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Unstoppable Alex Palou leaves Barber with third IndyCar win of the season

Alex Palou wins IndyCar race at Barber Motorsports Park, leading from pole and finishing over 15 seconds ahead of the rest of the field.

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Felix Rosenqvist feels closer to victory as he prepares for 100th IndyCar start

Consistency is the name of the game for Felix Rosenqvist, who began the 2025 IndyCar season with three top-seven finishes and his best start in the series in his second year aboard the No. 60 Honda of Meyer Shank Racing, ranking fourth in the standings. Now, as the IndyCar field heads…

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Scott McLaughlin fastest as speeds top 232mph in Day 2 Indy 500 open test

IndyCar teams spent most of the morning performing mock qualifying runs around the 2.5-mile speedway with Team Penske's Scott McLaughlin running the single fastest lap as the Kiwi reached 232.686mph.

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Scott Dixon leads Day 1 of Indy 500 open test at 225mph

A late flyer vaulted Chip Ganassi Racing's Scott Dixon to the top of the speed charts, leading the way at 225.182mph. The 2008 Indy 500 winner bested the two-time and defending Indy 500 winner Josef Newgarden, who ran as fast a 225.125mph around the iconic 2.5-mile circuit in his No. 2…

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Kyle Kirkwood snags second IndyCar Long Beach pole to claim an Andretti 1-2

Kyle Kirkwood takes pole position in Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, Andretti Global scores front-row lockout with Colton Herta.

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Alex Palou pounces late at Thermal Club for back-to-back IndyCar wins

Alex Palou wins IndyCar Grand Prix at Thermal Club, his 13th IndyCar victory, after a late charge from third to first.

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How Dixon's woes gave Palou an unlikely victory in the 2025 IndyCar opener

Chip Ganassi Racing has a multi-champion superstar capable of extracting wins from what seem the most impossible of circumstances. Scratch that: it has two of them, because Alex Palou is a Catalan clone of Scott Dixon. Reigning title holder Palou bobbed around in the mix for over half of the IndyCar…

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IndyCar on FOX Sports: Is this new era of race coverage off to a good start?

The NTT IndyCar Series’ new era is alive and well with FOX Sports. But there’s plenty of room for improvement this season after the broadcast for the opening race at St. Petersburg wrapped up.

Motorsport

The winners and losers of 2025’s IndyCar season opener at St. Pete

More than five months removed from the 2024 season finale in Nashville, the NTT IndyCar Series finally returned to life in St. Petersburg, Florida. Between the start of a new era with FOX Sports and a strategy-heavy street race, there was much to discuss leaving the weekend.

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Chip Ganassi Racing partners with OpenAI in first motorsports venture for AI company

Chip Ganassi Racing on Friday said it has partnered on a strategic research collaboration with OpenAI — a deal that makes the two-time reigning IndyCar championship winning team the first to bring in a partner from the artificial intelligence field

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Everything you need to know as the 2025 IndyCar season kicks off in St. Pete

Welcome to the 2025 IndyCar season! Within just the first few laps put down in St. Petersburg, Florida this weekend... Chip Ganassi's Alex Palou will be fighting for a fourth IndyCar title while his veteran teammate Scott Dixon continues to chase a record-tying seventh crown for himself. And they aren't the…

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Scott Dixon teases his own potential future Daytona 500 attempt

If you didn't tune in to watch FOX Sports' coverage Saturday afternoon, then you missed cameras cutting to a casually-clad Scott Dixon, who is hanging around Daytona International Speedway this weekend as friend and guest to Jimmie Johnson for the 67th running of the Daytona 500. And it appears his…

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IndyCar's top 5 storylines of the 2024 season

North America's premier open-wheel series had a good year. Really. 2024 brought with it huge partnership announcements like IndyCar's multi-year agreement with FOX. Then there's Prema — a storied feeder team for racing greats — joining the ranks next season, and a new race on the horizon set for Texas…

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Counting down the top five best IndyCar races of 2024

The checkered flag is waving on 2024, and what was an exciting season for the IndyCar series. This year saw the first back-to-back Indy 500 champion crowned since Helio Castroneves accomplished the feat back in 2002. Chip Ganassi Racing's Alex Palou also nabbed his own back-to-back victory — taking home the…

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Autosport Top 50 of 2024: #4 Alex Palou

He didn’t produce the same level of dominance as last year, but the end result was the same: Alex Palou hoisted the Astor Cup Trophy for a third time in 2024.

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Palou, Dixon join MSR Acura for IMSA endurance races in 2025

Chip Ganassi Racing IndyCar drivers past and present will bolster the line-up of Meyer Shank Racing's Acura GTP crew for the Daytona 24 Hours and subsequent IMSA SportsCar Championship enduros.

Autosport

The testing parity problems plaguing IndyCar

To the big teams go the spoils… or something like that. Close and competitive racing has been a common theme in the IndyCar Series, but the end-of-year results always seem to favour the usual suspects.

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The testing parity problems plaguing the most competitive version of IndyCar

To the big teams go the spoils… or something like that. Close and competitive racing has been a common theme in the IndyCar Series for years, but the end-of-year results always favor the usual suspects.

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Chip Ganassi Racing finalizes its 2025 lineups for IndyCar and Indy NXT programs

Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR) confirmed its lineups in the IndyCar Series and Indy NXT for the 2025 season.

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Motorsport Picks: The top 10 IndyCar drivers of 2024

The 2024 IndyCar Season has concluded, crowning Alex Palou as its champion for a third time in just five seasons. And all while Palou was fighting for a three-time champion finish, the rest of the season filled itself out with enough intrigue, adding in drama and controversy, along with the…

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The top 10 IndyCar drivers of 2024

Another IndyCar season has come and gone, with Alex Palou crowned champion for the third time in just five seasons.

Autosport

Why Aston Martin F1 reserve Drugovich was "surprised" by IndyCar test

Felipe Drugovich was left "surprised by the speed" after his maiden IndyCar test with Chip Ganassi Racing last Monday.

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Aston Martin F1 reserve driver Felipe Drugovich “surprised by the speed” in maiden IndyCar test

Felipe Drugovich was left astonished after a maiden IndyCar testing debut at Barber Motorsports Park with Chip Ganassi Racing last Monday.

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How Palou cemented his growing legend in IndyCar title defense

The odds entering the 2024 IndyCar season were never favourable for Alex Palou. For starters, the attrition of what is arguably the most competitive racing category in the world meant no driver had won the championship twice in succession in over a decade.

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How Palou cemented his growing legend in IndyCar title defence

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