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…
Group A saw out on track Rahal, Malukas, Rossi, McLaughlin, Palou, Ericsson, Siegel, Ferrucci, Rosenqvist, Fittipaldi, Rasmussen, Sowery and Kirkwood. Palou gets on top after the first set of attempts in 1:09.27, followed by Siegel and Rossi, with the McLaren driver and Fittipaldi all cycling at the lead. Rossi is the first to sign a…
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…
Denmark’s Christian Lundgaard will take over the number #7 Arrow McLaren as he has agreed a deal with the team. Alexander Rossi will depart at the end of this campaign as he failed to agree fresh terms with them. Lundgaard has been hugely impressive since joining IndyCar following his move over from F2. He took…
Theo Pourchaire is an IndyCar-driver no more. Arrow McLaren has announced that the replacement of Palou’s replacement, is now also replaced. The Frenchman was in the #6 seat since the Grand Prix of Long Beach last April, after David Malukas, who was set to replace Palou, injured himself in the offseason. Pourchaire’s place will be…
Josef Newgarden and Pato O’Ward have reflected on their thrilling duel in the closing laps of the 2024 Indy 500 that was delayed by rain. The Team Penske driver pulled off a stunning overtake at turn 3 on the final lap to take a second successive win at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.Through strategy, Arrow McLaren’s O’Ward…
NASCAR’s Kyle Larson has long been a driver that IndyCar fans wanted to see race in the Indy 500. For the 2024 edition of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing,” race fans will get their wish. McLaren CEO Zak Brown was the driving force behind the 2021 NASCAR champion getting the opportunity to race at the…
The final practice session ahead of the latest begins with an hour of track time reserved to the drivers taking part in the Fast 12. The first driver to get on track was Pato O’Ward, which signed a four laps average of 233.462mph, consistently better than his yesterday’s achievement. Among yesterday’s surprise names in the…
