Team Penske believes the cause of Josef Newgarden’s seatbelt problems at Long Beach was unrelated to the issues experienced by teammate Will Power at the final race of 2024 in Nashville.Power pitted twice at the championship decider to have a lap belt reconnected to the central buckle which locks the...

With visions of messy restarts at IndyCar’s season finale at Laguna Seca, where drivers routinely ran into each other before they rounded the final corner leading onto the front straight, the series has devised a new restart procedure that should curb the embarrassing crashes that happen prior to crossing the...

Nashville failed to live up to expectations on Sunday, and that’s a delightful thing to report.Dubbed ‘Crashville,’ and rightly so after its first two events had more in common with destruction derbies than NTT IndyCar Series races, the race that took place during Sunday’s 80-lap contest won by Kyle Kirkwood...

The crash-plagued season of Dale Coyne Racing added another chapter in Toronto on Saturday, when Esteban Gutierrez crashed his No. 18 Honda at the exit of Turn 11 and put his status for the balance of the weekend into question.Although the Mexican driver initially appeared to have escaped unscathed from...

LCR Honda MotoGP rider Cal Crutchlow qualified fifth for the Malaysian Grand Prix with a broken bone in his left hand, as a result of the first of his two crashes on Saturday.The Czech and Australian GP winner fell at Turn 7 after the checkered flag was shown in third...

Valentino Rossi said he decided to go off track in his Aragon Grand Prix battle with Jorge Lorenzo to avoid the potential "disaster" of a collision with his MotoGP teammate.The Yamaha riders – who argued after the last race at Misano about Rossi's pass on Lorenzo – were fighting for...

The old pit lane is now part of the front straightaway. The pits are narrowest on the circuit (35 feet) and snake around in an inverted S. Drivers used to turn right at Turn 10 to enter the pits; now they turn left in Turn 8. Drivers used to exit...

Valentino Rossi admitted a struggling Yamaha was "nothing special" as it ended a difficult German Grand Prix practice day in the midfield and his teammate Jorge Lorenzo crashed heavily.Rossi and Lorenzo were only 14th and 16th in the second session, 1.3 and 1.6 seconds off the pace, respectively, at a...

IndyCar has confirmed the long-expected layout tweaks to the Toronto street circuit, including the relocation of pitlane to the opposite side of the track.The changes, which represent the third modification to the layout since 1986, have been made to accommodate the newly-constructed Hotel X Toronto, which sits just inside the...

A modified track layout – including shifting pit lane to the opposite side of the circuit – highlights changes to the temporary street course that plays host to the Honda Indy Toronto from July 15-17. It is the 12th race on the 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series schedule.The modified design –...