The race for the final seat at the 102nd Indianapolis 500 appears to be a toss-up between Zachary Claman De Melo, who finished a fine 12th for the team at the Indy GP, and IndyCar veteran Sebastian Saavedra.“It will be a familiar name,” team owner Dale Coyne told RACER. “We’re...

The time has come for IMSA to award separate points for the pro DPi and pro-am LMP2 cars within its Prototype class. It’s also time for IMSA to end the fruitless attempts to make these vastly different styles of prototypes perform at the same level.Implementing those changes halfway through the...

With Pietro Fittipaldi sidelined for the foreseeable future due to leg and ankle injuries suffered in qualifying for the Spa FIA WEC race, his Dale Coyne Racing IndyCar team could find itself with a small pool of suitable replacements for the Indy 500.Scheduled to race the No. 19 Honda on...

New AFS/PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports teammates Sebastian Saavedra and Gustavo Yacaman catch up with RACER's Marshall Pruett and discuss what's ahead with their new #TeamColombia IMSA Prototype campaign.

Roberto Gonzalez and Nick Boulle will complete AFS/PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports' 2018 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship line-up, joining Sebastian Saavedra and Gustavo Yacaman for all rounds of the North American Endurance Cup. Boulle will round out the Rolex 24 line-up.Boulle, who earned a Rolex 24 Prototype Challenge class win in 2017...

AFS Racing owner Gary Peterson and drivers Sebastian Saavedra and Gustavo Yacaman will join PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports to field the No. 52 Ligier JS P217 next season.It marks the first WeatherTech SportsCar Championship collaboration between Peterson and Saavedra, who've worked together in IndyCar for many years. They embark on a Prototype...

Ricardo Juncos is taking the first steps that will be necessary to continue fielding cars in the Verizon IndyCar Series. The Argentinian took his championship-winning Mazda Road To Indy team to the Indy 500 in May with two Chevy-powered Dallara DW12s for Spencer Pigot and Sebastian Saavedra, and with plans...

Minutes after teammate Ryan Hunter-Reay hit the wall in Turn 3, final qualifier Takuma Sato won the pole for Sunday's 500-mile Verizon IndyCar Series race at Pocono. The qualifying session and preceding practice were marred by several crashes by a rookie and veterans alike.Sato's two-lap average of 219.639mph knocked Simon...

Sebastian Saavedra and AFS Racing are back to partner with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports in the No. 7 Honda formerly driven by Mikhail Aleshin. The open-wheel veteran will step into the car for this weekend's ABC Supply 500 at Pocono and return the following weekend for the Bommarito Automotive Group 500...

If Schmidt Peterson Motorsports opens the door for Robert Wickens to drive the No. 7 Honda vacated by Mikhail Aleshin, the Canadian says he'd happily take the seat at Watkins Glen and Sonoma Raceway.The factory Mercedes-AMG DTM driver got to know the Verizon IndyCar Series team when he drove Aleshin's...