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O’Ward pipped Chip Ganassi Racing’s reigning champion Palou to the top spot by just 0.029s to continue the fine form he showed by winning last time out at Barber Motorsports Park with a 1m09.783s lap. He was just 0.058s quicker than Colton Herta (Andretti Autosport) in third, with defending Indy GP winner Rinus VeeKay fourth

The Mercedes driver took advantage of an IndyCar driver evaluation day at Sebring last December, with MSR slotting him into a car for a day-long test at Sebring. De Vries emerged fastest in the four-car test, ahead of Callum Ilott (Juncos Hollinger), his Formula E team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne (Arrow McLaren SP), and Jack Aitken (Ed

The four-time Formula 1 World Champion, driving for Aston Martin, remarked in an interview during last weekend’s F1 Miami Grand Prix that he prefers “proper” US tracks such as Road America to the street course in Miami Gardens. Respected IndyCar blogger Matt Archuleta quoted the German ace’s comment on Twitter which drew a response from

The #25 DragonSpeed/Cusick Motorsports car becomes the 33rd – and likely final – entry in the 106th running of the Indianapolis 500, with the equipment is being supplied by AJ Foyt Racing. Cusick Motorsports was founded just last year by entrepreneur Don Cusick, who backs Wilson in the four Michelin Endurance Cup rounds of the IMSA SportsCar Championship,

Alex Palou showed all his IndyCar rivals how to win a championship last year, with three wins and five other podiums meaning he finished in the top three in half the races during 2021. The #10 Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda driver’s average finishing position across the 16-race championship was 7.3. Eliminate two DNFs, neither of which were

In the closing laps of the Grand Prix of Alabama, the Rahal Letterman Lanigan driver was trying to get around Scott McLaughlin’s Team Penske while fending off Grosjean. Rahal was having to keep an eye on his fuel mileage having gone for a two-stop strategy, whereas Grosjean’s Andretti Autosport team had put him on a

The downhill hairpin left-handed Turn 5 follows a long climb from Turn 2, and it is notoriously difficult to judge the ultimate braking distance for the corner while on a cold set of Firestone’s harder primary compound tyres. Ed Carpenter Racing’s VeeKay led Arrow McLaren SP rival O’Ward for the first two stints of the

After learning that rival Colton Herta of Andretti Autosport will test a McLaren Formula 1 car, there had been friction between O’Ward and his team, with the Mexican prodigy declaring he was open to other offers. That has led to speculation surrounding his future at Arrow McLaren SP, with McLaren CEO Zak Brown declaring it

VeeKay lapped the 2.366-mile Barber Motorsports Park track in 1m06.2507s to beat last year’s Barber polesitter Pato O’Ward by 0.15s and land his first pole since the opening race of the Indianapolis Grand Prix double-header in October 2020. Arrow McLaren SP’s O’Ward reported he had to gather up a major slide as he tried to

During morning practice, the #27 Andretti Autosport made hard contact with the barrier on the outside of Turn 17 at Barber, and the damage was extensive enough to require a whole new rear end and a new engine. The team had under three hours to get the car prepared and set up in time for

Rossi’s shunt after 15 minutes was a strange one, the car fishtailing viciously on the exit of the final turn, despite not initially riding the curbs. The #27 Andretti car, which had been seventh fastest up to that point went onto the grass and smacked an unprotected part of the barrier, most heavily with its

Herta lapped the 2.366-mile 17-turn Alabama course in 1m06.5149s to shade defending series champion and 2021 Barber winner Alex Palou (Chip Ganassi Racing) by 0.05s. Alexander Rossi was precisely 0.1s behind team-mate Herta but shaded fellow Andretti Autosport driver Romain Grosjean to secure third spot. In a session that suggested Honda have retained somewhat of

Speaking ahead of the series’ return to Barber Motorsports Park, where he scored his first win for the Honda powered Chip Ganassi Racing last year, Palou said there was nothing missing in the HPD-built units’ repertoire. However, Palou admits that Chevrolet, as witnessed by Penske’s start to the season, has improved its engines this season. 

