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  • • Five-Timer Dixon Is IndyCar Man Of The Hour
    By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com Scott Dixon has settled into INDYCAR’s lengthy offseason with a seven-figure bonus, a new teammate and the red-carpet launch of a feature documentary about his life and times. Now a five-time Verizon IndyCar Series champion, Dixon and his Chip Ganassi Racing team were honored at the recent INDYCAR Victory Lap celebration [...]...2018
  • • Dixon Cements Status As An IndyCar All-Timer
    By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com Widely acknowledged as the greatest open-wheel driver of his generation, Scott Dixon stamped it as fact Sunday by clinching his fifth Verizon IndyCar Series championship. Dixon started second alongside pole-sitter/eventual INDYCAR Grand Prix of Sonoma race-winner Ryan Hunter-Reay and finished there, a result that proved to be more than enough to ...2018
  • • RHR Hunts Down Pole At IndyCar Season-Ender
    By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com Ryan Hunter-Reay blocked-out the hype surrounding the chase for the 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series title Saturday to concentrate on the tasks at-hand _ winning pole position for the INDYCAR Grand Prix of Sonoma and denying championship leader Scott Dixon of a potentially critical point. The Andretti Autosport veteran won the Verizon [...]...2018
  • • Top Drivers Remain Top Drivers At Sonoma
    Two sessions of practice Friday for the season-ending INDYCAR Grand Prix of Sonoma did little to separate the four remaining contenders for the 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series championship. Point-leader Scott Dixon was third on the combined-session time sheet at Sonoma Raceway in Northern California. The four-time series champion from Chip Ganassi Racing was sandwiched by Team [...]...2018
  • • Rossi Sets Sights On Championship
    Alexander Rossi says his three-year tenure in the Verizon IndyCar Series has been nothing short of an accelerated learning curve. And among the things the Andretti Autosport ace has learned is…do not poke/provoke the bear. “To actually be going into this weekend with a goal in mind of trying to win the thing (championship) outright, it’s [...]...2018
  • • The Battle Of Texas Features Promoters
      Addition of Circuit of The Americas to the 2019 Verizon IndyCar Series schedule figures to test the “Everything’s Bigger in Texas” cliché in terms of promoting and supporting open-wheel racing in the Lone Star State. Specifically, can Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage and Bobby Epstein, founder/chairman of COTA, park their egos to work together and [...]...2018
  • • IndyCar Adds COTA To 2019 Schedule
    By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com INDYCAR will operate with a two-stop Texas strategy in 2019, when Circuit of The Americas will play host to its first Verizon IndyCar Series race weekend. COTA’s natural-terrain road-course in Austin will join Texas Motor Speedway’s oval in Fort Worth on the 17-race schedule released Tuesday. COTA will make its IndyCar [...]...2018
  • • Sato, Dixon Score In Portland
    Takuma Sato padded his Verizon IndyCar Series resume with a strategic victory in Sunday’s Grand Prix of Portland, where championship leader Scott Dixon emerged from an opening-lap crash as the dustiest-and-luckiest man in the Pacific Northwest. Dixon salvaged what began as a disastrous day by finishing fifth in the series’ return to Portland  International Raceway in [...]...2018
  • • Power On Portland Pole
    Add Portland International Raceway to the list of Indy car tracks where Will Power is a certified qualifying ace. Having qualified seventh for his two previous starts at the facility in The Great Northwest _ in 2006 and ’07 _ Power blitzed the Verizon IndyCar Series field Saturday to raise his list of pole-winning tracks to [...]...2018
  • • Power Carries Momentum Into Portland
    RacinToday.com Team Penske’s Will Power continued to prove he’s serious about climbing back into Verizon IndyCar Series title contention Friday by posting the fastest lap of the second practice session at Portland International Raceway in Oregon. The winner of last week’s oval-track event at Gateway Motorsports Park turned a lap of 57.4053-seconds/123.166 mph in the No. 12 [...]...2018

