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Chip Ganassi Racing, for whom Palou scored a 14th IndyCar drivers’ title last year, yesterday released a statement announcing it was taking him to court for signing with McLaren Racing for 2023. “Alex Palou is under contract with Chip Ganassi Racing through the end of the 2023 season,” said the CGR release. “He is a

The 2020 Formula 2 runner-up first raced with JHR in the final three events of the 2021 season and impressed enough that he was signed up for 2022, as the championship-winning Road To Indy team stepped up to run a full IndyCar season for the first time. The 23-year-old Briton has qualified inside the top

Dale Coyne Racing lost its star rookies of 2020 and 2021, Alex Palou and Romain Grosjean, to Chip Ganassi Racing and Andretti Autosport respectively for their second seasons. But team owner Coyne is eager to keep hold of last year’s Indy Lights runner-up Malukas, who sits just four points behind Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s Christian

In a statement from the team, for whom Palou scored its 14th IndyCar drivers’ title last year, Ganassi stated: “Alex Palou is under contract with Chip Ganassi Racing through the end of the 2023 season. He is a valued member of our team, and we will continue to support him in chasing wins, podiums, and

The Mexican bounced back from back-to-back mechanical misfortunes in Road America and Mid-Ohio with a second place and a victory from last weekend’s Iowa double-header. His strong points haul puts him 36 points off championship leader Marcus Ericsson in fifth, with Team Penske team-mates Will Power and Josef Newgarden plus Ericsson’s Chip Ganassi Racing team-mate

Following his heavy shunt while leading the second race at Iowa, and later brief loss of consciousness, Newgarden was taken to MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center, where he stayed overnight. The 2017 and 2019 champion was released this morning to return home to Nashville. However, per IndyCar Series protocols, Newgarden will be re-evaluated by the

The Team Penske-Chevrolet ace, who dominated Race 1 at Iowa on Saturday, appeared set to do the same in Race 2, after wresting the lead away from polesitting team-mate Will Power before one-third distance and leading 148 laps. However, on the 235th of 300 laps, the #2 Penske appeared to ‘sit down’ on its rear

Having taken the lead on lap 85, catching polesitter Power who had to slow trying to lap Romain Grosjean, Newgarden looked set to record a dominant double at Iowa, having been peerless on Saturday’s opener. But suddenly on lap 235, a failure at the right-rear of the car sent Newgarden spinning hard into the wall,

After taking the lead from polesitter and Penske team-mate Will Power in the early stages, Newgarden dominated the 250 lap race held on the 0.804 mile oval, that was punctuated by a series of cautions. Having survived brief contact with Indy 500 winner Marcus Ericsson, Newgarden went on to take the win from Arrow McLaren’s

Each car completed a two-lap run in qualifying for the double-header with the first flyer determining grid order for Saturday’s first race, and the second lap setting order for Sunday’s round. Power was the only driver to break the 178mph barrier and he did it twice, to draw within one pole position of Mario Andretti’s

The six-time IndyCar champion passed polesitter Colton Herta for the lead when the Andretti Autosport driver was still bringing his tyres up to temperature having pitting one lap later than Dixon, and held on to win by 0.8 seconds after 85 laps of the Canadian street track. His 52nd career victory meant the Chip Ganassi Racing driver

Although Rosenqvist has been retained by McLaren Racing for 2023 and beyond, there are question marks over whether he’ll remain in IndyCar alongside Pato O’Ward and 2023 arrival Alexander Rossi, regardless of reigning champion Palou’s destiny. Like Rosenqvist, IndyCar champion Palou has been signed to the McLaren Racing ‘family’ but it is not clear yet

Polesitter Herta still secured his first podium since winning the rain-soaked Grand Prix of Indianapolis in May, but revealed that his job of pressuring Dixon and defending from third-placed Felix Rosenqvist was made difficult in the closing stages when his vision became limited by his hair. “I couldn’t really see much because my head sock broke,”

The latest success means Dixon now matches Mario Andretti in second on the all-time IndyCar winners list. From the start, polesitter Herta was unthreatened, while Dixon swept across from the outside to ensure Newgarden couldn’t sneak up from third to claim second. Newgarden checked his momentum and that allowed Alexander Rossi around his outside to try

The start of the session was delayed by over 30 minutes as the safety crews and Toronto track workers rebuilt the Turn 3 wall and fence and replaced electrical cables, following a heavy shunt in the supporting Porsche Carrera Cup North America qualifying session. The first casualty of the session was Josef Newgarden, who felt

