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Rinus VeeKay delivers Juncos Hollinger Racing its best Indy 500 showing ever

The underdog team placed sixth in the 110th running of the Indianapolis 500

Motorsport

Ryan Hunter-Reay joins Arrow McLaren for 2026 Indianapolis 500

The 2014 Indy 500 winner will follow Larson as the next driver to race in Arrow McLaren's fourth entry for “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.”

Motorsport

Marco Andretti retires from racing, ending an era for the Andretti family at the Indy 500

Marco Andretti has announced his retirement from racing, marking the end of an era for the Andretti family at the Indianapolis 500

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Power set for sportscar debut in Indianapolis 8 Hour

Power follows in the footsteps of Palou as he joins the Indy 8 Hour grid

Autosport

Will Power to make sportscar debut in Indianapolis 8 Hour

Power follows in the footsteps of Palou as he joins the Indy 8 Hour grid

Motorsport

Austin Hill returns from NASCAR suspension, says crash was a "racing incident"

Austin Hill is back at the track this weekend after NASCAR suspended him for one race following his involvement in a scary incident at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. After Aric Almirola pushed him out of the way, Hill appeared to intentionally turn to the left and hook Almirola hard into the outside wall.

Motorsport

Austin Hill suspended by NASCAR, stripped of all playoff points

Austin Hill has been suspended by NASCAR for one week and will be forced to miss the Xfinity Series race at Iowa Speedway. This comes after he appeared to intentionally right-hook Aric Almirola into the outside wall at Indianapolis, causing a violent crash.

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Bubba Wallace beats Kyle Larson to win Brickyard 400 in double overtime

Bubba Wallace entered Sunday's Cup race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on the playoff bubble, and facing a winless streak that dates back almost three years.

Motorsport

Meet the Super Formula star aiming to echo Takuma Sato and chase Alex Palou’s success

In last month’s Indianapolis 500, Takuma Sato demonstrated once again that age is a mere number as he led a significant number of laps on his way to ninth place. Indeed, only the smallest of braking misjudgements on pitlane cost him a shot at a third victory at the Speedway.

Motorsport

The burgeoning talent aiming to emulate Sato and follow an IndyCar champion's path

Autosport

The winners and losers from a wet and wild 2025 Indianapolis 500

There’s nothing like the Month of May at Indianapolis Motor Speedway — and rarely has the Indianapolis 500 been more eventful than the iconic event’s 2025 edition.

Motorsport

Indy 500: Josef Newgarden’s three-peat attempt undone by fuel pump woes

Josef Newgarden entered Sunday with a chance at two different firsts in the Indianapolis 500 - trying to score the race’s first three-peat and claim a victory from the deepest starting position in the event’s history.

Motorsport

Indianapolis 500 start delayed due to light rain showers

For the second consecutive year, the start of the 109th running of the Indianapolis 500 has been delayed due to light rain around the track. It was originally scheduled to start a 12:45pm EST, but sprinkles forced IMS officials to pause the action, placing the command to start engines on…

Motorsport

Hybrid power is here: Indianapolis 500 could be dramatically reshaped by jolts of electric juice

IndyCar teams have spent the past year trying to learn everything they can about the hybrid engines introduced midway through last season

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Scott McLaughlin destroys car in huge crash ahead of Indianapolis 500 qualifying

Scott McLaughlin crashed his Team Penske car in afternoon practice and ruined his chance to repeat last year’s Indianapolis 500 pole-winning run

Autosport

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.

Motorsport

The Brickyard 400's inaugural winner - Jeff Gordon - welcomes its return

It’s been three decades since the groundbreaking – and some might still say controversial – move to run NASCAR’s premier series on the open-wheel hallowed ground of Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Autosport

Friday favourite: The “trick” features that endeared Unser to Penske's forgotten car

The Penske PC27 is a somewhat improbable choice for Al Unser Jr’s favourite car. A two-time Indianapolis 500 winner and two-time IndyCar champion, he had his greatest successes at the wheel of the Lola T90/00, Galmer G92 and Penske PC23-94 in US open-wheel racing. By contrast, he went winless in the radical PC27…

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Larson "a little bit bummed" if rain splits up Indy 500/Coke 600 double

Larson, the 2021 NASCAR Cup champion, is bidding to become just the fifth driver to race the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the same day.

Autosport

Fuming Herta says team-mate Ericsson raced him “like an ass”

After Ericsson and Herta qualified down in 21st and 24th respectively, the pair collided on the second lap of the Indy GP in a frantic opening to the fourth round of the IndyCar Series on Indianapolis’s 2.439-mile, 14-turn road course.

Motorsport

Justin Haley "turned down one or two" rides for the Indianapolis 500

A 24-year-old is set to drive for Rick Ware Racing’s NASCAR Cup Series program in 2024. Among the many involvements for RWR, though, has been a partnership with Dale Coyne Racing since 2020.

Autosport

Second year of IMSA’s GTP ruleset will be less forgiving in 2024 – Aitken

All four manufacturers that contested the North American series in the first year of its new hybrid LMDh cars won races, and each went into the final round at Petit Le Mans with a chance of the GTP title. Ultimately it was claimed by Action Express Racing Cadillac pair Pipo…

Motorsport

IndyCar, iRacing announce multiyear licensing agreement

A reunion of the relationship that dates back more than a dozen years will also feature the return of the iRacing Indianapolis 500 to the gaming format’s Special Events calendar.

Autosport

Why tyre wars have largely become a thing of the past in motorsport

The dramatic sight of Damon Hill’s Bridgestone-shod Arrows overtaking the Goodyear-rubbered Ferrari of old rival Michael Schumacher for the lead in the 1997 Hungarian Grand Prix is one of the enduring images of the decade in Formula 1. For a different reason, so was the sight of Schumacher, now with…

Motorsport

How McDowell's Indy triumph changed the playoff picture

Entering the Cup race at Indianapolis, rookie Ty Gibbs held the 16th and final spot. He was just three points ahead of McDowell and five points clear of Daniel Suarez.

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