According to multiple sources, Kevin “Rocket” Blanch, the championship-winning IndyCar crew chief who served as the series’ technical director for three decades, has left the new independent IndyCar Officiating group. 

The new Managing Director of Officiating (MDO) for IndyCar Officiating Incorporated (IOI) hopes his new position will be the perfect closing chapter to a long career as a well-traveled racing official.

After announcing the formation of an Independent Officiating Board (IOB) in May, Penske Entertainment took the next nine months to devise and fund a structure that would usher in a new era of sovereign governance for the IndyCar Series. And like The Who’s song ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again,’ the picks...

IndyCar Series president Doug Boles met with the media at 8:15pm on Pole Day to walk through the process that led IndyCar technical director Kevin Blanch to deem the No. 2 Team Penske Chevy of Josef Newgarden and the No. 12 Penske Chevy of Will Power as being in an...