When Sebastien Bourdais suffered his awful-looking 228mph accident during qualifying for the 2017 Indy 500, he not only broke his pelvis and left hip, he also blew apart his and Dale Coyne Racing’s best chance of Indy 500 glory. Seb was on the third lap of his qualy run, and his first two were the

The NASCAR legend, a four-time winner of NASCAR’s Brickyard 400 at IMS, is contesting his first full season of IndyCar after a road-and-street course-only programme in 2021. Johnson scored his best IndyCar result to date on his first oval appearance at Texas Motor Speedway last month, claiming an impressive sixth-place finish, but Indy’s 2.5-mile speedway

When the Galles and Kraco Indycar teams merged for the 1990 season, it thrust two of the championships’s top driving talents into partnership. Al Unser Jr had largely spent his open-wheel career with Galles and Doug Shierson’s teams driving as single-car operations – his only team-mates had been part-timers Pancho Carter and Tom Gloy in

In the morning session, 2016 Indy winner Alexander Rossi spun his Andretti Autosport machine as he straightened up on the warm-up lane beside the short chute between Turns 1 and 2. Then, in the afternoon running, four-time 500 winner Helio Castroneves lost control of his Meyer Shank Racing car on the warm-up lane and spun

Power’s incident was the third of the day after 2016 Indianapolis 500 winner Alexander Rossi spun on the warm-up lane and four-time defending Indy winner Helio Castroneves spun out of the warm-up lane into the Turn 2 wall, prompting the test to be prematurely concluded. The 2018 Indy 500 winner completed a 360-degree spin on

It was reassuring, last August in Nashville, to hear Zak Brown confirm that Arrow McLaren SP would be retaining its drivers for 2022. We were certain that Pato O’Ward wasn’t going anywhere, especially while McLaren dangled the Formula 1 carrot in front of him, and we knew that Felix Rosenqvist’s deal, signed in late 2020,

The team has confirmed that Simona De Silvestro will return to action for Paretta Autosport at three rounds this year – Road America in June, followed by Mid-Ohio in July and Nashville in August. Paretta explained that the #16 entry, which made its debut in last year’s Indianapolis 500, was never going to be re-entered at

The #16 Paretta Autosport will enter the 2022 IndyCar Series at Road America, Mid-Ohio and the streets of Nashville, with possible extra entries before the year’s end. Team owner Beth Paretta said the majority of women who took part in her “women forward” Indianapolis 500 campaign in 2021, the squad’s debut, will be returning and

Team president Taylor Kiel and McLaren CEO Zak Brown had been considering the prospect of continuing with a third car this year, after Juan Pablo Montoya’s participation in the Grand Prix of Indy and the Indianapolis 500 alongside full-timers Pato O’Ward and Felix Rosenqvist. However, Kiel has now confirmed to Autosport that other commitments have

Back in 2019, this writer rated Alexander Rossi as the best IndyCar driver of the season. Yes, he’d missed out on the title – indeed, he slipped to third in points at the final round – but the Andretti Autosport driver made fewer mistakes than champion Josef Newgarden, despite having the best car on fewer weekends, and

All those driver/team combinations who have been announced for the 106th running of the Indianapolis 500 will be in action at the Speedway on 20-21 April. Marco Andretti will return to his favourite track with Andretti Autosport, where he scored Rookie of the Year honors in 2006 with a close runner-up finish and where he

The Chip Ganassi Racing driver grabbed too much kerb on the inside of Turn 5 of the legendary street course during Friday’s sole practice session, so that the underside of the car grounded out, taking weight off his wheels just as he needed maximum grip to complete the corner. Johnson hit the tyre wall on

Reaching the traditional 33-car grid number for the IndyCar Series’ blue ribband round is proving difficult at a time when some teams have struggled to find the requisite personnel to run their full-time cars. There are 32 confirmed entries for this year’s race, with 15 powered by Chevrolet and 17 by Honda. Autosport understands that

The Andretti Autosport driver climbed from sixth on the grid to deliver his first podium for his new team and the fourth of his 19-race-old IndyCar career. Grosjean’s rise through the field came after crash in qualifying brought out the red flags, resulting in the Frenchman losing his fastest laps in the Fast Six shootout.

The Andretti Autosport driver led the first stint of the race, but was surprised to emerge from the pits behind not only Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou’s Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda but also Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden. While he spent much of the second stint trying to get around Newgarden, he had fallen 1.5s behind the eventual winner

Having fended off threats from Palou and Grosjean, the Penske driver took the team’s third consecutive win after a crash-strewn race. It marked Newgarden’s 22nd career victory, equaling Tony Bettenhausen and Emerson Fittipaldi in the record books. Former Formula 1 driver Grosjean took his second series podium, having been denied pole for Sunday’s race after a

Herta was the first driver to drop into the 66-second bracket around the 1.968-mile course, clocking a 1m06.5710s on his sixth lap which at the time left him half a second clear of the field. However with 35 minutes to go, a spin at Turn 6 caused last year’s Long Beach winner to strike the