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Rossi cycles to the top of IndyCar free agent list. The former Indy 500 winner seeks strong landing

Jul. 04, 2024 13:37 PM EDT

Alexander Rossi won the Indianapolis 500 as a rookie with Andretti Global, but when that relationship staled after seven seasons, he moved on to what he thought was a better IndyCar team. And, technically, Arrow McLaren Racing does seem to rank third among the top teams in IndyCar...

Josef Newgarden dreams of trying the grueling double of the Indy 500 and the Coca-Cola 600

Jul. 01, 2024 11:01 AM EDT

LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) — Back-to-back Indianapolis 500 champion Josef Newgarden has a driving dream he still harbors, even knowing that challenges with schedules and sponsors make it likely impossible to ever achieve. Newgarden not only wants to drive a stock car someday, he wants to...

Alex Palou continues mastery of Laguna Seca with pole-winning run at California road course

Jun. 22, 2024 18:49 PM EDT

MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — Two-time IndyCar champion Alex Palou continued his mastery of Laguna Seca Raceway by winning the pole Saturday in a qualifying session dominated by Honda drivers. It was the second pole of the season for the Chip Ganassi Racing driver who has finished on...

Arrow McLaren makes another IndyCar driver change, signs 19-year-old Nolan Siegel to multiyear deal

Jun. 18, 2024 15:37 PM EDT

Arrow McLaren made yet another driver change Tuesday when it signed 19-year-old Nolan Siegel to drive the remainder of the IndyCar season. He will be the third driver to race the No. 6 this year. Siegel will replace F2 champion Theo Pourchaire beginning this weekend at Laguna Seca...

IndyCar moves to Fox Sports in 2025 after 16 seasons with NBC. Fox now has Daytona 500 and Indy 500

Jun. 13, 2024 11:40 AM EDT

Fox Sports said Thursday it has acquired the rights to broadcast IndyCar starting in 2025, a move that gives the network two of the biggest races in the world — the Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR's Daytona 500. Fox Sports already broadcasts the first half of the NASCAR schedule....

Kyle Larson celebrates NASCAR playoff waiver with another win and the Cup Series points lead

Jun. 09, 2024 20:44 PM EDT

SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — The Indianapolis 500 is over and the worried wait to see if Kyle Larson's participation in that event would cost him a shot at winning a NASCAR championship has been resolved. So it's life back to the usual for NASCAR's busiest driver. That...

Will Power wins for first time in 2 years to give Team Penske sweep of top 3 spots at Road America

Jun. 09, 2024 20:13 PM EDT

ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (AP) — Will Power pondered retirement last year as his wife battled a near deadly staph infection that had the Australian wondering if he needed to focus on his family's future. “She almost died,” Power said. “You start thinking, ‘Yeah, I’m going to...

Rookie Linus Lundqvist is the surprise pole sitter for IndyCar event at Road America

Jun. 08, 2024 18:37 PM EDT

ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (AP) — Linus Lundqvist called it one of the craziest rounds of qualifying he'd ever encountered. And it gave the 25-year-old Swede one of the biggest highlights of his rookie season with IndyCar. Lundqvist earned his first career pole on a rainy...

David Malukas joins Meyer Shank Racing after getting dropped by Arrow McLaren following bike crash

Jun. 07, 2024 15:38 PM EDT

ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (AP) — David Malukas on Friday was hired by Meyer Shank Racing, giving the young driver a landing spot roughly a a month after Arrow McLaren fired him for missing the first four races of the season with hand and wrist injuries suffered in an offseason mountain bike crash. ...

Parnelli Jones, previous oldest living Indianapolis 500 winner, dies at 90

Jun. 04, 2024 21:22 PM EDT

TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) — Parnelli Jones, the 1963 Indianapolis 500 winner, died Tuesday at Torrance Memorial Medical Center after a battle with Parkinson's disease, his son said. Jones was 90. At the time of his death, Jones was the oldest living winner of “The Greatest Spectacle...