Four-time and defending IndyCar Series champion Alex Palou scored his third win of the 2026 season with a clinical drive to victory in the 51st Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, after vaulting polesitter Felix Rosenqvist in the pit stops.

There were a lot of questions surrounding how the single-lap Fast Six format would work at Long Beach, and it was Felix Rosenqvist who proved to have the answers. The Meyer Shank Racing driver backed up his 2024 pole at this event by again earning himself the first spot on the grid for Sunday’s race.

Kyle Kirkwood took the honors in IndyCar’s second practice session at Long Beach on Saturday, while several teams are working to repair crash damage ahead of qualifying later this afternoon.

Along with a potential return to international travel in the coming years, longstanding efforts remain in motion to find a regular home for IndyCar racing in the Northeast.

“The tire test days that Firestone comes up with, they put you with six sets of tires, and they tell you, ‘Hey, do five laps, and then five more laps, and then five more laps, and let us know the differences,’ and then we do the same on long runs with brand-new sets,” Palou told RACER.

Has Arrow McLaren taken a small step back this year, or have its closest rivals taken larger steps forward?“This is the thing that is always so hard to tell,” team principal Tony Kanaan told RACER. “You start looking at everything, so you go to circumstances, different year, different day, and...

The opening practice session for Sunday’s Children’s of Alabama Indy Grand Prix at Barber Motorsports Park saw Scott McLaughlin lead the 25 drivers at the end of the three-stage outing.

Three races into the IndyCar season, Marshall Pruett goes over the key talking points so far.

The Swede demolished the pole contenders with a lap of 1m34.356s in the No. 28 Andretti Global Honda which was nearly a half-second better than Alex Palou’s in the No. 10 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda to capture his first series pole.

The track is big and bold and the best driver from the first-ever session at the Java House Grand Prix of Arlington was flying on Friday at St. Petersburg polesitter Scott McLaughlin set the new standard for speed.