If winning the Verizon IndyCar Series was easy, everyone would be doing it. Except that in a way, everyone is. Dario Franchitti strung together three-straight titles between 2009 and '11, but the six championships completed since the arrival of the DW12 and its various iterations have delivered five different champions.Close...

Andretti Autosport rookie Zach Veach and RACER's Robin Miller close out the final Week In IndyCar podcast of 2017 as Veach joins Marshall Pruett to discuss the limited availability of seats as 2018 approaches and a number of IndyCar rule changes before diving into an hour of fans Q&A.Pruett and...

Simon Pagenaud says that his win at Sonoma on Sunday was the highlight of his 2017 season, despite surrendering the championship to Penske teammate Josef Newgarden by 13 points.Pagenaud was the sole driver to opt for a four-stop strategy, and although it was primarily intended as insurance against an untimely...

ABOVE: Reigning champ Simon Pagenaud will have to fight off at least three rivals to kiss the Astor Cup again at Sonoma later this month. The showdown for the 2017 IndyCar championship is likely between four drivers, with a fifth still having a shot, but the constant theme heading for...

Carlos Munoz isn't sure what his future holds in the Verizon IndyCar Series.High hopes during an offseason move from Andretti Autosport to a new leadership role at A.J. Foyt Racing haven't gone according to plan, and with two races left to make a statement, the 25-year-old Colombian heads to Watkins...

Reigning Indy 500 winner Takuma Sato is expected to leave Andretti Autosport at the end of the season to rejoin Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. Multiple sources have told RACER the 40-year-old Japanese driver, who drove for RLLR in 2012, would join Graham Rahal in 2018 as part of an expanded...

Everyone always has an opinion about an IndyCar race – too boring, too processional, too many long yellows, not enough overtaking, Mickey Mouse circuit – and other than the Indianapolis 500, there usually aren't a lot of compliments thrown around.Which makes the phone call I received Monday morning not only...

JR Hildebrand's roller coast 2017 continued Saturday at Iowa Speedway. After hitting the wall in Saturday's opening practice, Hildebrand's two-lap average of 183.811mph was looking hard to beat – except, of course, that the driver at the end of the qualifying line was Will Power, who picked up career pole...

The mark of a great event is when you have a good crowd and people want to talk about how much it was off from the previous year. That was the scenario last weekend at Road America. It was a strong turnout and will easily be one of the two...

Sebastien Bourdais only had one thought as his car was sliding through Turn 2 on May 20."I thought I was going to save it the whole way right until I hit wall," he declared to RACER on Sunday morning after meeting with the media at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.As we...