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Chip Ganassi Racing’s six-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon was driving for Honda across the 14-turn 2.439-mile course, whereas Group Penske’s two-time and reigning champion Will Energy took the wheel for Chevrolet. Though the check was for 2024 – when IndyCar will introduce a hybrid system mated to the two.2-litre, twin-turbo V6s – the occasion was shrouded

Mark Miles, president and CEO of Penske Leisure, and vice chairman Michael Montri toured the monitor and the services of the Termas racetrack which has hosted MotoGP since 2014 and is a daily on the home TC2000 touring automotive collection calendar. The pair had been accompanied by Juncos Hollinger Racing workforce co-owner Ricardo Juncos and

The careers of Anthony Davidson and Takuma Sato overlapped at a number of junctures. The pair completed first (Sato) and second as Carlin team-mates within the 2001 British Components three championship, then had been reunited for 2003 when Sato arrived as a race driver on the BAR Components 1 workforce the place Davidson was a

Within the opening spherical of the season at St. Petersburg, the Rahal Letterman Lanigan driver slid into the wreck of Rinus VeeKay’s Ed Carpenter Racing automobile on lap 42 of 100, on the Flip four tyre wall. The RLL machine then needed to take up a second affect as Kyle Kirkwood’s Andretti Autosport entry struck it on

The 2012 IndyCar champion has 18 Indy automotive wins to his title and was a fixture at Indianapolis Motor Speedway from his sixth-place end for Rahal Letterman Lanigan in 2008 till 2021, his 12th begin for Andretti Autosport. Hunter-Reay has began from the Indy entrance row twice and has accrued six top-10 finishes. But his

IndyCar followers have been left so many inquiries to ponder after final weekend’s Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. In no explicit order, we surprise if Andretti Autosport had pitted Romain Grosjean a lap earlier in his first stint – earlier than his inexperienced alternate Firestones gave up and misplaced him time – whether or not

O’Ward certified third for IndyCar’s season-opener and held station there for a lot of the race, behind Andretti Autosport’s Romain Grosjean and Colton Herta within the first stint, then behind Team Penske’s Scott McLaughlin and once more Grosjean within the center stint. The Mexican was subsequently in prime place to inherit the lead when McLaughlin

The Arrow McLaren driver took over the lead following the clash between polesitter Romain Grosjean and Scott McLaughlin, and was working arduous to carry off the charging Ericsson within the closing levels of the occasion. However exiting the ultimate nook on the finish of lap 96, O’Ward’s Chevrolet engine suffered a flash plenum hearth which

Following a poor closing restart, Ericsson was making use of strain to chief O’Ward within the closing phases of Sunday’s race when the Mexican ace suffered what was described as a “plenum occasion” that briefly zapped the automotive’s energy beneath acceleration from the ultimate flip.  With Ericsson simply zero.6s behind, the delay was sufficient to

Team Penske driver McLaughlin and Andretti Autosport’s Grosjean were battling over the lead after the final round of pitstops, having earlier virtually come collectively at Flip four after the primary pitstop sequence. With 28 laps to go, chief McLaughlin emerged from the pits on chilly tyres, with Grosjean – on not too long ago modified and

There are such a lot of causes to be enthusiastic in regards to the 2023 IndyCar season, and now we have outlined the potential storylines of excitement and intrigue here. However there may be another excuse why IndyCar and its followers want this yr to be completely absorbing; it could assist distract from the collection

A forged checklist of drivers largely staying the identical, and largely in the identical locations, would possibly lead you to anticipate the 2023 IndyCar season to be a rerun of 2022. This perception may very well be compounded by the truth that the marketing campaign forward would be the 12th for the two.2-litre twin-turbo V6s

A 27-car subject will take to the beginning because the 2023 IndyCar Collection kicks off on the streets of St. Petersburg.  Though the two.2-litre engines are unchanged forward of the adoption of hybrid energy for 2024, a number of noteworthy technical adjustments have been made together with the adoption of Shell’s 100% renewable gasoline lauded

Amongst its most vital adjustments, IndyCar has mandated stronger rear-wheel tethers and a extra ‘forgiving’ steering arm, which is designed to take extra punishment with out breaking. Within the cockpit, the massive U-shaped machine that comes with the rear headrest with the facet padding has been redesigned to incorporate a bigger quantity of cushioning to

Mother or father firm Bridgestone Americas says that main strides have been made through the low season to include extra sustainable and bio-circular supplies into its IndyCar merchandise, which it believes will make the upcoming season essentially the most sustainable thus far. The alternate, softer compound Firestone Firehawks utilized in final yr’s Music Metropolis Grand

The 2004 IRL IndyCar champion and 2013 Indy 500 winner revealed on Wednesday that he would call time on his Indy career for good after contesting oval-only schedules since 2020. He had deliberate to step away on the finish of 2020, just for the pandemic to wreck his deliberate farewell tour. The 48-year-old Brazilian will bow out

Cassidy, contemporary off a runner-up end for Envision Racing in final weekend’s System E spherical in Hyderabad, examined the Honda-powered Ganassi automobile of 2021 IndyCar champion Alex Palou at Sebring on Tuesday. Driving the only Honda-powered automobile in motion within the eight-car take a look at, the 28-year-old New Zealander turned 156 laps of the

Lower than a month after declaring that he didn’t count on to decide over his future till he completed the Indy 500 in Might, the 48-year-old Brazilian has declared that his 390th Indy automotive begin shall be his final. The 2004 Indy automotive champion and 2013 Indy 500 winner retires with 17 wins on the

O’Ward lapped the 1.7-mile Sebring brief course in 51.882s, round 1 / 4 second quicker than his new team-mate Alexander Rossi and his longer-standing team-mate Felix Rosenqvist who was a tenth additional again. All three have been capable of outpace Felipe Nasr, Porsche Penske Motorsport’s sportscar ace, who nonetheless did a nice job within the

The previous Formulation 1 ace lapped the 1.7-mile short-course in 52.059s, a mere zero.03s quicker than Kirkwood, the 2021 Indy Lights champion who arrives at Michael Andretti’s squad after spending his rookie season with AJ Foyt Racing. Callum Ilott was the quickest Chevrolet runner in third, as per the second day of testing at Thermal

Rick Mears introduced his retirement in speech on the Group Penske dinner in December 1992, one week after he turned 40. It got here on the finish of an unusually torrid yr for the person who had solely the earlier season cemented his standing at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with a memorable conquer Michael Andretti to

Hendrickson, a world producer and provider of suspension techniques and elements for business automobiles, will again the group’s #44 entry for the 107th working of the Indianapolis 500. Legge, 42, is considered one of 9 girls to have competed within the Indy 500, however final raced there in 2013. Since then, she has made a

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After making his debut within the ultimate race of 2020, the three-time Supercars champion’s IndyCar rookie season netted only one podium, however his larger concern was not getting essentially the most out of Firestone’s softer compound tyres in qualifying. He did so with aplomb in 2022 by taking pole and victory within the St. Petersburg

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Subscribe and entry Autosport.com together with your ad-blocker. From Formulation 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock as a result of we love our sport, identical to you. As a way to maintain delivering our professional journalism, our web site makes use of promoting. Nonetheless, we wish to provide the alternative to get