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  • • Sato, Dixon Score In Portland
    Takuma Sato padded his Verizon IndyCar Series resume with a strategic victory in Sunday’s Grand Prix of Portland, where championship leader Scott Dixon emerged from an opening-lap crash as the dustiest-and-luckiest man in the Pacific Northwest. Dixon salvaged what began as a disastrous day by finishing fifth in the series’ return to Portland  International Raceway in [...]...2018
  • • Wickens Recovering From Back Surgery
    By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com Verizon IndyCar Series driver Robert Wickens is recovering from surgery at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest in Allentown, Pa., to stabilize a thoracic spinal fracture associated with a spinal cord injury sustained during the INDYCAR event at Pocono Raceway on Sunday. Titanium rods and screws successfully were placed in Wickens’ spine duri...2018
  • • Surgery Scheduled For Wickens’ Spine Injury
    By John Sturbin/Senior Writer RacinToday.com Verizon IndyCar Series driver Robert Wickens, injured in a violent multiple-car crash at Pocono Raceway Sunday, was scheduled to undergo surgery Monday evening in a Pennsylvania hospital for a spinal injury. Wickens continues to be treated at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest in Allentown, Pa., following injuries sustained during the ABC Supply 500 on ...2018
  • • Wickens Wreck Mars IndyCar Race At Pocono
    By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com Verizon IndyCar Series rookie Robert Wickens reportedly was “awake and alert” in an Allentown, Pa., hospital Sunday after triggering a violent, multi-car crash in the ABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway. The 200-lap/500-mile race was red-flagged to a halt on Lap 9 following a crash initially involving Wickens of Schmidt Peterson [...]...2018
  • • Sato Overcomes Nerves To Earn IndyCar Pole At Pocono
    Last in the qualifying order, first on the speed chart. Takuma Sato put the blinders on and his foot to the floor following a grinding crash by Andretti Autosport teammate Ryan Hunter-Reay to qualify on-pole for Sunday’s ABC Supply Verizon IndyCar Series race at Pocono Raceway. Long-regarded for a fearless demeanor on the racetrack, Sato put together [...]...2017
  • • Bourdais Out Of Hospital
    By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com INDIANAPOLIS – Sebastien Bourdais’ long and grinding road to recovery and return to the Verizon IndyCar Series is underway.   Bourdais, injured in a horrific crash on Saturday during a qualifying attempt for the 101st Indianapolis 500, was discharged from IU Health Methodist Hospital on Wednesday and moved into a local rehabilitation facility. Bo...2017

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Verizon IndyCar Series trade, contract, salary rumors

  • • New TMS-IndyCar Pact Opens Up Texas Market
    By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com Texas Motor Speedway’s recently announced four-year contract extension with INDYCAR insures the Verizon IndyCar Series will be competing under the lights at the Fort Worth facility past the quarter-century mark, while also opening the door for the sanctioning body to race in potentially lucrative new Southwest markets. The extension covering 2019...2018
  • • Q and A: Dixon Can’t Get Enough
    By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com Chip Ganassi Racing’s longest-tenured driver will continue to add to that legacy, apparently well past his 40th birthday. Scott Dixon, a four-time Verizon IndyCar Series champion and current point-leader, has signed a “multi-year” contract extension that will see the 38-year-old Kiwi compete with CGR for a record 18th season in 2019 in [...]...2018
  • • Rahal To Keep Driving For Rahal
    FORT WORTH, Texas – Graham Rahal has found a home in the Verizon IndyCar Series, and he’s not about to change zip codes. Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing announced a five-year contract extension with Rahal during a news conference Friday afternoon at Texas Motor Speedway, site of Saturday night’s DXC Technology 600. “Hell, I didn’t even read the [...]...2018
  • • NBC, IndyCar Hope To Pump Up 500 Viewership
    By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com An opportunity to reverse admittedly sagging viewership figures for the Indianapolis 500 will be a prime target for NBC Sports Group when it launches its exclusive media rights contract with the Verizon IndyCar Series beginning in 2019. Sanctioning body INDYCAR announced on Wednesday a multi-year media rights package with NBC Sports [...]...2018
  • • Danica Patrick Retiring as Full-Time Driver
    HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Danica Patrick announced on Friday that she will no longer drive full time in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series following Sunday’s Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Her contract with Stewart-Haas Racing ends at the end of this season and with the limited opportunities in the Cup series, there wasn’t much to choose from. “This is my last season as a full-time drive...2017
  • • Danica Patrick Announces 2017 is Final Full Time Season
    HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Danica Patrick announced on Friday that she will no longer drive full time in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series following Sunday’s Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Her contract with Stewart-Haas Racing ends at the end of this season and with the limited opportunities in the Cup series, there wasn’t much to choose from. “This is my last season as a full-time drive...2017
  • • AJ Foyt Lands An Oldy But Goody In Kanaan
    By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com Tony Kanaan, the self-described “last man standing” in the Verizon IndyCar Series, has joined AJ Foyt Racing as driver of the team’s famed No. 14 entry beginning with the 2018 season. Kanaan, who will turn 43 on the last day of 2017, has signed a multi-year contract with the team fronted [...]...2017
  • • Rossi Soars To Pole At The Glen
    WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – New contract with Andretti Autosport in-hand and his right foot on the throttle, Alexander Rossi joined the ranks of Verizon IndyCar Series pole-winners Saturday afternoon at Watkins Glen International. Rossi posted a last-lap flyer around the famed natural-terrain layout in his No. 98 Honda to claim the Verizon P1 Award for Sunday’s [...]...2017
  • • Rossi, Andretti To Partner Again In ’18 And Beyond
    WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – Alexander Rossi became the third driver confirmed for the 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series schedule with Andretti Autosport Friday under terms of a multi-year contract that also includes continued co-primary sponsorship from NAPA Auto Parts. Rossi, who won the 2016 Indianapolis 500 as a series rookie, will join fellow-Americans and current teammates Ryan [...]...2017
  • • Energized Kanaan Wants To Just Keep On Going
    By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com INDIANAPOLIS – INDYCAR’s “Ironman” is in no hurry to trade his driving suit for the double-breasted business variety, perhaps as de facto ambassador for the Verizon IndyCar Series. For sure, Tony Kanaan is 42-years-old and on the backside of a productive domestic open-wheel career.  On Sunday, Kanaan will make his 16th [...]...2017

