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How Leigh Diffey became the voice of American motorsport

From IndyCar and F1, to IMSA, NASCAR, and Supercross, there may not be a single American racing fan who doesn't know the Australian commentator's calls.

Motorsport

How Autosport makes its Top 50 and why the Indy 500 winner missed out in 2024

Please contain your rage! Or at least soften it until you’ve read to the end of this piece.

Autosport

Wanser ready for another IndyCar title fight after fight with cancer

Barry Wanser is on the cusp of doing something he was unable to last year: be present to celebrate a championship with his team.

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Why IndyCar does have rockstars, even if its leadership fails to see it

The fallout of NASCAR beating the IndyCar Series to the punch for a race at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City next year certainly created a shockwave through the paddock.

Autosport

Power angry with Newgarden’s controversial late restart that leads to crash

Will Power was left angry after crashing out of Saturday night’s IndyCar Series race at Gateway following a controversial restart by Team Penske team-mate Josef Newgarden.

Autosport

IndyCar Series dream schedule: What would it look like?

What would constitute the perfect IndyCar Series calendar? In the middle of the three-week Olympics break, it feels as good a time as any to think about it.

Autosport

Dream IndyCar Series schedule: What would it look like?

What would constitute the perfect IndyCar Series calendar? In the middle of this three-week Olympics break, it feels like as good a time as any to think about it.

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IMSA Road America: Porsche 1-2 as Acura strategy falls short in wild race

Porsche’s Mathieu Jaminet and Nick Tandy won Sunday’s IMSA SportsCar Championship round at Road America, to claim their second victory of the season despite a penalty.

Motorsport

What's really made Porsche's 963 the pack-leading GTP car in IMSA?

What went so right for Porsche Penske Motorsport’s 963? It was at this time last year that everything seemed to click for the new-for-2023 prototype, which had stumbled out of the blocks despite the longest pre-season testing programme (which started in the summer of 2022) compared its IMSA SportsCar Championship rivals…

Autosport

What’s really made Porsche’s 963 the pack-leading GTP car in IMSA?

What went so right for Porsche Penske Motorsport’s 963?

Motorsport

IndyCar Iowa: Start times for oval doubleheader, how to watch, entry list

The Tennessee native has amassed a staggering six wins, with Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward the only other active winner in the field with his lone victory in the second race of the 2022 doubleheader.

Motorsport

O’Ward says Mid-Ohio “feels like first win of the season”

Pato O’Ward delivered a massive exhale after beating Alex Palou by 0.4993s in a thrilling IndyCar Series race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Sunday.

Motorsport

Who was really to blame for IndyCar chaos on Detroit’s streets?

Just seven days on from IndyCar’s fastest and most prestigious race at the Indianapolis 500, the paddock journeyed just under 300 miles northeast to its shortest and bumpiest street track on the schedule.

Motorsport

Bourdais: Resurfaced Laguna Seca “to be at least a couple of seconds faster”

Last year saw a full resurfacing of the 11-turn, 2.238-mile road course for the first time since 2006, which also included a new pedestrian bridge on the front straight as part of a $14.9 million project.

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Bourdais: Repaved Laguna Seca “to be at least a couple of seconds faster”

Motorsport

Why Penske push-to-pass scandal presses all the wrong buttons for IndyCar

On track, the IndyCar Series offers the most competitive open-wheel racing on the planet, including one of its greatest races in the Indy 500. Off track, it’s an absolute basket case and its appetite for self-harm has reached a new level.

Motorsport

Palou “not very pleased” by mysterious pace slump in Barber IndyCar qualifying

Chip Ganassi Racing’s reigning champion Palou set the pace overall in the first round of qualifying, lapping in the day’s quickest time of 1m05.5862s on fresh alternate tires.

Autosport

Newgarden “didn’t rehearse” emotional IndyCar press conference

Reigning Indy 500 champion Newgarden faced the press for the first time at Barber Motorsports Park today, just days after the revelation that he and Team Penske team-mate Scott McLaughlin had been disqualified from the season-opening St. Petersburg race for breaking IndyCar’s push-to-pass rules at restarts.

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Was Long Beach really Scott Dixon’s greatest IndyCar drive yet?

You can read all about the strategy here, with Hull revealing the lap that Dixon needed to get to in order to make his final pitstop and have enough fuel to reach the finish.

Autosport

The inside story of what really makes four IndyCar greats tick

With over 200 starts in premier U.S. open-wheel racing series for a vast array of teams, Oriol Servia has a unique insight into some of the top racers of the 2000s. The Catalan, who was born in Pals near Barcelona, has enjoyed a remarkably lengthy and varied racing career – which…

Motorsport

IndyCar teams at odds: Ganassi defends Penske, bashes Andretti

The charter system has been a major talking point – and a divisive one – throughout the entirety of the IndyCar offseason, which reaching a boiling point on the first day of the season on Friday ahead of this weekend’s Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.

Motorsport

Fines, penalties and pain: Driver racewear disasters

Over the years, many drivers have struck trouble with their race garments and helmets or been fined for using the wrong or unapproved type.

Autosport

Fines, penalties and pain: When driver racewear goes bad

Over the years, many drivers have struck trouble with their race garments and helmets, or been fined for using the wrong or unapproved type. Starting with Logano, here are five famous instances.

Motorsport

Why Daytona 24 Hours victory was so “huge” for Porsche and Penske

The German manufacturer has now matched its number of wins at the Floridian sportscar classic to its record tally of 19 Le Mans 24 Hours triumphs.

Autosport

Pier Guidi: Winning Le Mans and Daytona with Ferrari "difficult to dream" about

Pier Guidi and James Calado followed up their overall triumph in the centenary edition of Le Mans with a GTD Pro class win at Daytona last weekend, as they took the top spot with Davide Rigon and Daniel Serra in a Ferrari 296 GT3 entered by Risi Competizione.

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