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Ingram's Flat Spot On Richmond Lived Fast, Died Young by Jonathan Ingram Was Tim Richmond ever really understood or appreciated by the NASCAR community -- the fans, the participants in the garage or the sanctioning body? Tim ...

Scott Dixon capped a night of celebration for Chip Ganassi Racing with a victory in the Cafes do Brasil Indy 300 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway. That was just 30 minutes after his teammate Dario Franchitti effectively clinched his third IndyCar...

Helio Castroneves won the battle but the war continues as Dario Franchitti cut another five points from Will Power's championship point lead. Castroneves earned his third victory of the season after dominating the Indy Japan 300 by leading 153...

Team Penske swept the top three starting positions for Sunday's Indy Japan 300 at the Twin Ring Motegi. Helio Castroneves earned his second pole of the season, and his fifth at Motegi, after a two-lap qualifying run averaging 201.992 mph around...

Ed Carpenter will start from the pole position in the Kentucky Indy 300 on Saturday night. Running a partial season as teammate to Dan Wheldon at Panther Racing, Carpenter scored his first pole in 101 IndyCar Series starts. Ed Carpenter,...

Helio Castroneves stretched his last tank of fuel 53 laps to win the Kentucky Indy 300 at Kentucky Speedway. It was Castroneves' second victory of the season and his first on an oval. He won at Barber Motorsports Park outside Birmingham, Alabama...

Dario Franchitti won the Indy 300 at Chicagoland Speedway after stopping for fuel only during a late race caution period. Thirty laps remained when the field reported to the pits for fuel and tires but Franchitti exited the pits with the lead...

Ryan Briscoe will start from the pole position for the Indy 300 under the lights at Chicagoland Speedway on Aug. 28. This was Briscoe's third consecutive pole at the 1.5-mile high banked speedway, which is located in Joliet, Ill. Briscoe has...

Will Power was the dominating force that the rest of the IndyCar Series drivers had to challenge again on a road course. Having already secured the new series award as the road course king, the Aussie did what he does best, take the lead and keep...

Will Power continued his dominant performance in qualifying, earning his record-setting eighth IZOD IndyCar Series pole of the season. He is joined on the front row by his Team Penske teammate Helio Castroneves. Will Power, Team ...

IZOD IndyCar Series and Texas Motor Speedway Race Back to the Future The IZOD IndyCar Series has taken steps over the last month to insure that it moves into the future of open-wheel racing with the announcement of a new chassis, engine and aero...

Ingram's Flat Spot On Ganassi's Scores Hat Trick, Again by Jonathan Ingram A Tasmanian triple and a "Chiple" inevitably caught the eye this weekend in U.S. motor racing, in addition to another dramatic crash, this one in the American Le Mans...

Aiming for safer, lighter, and less expensive the IndyCar Series presented on Wednesday its vision of the future: a spec-built chassis which can be customized by relatively inexpensive aerodynamics "kits" and that is suitable for both road course...

Will Power will lead the field to green in the Iowa Corn Indy 250 at Iowa Speedway on Sunday. Power's fourth pole of the season is Team Penske's seventh consecutive, an IndyCar Series record. Will Power, Team Penske. Photo by Andy ...

Ryan Briscoe started from the pole position, leading 102 laps on his way to victory in the 228 lap Firestone 550 K IndyCar Series race at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday night. Ryan Briscoe, Team Penske. Photo by Michael C.

Ryan Briscoe earned his tenth career IndyCar Series pole and his fifth on an oval after averaging 215.273 mph for four laps around the 1.455-mile Texas Motor Speedway. Team Penske has now won six consecutive poles starting with Will Power at St.

A rain shower delayed it, but just as in his epic victory at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Memorial Day, Target Chip Ganassi Racing's Dario Franchitti would not be denied his moment at the yard of bricks on the traditional Monday...

On paper, it was as dominant a victory for Dario Franchitti in the 94th running of the Indianapolis 500 as there has been in the last decade. Outside of the drama in the last 10 laps, it was a largely trouble-free race for the winner while the...

A younger, brasher Paul Tracy might have completely lost his composure after the hand he was dealt last Sunday. Despite a lot of pace in practice, Tracy suffered the ignominy of being the highest profile driver or team to fail to qualify for ...

Before this last decade, only two women had ever started the '500, Janet Guthrie and Lyn St. James. Sarah Fisher joined in 2000, and there have been four more since. Now, a total of four take the green flag for the first time on ...

Castroneves and team wins pit challenge, Franchitti paces final practice Though Roger Penske's drivers have so far dominated practice and qualifying, it was their rivals in all red who swept the top of the timesheets in Carb Day final practice...

Sunday's Bump Day session had all the drama packed into the final hour, and then the Indianapolis Motor Speedway fell silent after all the runs were completed. Fans. Photo by Indy Racing League. But IMS doesn't stay closed forever.

Life's experiences only count toward gain if something is learned from them. Here is what we think we learned from the past 48 hours at Indianapolis: Helio Castroneves, Team Penske. Photo by Andy Sallee. If it ain't broke, you can ...

The seven member freshman class of the 94th Indianapolis 500 represents six nations and wide variety of motorsport disciplines. Six of the seven rookies made successful four lap qualifying runs at the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway, joining...

Andretti Autosports' Tony Kanaan found new life when his crew borrowed parts from teammate Ryan Hunter-Reay's already qualified No. 37 car and repaired the Indy veteran's No. 11T backup car sufficiently to allow him to get into the Indianapolis...

Tradition met transition on Saturday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the inaugural ninety minute "Pole Shootout" put Team Penske's Helio Castroneves into the first position on the inside of the first row for the start of the Indianapolis 500 on...

Andretti Autosports' Tony Kanaan once again made contact with Indianapolis Motor Speedway's infamous "wall" on Sunday morning during final practice prior to Bump Day qualifications, this time in his backup No. 11T Dallara/Honda. Kanaan struck the...

She grips your hand with a man's shake: rock-solid and firmer than any twenty-one-year-old you have ever met before. Simona De Silvestro, HVM Racing. Photo by Andy Sallee. Her face is pleasant but all business, as lean as the rest of...

Fast Friday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was hampered by intermittent rain with Team Penske's Helio Castroneves holding onto the fastest speed of the day at the 6 PM EDT close. Castroneves mark (226.558 mph) was only slightly faster than the ...

E.J. Viso returned to the track on Thursday, two days after making hard impact with the Turn one wall. The force of Viso's initial impact was reported by KV Racing Technologies as 127 G. On Thursday he turned 27 laps in his backup car with his...