“There’s a lot of perks that they don’t tell you about,” muses 2023 Indianapolis 500 winner Josef Newgarden from poolside at sculptor Will Behrends’ studio in North Carolina.The perk in question is a friendship bracelet that’s just been presented to the Team Penske driver by Behrends’ granddaughters. “It’s shell-colored,” Newgarden...

Seeing history is good. Sharing in it is better.As the sun started to set over the now-empty grandstands at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, I’d had a grand total of 48 hours at the Brickyard, and for most of them hardly anybody was here.But for just over two and a half hours...

Takuma Sato was a vision of joy during this week's unveiling of his likeness on the $3.5 million Borg Warner trophy. The winner of May's Indy 500, who became the first Japanese driver in 101 editions of America's defining motor racing, could barely contain his enthusiasm at the Indianapolis Motor...

Alexander Rossi says that receiving his own replica of the Borg Warner Trophy will give him a chance to personally reflect on his surprise victory in last year's Indianapolis 500.Rossi, along with team owners Michael Andretti and Bryan Herta, were awarded their 18-inch replicas of the trophy at the Automotive...

Honda poster boy Graham Rahal expected to be one of the Japanese brand's strongest qualifiers for the 100th Indy 500. The result fell well short of those ambitions as he's set to start 26th.The son of 1986 Indy 500 winner Bobby Rahal has a qualifying history that has been a...

2014 Indianapolis 500 winner Ryan Hunter-Reay and the famed Borg Warner Indy 500 trophy spent Tuesday touring America's Capitol Hill. As part of a promotion to drive awareness for May's 100th running of the "Greatest Spectacle in Racing," RHR, Indianapolis Motor Speedway CEO Doug Boles, and the $3 million trophy...

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Foundation, Inc., d/b/a Hall of Fame Museum, has announced three new directors – Rob Dyson, Kirk Hendrix and Fred Nation – in an expansion of its Board of Directors and a new executive director on its leadership team."On the verge of the 100th Running of the...