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...

Could the IndyCar Series seek an independent officiating solution at some point in the future?The topic was a hot one in 2023 after a red flag was thrown in response to a crash in the waning moments of the Indianapolis 500. It led to an expedited return to green without...

Penske Entertainment has replaced IndyCar President Jay Frye with Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Doug Boles. The change comes just over three weeks before the start of the new IndyCar season. Boles will also maintain his presidency of IMS, and no reason was given for the move.“Racing is in my DNA,...

LED panels will be making a return to the NTT IndyCar Series in 2022, but the colorful light displays won’t be attached to the cars like they were from 2015-2020.In a significant investment to give its race control team an enhanced set of session management tools, IndyCar is bringing the...

Chip Ganassi Racing managing director Mike Hull joins Marshall Pruett for the Week In IndyCar podcast to cover the first days of 2018 testing at Sebring, the new driver signings with Jordan King and Rene Binder, IndyCar's new race director Kyle Novak, the race between Zachary Claman De Melo and...

As first predicted by RACER earlier this week, IndyCar has named veteran race official Kyle Novak as race director for the Verizon IndyCar Series.As race director, Novak will lead operations in Race Control at all Verizon IndyCar Series events. Race Control utilizes a variety of video, audio and data communications...

The Verizon IndyCar Series has hired Kyle Novak as its new race director. Multiple sources have confirmed his acquisition to RACER, which comes after former race director Brian Barnhart recently left to become president of the Harding Racing IndyCar team.Novak arrives at IndyCar from IMSA, where he's served as race...

With the introduction of new race cars and the anticipation of expanding grids in several of its sanctioned series, International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) officials today announced some organizational changes to the IMSA Competition team heading into the 2017 season.Geoff Carter (pictured), who joined the sanctioning body as senior series...