Hunter-Reay keeps title hopes alive
Going into Sunday’s penultimate IndyCar race of the year in the streets of Baltimore it looked like Ryan Hunter-Reay’s championship chances were fading fast. The previous weekend at Sears Point…
Roger Penske’s team dominated IndyCar’s third-last race of the year at Sonoma in California on Sunday. Will Power and Ryan Briscoe swept the front row with championship leader Power starting…
Jerry Grant passed away last week. Grant, 77, was renowned as a nearly man who threw away the 1972 Indy 500 when he made a confused, unscheduled pitstop with a…
IndyCar’s championship battle got a little tighter at Mid-Ohio last weekend as Scott Dixon kept his title hopes alive by scoring an excellent win while Will Power retook the points…
Roger Penske’s IndyCar team has been off its game in recent months. Will Power and Helio Castroneves swept the opening four races of the season for Penske but over the…
Ryan Hunter-Reay has been driving flawlessly in recent races while favourites Dario Franchitti and Will Power have floundered amid incidents and accidents. In Toronto last weekend Hunter-Reay scored his third…
Fans of the Delta Wing know that designer Ben Bowlby is a big fan of ‘Boundary Layer Adhesion Technology’, or BLAT, which is a feature of the wingless Delta Wing’s…
At long last IndyCar has started listening to its drivers and fans. For some time the drivers have been pleading for less downforce and more power and IndyCar’s technical director…
Any regular reader knows I’m a big Justin Wilson fan. Justin is an excellent driver – fast, clean, consistent and extremely adept technically. He’s also an absolute gentleman and after…
IndyCar’s return to Detroit’s Belle Isle last weekend was rather messy as the rough track began to come apart in the middle of the race resulting in a two-hour red…
In the wake of his brilliant victory at Indianapolis last weekend Dario Franchitti is clearly emerging as the greatest UK driver in the history of the sport outside Formula 1.…
Dario Franchitti drove a magnificent race at Indianapolis on Sunday to score his third win in America’s biggest race in the past six years. Dario made a superb recovery after…
The Indianapolis 500 is the world’s largest annual, single-venue, one-day sporting event. Its cavernous grandstands seat more than a quarter of a million, while its infield viewing areas can swallow…
Based on what we saw in qualifying last weekend this year’s Indy 500 will witness a titanic battle between Roger Penske’s and Michael Andretti’s Chevrolet-powered multi-car teams. The Penske and…
Will Power and Team Penske appear to be waltzing away to this year’s IZOD IndyCar Championship. After taking his third pole of the year Power drove a perfect race on…
Rubens Barrichello remains on a steep learning curve as he tackles his first year in Indycars with KV Racing and Chevrolet engines. Rubens has been struggling in qualifying, but has…
Team Penske employed keen strategy and excellent pit work so that Will Power came from 12th on the grid to score his second IndyCar win in a row this year.…