Arrow McLaren has confirmed that Tony Kanaan will take the position of team principal at the IndyCar squad. It comes just over a week out from the season-opener at St. Petersburg in Florida. There was widespread surprise when the news broke at the end of last year that Gavin Ward would be departing his role…
The 2024 FIA Formula 2 championship marked Enzo Fittipaldi’s fourth in the series. The 23-year-old Brazilian-American racing driver with a deep-rooted motorsport heritage joined Van Amersfoort Racing after a successful 2023 season with Rodin Carlin. Unfortunately, the Little Shark, as fans affectionately call him, could replicate his 2023 success or even that of 2022. Fittipaldi…
Following a 2024 season that was, in his own words, ‘inconsistent’, Pato O’Ward looks for a better 2025 with McLaren. The new season will also see a new team principal, with former Indy 500 winner Tony Kanaan. Being in the mix for the championship, O’Ward eventually ended up in fifth in the standings with three…
Nolan Siegel sets his sights high as he enters his first full season in the NTT INDYCAR series. The 20-year-old stepped into the number six Arrow McLaren car for the Grand Prix of Long Beach in April of 2024. Filling in for David Malukas and then Theo Pourchiare, the young Californian immediately impressed the team…
Christian Lundgaard is preparing for a new chapter in his NTT INDYCAR career as he joins Arrow McLaren for the 2025 season alongside Pato O’Ward and Nolan Siegel. After three years with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (RLL), Lundgaard is ready to take on the challenges that come with his switch to a new team and…
McLaren Racing is now the full owner of the Arrow McLaren IndyCar Team. The organisation acquired the remaining stake per the 31st of December 2024. The outfit started its life 2001 as Sam Schmidt Motorsports, following IndyCar driver Sam Schmidt’s career-ending crash in 2000. After Ric Peterson purchased stake in the team, it was known…
An unexpected mutual exit has just been revealed, with Gavin Ward leaving the Arrow McLaren IndyCar team after only two seasons as Team Principal. The Canadian had begun his motorsport career at Red Bull in Formula One, where he covered a range of roles concerning race engineering and aerodynamics, collaborating in the years of Sebastian…
At Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico, local driver Pato O’Ward took over the McLaren of Lando Norris for FP1. This marks the third Free Practice appearance run for him since his first during the 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend. This was his first in front of his home crowd. The Mexican placed P13 during…
It’s time for the final double header of the 2024 IndyCar season, with the title fight now heading to Milwaukee for the first time in eight years. A five minutes install lap session was followed by two 15 minutes practise sessions, with the grid split in two groups as they get used to the track especially…
It was a much better second half of the day for Pato O’Ward and Arrow McLaren after struggling for pace earlier on in the day. The Mexican topped the final practice session under the floodlights around the Worldwide Technology Raceway. With qualifying set, the third session of the weekend started out with the high line…
