confirm the team and Simona De Silvestro’s presence on

Scott McLaughlin delivered his second IndyCar pole with the fastest time at Nashville to beat a resurgent Romain Grosjean, after lightning during a rainstorm caused a 90-minute delay. Grosjean had put his Andretti car on top during the Fast Six, getting ahead of Christian Lundgaard – but McLaughlin eclipsed the Frenchman’s time late on –

The four-time Indy 500 winner has received an “unapproved engine change” since the last Saturday’s race on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, and will drop six places from wherever he finishes in tomorrow’s qualifying session on the streets of Nashville. According to IndyCar’s Rule 16.2.3.2, a fifth engine is eligible to earn engine manufacturer

McLaughlin had set the early running in the final practice session before qualifying with a 1m16.296s, and eventually topped the times with a 1m15.460s lap to pip team-mate Josef Newgarden by 0.294s as Will Power claimed third. After an early red flag, caused by Rinus VeeKay understeering into a wall at the cost of a nosewing

Rosenqvist’s position at the team is under threat due to the impending arrival of Palou, a matter that is set to go to court with Ganassi claiming it had the rights to continuing with the 2021 series champion next year. Arrow McLaren SP is expanding to three cars next year, but incumbent Pato O’Ward and new

A podium finish for Lundgaard at last week’s race on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course appears to have unlocked his confidence and as he lapped the bumpy 2.1-mile street track in Nashville he put in a 1m15.9695s to head the field by over two-tenths over Felix Rosenqvist. With an extra set of primaries to

There were a total of nine cautions in the 2021 Nashville race, so that 33 of the 80 laps were run under yellow, and there were two red-flag periods. This year, restarts will be held in the same place as the start which is the longest straight on the track, namely the Korean War Veterans

The 2019 Indy Lights runner-up joined ECR after leaving a highly positive impression on the team following initial testing, and in his rookie season VeeKay scored a pole position, a podium and two other top-five finishes on his way to the Rookie of The Year title. In May 2021, he won the Grand Prix of

Rossi led 44 of the 85 laps to record his eighth career IndyCar win and his first in more than three years. However, following post-race technical inspection last Saturday, the #27 Andretti Autosport was found to have reached minimum weight in a manner not allowed by the IndyCar rulebook. Rule 14.4.1.1. states that the minimum

Fans of Family Guy will be familiar with the several times when Peter Griffin has clumsily demolished the front of his pal Cleveland’s house while the occupant is in the bathtub. Suddenly the bathroom floor tilts forward, and Cleveland rides the porcelain down to his front lawn, yelling with increasing anxiety, “No, Noo, Nooo, Noooo!”

Just a couple of weeks after finishing a strong third in Toronto, Rosenqvist scored a highly convincing pole on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, and only a mechanical issue prevented the Arrow McLaren SP driver from contending for victory. However, although signed by McLaren for 2023, the 30-year-old Swede has not yet been informed

The Team Penske driver finished runner-up in the IndyCar championship standings three times in a row between 2010 and 2012 before finally clinching his first title in 2014. He was also close to the title in 2015, ultimately finishing third, and has only once finished outside the top five in the standings – with ninth

The Formula 2 race winner made his debut on this track last summer as a one-off for the team co-owned by Bobby Rahal, David Letterman and Mike Lanigan, and shocked everyone by qualifying fourth. This weekend he qualified sixth, and finished second – the three-car RLL team’s first podium finish in 2022, just a couple of

The two-time IndyCar champion dominated the first of Iowa’s two races last weekend, and was leading the second on Sunday when a suspected failure of his right-rear shock absorber spun him into the wall. After being cleared at the infield medical centre, Newgarden held a coherent interview with NBC but later suffered a loss of consciousness

Chip Ganassi Racing driver Ericsson suffered an engine issue before setting even one qualifying lap on Friday, obliging him to start from the very back of the 25-car grid. He ran a long opening stint on the primary tyres to get back into contention, but his strategy was compromised by the timing of a caution

Reigning IndyCar champion Alex Palou’s destiny for 2023 has become a tug of war between his current team, Chip Ganassi Racing, and McLaren. Just days before this weekend’s crucial race at the Indianapolis road course, Ganassi issued a lawsuit against its own driver, using his own tweets as evidence against him. File this one under

Andretti Autosport driver Rossi set the best time of 1m10.091s on the 2.439-mile road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway to pip Team Penske’s Newgarden – whose participation had been in doubt after losing consciousness following a crash at Iowa last weekend – by just 0.020s. Colton Herta made it two Andretti Autosport runners in the

Pacesetter from practice Alexander Rossi initially grabbed provisional pole in the top six shootout with a 1m10.6775s, but Rosenqvist, who only did a sighting lap on his first run, then sat in the pits until the final three minutes of the session to pick his opportunity. He emerged on the softest compound tyre to produce

It was announced on Thursday that the Juncos Hollinger Racing team has taken up its option on incumbent Ilott for the next two seasons, but team founder Juncos has admitted the team and its British rookie driver have faced an uphill battle in 2022 as theirs is the only single-entry team on the IndyCar grid.