Former Team Penske race engineer and Arrow McLaren team principal Gavin Ward has joined Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. The multi-talented Canadian starts his tenure with RLL in a somewhat open capacity and reports to team president Jay Frye.

Arrow McLaren team principal Gavin Ward has split with the NTT IndyCar Series team he led for the last two seasons.The Canadian joined Arrow McLaren from Team Penske, where he won the 2019 championship as Josef Newgarden’s race engineer, halfway through 2022. Ward’s technical expertise was the first area of...

If IndyCar and The Thermal Club choose to hold another $1 Million Challenge non-points all-star race, what kind of changes might the series consider to make the format more entertaining from start to finish? Andretti Global’s Colton Herta, Arrow McLaren team principal Gavin Ward and Meyer Shank Racing podium finisher...

IndyCar’s attempts to create more on-track action for fans and more free space for its drivers was met with some strong opinions on whether it should continue at other road and street courses.With the opening 75-minute session at the Firestone Grand Prix structured with a 20-minute window for all 27...

Gavin Ward grew tired of losing a private battle.Years later, those losses would become a gift to his colleagues at the Arrow McLaren IndyCar team.On the outside, the Red Bull Formula 1 race engineer was achieving his dreams as part of a winning program with four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel...

Pato O’Ward has signed another multi-year extension with Arrow McLaren. The 24-year-old from Mexico joined the team in 2020 and has placed as high as third in the championship with the No. 5 Chevy.The new contract marks the third for O’Ward at the team led by Zak Brown and Gavin...

Arrow McLaren has promoted Lauren Gaudion, its director of communications, to an elevated role of VP of marketing and communications. She replaces the outgoing Mo Murray, who joined the team in January of 2023 in the marketing VP role.“To say I’m excited would be an understatement,” Arrow McLaren team principal...

Welcome to the newly litigious world of IndyCar, where drivers, teams, and key personnel continue to make the kind of headlines that cause distractions and cost more than anyone would ever want to spend on lawyers.While lawsuits are commonplace in many other sports, IndyCar has mostly avoided that kind of...

Arrow McLaren racing director Gavin Ward, who leads the entirety of the team's three-car NTT IndyCar Series program, has received a new job title of Team Principal to better reflect his role.The Canadian, who won the 2019 IndyCar championship as race engineer to Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden, took charge of...

Arrow McLaren is getting closer to making a decision on where and how the three-car NTT IndyCar Series outfit will form strategic alliances in the paddock.Fellow Chevy-powered team Juncos Hollinger Racing is known to be a strong candidate to dress one of its cars in papaya orange, but Arrow McLaren...