IndyCar News

Reigning IndyCar Series champion Dan Wheldon claimed the Marlboro Pole Award for Sunday's Kansas Lottery Indy 300, as the battle between his Target Chip Ganassi team and main 2006 rival Penske continued at Kansas Speedway.

Dan Clarke endured a bittersweet weekend as the Champ Car World Series after an incident on the penultimate lap prevented the CTE Racing driver from claiming a maiden podium finish.

Having seen his winning run come to a close in Portland, Sebastien Bourdais failed to make the podium for the first time in the 2006 Champ Car World Series after the defending champion was involved in a dramatic accident shortly after the start of the Grand Prix of Cleveland.

Quadruple Indianapolis 500 winner and IndyCar Series team owner A.J. Foyt is scheduled to have his left knee replaced with an artificial knee on Monday following the race at Richmond.

Defending Indy Pro Series champion Wade Cunningham topped the speed chart in the open test at the famous Milwaukee Mile on Wednesday as the IPS field prepared for the Milwaukee 100 on July 22nd.

The hot summer season has arrived in the United States as the contenders in the Champ Car Atlantic Series look to begin a busy summer stretch this weekend at the Portland International Raceway.

The much-needed track alterations in San Jose have been completed as the city prepares for its second Champ Car World Series race later this summer.

Graham Rahal will become the youngest driver to race in the Indy Pro Series after signing a deal to compete in the United States Grand Prix support race with Ken Hardley Racing.

Preparing for the sixth of 14 events that make up this year's IRL IndyCar Series championship season Scotland's Dario Franchitti still believes that he is well in the hunt for the 2006 title despite his Watkins Glen failings.

With six races in the next eight weeks 2003 IRL IndyCar Series Champion Scott Dixon is poised to begin a run similar to that which carried him to the title three years ago and figures there are plenty of opportunities for him to recapture the title.

Of all the circuits the IRL IndyCar Series visits, nowhere more epitomises the kind of breathtaking, heart-stopping group racing that has become the series' main point of attraction (other than Danica Patrick!) than the Texas Motor Speedway.

Actor and race fan turned active driver Patrick Dempsey, star of the hit ABC television show Grey's Anatomy, will give the command to start the engines for Saturday night's 10th annual running of the Bombardier Learjet 500k.

1998 Indy 500 winner Eddie Cheever will not look back on the 2006 Watkins Glen Indy Grand Prix with a great degree of fondness after he was called an idiot by both Danica Patrick and Michael Andretti and was also trashed on live TV by Michael's son Marco.

It took just one lap around the Milwaukee Mile today to dispel any and all myths that the Champ Car World Series points leader Sebastien Bourdais would continue the struggles that had plagued him in each of his three previous Milwaukee trips.

Despite his heartbreak at missing out on Indianapolis 500 victory last Sunday, the team behind rookie Marco Andretti believes that his run at Indy will do wonders for his future form.

If Sam Hornish Jr thought he could enjoy the spoils of Indianapolis 500 victory quietly he was mistaken as the week following his dramatic '500 win has been nearly as hectic as the week leading up to last Sunday's race.

In addition to a winning purse of $1,744,855, Indy 500 champion Sam Hornish Jr has been named as the 2006 winner of the Scott Brayton Award as the driver who best epitomises the spirit of the late driver.

PDM Racing's Brad Brewer has been awarded with the Clint Brawner Award, an honour designed exclusively for chief mechanics who display unrivalled dedication during the Indianapolis 500.

After starting the 2006 season with just a singleton entry, Paul Gentilozzi's Rocketsports Racing team has confirmed that it has signed Estonian Tonis Kasemets to its second car for at least six events later this year.

Having successfully qualified for his first Indianapolis 500 with his family run team Arie Luyendyk Jr's bid for glory in the 90th running of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing has been boosted by the arrival of two new sponsors for his #61 Panoz-Honda.

In what has become a popular part of the Indy 500 tradition, the 33 starting drivers of this years Indianapolis 500 made a whirlwind stop in New York City on Monday as the hype surrounding next Sunday's race gets into full swing.

Aspiring IRL IndyCar Series team Playa Del Racing have secured sponsorship from FedEx for next weekends Indianapolis 500.

Despite the late change in their driving lineup, Indianapolis 500 hopefuls Playa Del Racing are looking forward to a successful race next Sunday with drivers Jaques Lazier and Roger Yasukawa.

British Champ Car rookie Katherine Legge may not be pleased with a final result of 15th in Sunday's Tecate Grand Prix of Monterrey but her final result masked a fighting performance from the 25 year-old PKV Racing driver.