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IndyCar champion Palou joins works Mercedes outfit for Indianapolis 8 Hour

Three-time IndyCar champion Alex Palou will make a return to GT3 racing when he joins works Mercedes outfit Lone Star Racing for the Indianapolis 8 Hour race next month.

Autosport

IndyCar finalizes charter system that doesn't guarantee spots in Indianapolis 500

IndyCar has finalized a charter system for 25 entrants that pales in comparison to the contentious deal reached between NASCAR and its teams but does give 10 open wheel organizations some guarantees

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Meyer Shank Racing signs Armstrong for 2025 IndyCar season

Meyer Shank Racing has signed Marcus Armstrong from Chip Ganassi Racing to join its IndyCar team in 2025.

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How a Disused Train Tunnel Became a High-Tech Automotive Proving Ground

Buried in the English countryside, the Catesby Tunnel is an automotive testing facility like no other. We saw it for ourselves.

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Jota announces Cadillac switch for 2025 WEC

Jota will take over Cadillac’s expanded factory campaign in the World Endurance Championship next season.

Autosport

WEC considering ban on two-driver Hypercar line-ups from 2025

Two-driver line-ups in the Hypercar class of the World Endurance Championship could be outlawed for next season.

Autosport

IndyCar Laguna Seca: Palou beats Herta after Corkscrew pass

Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou fended off Colton Herta on a late restart to claim victory in IndyCar's Grand Prix of Monterey at Laguna Seca on Sunday.

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Jota, Wayne Taylor teams favourites for Cadillac switch in WEC, IMSA

Jota and WTR are looking increasingly certain to move over from Porsche and Acura respectively to replace Chip Ganassi Racing in the General Motors brand’s roster of teams.

Autosport

Palou unsure why he's “struggling a little bit” at Indy 500

Palou stormed to pole for last year’s edition of IndyCar's blue ribband event, leading the charge for the Ganassi team as all four of its cars qualified in the top 10.

Autosport

Rahal: “Anomaly” Indy 500 team-mate Sato has a “hell of an engine”

Rahal will go into his second consecutive last-chance qualifying with his family-run, Honda-powered Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing team, 12 months after being bumped from the Indy 500 field in agonizing circumstances.

Motorsport

Rahal: “Anomaly” team-mate Sato has a “hell of an engine”

Autosport

Peugeot explains decision not to use WEC reserve driver at Spa

A desire to maximise seat time for the regular drivers of its 2024-spec 9X8 Le Mans Hypercar, which is making only its second race outing prior to next month's Le Mans 24 Hours, was cited by technical director Olivier Jansonnie as a justification for not giving reserve Malthe Jakobsen a…

Motorsport

Lundqvist: IndyCar right to experiment with Thermal $1m Challenge race

Lundqvist was the best-placed rookie in the non-championship round on Sunday, finishing sixth in the two-segment main event that had a $500,000 prize on the line after a straightforward drive – starting and finishing fourth – in the second heat race.

Autosport

Bourdais reveals Cadillac suffered electrical issues in Sebring 12 Hours battle

The entry, prepared by Chip Ganassi Racing, was a force in IMSA’s once-around-the-clock endurance classic with Bourdais, Renger van der Zande and Scott Dixon at the wheel.

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Cadillac and Ganassi to split after 2024 WEC and IMSA seasons

Confirmation of the split after what will be four seasons has been provided by Ganassi managing director Mike Hull, who told Autosport that “we are ending this chapter” of a long relationship with Cadillac parent company General Motors that has straddled IndyCars, NASCAR and Extreme E as well as sportscars.

Autosport

Five themes to follow in IndyCar 2024

The new IndyCar season commences on Sunday with its traditional St. Petersburg season-opener. And all eyes will be on Alex Palou, as he seeks to defend the title he won in imperious fashion last year with Chip Ganassi Racing.

Autosport

Cadillac has no plans for customer Hypercars in WEC or IMSA

There are no plans to follow the lead set by Porsche in selling cars to independent teams in either series, stated Laura Wontrop Klauser, sportscar racing programme boss at Cadillac parent company General Motors.

Autosport

Peugeot set to field two drivers in at least one Spa 6 Hours entry

The French manufacturer has revealed that the only candidate to replace Jean-Eric Vergne and Stoffel Vandoorne, who will be on Formula E duty in Berlin that weekend for sister marque DS with Penske, is Malthe Jakobsen. The 20-year-old Dane was announced last summer by Peugeot last year as its WEC…

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Le Mans 24 Hours entry list published, 23 Hypercars for 2024

Cadillac will for a second year in a row take in the double-points WEC round on 15/16 June with both of its V-Series.R LMDhs from the IMSA SportsCar Championship run respectively by the Action Express and Ganassi teams, while Porsche Penske Motorsport will again cross the Atlantic with one of…

Autosport

Friday favourite: How Laguna Seca charmed an IMSA rookie

It was love at first sight for Alex Lynn when he pitched up at Laguna Seca back in the spring of 2022 as part of his maiden and so far only full season in the IMSA SportsCar Championship.

Autosport

Bourdais added to Ganassi Cadillac roster for WEC Qatar

After Richard Westbrook's departure to join the JDC-Miller Motorsport Porsche team in the IMSA SportsCar Championship, it was revealed in January that returning duo Alex Lynn and Earl Bamber would have a different driving partner aboard their V-Series.R LMDh on a race-by-race basis.

Motorsport

Daytona 24h, H3: Dixon leads Cadillac 1-2 as Porsche gives chase

Sebastien Bourdais (#01 Ganassi Cadillac) took lead at the start of the second hour, passing opening-hour pacesetter Ricky Taylor (#10 Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Acura) with ease into Turn 1, the Acura then falling back as it paid the penalty of its short energy fill and double-stint on tires.

Autosport

Daytona 24h: Dixon's Cadillac beats BMW in first IMSA practice

Dixon lapped Daytona International Speedway’s 3.56-mile road course in 1m36.012s in the Cadillac V-Series.R from Chip Ganassi Racing’s stable, in warm track conditions for this 90-minute session.

Autosport

Daytona 24h Roar: Palou’s Ganassi Cadillac fastest in IMSA night session

Palou lapped the 3.56-mile road course in 1m35.705s in Chip Ganassi Racing’s Cadillac V-Series.R GTP entry in cold track conditions for this two-hour session under the floodlights.

Motorsport

Daytona 24h Roar: Palou’s Ganassi Cadillac fastest in IMSA night test

Palou lapped the 3.56-mile road course in 1m35.705s in Chip Ganassi Racing’s Cadillac V-Series.R GTP entry in cold track conditions for this two-hour session under the floodlights.

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