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Of specific notice is St. Petersburg shifting ahead to February, and the second spherical being Texas Motor Speedway, which reverts to a one-race weekend after internet hosting two races this 12 months. The Detroit occasion at Belle Isle will transfer again to its standard week after the Indy 500, however turns into a single race

The previous Formulation 1 driver, now a 12-year veteran of the IndyCar Sequence, has six wins to his title, two of that are on the Indy 500 with Andretti Autosport in 2017 and RLL final season. Though Coyne insisted that there are nonetheless “4 or 5 drivers within the combine” for a DCR seat in

The 40-year-old, who received on solely this fourth begin for the workforce at Lengthy Seaside in 2010, went on to attain 14 extra wins together with the 2014 Indianapolis 500, and in addition received the championship in 2012. Nevertheless, after two winless seasons – three ought to he not triumph in last occasions of this

Rossi began the Grand Prix of Portland from the entrance row, and though he and Chip Ganassi Racing drivers Palou and Scott Dixon have been amongst these despatched to the again of the pack for lacking the Flip half chicane on the opening lap, he saved tempo with them and pressurised Palou through the remaining

Having spent this season on the sidelines as Pink Bull’s take a look at and reserve driver, the Thai driver was announced as George Russell’s replacement at Williams for next year previous to the Italian Grand Prix. The 25-year-old, who scored two podiums with Pink Bull final 12 months earlier than being changed by Sergio

On IndyCar’s final go to to Portland in 2019, the leaders had been capable of run the 105 lap race distance on simply two stops, after 17 laps had been run underneath warning. This yr the race has been prolonged to 110 laps of the 1.964-mile course, which is anticipated to implement a three-stopper whereas

Danish Formulation 2 racer Lundgaard brought about a serious stir on his IndyCar debut within the #45 RLL machine on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway street course three weeks in the past, when he certified fourth in a five-car cluster that was lined by a mere zero.05 seconds. Regardless of slipping again to 12th on the end,

Within the a caution-strewn race on the streets of Nashville final month, six of the 9 penalties issued had been a results of driver misdemeanours, whereas 27 of the 49 laps below warning on the Gateway oval final day out had been a direct results of car-to-car contact. After that final race, six-time champion Scott

The 2020 Method 2 championship runner-up will make his US open-wheel debut with the newly renamed Juncos Hollinger squad, Ricardo Juncos’s crew revealing a tie-up with new partner Brad Hollinger last month because it returns for the ultimate three races of 2021 for the primary time because the 2019 Indianapolis 500. Ilott has spent this

Ilott, who completed as runner-up in final 12 months’s Components 2 championship, has carried out reserve duties for each Ferrari and Alfa Romeo in F1 this 12 months, taking part in a handful of FP1 periods for the latter. Having been a Ferrari Driver Academy driver since 2018, Ilott completed third within the GP3 Collection

Born in Southport, IN, October 1949, Miller first visited Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1957 and attended his first 500 in ’59. There his creativeness was captured by the overwhelming magnitude of the occasion, and specifically the heroics of Jim Hurtubise. 9 years later, having dropped out of Ball State, he had joined the crew of

Grosjean spent 5 seasons racing for the Haas group, becoming a member of for its debut marketing campaign in 2016 earlier than leaving on the finish of final yr to make method for an all-rookie line-up. Grosjean joined Dale Coyne Racing in IndyCar for 2021, and has been one of many breakout stars of the

Each Scott Dixon and Alex Palou have been despatched into the wall throughout a Lap 65 restart in Saturday’s last oval race of the IndyCar season at Gateway’s WorldWide Expertise Raceway. Their Chip Ganassi Racing-Hondas have been tagged by Rinus VeeKay’s Ed Carpenter-Chevrolet, and the following crash eradicated Palou and VeeKay on the spot. Dixon

Though he completed solely 14th, partly because of the unlucky timing of a yellow flag and a method change, Grosjean saved the #51 Dale Coyne Racing automobile off the SAFER boundaries on the 1.25-mile World Broad Know-how Raceway. This was regardless of a few moments the place he drifted into the marbles and misplaced velocity

Pouncing on misfortune for long-time chief Colton Herta, who suffered a mechanical difficulty whereas main with relative consolation, Newgarden assumed the lead of the race. The Tennessee native had beforehand taken the lead in the course of the pit part amid the third warning interval, produced by Ed Carpenter’s shunt, after leapfrogging Penske team-mate Will

