Scott Dixon says he should have been “more aggressive” with IndyCar rival Takuma Sato for victory in the Indianapolis 500, having spent the latter stages on a lean fuel mix. Sato passed Dixon after the final round of pitstops, holding his position at the head of the field as Dixon […]
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Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato says his victory in this year’s race with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing was “mission completed” after his near-miss with the same team in 2012. The ex-Formula 1 driver, who previously won the Indy 500 with Andretti Autosport in 2017, was running ahead of Scott […]
Scott Dixon expressed doubt that 2020 Indianapolis 500 race winner Takuma Sato had enough fuel to go the distance if the race had run green until the finish. Rahal Letterman Lanigan driver Sato, who previously won the 500 in 2017, claimed his second victory under caution after Spencer Pigot crashed […]
Two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso said “we could not achieve anything more” than a lapped 21st place in the Indianapolis 500 after losing his clutch in the pits. The Arrow McLaren SP driver started a lowly 26th after a crash in practice and went off-strategy early in the […]
Defending IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden believes Team Penske will be a contender for the win on Sunday – but is wary of putting too much stock in its Carb Day performance. Newgarden will start 13th, having outqualified his three Indy 500-winning team-mates Will Power, Simon Pagenaud and Helio Castroneves, and […]
Double Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso’s previous Indianapolis 500 experience provided a “two-way exchange” within the Arrow McLaren SP team to help improve set-up, according to Robert Wickens. With Alonso returning to the Brickyard this year for this third attempt at the Indy 500, aiming to secure the triple […]
Andretti Autosport is renowned as one of the top squads in IndyCar, but a two-race outing for the team in 2010 didn’t allow one of Britain’s most underrated talents to shine, as he tells JAMES NEWBOLD Everything was going right for Adam Carroll in June 2009. The Northern Irishman had […]
Tony Kanaan is aiming to race on all of IndyCar’s oval rounds in 2021, despite the veteran driver having previously expected to wind down his time in the series. Kanaan had announced pre-season that the 2020 campaign would be the last time he competed at any IndyCar race except the […]
MADISON, Ill. (AP) — Josef Newgarden raced to his second IndyCar victory of the season Sunday, holding off rookie Pato O’Ward before a late caution ended the race at World Wide Technology Raceway under the yellow flag. It’s the second IndyCar race to finish under caution in one week. Takuma […]
Those races further cemented Scott Dixon’s legacy as a winner, Takuma Sato’s legacy as a hard charger and Josef Newgarden as an oval master. Here is what you may have missed from the doubleheader weekend at Gateway’s 1.25 mile oval. Photo credit: JAMES BLACK More Two Andretti Autosport cars (Rossi […]
Fernando Alonso has said next week’s Indianapolis 500 will be his last attempt at the triple crown for at least two years, as he returns to Formula 1 with Renault. In 2017, McLaren’s F1 prospects were so poor that Alonso was able to skip the Monaco Grand Prix with the […]
Ed Carpenter Racing rookie Rinus VeeKay hailed Sunday’s IndyCar race at Gateway as “one of the best races I have ever driven” en route to a hard-fought fourth place finish. VeeKay, who leads the rookie standings, climbed from 14th to sixth in Saturday’s race one, at a track in which […]
Reigning IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden believes he can still beat Scott Dixon to the 2020 title, but says he needs to “reverse the trend” of his season so far. Team Penske driver Newgarden scored the 16th win of his career and second of the 2020 season on Sunday at Gateway, […]
MADISON, Ill. — Josef Newgarden raced to his second IndyCar victory of the season Sunday, holding off rookie Pato O’Ward before the event at World Wide Technology Raceway finished under caution — one week after Takuma Sato won the Indianapolis 500 in the same fashion. In the second of two […]
Yet again, Patricio O’Ward will have to wait for his first IndyCar win. © Ronald Martinez – Getty Images A fast stop and a daring battle exiting the pit lane earned the reigning champion his second win of the season. The second-year driver, currently running his first full season for […]
MADISON, Ill. — Josef Newgarden raced to his second IndyCar victory of the season Sunday, holding off rookie Pato O’Ward before a late caution ended the race at World Wide Technology Raceway under the yellow flag. It’s the second IndyCar race to finish under caution in eight days. Takuma Sato […]
MADISON, Ill. (AP) — Josef Newgarden raced to his second IndyCar victory of the season Sunday, holding off rookie Pato O’Ward before a late caution ended the race at World Wide Technology Raceway under the yellow flag. It’s the second IndyCar race to finish under caution in one week. Takuma […]
Scott Dixon admitted that reaching a half-century of US open-wheel victories was something he ‘never thought possible’ after beating Takuma Sato in the first of IndyCar’s two races at Gateway. The five-time series champion won his first CART race at Nazareth in 2001 for Bruce McCaw’s PacWest Racing team on […]
© LAT Images Autosport 70: How Mansell conquered Indycar Nigel Mansell was the Formula 1 world champion when he decided to switch to Indycar for 1993. In the 14 August 2014 CART special issue of Autosport magazine, he told us why he made the move and described the challenges he […]
The IndyCar race in Madison, Ill., lost a lot of its big names before the field even reach the starting line, including three of Andretti Autosport’s five entries. Alexander Rossi, Simon Pagenaud, Marco Andretti, Zach Veach, Oliver Askew and Ed Carpenter all got caught up in a pileup near the […]