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Former F1 driver Mick Schumacher signs with IndyCar's RLL
Former Formula 1 driver Mick Schumacher is joining Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing for the 2026 NTT IndyCar Series season, the team announced Monday.,Schumacher will drive the No. 47 Honda alongside RLL teammates Graham Rahal and 2025 Rookie of the Year Louis Foster.,Schumacher, the 26-year-old son o...

Andretti signs Kyle Kirkwood to multi-year extension
Andretti Global announced a multi-year extension Monday with NTT IndyCar Series driver Kyle Kirkwood, through "2026 and beyond.",Specific length of the contract was not revealed by Andretti Global.,Kirkwood, 27, has won five times and reached six podiums in the No. 27 Honda since joining Andretti in...

Rinus VeeKay signs with Juncos Hollinger Racing
Dutch driver Rinus VeeKay has signed with Juncos Hollinger Racing for the 2026 NTT IndyCar Series.,VeeKay, 25, competed with Dale Coyne Racing in 2025 following five seasons with Ed Carpenter Racing.,He was the series' Rookie of the Year in 2020 and posted his lone win at the 2021 GMR Grand Prix on ...

F1 veteran Mick Schumacher gets IndyCar test with RLL
Formula 1 veteran Mick Schumacher will participate in an NTT IndyCar Series test next month with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, the team announced Friday.,Schumacher, the son of legendary seven-time F1 champion Michael Schumacher, currently competes for Alpine in the World Endurance Championship. H...

David Malukas replaces Will Power at Team Penske
David Malukas will replace Will Power behind the wheel of Team Penske's No. 12 Chevrolet next season.,The IndyCar Series team announced the news Thursday, about two weeks after parting ways with Power after 17 seasons.,Malukas, 23, was the runner-up at the Indianapolis 500 on May 25 driving the No. ...

Josef Newgarden wins in native Nashville as Alex Palou sews up series title
Josef Newgarden ended the 2025 IndyCar season with a memorable win as he took home the title at his hometown race, the Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix, on Sunday at Nashville Superspeedway in Lebanon, Tenn.,Newgarden, 34, was on the verge of his first winless IndyCar season since 2014 before...

Christian Rasmussen passes Alex Palou, grabs maiden win at Milwaukee
Alex Palou may have locked up his third straight IndyCar Series championship already, but Christian Rasmussen wasn't fazed when he passed Palou for the lead late in the race and held on to win his first IndyCar title at the Snap-on 250 on Sunday in West Allis, Wis.,Rasmussen, a 25-year-old from Denm...

Fox acquires 1/3 interest in Penske Entertainment, including IndyCar
Fox Sports on Thursday acquired a one-third interest in Penske Entertainment, owner of the IndyCar Series and Indianapolis Motor Speedway.,The announcement also included a multi-year extension of IndyCar's media rights deal with Fox.,Financial terms off the deal were not disclosed. A Wall Street Jou...

Alex Palou grabs astounding eighth win of 2025 at Laguna Seca
Alex Palou started from pole position and rarely gave up his lead as he sailed to his eighth win of the IndyCar Series season at the Java House Grand Prix of Monterey on Sunday in Monterey, Calif.,It was the Spaniard's third victory at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca following wins in 2022 and 2024....

Alex Palou garners sixth win of season at Road America
Alex Palou returned to the familiar setting of the winner's circle Sunday, taking the XPEL Grand Prix at Road America by 2.175 seconds for his sixth win in nine races this season Sunday in Elkhart, Wis.,The Spaniard notched his first victory since the Indianapolis 500 and extended his dominant lead ...

Boles: 'Absolutely it's a miss' Team Penske wasn't caught sooner
IndyCar president Doug Boles said Wednesday that "absolutely it's a miss" that Team Penske raced with modified attenuators for at least a year before an IndyCar tech team member finally caught the infraction Sunday prior to qualifying for the Indianapolis 500.,An attenuator is placed in the rear of ...

Marcus Armstrong, Colton Herta crash in Indy qualifying, avoid injury
Marcus Armstrong left the track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on a stretcher following a single-car crash in qualifying on Saturday but appeared to escape serious injury.,A few hours later, Colton Herta also crashed, like Armstrong, in Turn 1. His car hit the outside wall, flipped and came to a sto...