Hy-Vee, a grocery chain with sponsorship hyperlinks to Rahal Letterman Lanigan, has introduced a brand new multi-year settlement that returns the banked, tough and difficult D-shaped oval to the calendar. Iowa Speedway, which has held 15 IndyCar races because it opened in 2006, will host the Hy-VeeDeals.com 250 on Saturday, 23 July, whereas the Hy-Vee

The 20-year-old Dane caused a huge stir in qualifying on Friday when he finished fourth, on a day when the highest 5 was coated by simply zero.05s. After being handed by Colton Herta on the opening lap, Lundgaard ran fifth, briefly assumed the lead as the primary spherical of pitstops began, ran 10th within the

Energy narrowly missed out on pole, earlier than beginning his Crew Penske machine on the more durable Firestone rubber within the race and staying inside three.5 seconds of the alternate-tyred polesitter Pato O’Ward. After O’Ward switched to the more durable rubber and Energy to the softer compound, the Penske driver swiftly closed in and snatched

Arrow McLaren SP driver O’Ward, who enters the weekend third within the standings, pipped Workforce Penske driver Will Energy by simply zero.006s in a remarkably tight Firestone Quick 12 session. The polesitter in IndyCar’s final go to to the monitor in Might, Romain Grosjean took third for Dale Coyne Racing with Rick Ware as Rahal

Reigning Formulation E champion da Costa has loved vital success in single-seaters, and is one among solely three drivers to win the Macau Grand Prix for Formulation three vehicles on two events – in 2012 and 2016. The 29-year-old Portuguese, who combines his Formulation E duties with a full-season World Endurance Championship programme in LMP2

The Indiana native loved a motorsport broadcasting profession that spanned 5 a long time, together with a stint because the chief announcer for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Community between 1990 and 1998. He was famend for his work with ESPN and ABC and, after attending his first Indy 500 in 1960, solely missed the

The Swede had struggled at a number of street and road programs this season – his third in IndyCar however his first at Arrow McLaren SP. A lot of this battle, for a driver who scored a win and a pole place at Chip Ganassi Racing, was attributed to Arrow McLaren SP’s distinctive set-ups which

The IndyCar rookie has had an on-again, off-again settlement to return to Supercars for this yr’s Bathurst 1000 ever since he headed Stateside on the finish of 2020. The preliminary plans for him to compete within the Nice Race with Dick Johnson Racing had been scuppered by a tweak to the IndyCar calendar, nevertheless one

Johnson at the moment solely races on the street and avenue programs for Chip Ganassi Racing, with oval obligation delegated to IndyCar veteran Tony Kanaan – who certified fifth on the Indianapolis 500 after making it into the Quick 9 with the third-fastest run. Though seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Johnson has years of expertise racing

Hulkenberg has made 179 begins in Formulation 1 however up to now has did not land a podium end, and has been out of a full-time drive since 2019 – however has been in touch with Ed Carpenter Racing’s crew proprietor Carpenter. The German driver made three substitute appearances for Racing Level final 12 months,

Talking on Motorsport.tv’s This Week with Will Buxton, Shank admitted that he and co-owner Jim Meyer had been “speaking about methods to develop the connection [with Castroneves] even earlier than we had the win,” and that, following the Indy 500 triumph collectively, their sponsors have been “actually excited to do one thing extra” with the

The subsequent IndyCar spherical takes place within the Tennessee capital on an all-new venue for the sequence, the place the Music Metropolis Grand Prix will cross the Korean Veterans Memorial Bridge and take the sphere previous the Nissan Stadium. Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Johnson has to this point needed to take care of studying circuits

Harvey switched to the American open-wheel ladder system on the again of his fifth-placed end in 2013’s GP3 season, ending runner-up twice with the Schmidt Peterson Motorsports crew in Indy Lights. The 2012 British System three champion was then unable to discover a funds to stake his declare for an IndyCar seat, however made a

Final week Dale Coyne advised Autosport: “As long as they proceed to be in IndyCar, I believe ‘Sulli’ and Jimmy will stay companions with us. They’re not going to exit on their very own, and I don’t suppose different groups can provide them what we give them.” Nonetheless, Sullivan has painted a special image of

Castroneves misplaced his full-time Workforce Penske IndyCar journey in 2017, as he switched throughout to the Acura Workforce Penske program in IMSA, culminating within the 2020 drivers’ championship. Nevertheless, following the tip of that venture, he was lower free by Penske after 21 years and signed for six races within the second MSR automotive alongside