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Following the success of the newest F1 international fan survey in partnership with F1, Motorsport Network and Nielsen final October, the newest effort sees a new survey launched on North America’s top level open-wheel racing series forward of the 2022 season. Followers have the prospect to make their voices heard and the survey is open

His sole victory of the yr got here within the second Indianapolis street course race, after passing polesitter Pato O’Ward for the lead and heading off Romain Grosjean to assert the win. Energy beforehand needed to endure watching a near-certain victory on the first race of the Detroit double-header slip from his grasp, as his

Australia-born Kalkhoven not too long ago stepped down from his place as director and chairman of the board at Cosworth, an organization he purchased from Ford together with Pi Analysis in 2004. The KV Racing staff he co-founded with Jacques Villenueve’s supervisor Craig Pollock ran Tony Kanaan to victory within the 2013 Indianapolis 500, earlier

A 12 months in the past, after working Palou as a rookie in IndyCar, Dale Coyne predicted his former cost would go on to shine at Chip Ganassi Racing. Palou had taken a podium for DCR at Highway America – solely his third IndyCar begin and second on a US highway course – and had

Castroneves, who this yr grew to become the fourth member of the four-time Indy 500 winners’ elite, joins a protracted record of motorsport megastars for the occasion which can be held in Pite Havsbad, Sweden, between 5-6 February subsequent yr. Different drivers already confirmed embrace present Formulation 1 drivers Sebastian Vettel, Mick Schumacher and Valtteri

Dallara first entered the top-flight of US single-seater racing again in 1997 and has been sole provider since 2009, the 12 months after the Indy Racing League and Champ Automotive World Sequence merged to kind what’s at the moment often known as the IndyCar Sequence. The present chassis, initially known as DW12 in honour of

The 2018 Indy Lights title rivals gained 5 IndyCar races between them final season, with the previous remaining in title rivalry till the ultimate spherical at Lengthy Seaside the place his Arrow McLaren SP entry was an early retirement. The pair will workforce up with Herta’s 2022 Andretti Autosport IndyCar team-mate Devlin DeFrancesco and sportscar

Malukas, who scored seven wins in Lights and took the championship struggle with Kyle Kirkwood all the way down to the wire, additionally examined impressively with Coyne at Barber Motorsports Park in October, ending the day high of the instances by a considerable margin. Malukas will associate with two-time Indy 500 winner Takuma Sato, who

Arrow McLaren SP IndyCar driver O’Ward took part in the young driver test in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday as a reward for scoring his first victory earlier this 12 months, having made a wager with McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown. O’Ward accomplished 92 laps within the McLaren MCL35M on the Yas Marina Circuit, and mentioned

Hinchcliffe, 35, scored six wins throughout his 11-year profession at this degree, placing collectively three within the house of simply 10 races in 2013 driving for Andretti Autosport. But arguably his most memorable second was scoring pole for what was then the Schmidt Peterson Motorsports staff on the 2016 Indianapolis 500, only a 12 months

Johnson, who unveiled his Carvana livery on NBC’s At the moment present on Wednesday morning, spent his rookie season competing within the 12 street and road programs on the 2021 schedule. However the NASCAR ace examined on the oval at Texas Motor Speedway and accomplished the IndyCar Rookie Orientation Programme at Indianapolis Motor Speedway shortly

And now Al Unser, four-time Indianapolis 500 winner, three-time Indycar champion, has left us at the age of 82 barely seven months after elder brother Bobby, leaving a similar-sized gap within the ranks of US open-wheel legends. He by no means relished the highlight like Bobby, and would by no means have dreamt of being

IMS president Doug Boles said on Friday that Unser had “died peacefully in his beloved Chama [New Mexico] residence after a 17-year battle with Most cancers.” As a part of the Unser dynasty, “Massive Al” was a fixture on the Indy 500 for 3 many years, his 27 begins the third highest variety of appearances

Karam will probably be aiming to make his ninth begin within the Memorial Day Weekend basic, his eighth with Dennis Reinbold’s group, whereas for Ferrucci will probably be a fourth Indy entry. Dreyer & Reinbold Racing has entered and certified 43 automobiles within the Indy 500 relationship again to 1999 with a greatest end of

The success of Components 3000 champions Juan Pablo Montoya, Bruno Junqueira and Sebastien Bourdais in Champ Automobile meant there was nice expectation on the shoulders of 2003 king Bjorn Wirdheim when he headed Stateside in 2005. A cash shortfall at his HVM squad, which couldn’t afford to go testing, and the dearth of an skilled