In the pole position shootout between those in the fast six, Alexander Rossi set the early marker to beat of 59.6090s, until Newgarden scorched around in 59.5257s despite grazing the wall. That would have looked good enough for pole, especially after David Malukas of Dale Coyne Racing came within 0.0287s, but Herta found a remarkable

In Mid-Ohio Alexander Rossi collided with Romain Grosjean and Devlin DeFrancesco, and Grosjean nudged Herta off the track. But today in Toronto the team bounced back, with Herta and Rossi taking first and fourth in qualifying, while Grosjean – who hit the wall in the morning – salvaged 11th alongside DeFrancesco in 12th, who survived two

Construction work for the Toronto X hotel in 2016 obliged organisers to ask track designer Tony Cotman to substantially alter the final sector of the course, as well as shifting the pitlane from driver’s right to driver’s left. The result is a pitlane that arcs sharp left on entry at Turn 9, then right at

CGR released a statement on Tuesday revealing it had taken up the option on Palou for 2023, the Spaniard having signed a two-year-plus-one-year-option with the squad after his rookie IndyCar season with Dale Coyne Racing in 2020. Hours later, Palou hit social media to refute the statement that he’d be remaining at Ganassi for 2023, and

Last month Robert Wickens became a race winner again, defying his paralysis by using hand controls to score victory at Watkins Glen’s IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge event with Hyundai. On the same day at Goodwood’s Festival of Speed, disabled MotoGP world champion Wayne Rainey rode his Yamaha YZR500 again and quadriplegic Sam Schmidt – Robert’s

It was announced on Tuesday that Ganassi had taken up his option on its 2021 IndyCar champion to retain him through the end of the 2023 season. The release included a quote from Ganassi, who has seen his drivers score 14 championships since 1996, and also supposedly from Palou – a fact that the Spaniard

Michael Andretti was left fuming after the Mid-Ohio IndyCar race. All four of his drivers were involved in intra-team scraps that cost them three top-10 finishes and left some serious questions to be answered. Following a restart, Alexander Rossi and Romain Grosjean were duelling over 10th place on lap 59 of the 80-lap race when

In May McLaren announced that Andretti Autosport driver Herta, a seven-time race winner in the IndyCar Series, will be part of the team’s testing programme with the 2021 MCL35M car. The team has now revealed the 22-year-old American will test at Portimao’s Algarve International Circuit on Monday and Tuesday, with McLaren’s simulator driver Will Stevens

With a potential pole-winning car Power had his fastest two laps deleted in qualifying, after impeding Helio Castronevess when the team failed to warn him of the rapid approach of his former team-mate. That relegated the #12 Verizon Team Penske-Chevrolet to 21st on the grid. A spin on the opening lap was a result of

After scoring a win in the season-opener at St. Petersburg, and a very close runner-up finish at Texas, the 29-year-old New Zealand had not scored a top five over the next five rounds.   However, at Mid-Ohio he started second, tracked early leader Pato O’Ward very closely over the first stint, so that he was

McLaughlin took advantage of a full course caution caused by Kyle Kirkwood to leap from second to lead 45 of the 80 laps. The three-time Supercars champion came under pressure from Palou in the closing stages but was able to hold off the Spaniard to claim his second career IndyCar win. Penske team-mate Will Power charged

Pato O’Ward was the first driver to set a representative time on used reds in the Fast Six shootout, a 67.0852s, before pitting immediately to grab another set of worn reds. His time withstood the first efforts by Scott McLaughlin of Team Penske-Chevrolet and his own team-mate Felix Rosenqvist. Then he lowered the mark still

Devlin DeFrancesco caused a red flag in the opening minutes of the session with an off-course excursion, before ten drivers soon set laptimes under 1m08s. Alexander Rossi sent his Andretti Autosport-Honda to the top with a 1m07.872s lap, before he was swiftly replaced in P1 by Felix Rosenqvist of Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet. However, the Swede

Autosport understands Dixon’s current contract with Ganassi is through to the end of 2023, and that it is IndyCar-specific, whereby he can’t be moved sideways into CGR’s Cadillac sportscar operation full-time – although he’ll likely remain as one of the extras for endurance races. However, there are rumours that when his contract is up, he

Sharing his Hyundai Elantra N with fellow Canadian Mark Wilkins in a two-hour race at Watkins Glen, Wickens won the TCR class of the Michelin Pilot Challenge event for Bryan Herta Autosport. His last race victory was in September 2017, at the Nurburgring for Mercedes in the DTM. Due to his spinal cord injury, Wickens