If Scott McLaughlin’s bad days are going to look like what transpired on Sunday at St. Petersburg, the Team Penske driver will be a serious threat to win the championship.Starting from pole, the New Zealander and his No. 3 Team Penske Chevy crew handled their closest pursuers with ease. Pushing...

The Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg saw Alex Palou lead the field of 27 drivers and 11 teams home to earn the first victory of the year. Palou crossed the finish line 2.867s ahead of second-place Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Scott Dixon as the duo secured a 1-2 for...

Pato O’Ward didn’t know what to say, other than, “I don’t have an explanation for you, really,” when asked about his stupefying run to 23rd in qualifying at St. Petersburg on Saturday.The Arrow McLaren ace was one of several drivers who were unable to extract the best from their high-grip...

Prema Racing out-qualified the Ed Carpenter Racing and Juncos Hollinger Racing teams as a whole in its first IndyCar Series race with rookie Robert Shwartzman’s run to 18th in the No. 83 Chevy.If that achievement wasn’t impressive enough on its own, Shwartzman did it after turning his first laps at...

The first qualifying session of the new IndyCar Series season delivered some of the expected and usual dramas as Team Penske’s Scott McLaughlin captured pole position on the final lap with a 59.4624s tour to lead the field for Sunday’s Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.It had been a Honda...

Liam McNeilly ensured an almost perfect start to his USF2000 Presented by Continental Tire season by claiming his second win for Jay Howard Driver Development. McNeilly, 18, from London, England, also secured two of the three available bonus points after qualifying on pole position and leading all 20 laps in...

Alessandro De Tullio has found his stride. After making his USF Pro 2000 Presented by Continental Tire debut toward the end of last season following an 18-month hiatus from car racing due to a lack of funding, the 18-year-old university student from Miami, Fla., joined forces with the defending series...

Dennis Hauger continued his strong first weekend in Indy NXT by Firestone, winning the pole for the season-opening Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on Saturday with a track-record lap for the IndyCar development series.Hauger turned a top lap of 1m3.8801s in the No. 28 Rental Group car fielded by Andretti...

The new USF2000 Presented by Continental Tire season began Friday on the Streets of St. Petersburg, Fla. Jay Howard Driver Developments’ Liam McNeilly, from London, England, secured an early points lead by winning the first of two 20-lap races which will comprise The Foundation Building Materials Grand Prix of St....

The IndyCar Series asked Firestone to create a wider separation in performance between its primary and alternate tires, and according to two of the series’ best drivers, it’s mission accomplished and then some.Firestone's alternate tires featuring renewable guayule rubber on the green-banded sidewalls were a quick-burst revelation.“Man it’s interesting,” Andretti...