6:19 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis 500 winner Marcus Ericsson cashed in on the race’s record purse, earning an unprecedented $3.1 million check for Sunday’s victory. Prize totals were announced Monday, the same day the annual victory celebration was held in downtown Indianapolis. The 31-year-old Ericsson became the second 500 champion from Sweden,
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Ericsson had picked up the lead following the final series of pitstops, moving past O’Ward as the Mexican driver rejoined behind Arrow McLaren SP team-mate Felix Rosenqvist. This was after Scott Dixon, who had led the majority of laps in the race, was caught speeding in the pitlane on his final stop and thus had
Ericsson held off Pato O’Ward to score his maiden Indy 500 win, only his third in IndyCar competition after arriving from F1 in 2019, and the fifth for Ganassi’s storied team since 2000. Polesitter and 2008 Indy victor Scott Dixon had led for 95 laps but a pitlane speeding penalty dropped him out of contention
Rins and Nakagami were battling over 12th spot in the early stages of Sunday’s race at Mugello after a poor qualifying left the Suzuki rider down in 21st on the grid. Attempting to pass the LCR rider on the inside of the Turn 11 left-hander on lap seven of 23, the pair came together and
Having qualified third, Sergio Perez scored a brilliant victory on the streets of the principality. The Mexican jumped ahead of the Ferraris of Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc with good strategy calls around his pitstops on the drying track, and then nursed his graining slick tyres in the closing laps. His teammate Max Verstappen moved
3:07 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Colton Herta rolled his Indianapolis 500 car end-over-end during Friday’s final practice. The star driver for Andretti Autosport was uninjured in the most significant crash in the buildup to “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.” “I think I was going a little too fast for that corner,” Herta said.
The 2015 Nurburgring winner had taken over the #911 Manthey Porsche from Kevin Estre and was battling for third with his younger brother’s Phoenix Audi on lap 23 when they made side-to-side contact in the fast sequence of bends approaching the Hohenrain chicane. The touch between the Audi’s left rear and Porsche’s right front caused
Following the final round of stops, in which his Chip Ganassi Racing team-mate Scott Dixon had led 95 laps but was penalised for speeding in the pitlane, Ericsson emerged in third behind the two Arrow McLaren SP cars of Felix Rosenqvist and Pato O’Ward. But he passed the pair of them to take the lead,
Rain shook up proceedings just ahead of the delayed start to the race, but Leclerc was able to hold firm at the front of the pack to begin with – only for things to unravel and leave the Monegasque a disappointing fourth at the chequered flag. Ferrari team-mate Carlos Sainz also saw his chance to
Espargaro started Sunday’s 23-lap Mugello race from seventh and would go on to register his fourth-straight podium in third. But his hopes of fighting for victory on Aprilia’s home soil were scuppered by difficulties in passing VR46 Ducati riders Marco Bezzecchi and Luca Marini – with Espargaro showering praise on the duo who started on
The Red Bull driver profited from key tyre strategy calls to leapfrog both Ferrari drivers, before defending his lead from Carlos Sainz after a red flag stoppage for Mick Schumacher’s heavy crash. Charles Leclerc was left to rue “too many mistakes” by Ferrari as he slipped to fourth place, while F1 world title rival Max
4:08 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Marcus Ericsson had to leave Formula One to become a global superstar — a goal achieved Sunday when the Swedish driver won the Indianapolis 500. Ericsson took control of the race late — largely because of teammate Scott Dixon’s speeding penalty — and had it under control for
Ericsson, who had been leading by three seconds before the red flag came out for Jimmie Johnson’s shunt, employed a series of weaving defensive manoeuvres down the straight over the final two lap shootout to stave off the Arrow McLaren SP driver’s attack over the penultimate lap. But on the exit of Turn 4 the
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Dixon became the all-time lap leader for the biggest open-wheel race in America, surpassing Al Unser Sr’s record of 644 laps led on lap 133 of the 2022 Indy 500. Dixon started the day third on the list and passed Ralph dePalma’s mark of 612 just before half distance. Polesitter Dixon looked
Bagnaia has tallied up two DNFs in 2022 so far after crashing out of the Qatar GP in March and at the French GP two weeks ago while fighting for victory with Gresini’s Enea Bastianini. This left him 46 points adrift in the championship standings coming to his home round at Mugello this weekend,
Schumacher lost control of his Haas F1 car while coming through the Swimming Pool chicane on Lap 26 of the race, snapping to the right-hand side of the track. His car glanced the armco before then going into the tecpro barrier at the exit of the corner. The accident saw the rear-end and gearbox of
7:00 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — Richard Petty once said, “I can’t recall so much about the 200 races that I won, but I can tell you every single little detail about the 1,000 races that I lost. That’s how all us racers are. It’s sick, isn’t it?” The King wasn’t driving in the 106th running
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Kelvin van der Linde drove home the win for the Meuspath-based squad after 159 laps, equalling the race’s distance record. As ever, the race was not without drama with several contenders disappearing from the frontline before nightfall. After surviving the night, the Phoenix Audi still had two opponents to defeat, the two GetSpeed Mercedes-AMG GT3s,
How has the prize fund for the Indy 500 evolved? Since its first running in 1911, the winner’s take-home cheque has ballooned from the $14,250 that Ray Harroun received that year. Over time, some serious financial barriers were broken, notably in 1957 when Sam Hanks took home $103k, Danny Sullivan’s famous spin-and-win in 1985 was
Rain in the build-up to the planned start time of 3pm for the Monaco Grand Prix led to the start procedure being suspended just minutes away from the intended start of the formation lap. The formation lap was initially rescheduled for 3:09pm local time in Monaco, but the start was then delayed again by the
The six-time MotoGP world champion announced on Saturday at Mugello that he will sit out racing for the foreseeable future – possibly for the rest of 2022 – to have a fourth operation in America on the right arm he badly broke in 2020. Marquez had confirmation of the surgery on Friday between practice sessions
Perez scored his third F1 victory on Sunday in Monaco ahead of Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, while Verstappen completed the podium in third place after rain and two red flags shook up proceedings in Monaco. But Ferrari lodged a post-race protest against both Red Bull cars for allegedly crossing the yellow line at pit exit, resulting
1:57 PM ET Associated Press MADRID — Six-time MotoGP champion Marc Márquez has opted to undergo a fourth surgery on his right arm and will be off the track for an unspecified period of time. Márquez has been the top rider in MotoGP for the past decade after winning world titles in its top category
The famous event was first run in 1911, so picking out the best editions was a tough task. Among those to miss out are Takuma Sato’s storming drive to victory in 2017 – a year when Honda engines had a considerable engine advantage over Chevrolet – Jacques Villeneuve profiting from Scott Goodyear passing the pace
The odds are heavily stacked in his favour for Sunday given the difficulty in overtaking around the streets – yet this is a result that goes far beyond the academic result. Leclerc grew up in Monaco, and now finds himself racing around the streets which he would navigate on the bus to school every day
On Saturday after qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix, Honda announced that Marquez would be travelling to Rochester, Minnesota to have a fourth operation on the right arm he badly broke back in 2020. Marquez has suffered with the arm ever since he returned to action last April, with his problems only heightened by a
Sainz collided with Sergio Perez’s Red Bull car at Portier in the closing stages of Q3 in Monaco after the Mexican had hit the wall on the outside of the corner. Sainz came around the corner unsighted of Perez, causing him to crash into the stricken Red Bull and sustain damage to his Ferrari F1-75.