The 2025 IndyCar season is underway following a fascinating race St. Pete on Sunday, and it’s the usual suspects at the sharp end in the championship standings for the most part. Three-time champion Alex Palou of Spain kick-started his title defence in style by winning. The CGR driver is aiming for a third consecutive title…
Alexander Rossi’s move from Arrow McLaren to Ed Carpenter Racing was among the biggest changes on the IndyCar grid for 2025. The American driver discussed the terms of his move, how it all happened and how he is getting ready for the new challenge. A radical rebrand The former Andretti driver began by describing the…
Full field practice RLL have a fourth car out on track this weekend at Portland. Juri Vips returned to the cockpit following a couple of races last season. Kyle Kirkwood, David Malukas and Graham Rahal will all drop 6 spots on the grid on Sunday due to unapproved engine changes. Toby Sowery returned to the…
The second practise session of the weekend sees immediately all drivers out on track in order to get a bit more experience with the debuting hybrid engine cars ahead of Qualifying later in the 45 minutes long session. After the first set of attempts Herta holds the provisional benchmark in 1:19.325s ahead of Rossi and…
Kyle Kirkwood made the perfect start to the race as he swept around the outside of title contender Alex Palou at turn 1 to take the lead. It was a great first lap for Scott Dixon as he moved up three spots to P7, with O’Ward falling to 12th from P9. Championship leader Will Power…
Heading into qualifying, Kyffin Simpson and Graham Rahal knew they would be dropping 6 spots on the grid as they took unapproved engine changes ahead of the event. Round 1, Group 1 The first time was set by Will Power on a 1:05.6231, a tenth quicker than Alexander Rossi. The Australian improved to a 1:03.1505…
Seven cars are already in Lane 2, with all Arrow McLaren drivers without a time, as well as Dixon, Veekay and Hunter-Reay The first driver to go out on track in the second part of qualifying was 500 winner Alexander Rossi, who snatches an impressive 233.493 mph on his first lap. After an half mile…
McLaughlin got away superbly to hold a comfortable lead on the opening lap. Power had to fend off Christian Lundgaard into turn 5. At the back, Rinus VeeKay rammed into the back of Robb and spun him around. Harvey and Simpson also were involved as innocent parties. The Dutch driver was handed a drive-through. On…
There was an instant red flag in second practice as Pietro Fittipaldi went off at turn 2. It was a steering rack failure as the car simply did not turn. At the 10-minute mark, a 1:06.6973 from Christian Lundgaard saw him lead the way from Rossi, McLaughlin, Ferrucci, O’Ward, Grosjean, Rasmussen, Blomqvist, Herta and Palou….
Josef Newgarden rebounded from his St. Pete disqualification as he went fastest in first practice at Barber Motorsports Park ahead of Sunday’s race. The two-time IndyCar champion spun early on in practice as he had a big moment at turn 13, ending up on the grass. Teammate and fellow St. Pete disqualifier had a snap…
