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Six years on from his sixth IndyCar crown, Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon is hoping to take a seventh title in 2026. The hunger and desire to make more history is clear. This campaign will be his 24th in the IndyCar series, 26 if you include his two seasons in Champ Car in 2001 and…
Ahead of media content days on Tuesday and Wednesday, RLL have confirmed that Mick Schumacher’s race engineer will be Mike Pawlowski in the 2026 IndyCar season, with Ryan Briscoe joining as driver coach. Mick Schumacher gets a high quality race engineer at RLL for 2026 IndyCar season Pawlowski comes with a lot of experience in…
Following a record-breaking 2025 IndyCar season, all eyes are on 2026 – in quite a few ways. It’s a make-or-break season for many drivers, with some needing to prove they have what it takes to continue competing in one of the top racing series in North America. Which drivers will have the most to prove…
Ed Carpenter Racing announced several team changes ahead of the 2026 IndyCar season. The team saw major improvements last season. Indy 500 winner Alexander Rossi joined the Indianapolis-based team in 2025, bringing knowledge and expertise. Christian Rasmussen scored the team’s first win since 2021 at the 250 Milwaukee Mile. Both drivers will continue with Ed…
McLaren successfully secured over $12 million in damages after taking legal action against four-time IndyCar champion Alex Palou, who previously served as the team’s F1 reserve driver; CEO Zak Brown hailed the outcome as “entirely appropriate,” while Palou expressed disappointment over the court’s decision. The compensation covers a range of commercial and contractual impacts stemming…
IndyCar driver Will Power starts the year with his first tyre test for Andretti Global. In 2025, Power’s historic career with Team Penske came to an end. Joining the team in 2009, Power scored two championships, 45 wins — including the 2018 Indy 500 — and 71 pole positions. Now, the Australian driver starts a…
Motorsport.com Italy has reported that the Rosin family has stepped away from PREMA Racing, bringing one of the longest-standing family-led chapters in junior single-seater history to a close. That decision has prompted renewed focus on how deeply the family’s influence shaped the team from its very foundations. Angelo Rosin founded PREMA in 1983 in Veneto…
Mick Schumacher will take to an IndyCar oval track for the first time with RLL during a jam-packed February testing calendar, according to RACER. New kid on the block The driver of the No. 75 RLL Honda will test his first oval track on Feb. 4, at the 1.5 mile Miami-Homestead Speedway facility in Florida….
INDYCAR has taken the next step forward with plans for a fully independent officiating structure for the 2026 NTT INDYCAR SERIES and INDY NXT by Firestone seasons. The series announced the formation of INDYCAR Officiating Inc., a newly established, non-profit organization that will oversee all race-officiating operations — separate from INDYCAR and Penske Entertainment. The…
Ahead of the final showdown for the 2025 F1 Drivers’ title, four-time IndyCar champion Álex Palou thinks Max Verstappen would have bagged the title a while ago. The Catalan driver echoed Verstappen’s own recent remarks in an interview with Mundo Deportivo, in which he also commented on his own missed opportunity at McLaren. Verstappen would…