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  • • Dixon Cements Status As An IndyCar All-Timer
    By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com Widely acknowledged as the greatest open-wheel driver of his generation, Scott Dixon stamped it as fact Sunday by clinching his fifth Verizon IndyCar Series championship. Dixon started second alongside pole-sitter/eventual INDYCAR Grand Prix of Sonoma race-winner Ryan Hunter-Reay and finished there, a result that proved to be more than enough to ...2018
  • • Rain Puts Dixon On IndyCar Pole At Gateway
    RacinToday.com Verizon IndyCar Series championship leader Scott Dixon will start on-pole after the field was set by entrant points for Saturday night’s Bommarito Automotive Group 500 presented by Axalta & Valvoline. Verizon P1 Award qualifying was canceled Friday afternoon at Gateway Motorsports Park in Madison, Ill., after periodic rain throughout the day in the St. Louis metro region played ...2018
  • • NASCAR Xfinity: Roush Fenway Racing fields third car for Conor Daly at Road America
    Roush Fenway Racing announced Friday that it plans to field three Ford entries in the Aug. 25 NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Road America at Elkhart Lake, Wis. In addition to the No. 16 driven by Ryan Reed and the No. 60 that will be driven by Ty Majeski in the race, RFR plans to field a No. 6 entry for Verizon IndyCar Series driver Conor Daly. The race will be Daly’s NASCAR debut. “I’m very excite...2018
  • • Indy 500 Point Production Among 2018 Changes
    RacinToday.com The amount of championship points earned for Indianapolis 500 qualifying is among updates and procedural modifications included in the 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series Official Rule Book distributed to teams by sanctioning body INDYCAR. Qualifications for the Indianapolis 500 are set for May 19-20, a week ahead of the 102nd running of the race on May 27. This year, [...]...2018
  • • Leader Newgarden Triangulates In On Another Win
    By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com After closing-out July with back-to-back victories, Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden is enjoying his status as the first American driver to lead the Verizon IndyCar Series point standings since Ryan Hunter-Reay of Andretti Autosport in 2014. While that’s a point of pride for the 26-year-old native of Hendersonville, Tenn., waving the flag [...]...2017
  • • Graham Rahal sweeps Detroit Grand Prix doubleheader, see complete results
    See the full results from Sunday's Detroit Grand Prix for the Verizon IndyCar Series at Belle Isle....2017
  • • NASCAR Pinty’s Series Pinty’s Grand Prix of Toronto Preview
    The NASCAR Pinty’s Series returns to the Streets of Toronto for the first time since 2011 after a five-year hiatus. With drivers showcased alongside those of the Verizon IndyCar Series, the stakes will be high with drivers fighting to prove their worth on the big stage. Andrew Ranger enters the weekend as the point leader, and most recent winner in Toronto. When the series last visited Toronto in ...2016

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  • • Carpenter Building Good Things On/Off Track
    By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com FORT WORTH, Texas – Up every day at 6 a.m. and off to bed by 10 p.m. In between, the Verizon IndyCar Series’ only owner/driver has figured out a formula for mixing fast cars with an energetic family. “Time management is crucial,” said Ed Carpenter, namesake of the Indianapolis-based organization [...]...2018
  • • IndyCar Notes: Newgarden Setting Pace At Somoma
    By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com Championship leader Josef Newgarden paced a pair of practices _ and a Team Penske sweep of the top four positions _ as on-track preparation began Friday for the Verizon IndyCar Series’ season-ending GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma. Holding a tenuous, three-point lead over Scott Dixon entering the weekend at Sonoma Raceway, [...]...2017

