IndyCar unveils 2018 race car at auto show in Detroit
Mario Andretti, Josef Newgarden and Mark Miles took part in IndyCar’s upbeat presentation Tuesday at the North American International Auto Show.
Mario Andretti, Josef Newgarden and Mark Miles took part in IndyCar’s upbeat presentation Tuesday at the North American International Auto Show.
DC Solar Solutions will also be an associate sponsor in IndyCar for two Ganassi drivers.
The 35-year-old Danica Patrick said she will race only in the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500 next year and then she will walk away.
Patrick would not reveal who she will drive for at the 500, but Chip Ganassi Racing is the likely ride.
The departure of its title sponsor leaves IndyCar with two major issues to address before the end of the 2018 season.
The IndyCar duo marks the first all-Canadian lineup in North American open-wheel racing since Paul Tracy and Patrick Carpentier drove for Forsythe Racing in Champ Car in 2004.
There are few changes on the 17-race schedule as IndyCar sought stability in assembling its 2018 calendar.
As expected, three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves is done racing full-time in the IndyCar Series.
Indianapolis-based Chip Ganassi Racing will cut back to a two-car team in the IndyCar Series next season in a business decision the team owner said led to layoffs.
Andretti has captured three IndyCar Series championships with Honda engines—in 2004, 2005 and 2007—as well as five Indianapolis 500 victories.
The Minneapolis-based retail giant also left IndyCar at the end of last season following a 27-year run.
After spending the day testing the sleek, stylish cars on Indianapolis' 2.5-mile oval, two racing veterans left the opening day screening by insisting the cars run even better than they look.
The cars will be seen publicly and tested for the first time Tuesday on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.5-mile oval.
The motorsports critics kept saying Andretti Autosport was stretching itself too thin by fielding an audacious six entries for the 101st running of the Indianapolis 500. But four of those entries combined to lead 95 of the 200 laps Sunday, including the last one.
In a race that had 15 different leaders, Takuma Sato prevailed, becoming the first Asian to win the Indianapolis 500. But there was a plethora of other storylines.
Takuma Sato lurked within striking distance during much of the 2017 Indianapolis 500, which featured a record number of drivers leading the race, and then won a white-knuckle duel at the end.
The rapidly changing sports media landscape has left a hazy cloud of uncertainty over the future of the race. Its current contract with ABC runs through next year, and some experts anticipate new bidders.
A.J. Foyt and Roger Penske are as much a part of the Indianapolis 500 as the pagoda and Gasoline Alley. Foyt turned 82 in January and Penske turned 80 a month later.
Two days after 22 people were killed at a concert in Manchester, England, speedway President Doug Boles outlined the track's security plan and urged fans to arrive early and stay patient.
Dixon’s first-lap and his final average were the fastest times recorded at Indianapolis since Arie Luyendyk set the qualifying record and single-lap record in 1996.