After years of providing TV viewer ratings for individual sporting events, Nielsen Media Co. today said no more. The new policy
means fans and media now have few ways to gauge success or failure of the IndyCar Series.
The 21-year-old son of Indy 500 champ Bobby Rahal has scoffed at a two-year offer from Dale Coyne Racing, and by doing so
may be endangering the future of open-wheel racing.
Ratings for the Feb. 20 NASCAR Nationwide Series Race, Danica Patrick's second, were down nationally and in the Indianapolis
market compared to the season opener Feb. 13. But Danica has another chance to shine Saturday in Las Vegas.
Race car driver Paul Tracy said IndyCar fans need to stand up and let series officials know what they want. Meanwhile, Derek Daly said the open-wheel series has turned its back on a generation of new American drivers.
In the 1970s and 1980s tobacco sponsorship cash was auto racing's life blood. Reliance on the money helped kill CART,
and the IndyCar Series is still trying to figure out how to survive without it.
TV ratings for the stock-car races Danica Patrick has been in this year are off the charts. Still, a handful of NASCAR stars
aren't happy about the exposure she's stealing from the regulars.
Bold new designs for an open-wheel chassis in 2012 are getting lots of attention from racing insiders. But without better
driver recruitment and marketing, it won’t be enough to save the sport.
Though they both want growth, it’s not clear that Indy Racing League’s new boss can coexist with current commercial division
president.
Indy Racing League officials must be wondering why so many more people tuned in to watch Danica Patrick race in a rinky-dink
stock car race than watched her race open-wheelers at 200 plus mph.
Indy Racing League officials want the open-wheel series’ new chassis to be built in Indiana. But that’s not all they want.
Indy Racing League’s latest revelation raises more questions.
They’ve ousted Tony George, now it’s time for the former Indianapolis Motor Speedway CEO’s three sisters and mother to lead
open-wheel racing out of the woods.
At a critical time for series, Indy Racing League VP of Competition Tony Cotman is leaving his full-time post with the open-wheel
circuit to start his own track design firm.
Indy Racing League cars will be outfitted with a new gear, this one allowing them to go backwards. It will help teams that
wipe out on road courses and take pressure off tracks’ safety crews.
Danica Patrick’s representatives at IMG are looking to pair her in ad campaigns with Dale Earnhardt Jr., and possibly Indianapolis
Colts quarterback Peyton Manning.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway boss Jeff Belskus’ actions might offer a glimpse of what the Capital Improvement Board’s new chief,
Ann Lathrop, will do with Pacers, IUPUI and other challenges.
New Brickyard boss may realize that the cost of financing the Indy Racing League is outstripping the shrinking profits of
the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
For the first time in almost five decades a wingless race car may be returning to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the Indy
Racing League seriously ponders bold, new changes to its chassis formula for 2012.
For the first time in nearly five decades, a wingless car could circle the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Indy Racing League is studying a radical new chassis design for 2012.
A familiar face is leading Danica Patrick’s charge into NASCAR. But it could be a bumpy ride.