Top Verizon IndyCar Series news

  • • Pedal down: Danica Patrick ready to get back behind the wheel
    Danica Patrick may be used to long offseasons from her Verizon IndyCar Series days, but the now Sprint Cup Series driver is itching to get back behind the wheel of her Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet. ...2015
  • • Triple play for Team Penske?
    Team owner Roger Penske could leave this weekend's season-finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway as the car owner for the Sprint Cup Series champion driver, Nationwide Series car, and Verizon IndyCar Series champion driver. ...2014
  • • Robosaurus, the 30-ton, 40-foot-tall car-crushing monster, is back
    Robosaurus is making a return to the NASCAR scene for a Camping World Truck Series-Verizon IndyCar Series doubleheader this June....2016
  • • Frye tabbed as Verizon IndyCar Series president
    Frye tabbed as Verizon IndyCar Series president...2015
  • • Michael Andetti would welcome Kurt Busch back
    If Kurt Busch would like a second run at the Indianapolis 500 he could do so in a part provided by Michael Andretti. Andretti hs told Busch that he could drive for his Verizon IndyCar Series team “any time” he wants. “I am a big supporter of Kurt and if we are able to put […]...2015
  • • Stefan Wilson will run 101st Indianapolis 500, but for whom?
    Stefan Wilson will return to IndyCar to contest the 101st Indianapolis 500, but which team will take him on for the month of May?Stefan Wilson announced Monday that he will return to the Verizon IndyCar Series for the 101st Indianapolis 500 after securing sponsorship for the series' premier e......2016
  • • Five-Timer Dixon Is IndyCar Man Of The Hour
    2018
  • • Dixon Cements Status As An IndyCar All-Timer
    2018
  • • RHR Hunts Down Pole At IndyCar Season-Ender
    2018
  • • Top Drivers Remain Top Drivers At Sonoma
    2018
  • • Rossi Sets Sights On Championship
    2018
  • • The Battle Of Texas Features Promoters
    2018
  • • IndyCar Adds COTA To 2019 Schedule
    2018
  • • Sato, Dixon Score In Portland
    2018

Verizon IndyCar Series schedule, game

  • • The Battle Of Texas Features Promoters
    2018
  • • IndyCar Adds COTA To 2019 Schedule
    2018
  • • Surgery Scheduled For Wickens’ Spine Injury
    2018
  • • IndyCar And Sonoma Split; Laguna On Board
    By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com The Verizon IndyCar Series will change California zip codes for its season-ending race beginning in 2019. Sanctioning body INDYCAR and WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca have confirmed that the historic Northern California road-course with Indy car roots will return to the schedule in 2019. The three-year agreement, approved Tuesday by the Monterey ...2018
  • • Power On Pole For Indy GP
    Will Power has been unbeatable at the INDYCAR Grand Prix when starting the Verizon IndyCar Series race from pole position. The Team Penske driver and 2014 series champion is looking to make it three-for-three on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road-course Saturday after collecting the Verizon P1 Award during qualifying. Power, who won the race from P1 in 2015 [...]...2018
  • • NASCAR Xfinity: Roush Fenway Racing fields third car for Conor Daly at Road America
    2018
  • • Helio Makes Cameo Appearance In An Indy Car
    By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com Helio Castroneves reverted to his exuberant open-wheel self Tuesday, when the three-time Indianapolis 500 champion tested INDYCAR’s new-for-2018 universal aerodynamic chassis for the first time. Castroneves rejoined Team Penske’s regular-season, three-driver lineup for a Verizon IndyCar Series open test at Barber Motorsports Park in preparation f...2018
  • • New Look IndyCar Takin’ It To The Streets
    John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com All speculation surrounding INDYCAR’s new-for-2018 universal aerodynamic bodywork chassis will become academic at 11:20 a.m. (EST) Friday _ scheduled start time for first practice of the Verizon IndyCar Series’ 2018 season-opening Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, Fla. The series’ six-month offseason was marked by the rollout/development of th...2018
  • • NASCAR Cup: GoDaddy returns as Danica Patrick’s sponsor
    Danica Patrick has yet to secure rides for the 2018 Daytona 500 on Feb. 18 and Indianapolis 500 on May 27, expected to be the final two races of her racing career, but she has secured primary sponsorship for both races from one of her former sponsors, GoDaddy. “This is definitely the way I want to finish my racing career – at these two iconic races, backed by my iconic, longtime sponsor,” Patrick ...2018
  • • King Of England To Drive An IndyCar in 2018
    By John Sturbin | Senior Writer RacinToday.com Armed with sage advice from Mark Blundell and Alexander Rossi, Englishman Jordan King’s open-wheel career has been steered from Formula One to the Verizon IndyCar Series beginning with the 2018 season. Indianapolis-based Ed Carpenter Racing completed the lineup of the team’s No. 20 Chevrolet earlier this week with the addition [...]...2018

Verizon IndyCar Series rumors, scandals, hoax

  • • New Look IndyCar Takin’ It To The Streets
    2018
  • • Notes: Andretti To Remain With Honda
    WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. _ Andretti Autosport, winner of three of the last four Indianapolis 500s, will continue to compete in the Verizon IndyCar Series in 2018 with Honda power as part of a multi-year agreement. The announcement by Michael Andretti, CEO of Andretti Autosport, ended speculation that Andretti’s organization was preparing to switch to Chevrolet twin-turbocharged [...]...2017

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