The reigning champion of the Indy 500 began his twelfth season in IndyCar in style with a very dominant weekend in St. Petersburg. Newgarden secured on Saturday pole position with only hundreds of a second of advantage over Felix Rosenqvist in second place. The 33-year-old went on to win on the next day, leading for…
Three Penskes in the top 4, crashes, gearboxes gone and many new faces: IndyCar is back!
The Swedish driver began his new adventure with Meyer Shank Racing in one of the best possible ways by securing an impressive front row start, only 0.0058s away from the best lap of the first qualifying session of the year put in by Josef Newgarden. Rosenqvist impressed even before the first race with his P2,…
Josef Newgarden grabbed pole position after a scintillating qualifying session, where he beat Felix Rosenqvist by just 0.0058 seconds. Before the season one of his goals was to get more pole positions, and in the dying seconds of the Fast 6 he added the pole position to his tally. He is therefore really proud of…
After a long winter break the first competitive session of the IndyCar-season took place. The familiar format with two qualifying groups, the Fast 12 and then the Firestone Fast 6 was kicked off fittingly by reigning champion Álex Palou, who set the first time of the day.
Team Penske’s Scott McLaughlin logged the first time of practice with a 1:05.8901. Alex Rossi quickly slashed that, banging in a low 1:01 to take spot from Kirkwood and McLaughlin. Santino Ferrucci failed to do a lap due to issues with his AJ Foyt Racing package as a problem was detected early on. At the…
It was an impressive start to the 2024 IndyCar season for one-time winner Felix Rosenqvist as he topped the times in first practice on his debut for Meyer Shank Racing. After setting the fastest time early in the session, the Swede briefly dropped to 2nd. However, he put in a mighty lap in his final…
Felix Rosenqvist topped the opening IndyCar practice session at St. Petersburg ahead of Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward. Marcus Armstrong set the third quickest time for Chip Ganassi racing ahead of Will Power, and Rinus VeeKay rounded out the top five. IndyCar trialled a new practice format in St. Petersburg. After 20 minutes in the opening…
The grid for the first IndyCar round of the 2024 season is finally all set, with confirmation from Dale Coyne Racing about the drivers employed by them for the beginning of the racing year.
In fact, Coyne has opted to split both entries between multiple drivers, which have all already had the chance to test out their challenger and impress during the earlier hybrid testing sessions.
Callum Ilott has been announced to drive the number 6 Arrow McLaren for the IndyCar season opener at St. Pete on Sunday afternoon. The British driver split with Juncos Hollinger Racing during the off season following a series of issues between driver and team, including at the Indy 500 and Laguna Seca. He secured two…
