IndyCar

Relief for Will Power came on Friday during qualifying for Saturday’s IndyCar Grand Prix of Indianapolis. The start of the season has been nothing but rough for the Team Penske veteran but during qualifying, Power pushed through to earn his 51st career IndyCar pole. Despite already taking a lap during the …

Ah, the month of May. It’s that time of the year again where the Verizon IndyCar Series begins the build for the 102nd Indianapolis 500. The build starts this weekend with the IndyCar Grand Prix, and on Saturday, business begins to pick up. Team Penske evidently has their program together …

Alfonso Celis Jr. will make his Verizon IndyCar Series debut next month in the KOHLER Grand Prix at Road America driving for Juncos Racing. Celis will pilot the No. 32 Juncos Racing Chevrolet entry after competing with the team at Barber Motorsports Park last month in the Indy Lights Series. …

Zachary Claman De Melo will replace the injured Pietro Fittipaldi in this weekend’s INDYCAR Grand Prix, Dale Coyne Racing announced on Thursday (May 10). Claman De Melo will pilot the No. 19 Paysafe Honda for the third time this season. Fittipaldi was slated to make his second Verizon IndyCar Series …

On Friday, INDYCAR released the 35-car entry list for the 102nd running of the Indianapolis 500. The May 27 race features six former winners, including Hélio Castroneves, Scott Dixon, Tony Kanaan, Takuma Sato, Alexander Rossi and Ryan Hunter-Reay. This year’s race will mark the first time since 2015 that at …

Just inside the city limits of Birmingham, Ala., sits Barber Motorsports Park. The 17-turn permanent road course was opened in 2003 and designed by Alan Wilson. A compact design with a number of elevation changes highlights the track itself, but when you look at the environment around the track, only …

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to cover the Verizon IndyCar Series in Birmingham, Alabama. For roughly 13 years, I have attended and covered only NASCAR racing so it was certainly a different experience. Then along came Mother Nature to intervene. She added an extra level of unfamiliar territory …

Simon Pagenaud and Gabby Chaves had a heated conversation on pit road after the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama. Pagenaud confronted the Harding Racing driver because he felt that he was being held up by him. Chaves was two laps down, and the Team Penske wheelman was upset that …

Rain was in the area of the Barber Motorsports Park on Monday (April 23) for the IndyCar Series, and Josef Newgarden and Co.’s call to come down pit road earlier than everyone else for rain tires ended up being the winning call. Newgarden emerged victorious at the Honda Indy Grand …

The Verizon IndyCar Series had a battle with Mother Nature on Sunday… and Mother Nature won. Continuous downpours at Barber Motorsports Park forced the postponement of the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama after just 22 of the 45 laps needed for the race to be considered official (halfway) were run. …