IndyCar News

Tributes pour in for Dan Wheldon, following his death at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

A record field of 34 cars is set to take the green flag at the IZOD IndyCar World Championship season finale at Las Vegas next weekend.

Conquest Racing has confirmed that it is putting British driver Dillon Battistini onto the grid for his IndyCar series d?but in this weekend's race at Kentucky.

Helio Castroneves is far from calming down over the harsh penalty he received at the end of the race at Motegi, and has labelled race director Brian Barnhart "a circus clown".

A member of the Holmatro Safety Team who was driving a truck head-on into the oncoming cars at the start of the Baltimore Grand Prix on Sunday has been suspended.

Rahal Letterman Lanigan driver Pippa Mann has been ruled out of Sunday's race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway after a major crash in practice on Saturday afternoon.

SH Racing have announced that they will be entering the inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix in September, and will be joining up again with their Indy 500 driver Tomas Scheckter.

Dan Wheldon has signed up to help develop a new generation of online gaming software that will deliver highly accurate and realistic simulator-grade racing competition.

Dario Franchitti topped both of the extended Thursday practice sessions at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, while Will Power struggled and Pippa Mann crashed in the afternoon.

Justin Wilson fractured a bone in his back during practice on Saturday morning and will need to be flown back to Indianapolis for further tests and evaluation regarding treatment.

X Games superstar daredevil Travis Pastrana has confirmed that he's making a bid for one of the five 'guest' spots in the season finale in Las Vegas - and a shot at the $5m jackpot.

A charity event celebrating the life and racing career of Mario Andretti will unite three generations of motor racing drivers from the most famous family in the sport.

Jacques Villeneuve has said he's not interested in racing in the IndyCar season finale event, which is offering a $5million prize to any non-series regular who wins the event.

This year's Goodwood Festival of Speed will see a big contingent of cars and drivers from IndyCar, as the event celebrates the 2011 centennial running of the Indianapolis 500.

HVM Racing driver Simona de Silvestro has been ruled out of competing in this weekend's Iowa Corn Indy 250 after suffering post-concussion symptoms from last weekend's crash.

Indy 500 winners Dan Wheldon and Bryan Herta Autosport have been confirmed as the official testers of the new IndyCar 2012 chassis prototype, it has been confirmed.

Dario Franchitti was certainly fired up after his victory in the Milwaukee 225 on Sunday, and the target of his anger and frustration was Penske's Helio Castroneves.

Danica Patrick says that IndyCar is too dominated by street and road courses, and American drivers are leaving for NASCAR as a result.

Recovering from a desperately poor qualifying performance at Indy, Andretti Autosport has snapped up the engineer who put Alex Tagliani on pole - angering Sam Schmidt.

IndyCar confirmed that the series will still be going to Japan one last time in September - but that the recent earthquake means that the race will switch from oval to road course.

Dan Wheldon might be unemployed after his Indy 500 victory on Sunday, but he's not going to be short of cash for the foreseeable future - after pocketing $2.5m for the day's work.

The winner of the 2011 Indy 500 gets twice as much in prize money as the driver in second place, but no one walks away with a less than a quarter of a million dollars after Sunday.

The 23-year old Indy 500 rookie nearly scooped the biggest prize in motorsport. How does anyone pick themselves up from such a devastating last-turn crash?

Ever since teams and drivers arrived at Indianapolis, there has been a rolling campaign to get IndyCar to drop double file restarts for the Indy 500. But to no avail: they stay.