Changes to energy deployment and safety have been agreed with the majority set to come into place ahead of the Miami Grand Prix.

The term ‘blockers’ was used extensively on Sunday at a steamy Thermal Club Grand Prix, where ambient temperatures hovering around 90 degrees and a rare race with no caution periods caused problems for some of IndyCar’s bespoke energy recovery systems (ERS).In fact, blockers did affect the event’s outcome as Chip...

The Thermal Club has acted upon a request from the IndyCar Series to reprofile the final corner sequence leading onto the main straight.As seen during last year’s visit, drivers sweeping to the left at the Turn 16-17 section rode over the crest and curbing, which launched their cars into the...

The full NTT IndyCar Series field will convene on Monday and Tuesday at Sebring International Raceway to conduct the final pre-season test of the year before returning to Florida the following week to go racing on the streets of St. Petersburg.All 11 teams and 27 drivers are set to attend...

The IndyCar Series is developing a new and tougher bellhousing to deploy in the coming months.After dealing with ongoing durability issues with the new and lighter magnesium bellhousings that debuted in March at St. Petersburg, RACER understands the series is working with chassis supplier Dallara to produce an updated batch...

The NTT IndyCar Series has made an important decision regarding how its upcoming energy recovery systems and their enclosures will be serviced and distributed.Michigan-based Ilmor Engineering, the company founded in the 1980s by Mario Illien, Paul Morgan, and Roger Penske, which also makes Chevrolet’s 2.2-liter twin-turbo V6 IndyCar motors, will...

Formula 1 should keep its current engine specification until 2025, which could then make it more attractive to new manufacturers, according to Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost.The current generation of 1.6-liter V6 turbo hybrid power units were introduced in 2014, at a huge cost to manufacturers but at the same...

The McLaren-Honda Formula 1 team says it expected to be in more trouble than it was during last weekend's European Grand Prix in Baku.McLaren-Honda identified the new Baku city F1 circuit as likely to be its worst track of the season, feeling it would suffer severely for a lack of...

Mental bandwidth is at an all-time low inside the cockpit of modern prototypes. The high-tech LMP1 Hybrids, with complex energy recovery systems (ERS) to serve and a maze of buttons and dials to adjust, has turned drivers from Audi, Porsche and Toyota into some of the busiest racers in the...

Honda will focus on improving the top-end performance of its Formula 1 engine as McLaren looks to build on encouraging start to the 2016 season.Last year was miserable for the reformed alliance, as a lack of power, poor reliability and problems with the energy recovery systems limited McLaren-Honda to ninth...