With the US Air Pressure pulling its assist for the #20 automotive which oval specialist and crew proprietor Ed Carpenter shares with a street/road course driver, ECR has been freed as much as enter discussions with non-American drivers. Because of this, 2012 IndyCar champion Ryan Hunter-Reay’s candidacy for the journey has regarded weaker and 26-year-old Aitken has

After 4 winless seasons in Indy Lights, the 28-year-old Canadian joined Foyt in 2020 for a partial marketing campaign of eight races, earlier than switching as much as a full-time seat piloting the #four entry in 2021. His finest end result was 12th on the Gateway oval, whereas his high finishes on highway/avenue programs had

The deal, announced back in August, formalises the IndyCar squad turning into a part of the McLaren Racing organisation. McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown will chair a five-person board, which contains the earlier staff homeowners, Sam Schmidt and Ric Peterson, together with three individuals appointed by McLaren Racing. Taylor Kiel will proceed as president of

After being unable to nail down a seat in IndyCar subsequent season, Askew hyperlinks up with Andretti’s FE crew to associate Jake Dennis on the crew following the departure of Maximilian Guenther to Nissan e.dams. By means of his time in IndyCar and the Street to Indy ladder, Askew has raced at various avenue venues

Andretti Autosport has been sturdy on avenue programs for the previous 4 seasons, and Rossi believes his quarter of the group made a breakthrough on pure street programs within the closing third of this season. However he says the group remains to be lacking important velocity on ovals apart from Indianapolis, which subsequent 12 months

Earlier this month, Detroit Metropolis Council accredited transferring the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix from Belle Isle, the place the race has been held since 2007, again to downtown, the place it originated again in 1982 as a System 1 occasion, earlier than evolving into an IndyCar race in 1989. The brand new monitor will use

Ex-McLaren Method 1 driver and 2015 GP2 Collection champion Vandoorne will get the chance to check an Arrow McLaren SP on 6 December, as McLaren CEO Zak Brown suggested he would in September, as a result of the group plans to develop to a few entries by 2023. That very same day at Sebring, reigning

Had it not been for an out-of-the-blue telephone name, 1999 Macau Grand Prix winner Darren Manning believes he might nonetheless be racing in Japan to this present day. Definitely, with out the method that resulted within the Yorkshireman racing for Derrick Walker’s Champ Automobile crew in 2003 when he was getting ready to becoming a

Indy Lights champion Kirkwood was confirmed this morning as the #14 AJ Foyt Racing-Chevrolet driver for 2022, and Larry Foyt believes it will assist his workforce lure workers to bolster the engineering line-up. Kirkwood has confirmed himself by changing into the primary driver to win the championship at every stage of the Highway To Indy,

Kirkwood, who gained the championship in all three classes on the Highway To Indy between 2018 and ’21, scored 10 wins on his solution to the Lights title, however his erstwhile staff proprietor Michael Andretti couldn’t discover a berth in his IndyCar staff for the 23-year-old. Nonetheless, the teenager’s contract meant he wasn’t allowed to

It’s not typically seasoned sportscar veteran will get a shot at an expert single-seater gig of their mid-30s. However though his IndyCar profession lasted only one race, which was ended by an engine failure, Lucas Luhr can declare to be a part of that choose membership after his 2013 cameo at Sonoma for the Sarah

Talking on the announcement that Devlin DeFrancesco will full the group’s four-entry IndyCar line-up for 2022, the Andretti Autosport CEO opened up on the negotiations  to secure a stake in the Swiss F1 team.  “I’d similar to to place an finish to a few of these rumours that the deal fell by way of due to

The Italian-Canadian driver, who scored 9 top-five finishes on this 12 months’s Indy Lights championship and completed sixth within the standings, carried out impressively in his first two IndyCar checks with the Andretti Autosport staff, at Sebring Raceway brief course and Barber Motorsports Park. He’ll race the #29 automotive alongside team-mates Colton Herta, Alexander Rossi and

Hulkenberg has been with out a full-time race seat since shedding his F1 drive with Renault on the finish of 2019. He retains an F1 position as Aston Martin’s reserve driver, having made two substitute appearances for the Silverstone-based workforce final season. To judge a possible future transfer into IndyCar, Hulkenberg took part in a

With Michael Andretti’s four-car group set to run Colton Herta, Alexander Rossi, Romain Grojsean and Devlin DeFrancesco in 2022, Kirkwood at the moment has solely three IndyCar entries – a part of his Street To Indy scholarship value $1.25m – set in stone for subsequent 12 months. Andersen Promotions, which ran Indy Lights up till