INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA – MAY 29: Scott Dixon, driver of the #9 PNC Bank Chip Ganassi Racing Honda, … [+] leads the field at the start of the 106th running of the Indianapolis 500 at Indiana...
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Seven-Time Nascar Cup Series Champion Jimmie Johnson Will Not Compete Fulltime In IndyCar In 2023
Jimmie Johnson and his wife, Chandra, before the 2022 Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey on September … [+] 11, 2022 Bruce Martin Photo Jimmie Johnson will not compete full-time in racing in 2023,...
Indianapolis 500 Winner Marcus Ericsson Meets Himself During Borg-Warner Trophy Sculpting Session
Marcus Ericsson and his clay head during Borg-Warner Trophy sculpting session in Tryon, North … [+] Carolina. Bruce Martin Photo It didn’t take long for Marcus Ericsson to realize that winning t...
IndyCar Ends 2022 Season On High Note, Plans For 2023 And Beyond
IndyCar was blessed with the series championship coming all the way down to WeatherTech Raceway … [+] Laguna Seca in Salinas, CA., the final race of the season. Plans for 2023 and 2024 show the ...
How Indianapolis Motor Speedway Brought Living Winners Of The Indy 500 And The Brickyard 400 Together At The Yard Of Bricks
An impressive collection of former winners of the Indianapolis 500 and the Brickyard 400 at the … [+] famed “Yard of Bricks” at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. INDYCAR Photo A simple id...
A Month Of Heavy Promotion Pays Off Big For IndyCar At Three Key Venues
Gwen Stefani performs before the Hy-Vee Salute to Farmers 300 IndyCar race at Iowa Speedway on July … [+] 24. IndyCar Photo Coming off a 30-day period that included three venues that heavily pro...
Don’t Expect Many Changes To 2023 NTT IndyCar Series Schedule
Huge crowd watches Scott Dixon race to his 53rd career victory in the August 7 Big Machine Music … [+] City Grand Prix on the streets of Nashville INDYCAR Photo The official announcement of the ...
The Remarkable Story Of How Hy-Vee Saved Iowa Speedway For IndyCar
Bobby Rahal, Randy Edeker and Graham Rahal. IndyCar Photo In just two years, Hy-Vee has gone from sponsoring an Indy car in the second race of a doubleheader to going “all-in” with IndyCar. The growin...
A Driver With Two Contracts – Trying To Make Sense Of Alex Palou’s Situation In IndyCar
2021 NTT IndyCar Series champion Alex Palou INDYCAR PHOTO It was a tumultuous Tuesday for the NTT IndyCar Series when in a period of four hours two different teams announced defending champion Alex Pa...
Assessing IndyCar’s Colton Herta’s Two-Day Formula One Test For McLaren At Portiamo
LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 10: NTT IndyCar Series driver Colton Herta prepares for warm up laps … [+] on race day at the 2022 Acura Grand Prix Of Long Beach on April 10, 2022 in Long B...
How An IndyCar Team Is Using A Children’s Toy To Generate Interest In Stem Education
Two of the education crate projects produced by KiwiCo featuring Indy cars. Bruce Martin Photo Paretta Autosport’s IndyCar team and associate sponsor KiwiCo are hoping to use a children’s toy, known a...
How IndyCar Is Using PeopleReady To Help Address The Labor Shortage
Josef Newgarden celebrates with the PeopleReady Force for Good Challenge worth $1 million at Road … [+] America. INDYCAR Photo by Joe Skibinski What sets the NTT IndyCar Series apart from other ...
IndyCar Testing Is High-Speed Summer School
106th Indianapolis 500 winner Marcus Ericsson is the IndyCar points leader heading into the summer … [+] break. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images) Getty Images A dramatic “Month of May” at the...
Hard Tech Corridor In The Heartland
A 65-mile stretch in Indiana is the new ‘Hard Tech Corridor,’ going from Indianapolis to Purdue … [+] University’s campus in West Lafayette Purdue University Indianapolis 500 a...
How The Indianapolis 500 Changed NBC Sports Producer Rene Hatlelid’s Life
Rene Hatlelid in the NBC Production Truck as she prepares to produce the 106th Indianapolis 500. NBC Sports Photo It’s been said that the Indianapolis 500 can change a person’s life. It certainly chan...
Roger Penske Finally Gets The Indianapolis 500 He’s Dreamed Of
Roger Penske gives the command to start engines at the 105th Indianapolis 500 in 2021. INDYCAR Photo After three long years, Roger Penske will finally get to host the Indianapolis 500 in all of its re...
How A Road Course Race Became A Key Part Of The Indianapolis 500 “Month Of May” Schedule
Juan Pablo Montoya speeds through the infield portion of the IMS Road Course during Saturday’s GMR … [+] Grand Prix INDYCAR Photo It was Opening Day for the Indianapolis 500 in May 2013 an...
Pennzoil Honors 4-Time Indianapolis 500 Winners With “The Club” On NBC
The four, four-time Indianapolis 500 winners AJ Foyt, Al Unser, Rick Mears and Helio Castroneves CHRIS OWENS – INDYCAR Photo Longtime Indianapolis 500 and IndyCar sponsor Pennzoil has celebrated...
How The Indianapolis 500 Got Its 33rd Entrant
Stefan Wilson’s No. 25 Chevrolet — the 33rd entry into the 33-car field for the 106th Indianapolis … [+] 500 DragonSpeed Cusick Motorsports Photo There are numbers that are indelibly etche...
Two-Day Indianapolis 500 Open Test Showcases IndyCar’s Surge In Momentum
Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden was the fastest driver in the Indianapolis 500 Open Test at 229.519 … [+] miles per hour. INDYCAR Photo The conclusion of a two-day Indianapolis 500 Open Test...
What Makes The Acura Grand Prix Of Long Beach A True American Success Story
An overhead view of the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach street circuit INDYCAR Photo This weekend, the streets of this Long Beach, California — a booming city in Southern California — will come alive w...
Why A New Indy Car Isn’t Happening Any Time Soon
Six-time NTT IndyCar Series champion Scott Dixon testing the new Honda IndyCar 2.6-liter engine at … [+] Indianapolis Motor Speedway Honda Performance Development Photo During a weather-interrup...
How IndyCar’s Delay Of The Hybrid Assist Engine Can Financially Help Its Team Owners
INDYCAR President Jay Frye (right) presents the Manufacturers Championship Trophy to Honda’s David … [+] Salters (left) INDYCAR Photo When IndyCar announced earlier this month that it was ...