The IndyCar Series’ first running of the Indianapolis 500 with hybrid engines was a remarkable success for all of the partners involved in making the energy recovery systems fitted to the field of 33 cars.Reliability with the supercapacitor-based units using technology sourced from Skeleton and Empel, which has been packaged...

IndyCar Series's season-opener in St. Petersburg? Settled by tire strategy. IndyCar's second race of the year at The Thermal Club: Tire strategy. The upcoming third race at Long Beach? It could be more of the same.Firestone has delivered on the series’ request to widen the performance gap between its harder...

The NTT IndyCar Series heads into 2024 with a trusted Dallara DW12 chassis that will enter its 13th season of service. The car, which has undergone multiple revisions since its introduction in 2012, is set to receive another round of significant updates to support IndyCar’s move to hybrid engines, which...

I don’t love the deletion of Texas Motor Speedway from the new IndyCar schedule, but that’s already been said a thousand times since the 2024 calendar was released Monday morning. Having been there for the first TMS IndyCar event and, for now, the last, Texas was a special race that...

​Next year’s NTT IndyCar Series grid is expected to look nice and familiar.With a modern record of 27 full-time entries shared across Chevrolet and Honda in 2023, the same number of cars are expected to line up when the new season begins.The big change announced for 2024 is the introduction...

Fans of the Dallara DW12 chassis have no reason to worry about its imminent demise.The NTT IndyCar Series’ spec chassis which debuted in 2012 will continue its meritorious service for an extended period into the future. And while there’s no definitive date on when the DW12 will be replaced by...

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Sunday’s 105th running of America’s greatest race might appear to be the event where engine suppliers Chevrolet and Honda have placed 100 percent of their focus. But far from the Indianapolis 500, there’s another group of designers, engineers, and tuners working in secrecy to win the 107th Indy 500.The red-hot...

FIA president Jean Todt says Formula 1 needs to agree on a direction for its engine regulations from 2020 onward by the end of this year if it wants to attract new manufacturers.The current V6 turbo power unit regulations run until the end of 2020, with discussions ongoing about the...

On a flying lap around the 20-turn Circuit of the Americas, Nico Rosberg has a hell of a lot going on.While hitting top end at about 210 miles per hour in the Mercedes-Benz PU106C Hybrid Turbo V6-powered F1 W07 Silver Arrow, the German-born wheelman's mind is, literally and figuratively, racing,...