Following a 2024 season that was, in his own words, ‘inconsistent’, Pato O’Ward looks for a better 2025 with McLaren. The new season will also see a new team principal, with former Indy 500 winner Tony Kanaan. Being in the mix for the championship, O’Ward eventually ended up in fifth in the standings with three…
Nolan Siegel sets his sights high as he enters his first full season in the NTT INDYCAR series. The 20-year-old stepped into the number six Arrow McLaren car for the Grand Prix of Long Beach in April of 2024. Filling in for David Malukas and then Theo Pourchiare, the young Californian immediately impressed the team…
Christian Lundgaard is preparing for a new chapter in his NTT INDYCAR career as he joins Arrow McLaren for the 2025 season alongside Pato O’Ward and Nolan Siegel. After three years with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (RLL), Lundgaard is ready to take on the challenges that come with his switch to a new team and…
McLaren Racing is now the full owner of the Arrow McLaren IndyCar Team. The organisation acquired the remaining stake per the 31st of December 2024. The outfit started its life 2001 as Sam Schmidt Motorsports, following IndyCar driver Sam Schmidt’s career-ending crash in 2000. After Ric Peterson purchased stake in the team, it was known…
An unexpected mutual exit has just been revealed, with Gavin Ward leaving the Arrow McLaren IndyCar team after only two seasons as Team Principal. The Canadian had begun his motorsport career at Red Bull in Formula One, where he covered a range of roles concerning race engineering and aerodynamics, collaborating in the years of Sebastian…
At Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico, local driver Pato O’Ward took over the McLaren of Lando Norris for FP1. This marks the third Free Practice appearance run for him since his first during the 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend. This was his first in front of his home crowd. The Mexican placed P13 during…
It’s time for the final double header of the 2024 IndyCar season, with the title fight now heading to Milwaukee for the first time in eight years. A five minutes install lap session was followed by two 15 minutes practise sessions, with the grid split in two groups as they get used to the track especially…
It was a much better second half of the day for Pato O’Ward and Arrow McLaren after struggling for pace earlier on in the day. The Mexican topped the final practice session under the floodlights around the Worldwide Technology Raceway. With qualifying set, the third session of the weekend started out with the high line…
Group A saw out on track Rahal, Malukas, Rossi, McLaughlin, Palou, Ericsson, Siegel, Ferrucci, Rosenqvist, Fittipaldi, Rasmussen, Sowery and Kirkwood. Palou gets on top after the first set of attempts in 1:09.27, followed by Siegel and Rossi, with the McLaren driver and Fittipaldi all cycling at the lead. Rossi is the first to sign a…
The second practise session of the weekend sees immediately all drivers out on track in order to get a bit more experience with the debuting hybrid engine cars ahead of Qualifying later in the 45 minutes long session. After the first set of attempts Herta holds the provisional benchmark in 1:19.325s ahead of Rossi and…
