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Grosjean: Fifth IndyCar runner-up finish “hurt” after leading so much in Barber race

After fending off fellow two-stoppers Pato O’Ward and Alex Palou in the opening laps, polesitter Grosjean controlled the opening stint.

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Happiness and frustration at RLL as Lundgaard stars at Barber

Starting from a highly encouraging sixth place with a two-stop strategy, Lundgaard initially struggled on the Firestone primary compound and fell to tenth by Lap 4. But as those who had started on alternate tires started to feel their tires fade away, and the three-stoppers pitted, the Danish sophomore moved…

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O’Ward “on wrong strategy… That’s the roll of the dice”

The Arrow McLaren driver passed Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou on the opening lap before falling back behind him a few corners later, and then he concentrated on conserving fuel. He stopped a lap before Palou, a fellow two-stopper, and got ahead of him but he couldn’t find a way…

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Grosjean: Fifth runner-up finish “hurt” after leading so much

After fending off fellow two-stoppers Pato O’Ward and Alex Palou in the opening laps, polesitter Grosjean controlled the opening stint. But Sting Ray Robb’s Dale Coyne Racing with RWR-Honda ground to a halt just a few laps after Grosjean’s first of two stops, and it also prompted the fastest three-stoppers…

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IndyCar Barber: McLaughlin beats Grosjean for fourth win

Romain Grosjean led Alex Palou away as Pato O’Ward swooped inside Palou into Turn 1, but when O’Ward also tried to get around Grosjean at Turn 5 he lost momentum, and Palou was able to draft by him into Turn 8 to reclaim second.

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Grosjean seeing effort from he and Andretti team paying off

Grosjean, the only Andretti Autosport driver to make it into the Firestone Fast Six shootout, edged Alex Palou for pole by barely 0.073s, while Pato O’Ward and Scott McLaughlin completed the top four which was covered by less than 0.12s.

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IndyCar Barber: Grosjean beats Palou to take second pole of the year

Andretti Autosport’s Grosjean was fastest initially in the top six pole shootout with a 1m06.0289s, 0.0341s ahead of Pato O’Ward of Arrow McLaren, but on fresher tyres Team Penske’s Scott McLaughlin displaced him at the head of the times.

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IndyCar Barber: Grosjean wins his second pole of the year

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IndyCar Barber: Palou leads Penskes in second practice

Yesterday’s pacesetter McLaughlin wasted no time in flirting with the 1m06-second barrier, getting down to a 1m07.0036s on his third lap and then broke through it with a 1m06.7282s on his fifth lap.With 36 minutes to go, his nearest challenger became team-mate Newgarden, just 0.0053s behind, but Christian Lundgaard and…

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IndyCar Barber: Ganassi’s Palou leads Penskes in second practice

Yesterday’s pacesetter Scott McLaughlin wasted no time in flirting with the 66-second barrier, getting down to a 1m07.0036s on his third lap and then broke through it with a 1m06.7282s on his fifth lap.

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IndyCar Barber: McLaughlin tops incident-packed first practice

Inevitably, after a warm-up lap at the start of the session, the veterans parked and let the rookies use their extra set of primary tyres to clean the track and add grip to the surface already christened with Firestone rubber thanks to the Indy NXT cars on track earlier in…

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IndyCar at Barber: Start time, how to watch, entry list, etc.

This weekend’s event will be the 13th Indy car race at Barber Motorsports Park, and six of this weekend’s 27 starters have earned wins here: three for Josef Newgarden, two for Will Power and then one apiece for Pato O’Ward, Alex Palou, Simon Pagenaud and Helio Castroneves.

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Emanuele Pirro to lead updated McLaren F1 young driver programme

McLaren has a long history of giving drivers a break into F1 – in recent years this includes Lewis Hamilton, Kevin Magnussen, Stoffel Vandoorne and Lando Norris, who this year was joined at the orange team by rookie Oscar Piastri.

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Pirro to lead updated McLaren F1 young driver programme

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IndyCar Long Beach: Kirkwood scores maiden win to lead Andretti 1-2

The second-year driver, who joined Andretti from AJ Foyt Enterprises for 2023, started on pole before leading 53 of the 85 laps, briefly losing the lead to Josef Newgarden of Team Penske.

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O’Ward, Palou excited by Texas race despite missing win

O’Ward’s Arrow McLaren was a consistent frontrunner throughout the race, the only driver able to keep fellow-Chevrolet runner Team Penske’s Newgarden in sight. Through the middle of the portion of the 250-lap race, O’Ward gained preeminence as Newgarden confessed to calling for setup changes that didn’t work as the track…

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IndyCar Texas: Newgarden pips O’Ward to win thriller

Polesitter Felix Rosenqvist didn’t last a lap in the lead, the Arrow McLaren losing out to Scott Dixon’s Ganassi entry at the end of the first lap, and then Penske’s Newgarden, and fellow McLaren drivers Pato O’Ward and Alexander Rossi demoted him to fifth. Newgarden and Dixon swapped the lead twice…

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Texas IndyCar: Newgarden wins thriller over O’Ward

Polesitter Felix Rosenqvist didn’t last a lap in the front, the Arrow McLaren losing out to Scott Dixon’s Ganassi entry at the end of the first lap, and then Penske’s Josef Newgarden, and fellow McLaren drivers Pato O’Ward and Alexander Rossi also demoting him to fifth. Newgarden and Dixon swapped…

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IndyCar Texas: Dixon tops final practice at Texas Motor Speedway

Before the final hour got underway, the field was split in two to practice running the high line, and it went largely incident-free, until Conor Daly had a spin out of Turn 4, thankfully keeping his Ed Carpenter Racing car off the wall. Rookie Benjamin Pedersen in the #55 AJ…

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IndyCar at Texas: Start time, how to watch, entry list, etc

The PPG 375 will be the first of five oval races on the 2023 IndyCar schedule, and the 36th Indy car race on the 1.5-mile oval in the Fort Worth region of Texas.

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McLaughlin leads Penske 1-2 in 16-car test at Barber

McLaughlin turned 104 laps of the 2.366-mile course in Birmingham, AL, setting a best lap of 1m06.222s, two-tenths faster than defending IndyCar champion teammate Power.

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Who has the edge among IndyCar's 'Big Four' teams?

IndyCar fans have been left so many questions to ponder after last weekend’s Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. In no particular order, we wonder if Andretti Autosport had pitted Romain Grosjean a lap earlier in his first stint – before his green alternate Firestones gave up and lost him time…

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Who has the edge among IndyCar's 'big four' teams?

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IndyCar St. Petersburg: Ericsson beats O’Ward in crash-filled opener

Ericsson's late move on O'Ward to secure victory arrived after polesitter Romain Grosjean and Scott McLaughlin collided while dueling for the lead the sent the duo into a tyre wall.

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St. Pete IndyCar: Herta, Kirkwood top raceday warm-up

Final practice ahead of the IndyCar season-opener, the Grand Prix of St. Petersbug, was topped by the Andretti Autosport cars of Colton Herta and Kyle Kirkwood.

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