Miscommunication mixed with heavy rain turned out to be a winning combination for Scott Dixon. Told to follow race leader Tony Kanaan, Dixon instead stayed on the track at Nashville Superspeedway and grabbed the lead of the Firestone Indy 200 on lap 149. Dixon stretched his fuel until rain ended the race with 29 laps [...]
Helio Castroneves outpaced Danica Patrick at the Nashville Superspeedway on Friday to claim pole position for Saturday’s Firestone Indy 200. Castroneves, who has grabbed more poles than any other driver in IndyCar Series history averaged 204.519 mph over four laps in qualifying to end something of a drought at the front of the grid. The [...]
IRL rookie E.J. Viso withdrew from the Firestone Indy 200 at Nashville this weekend after being diagnosed with mumps and his HVM Racing team will not field a car for Saturday’s race at Nashville Superspeedway. “Our primary concern is with E.J. and the crew. We want to see him return as healthy and quickly as [...]
Ryan Hunter-Reay figured the luck had to go his way eventually. Turns out Sunday was the day. Hunter-Reay got the opening he needed to earn his first IndyCar Series victory when Scott Dixon made an uncharacteristic mistake, ending his bid for a fourth straight victory on the road course at Watkins Glen International. Preparing to [...]
It appears Helio Castroneves is staying put. The two-time Indianapolis 500 winner says he is close to signing a contract extension to stay with Penske Racing’s IndyCar Series team. “We’re in the process of getting there,” said Castroneves, who confirmed he is well into negotiations with Penske team president Tim Cindric. With former teammate Sam [...]
Paul Tracy has been conspicuous by his absence this season in the wake of the unification of the two American open-wheel series. The former CART champion and longtime star has run only the CART series finale in April at Long Beach and has so far failed to find a ride in the surviving IRL IndyCar [...]
Scott Dixon came into the weekend insisting it wasn’t going to be easy to make it four straight IndyCar victories at Watkins Glen International. Looks as if he was right. Ryan Briscoe gave Team Penske its fourth straight pole on the 3.4-mile, 11-turn circuit in upstate New York, supplanting veteran teammate Helio Castroneves. The Brazilian’s [...]
Andretti Green Racing teammates Tony Kanaan and Marco Andretti will start on the front row in the SunTrust Indy Challenge on Saturday night at Richmond International Raceway. Kanaan completed his four laps in 1 minute, 4.3333 seconds on the .75-mile Richmond International Raceway oval, the shortest track in the Indy Racing League series. Andretti was [...]
Danica Patrick is the best known driver in the IndyCar Series, and she erased any doubt that she belongs in April when she became the first woman in history to win a major open-wheel race. Her popularity with the fans, however, hasn’t been shared by her fellow drivers of late. After last week’s race in [...]
Most people think of their 30th birthday as a milestone to forget. Dan Wheldon spent his in Victory Lane. Wheldon turned the big 3-0 in style Sunday, winning the Iowa Corn Indy 250 for his second victory of the season. Wheldon plans to donate his winnings to the victims of Iowa’s recent floods and tornados. [...]
