IndyCar News

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.

Andretti Autosport has bought Bruno Junqueria's place on the Indy 500 grid for Ryan Hunter-Reay, as the team goes into crisis and damage limitation mode over its qualifying performance.

Simona de Silvestro has been allowed back on track in morning practice to test her injured hands ahead of qualifying on Saturday afternoon, but Ryan Briscoe crashed in the session.

Rumours were flying around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Friday that Scott Speed was set to walk out of Dragon Racing's Indy bid after a series of bad-tempered rows between driver and crew.

Practice finally got underway in Indianapolis in much improved weather conditions but it was a short run for Simona de Silvestro before a vicious crash left her car upside down and on fire.

Drivers are starting to go a little stir crazy with the inactivity - leading to several of them taking up "planking" as they waited out another rain-hit day at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Helio Castroneves is facing renewed demands from the US Internal Revenue Service over allegedly unpaid taxes dating back over a decade, which nearly saw him go to jail in 2009.

Three time F1 world champion Sir Jackie Stewart is to be inducted into the Auto Racing Hall of Fame in Indianapolis, as part of the celebrations leading up to the centennial Indy 500.