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First off, let’s congratulate Josef Newgarden, the 2017 Verizon IndyCar Series champion. Here is a driver that was given The Captain’s blessing, owner Roger Penske’s hand-picked choice to drive the #2 Team Penske-Chevrolet. Newgarden started the year with three career IndyCar victories in 83 races; he ended it with four wins in 17 races and […]
There are many ways into Motorsports, the recent crop of Formula 1 and IndyCar drivers makes that obvious. But winning in it, is a different matter. In F1 now, it’s pretty straight forward. Start from the front; be faster than 19 other drivers; and have a Mercedes or Ferrari engine. In IndyCar it’s a bit […]
Lots of things can happen in a week in IndyCar. However fans, analysts, and teams have only two weeks to digest it all and prime for the IndyCar finale. In this edition of the IndyCar Notebook, news surrounds Honda and Honda-related personnel. Prior to his first pole in IndyCar and his second win, Alexander Rossi […]
Unlike in Formula 1, an IndyCar pole to win conversion is rare because pole in IndyCar isn’t as crucial as F1. However former F1 and current Andretti Autosport driver Alexander Rossi achieved that feat on Sunday at Watkins Glen. But it wasn’t easy. Rossi claimed pole Saturday in last-lap Lewis Hamilton style. The 26-year-old’s first […]
The IndyCar driver market is heading into the volatile part of year with potential seats opening up at Andretti Autosport, Chip Ganassi Racing, and the most coveted seat in IndyCar, at Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. Two teams who might need drivers, and one that definitely does. Some potential drivers are known, such as Robert Wickens of […]
With the end of the oval rounds, the driver market got a bit clearer for the year-end road course rounds and a lot more interesting for the 2018 season. The names involved? Takuma Sato, Jack Harvey, and Conor Daly. The headlines surrounding these names will be explored in this edition of the IndyCar Notebook. So […]
The Bommarito Automotive Group 500 Saturday night started off under caution, as Tony Kanaan starting P17 made contact in Turn 2 on the first lap. The race would restart under green on Lap 5, before a three-car incident in Turn 2 effectively ended the race of Ed Carpenter, pole sitter Will Power, and Takuma Sato. […]
The ABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway lived up to its nickname the “Tricky Triangle” for 500 miles of intense racing. No race more intense than that of Will Power. After suffering a broken front wing that required change under green flag conditions, Power dropped a lap to the field on Lap 66. That was […]
Ryan Hunter-Reay has been released from hospital following a qualifying crash for the ABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway. Hunter-Reay sustained minor injuries to his hip and knee in the crash, but is not cleared to race; pending a medical re-evaluation on Sunday. In a statement posted on the Andretti Autosport’s Twitter account, Hunter-Reay explained […]
When Mikhail Aleshin and Schmidt Peterson Motorsports announced a mutual separation with four races to go, it left SPM with a serious driver gap to fill. SPM have had several candidates to choose from and it seems they are taking to a rotation setup. Dale Coyne Racing meanwhile have been unstable since Sebastien Bourdais’ Indianapolis […]
Mikhail Aleshin and Schmidt Peterson Motorsports have parted company. Aleshin will not finish the 2017 IndyCar Series season with SPM, choosing to focus on Le Mans and LMP1. After encountering visa issues following his participation in the Le Mans 24 Hours race and missing the Honda Indy Toronto round; Aleshin returned for the Honda Indy […]
Michael Andretti, son of famed IndyCar legend and Formula 1 champion Mario Andretti, and an IndyCar legend in his own right; now spends most of his time dealing with sponsors, PR, and talking about team performance. Essentially all the non-racing duties he had while racing except there isn’t any racing to be had. Andretti now […]