Craig Hampson won four consecutive Champ Car championships as race engineer for Sebastien Bourdais at Newman/Haas Racing, and with their 2005 Lola B05/00 racing in the HMSA historic series at Long Beach, Hampson gave us a tour of all the little secrets and developments they used to win seven races...

Marco Andretti will have the race engineering talents of the returning Craig Hampson for his 19th attempt to win the Indianapolis 500.Hampson spent 2013-2016 as a race engineer and director of R&D for Andretti Global before leaving to join Dale Coyne Racing from 2017-2019 and then Arrow McLaren from 2020-2023....

Craig Hampson’s next stop in the NTT IndyCar Series paddock will be with the Andretti Global team. The return engagement with Andretti comes after a four-year stint at Arrow McLaren where he served as race engineer, R&D engineer, and its director of trackside engineering from 2020-23.Hampson, who engineered Alexander Rossi...

Arrow McLaren race engineer Craig Hampson will be exiting the team in the coming months.The four-time Champ Car championship-winning engineer has notified the Gavin Ward-led operation of his intent to leave and both sides are working on a transition plan that will make the process as easy as possible.The New...

The most detailed changes to the team formerly known as Arrow SPM won’t be found on the race track. In the blended houses of the outfit founded by Sam Schmidt, co-owned by Ric Peterson, and co-entered by McLaren Racing, the truly significant changes have nothing to do with new drivers,...

The most detailed changes to the team formerly known as Arrow SPM won’t be found on the racetrack. In the blended houses of the outfit founded by Sam Schmidt, co-owned by Ric Peterson and co-entered by McLaren Racing, the truly significant changes have nothing to do with new drivers, new...

The Arrow McLaren SP team is making a fresh start in 2020, with a pair of young gassers and an old geezer who happens to be one of the best engineers in the IndyCar paddock.And, to be fair, Craig Hampson doesn’t turn 50 until next year, so he’s hardly an...

And with a single personnel move, the team formerly known as Sam Schmidt Motorsports, Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports, Schmidt Hamilton Peterson Motorsports, Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Arrow SPM, and now Arrow McLaren SP, is back in the game.In very basic ways, the acquisition of Craig Hampson as AMSP’s new race and R&D...

The Arrow McLaren SP team is taking a big step towards ensuring its two young drivers have a good chance to be competitive in 2020. RACER has learned that veteran Craig Hampson has been hired to oversee the engineering department of the Indianapolis-based team that's running Pato O'Ward and Oliver...

IndyCar, its teams, and drivers have been engaged in a flurry of communications behind the scenes as the series prepares for its first test of the new Red Bull Advanced Technologies aeroscreen set to debut in competition next year.As a testament to the growing concerns over the aeroscreen’s weight and...