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Video: Blasting around Long Beach in Honda’s rolling hybrid laboratory

The car is a one-off build – which looks like a reimagining of a Group B rally car – and was conceptualised by the engineering brainboxes at Honda Performance Development in Santa Clarita, California.

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Blasting around Long Beach in The Beast, Honda’s rolling hybrid laboratory

The car is a one-off build – which looks like a reimagining of a Group B rally car – and was conceptualized by the engineering brainboxes at Honda Performance Development in Santa Clarita, California.

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Fernando Alonso F1 retirement timeframe given as Roger Federer comparison made

Alonso turns 42 later this season but is enjoying a remarkable career renaissance with the high-flying Aston Martin team, and the Spaniard is showing few signs of slowing down

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34th Indy 500 entry guarantees Bump Day return

Traditionally, just 33 cars start the Indianapolis 500, with any extra entries having to go through Bump Day during the qualifying weekend to bag a place on the starting grid. The last time this happened was in 2021.

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Abel Motorsports confirms Indy 500 entry with RC Enerson

This guarantees there will be a Bump Day in the qualifying weekend before the race, as traditionally just 33 cars start the Indianapolis 500. Abel will be on the back foot since all its rivals took part in yesterday’s open test at the Speedway (today’s activities have been canceled by…

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Indy 500 test: Newgarden tops day one outright after second session

The two-time IndyCar champion lapped the legendary Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 227.686mph, 0.9mph ahead of 2008 Indy 500 winner Scott Dixon.

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Indy 500 test: Newgarden tops Day 1 speed charts at 227mph

The two-time champion, still seeking an Indy 500 win, lapped the legendary Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 227.686mph, 0.9mph ahead of 2008 Indy winner Scott Dixon.

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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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Revised schedule for this week’s Indy 500 open test

IndyCar drivers and teams will participate from 10.00am to 6.30pm ET on Thursday, April 20, and from 10.00am-4.00pm Friday, April 21 as the primary test for the 107th running of the Indianapolis 500.

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Can Kirkwood become America’s next truly great IndyCar driver?

These days, team owner Michael Andretti is far more comfortable sitting in front of the media than he ever was as a driver, but still, it’s not his favorite activity. So it was a pleasant surprise to see him twice visit the Long Beach media center last weekend. But he…

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Juncos explains Long Beach team errors after fans backlash

Ilott struck the Turn 1 wall on lap 6 of the race, and had to limp around a whole lap, to get his punctured right-front tyre replaced. That put him a lap down, so when the full-course caution came out for Scott Dixon being in a tyre wall on lap…

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Juncos explains Long Beach team errors to soothe angry fans

Ilott struck the Turn 1 wall on Lap 6 of the race, and had to limp around a whole lap, to get his punctured right-front tire replaced. That put him a lap down, so when the full-course caution came out for Scott Dixon being in a tire wall on Lap…

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Latest GP Long Beach “resounding success” says president

That year, the race was the final one under Champ Car regulations, as preseason the Indy Racing League and Champ Car World Series had announced their merger, which produced what is now known today as the NTT IndyCar Series. Since each of the original series had their obligations to fulfill…

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O’Ward unrepentant over Dixon IndyCar clash, admits second shunt was “stupid”

On lap 20, O’Ward dived down the inside of six-time IndyCar champion Dixon in Turn 8. It was a very late manoeuvre, but the Arrow McLaren driver's wheels were fully alongside those of the Ganassi car. The pair made contact that sent Dixon spearing into the tyre wall.

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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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Archive: How a US shooting star came close to dizzying heights

Robby Gordon wants to be the next Indycar racer in Formula 1. He’s on his way to the top. His first car race was in the Daytona 24 Hours sportscar race and his first single-seater start was in an Indycar. But in between, he destroyed Formula 3000 and Winston Cup…

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New IndyCar speedway aero package: Just right or too close to wrong?

If you were fortunate enough to watch the IndyCar action from last week’s second round at Texas Motor Speedway, you may still be raving about the racing. If you’re a Pato O’Ward or Arrow McLaren fan, you will feel slighted that he lost his last chance to snatch the lead…

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Texas IndyCar winner Newgarden admits he felt race "slipping away"

Newgarden dominated the first half of the 250-lap race around the 1.5-mile track, but following the second round of pitstops, O’Ward got around the #2 Penske and pulled away to a seven second lead, lapping everyone up to and including third-placed Romain Grosjean of Andretti Autosport.

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Super Formula tweaks OTS usage for 2023 season

The OTS, which works in a similar way to IndyCar's push-to-pass system, has been available for up to 200 seconds per race since the 2021 season.

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Palou labels Texas IndyCar drive his best yet on an oval

The 2021 IndyCar champion found himself in the fight for victory at the 1.5-mile oval before ultimately losing out to eventual winner Josef Newgarden, who took the win by 1.2s from Arrow McLaren's Pato O'Ward.

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Andretti swaps IndyCar strategists for Herta and Kirkwood

It means that Bryan Herta will now call the shots for 2021 Indy Lights champion Kyle Kirkwood, while Scott Harner will oversee Herta.

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Andretti swaps IndyCar strategists for Herta, Kirkwood

It means that Bryan Herta will now call the shots for 2021 Indy Lights champion Kyle Kirkwood, and Scott Harner will steer Herta.

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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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Texas IndyCar: Dixon tops final practice at 222mph

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