Yesterday saw the opening day of practice for the 2018 Indianapolis 500 take place, with Simon Pagenaud ending the day with the fastest lap. Team-mate Helio Castroneves was close behind in second, with Ed Carpenter rounding out the top three.
Dale Coyne Racing’s Zachary Claman De Melo has been chosen by the team to substitute for the injured Pietro Fittipaldi in the Indianapolis 500. Claman De Melo will make his first start in the famous race, with first practice beginning later today.
Reports have emerged today that McLaren staff are in Indianapolis to discuss a potential full-time 2019 IndyCar entry. Sources suggest that the team are looking at a partnership with Andretti Autosport or Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.
Former Verizon IndyCar Series champion, Will Power, has claimed that rookie Robert Wickens will one day become a champion of the series after their battle in last Saturday’s Grand Prix of Indianapolis. The pair finished first and third in the race.
British Verizon IndyCar Series team, Carlin, have once again been left rueing what might have been after a potential strong result fell away from them in last weekend’s Grand Prix of Indianapolis. Max Chilton finished sixteenth, with Charlie Kimball back in twentieth.
Will Power has taken his first victory of the 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series after winning from pole in the Grand Prix of Indianapolis. He held off challenges from Robert Wickens and Scott Dixon to take the win.
British eSports driver Callum Hawkins has won his second race of the TCF TASCAR Season at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Kaido HCR Driver has extended his lead in the standings even more, with just two races left of the season at Watkins Glen and Homestead.
Australian Will Power will start on pole position for tomorrow’s 2018 IndyCar Grand Prix of Indianapolis. The Penske driver just beat rookie Robert Wickens to the top spot after a late-lap in the final session.
Former F1 test driver, Alfonso Celis Jr., will make his Verizon IndyCar Series debut later this year. The Mexican will race with Juncos Racing at the 2018 KOHLER Grand Prix at Road America in June.
As expected, Zachary Claman De Melo will be replacing the injured Pietro Fittipaldi in this weekend’s Verizon IndyCar Series Grand Prix of Indianapolis. De Melo is already on a part-time schedule with Dale Coyne this year.
In a video with Mobil 1 The Grid, A.J. Foyt Enterprises’ drivers, Tony Kanaan and Matheus Leist, have spoken about their hopes to move the team up the order in the Verizon IndyCar Series over the next few years.
This weekend, the Verizon IndyCar Series will kick off the ‘month of May’ with the 2018 Grand Prix of Indianapolis. Here, TCF’s Jordan Groves takes you through what you need to know ahead of the race on Saturday.
Verizon IndyCar Series team owner, Dale Coyne, has stated that he hopes to have a replacement for the injured Pietro Fittipaldi lined up by the end of the week. Fittipaldi was injured at Spa last weekend and will now miss the Indy 500 at the end of this month.
After seven years away, Danica Patrick has made her much-anticipated return to an IndyCar cockpit in her first test session ahead of this year’s Indianapolis 500. Patrick passed her veteran refresher program at the test yesterday.
Rookie and refresher tests take place at Indianapolis, Patrick makes her return to IndyCar
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Six drivers took to Indianapolis Motor Speedway today to complete rookie and refresher tests ahead of this month’s Indianapolis 500. Robert Wickens, Matheus Leist, Kyle Kaiser, Danica Patrick, Sage Karam and Jay Howard all passed the programs during the day’s running.
Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden has taken part in his first test of the IndyCar windscreen prototype. The test took place yesterday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with the American hailing the test as “fascinating.”
The first practice session for next month’s Indianapolis 500 has taken place today at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Twenty-one drivers of the Verizon IndyCar Series were out on track in today’s session.
