Five-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon, who leads the 2020 championship with three rounds to go, says that each one becomes more significant. Dixon won the IndyCar title in 2003, ’08, ’13, ’15 and ’18, and although he won the season-openers in ’03 and ’08, he then suffered misfortunes in subsequent races and had to fight
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James Hinchcliffe will join Andretti Autosport for the final three races of the 2020 IndyCar season following Zach Veach’s split from the team. Hinchcliffe, a six-time IndyCar race winner, has slotted into the sixth entry for Michael Andretti’s team on three occasions so far this year, but now takes over the #26 car from Veach
Helio Castroneves will stand in for Oliver Askew at Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet in next week’s Indianapolis road course double-header after the IndyCar rookie was declared not fit to drive. According to a team statement, following the NTT IndyCar Series race at Mid-Ohio, Askew reported a balance and coordination issue, which triggered an examination from the
Zach Veach has relinquished his Andretti Autosport IndyCar with immediate effect, on learning he will not be returning to the team in 2021. Andretti confirmed the news that Veach would miss the final three races of the 2020 NTT IndyCar Series season, adding that “a replacement driver for the No. 26 will be named in
The greatest Indycar is the focus of the fifth episode of the Autosport 70 mini-series podcast, which celebrates our 70th birthday. The first issue of Autosport magazine appeared on 25 August 1950 and as part of our celebrations we have taken on the task of picking out the greatest competition cars from each of the
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing has announced its entry with Sage Karam for next week’s IndyCar Harvest GP double-header at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. The #24 DRR effort will make its third and fourth appearances of the season, having already competed at the GMR Grand Prix of Indianapolis and the Indianapolis 500, in which
Supercar ace Scott McLaughlin will make his IndyCar debut in a fourth Penske entry in next month’s season finale at St Petersburg. The two-time and reigning Supercars champion, who tested impressively for Team Penske at Sebring and Circuit of The Americas as well as passing his oval rookie test at Texas Motor Speedway, has long
Scott McLaughlin is in talks with the Australian government about a travel exemption that would allow him to make his IndyCar debut next month. The Kiwi has been linked to Team Penske seat for the IndyCar season finale in St Petersburg, ahead of what could be a full-time Stateside switch in 2021. While McLaughlin’s schedules
IndyCar will hold a street race in downtown Nashville in 2021 and will be called the “Music City Grand Prix”, marking a return to the calendar for the city. The “Music City Grand Prix” will be held 6-8 August next year, using a 2.17-mile track that features a unique water crossing. The Nissan Stadium, home
Sebastien Bourdais says he’ll avoid setting targets for his return to IndyCar after it was announced he will contest this year’s final three rounds ahead of a full 2021 season. Bourdais was originally signed to share the #14 AJ Foyt Racing Chevrolet this year with Tony Kanaan and Dalton Kellett. The four-time Champ Car title
Ryan Hunter-Reay was left frustrated at what he feels were missed opportunities in the IndyCar Mid-Ohio double-header thanks to pitstop strategy and questionable track ethics from Scott Dixon. The 2012 IndyCar champion started Saturday’s first race from the front row, but was demoted to third at the start by Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden. Hunter-Reay was
Colton Herta headed an Andretti Autosport 1-2-3 in the second and final IndyCar race of the double-header weekend at Mid-Ohio, as points leader Scott Dixon finished 10th after a spin. There was drama on the opening lap as first-time front row starter Santino Ferrucci attempted to drive around the outside of poleman Herta at the
Mid-Ohio IndyCar winner Colton Herta says that hitting the right fuel number gave him an edge over his Andretti Autosport team-mates despite possibly making the wrong strategy call on tyres. Herta led 57 of the 75 laps in Mid-Ohio’s second race of the weekend, and the majority of laps in which he wasn’t P1 were
Colton Herta earned pole position for the second race of the weekend at Mid-Ohio after topping a rain-hit qualifying session that involved a crash for race one victor Will Power. The 23-driver field was split across two qualifying groups, with the drivers from the fastest group occupying the odd-numbered places on the grid and the
Will Power claimed his first victory of the 2020 IndyCar season with a commanding victory in the opening race of the double-header weekend at Mid-Ohio. Power scooped his 60th career pole earlier on Saturday and converted that qualifying advantage into an early race lead ahead of his Team Penske team-mate Josef Newgarden. At the other
Team Penske’s Will Power earned his third pole position of the 2020 IndyCar season, after topping qualifying for the opening race of the double-header weekend at Mid-Ohio. The 23 drivers were split across two sessions, with the fastest session setting the odd-numbered grid positions and the other group responsible for deciding who occupies the even-numbered
McLaren would “definitely be interested” in holding talks with Sergio Perez over a drive with its IndyCar team in 2021 if the Mexican driver wanted to move into the series. Perez announced on Wednesday that he would be leaving Racing Point at the end of the season after the team opted to sign outing Ferrari
Seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson is aiming to make the switch to IndyCar in 2021, and has announced he has joined forces with Chip Ganassi Racing. Johnson, who turns 45 this month, has raced full-time in NASCAR since 2002 and has become one the sport’s most successful drivers with 83 wins and a
The IndyCar Series has reinstated a double-header event at Mid-Ohio next weekend, after the race meeting was postponed from its planned August date due to a spike in coronavirus cases. IndyCar has issued multiple revisions to its calendar since the COVID-19 pandemic forced its first round in St. Petersburg to be postponed after teams had
Double Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso’s previous Indianapolis 500 experience provided a “two-way exchange” within the Arrow McLaren SP team to help improve set-up, according to Robert Wickens. With Alonso returning to the Brickyard this year for this third attempt at the Indy 500, aiming to secure the triple crown of motorsport, he teamed
Tony Kanaan is aiming to race on all of IndyCar’s oval rounds in 2021, despite the veteran driver having previously expected to wind down his time in the series. Kanaan had announced pre-season that the 2020 campaign would be the last time he competed at any IndyCar race except the Indy 500, but restrictions on
Robert Wickens says Arrow McLaren SP’s investment in youth with Pato O’Ward and Oliver Askew is “no longer a risk” having surpassed expectations during the 2020 IndyCar campaign. The Arrow McLaren SP team named O’Ward and rookie Askew as its 2020 IndyCar drivers, forcing James Hinchcliffe out of its line-up, to put together an inexperienced
Reigning IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden believes he can still beat Scott Dixon to the 2020 title, but says he needs to “reverse the trend” of his season so far. Team Penske driver Newgarden scored the 16th win of his career and second of the 2020 season on Sunday at Gateway, while Dixon finished fifth, but
Ed Carpenter Racing rookie Rinus VeeKay hailed Sunday’s IndyCar race at Gateway as “one of the best races I have ever driven” en route to a hard-fought fourth place finish. VeeKay, who leads the rookie standings, climbed from 14th to sixth in Saturday’s race one, at a track in which he had won in Pro
Reigning IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden recorded his second victory of season for Team Penske under caution in the second race of the double-header at Gateway. Newgarden gained the lead from team-mate Will Power through the third and final pitstop cycle on lap 152 after the Australian was briefly held up by backmarker Ed Carpenter on
Scott Dixon admitted that reaching a half-century of US open-wheel victories was something he ‘never thought possible’ after beating Takuma Sato in the first of IndyCar’s two races at Gateway. The five-time series champion won his first CART race at Nazareth in 2001 for Bruce McCaw’s PacWest Racing team on only his third start after
Scott Dixon fended off a late charge from Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato at Gateway to record his 50th IndyCar career win and extend his championship points lead. The five-time series champion’s Chip Ganassi machine had jumped long-term leader Patricio O’Ward (Arrow McLaren SP) in the final green-flag pit-stops on lap 162 of 200 to
Will Power scored his 59th IndyCar Series pole position for the first of two races at Gateway, while Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato topped the times for Sunday’s second race. IndyCar opted to use the two-lap qualifying format first trialled at Iowa for the 1.25-mile Gateway oval, with the first lap setting the grid for
Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner and four-time IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti will return to the cockpit this weekend at Gateway to drive Honda’s two-seat IndyCar at the start of the race. Franchitti was forced to end his 17-season Indycar career at least a year before he had intended after a huge accident at Houston in September
Alexander Rossi says he “had a car to win” the Indianapolis 500 before a penalty for pit lane contact with Takuma Sato and a Turn 2 crash put him out. The Andretti Autosport driver, a winner of the 500 in 2016, was trading the lead with Ganassi’s Scott Dixon for much of the race and
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