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NASCAR star Kyle Larson to run Indy 500 rookie orientation in October

The 2021 NASCAR Cup champion aims to make his IndyCar Series debut in a Hendrick Motorsports-owned fourth McLaren-Chevrolet entry in the 108th running of the Indy 500 next May.

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Larson paint schemes revealed for Indy 500/Coke 600 double

Larson, the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion, will become the first driver since Kurt Busch in 2014 to attempt the 1,100-mile double.

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Newgarden: "Lot of work to do” to stay in IndyCar title chase

This year’s Indy 500 winner suffered a disastrous qualifying session on Friday, failing to progress from Q1, and was scheduled to start the race from 19th on the grid.

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Newgarden admits he’s got “a lot of work to do”, takes Indy grid penalty

This year’s Indy 500 winner suffered a disastrous qualifying session on Friday, failing to progress from Q1, and was scheduled to start the race from 19th on the grid.

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Meyer Shank announces Blomqvist IndyCar deal, Castroneves for Indy 500

He will take the place of Helio Castroneves, who will instead take a minority ownership role with the team and solely contest the Indianapolis 500 in his quest for a record fifth victory.

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MSR confirms Blomqvist for full-time IndyCar deal, Helio for Indy 500-only

He will take the place of Helio Castroneves, who will instead take a minority ownership role with the team and solely contest the Indianapolis 500 in his quest for a record fifth victory.

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Newgarden: Penske must “elevate our game” to challenge Palou in IndyCar

Speaking after the recent double-header races at Iowa Speedway, where he scored a brilliant brace of victories to narrow the gap to 80 points, Indy 500 winner Newgarden admitted that his team needs to do better on non-oval tracks if he is to challenge his Chip Ganassi Racing rival.

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Newgarden: Penske must “elevate our game” to challenge Palou

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Bobby Rahal admits Indy 500 stress “took a real toll on me”

The 70-year-old, who won the 1986 Indy 500 as a driver and the 2004 and 2020 races as a team owner, underwent triple bypass heart surgery last June after being told by doctors that he’d suffered a heart attack in May.

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IndyCar, Dallara produce wheel hub update after Indy 500 flying wheel incident

The updated rear-wheel bearing retaining nut is being distributed to all IndyCar entrants from this weekend’s double-header oval event at Iowa Speedway, where its use will be mandatory. The strength of the part has increased by 60 percent over the previous design.

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Is IndyCar’s top team about to lose its standout 2023 drivers?

Ganassi heads into this weekend’s halfway IndyCar round at Mid-Ohio holding a 1-2 in points with its Spanish stallion Palou leading its Swedish sensation Ericsson by a whopping 74 points.

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Rossi: IndyCar rivals are “taking the piss” by jumping starts

Rossi first spoke out about the topic after he felt was ‘jumped’ on a number of restarts at the Indy 500 in May.

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Pagenaud wants to be back at Le Mans "every year" after 12-year absence

The 2016 IndyCar champion and 2019 Indy 500 winner with Team Penske forms part of Cool Racing’s roster in the LMP2 ORECA-Gibson 07 over a decade after his last Le Mans appearance when he finished second with Peugeot in 2011.

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Indy 500 fan whose car was damaged by a flying tire is getting a new one from Penske Entertainment

A tire from Felix Rosenqvist's car flew off into the crowd during the Indy 500 and hit a parked car.

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Indy 500 winner Josef Newgarden on his thrilling last-lap pass and ‘Top Gun-style’ celebration

"I couldn't have scripted it better for us to be able to have a green-flag finish," Indy 500 champ Josef Newgarden told For The Win.

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Kanaan, Castroneves battled over 15th in Indy 500 like it was “for the win”

Kanaan called time on his open-wheel racing career with his 390th start, and the 2004 IndyCar champion and 2013 Indy 500 winner retires with a total of 17 wins at the premier level in America, having also become a people’s champion.

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Revealed: Three key speed secrets of Newgarden's Indy 500 win

After three red flags, Newgarden decisively passed Marcus Ericsson in the one-lap shootout that decided Sunday's showpiece. A robust defence exiting Turn 4 ensured he held off Chip Ganassi Racing's defending winner to secure his first and team owner Roger Penske's 19th Indy 500 victory.

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Revealed: The key speed secrets of Newgarden's Indy 500 win

In an exclusive interview with Motorsport.com, Newgarden’s race engineer at Team Penske, Luke Mason, describes the critical decisions that were taken ahead of the race – and how Josef took control of the race by advancing 16 positions to scoop the BorgWarner Trophy, a pint of milk and $3.6 million in…

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Josef Newgarden earned over $3.6 million for Indy 500 victory

The Indy 500’s prize money record was shattered for the second year in a row, making it the largest purse and largest winner’s payout in the century-plus history of ‘The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.’

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Why Indy 500 'fix' finish accusations are wide of the mark

In a land that’s spawned perhaps more than its fair share of conspiracy theories – take your pick from JFK, the moon landings, 9/11 and what Donald Trump’s hair is made from – Sunday’s Indianapolis 500 produced a new one: It was fixed to allow track and series owner Roger…

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Indy 500 star Kyle Kirkwood was given terrifying instruction after horror crash

Kyle Kirkwood was caught up in a terrifying crash in the Indy 500 on Sunday when his car was flipped upside down after colliding with Felix Rosenqvist at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

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Rossi: Indy 500 rivals were “getting away with crazy restarts”

Rossi, who won the centenary Indy 500 in 2016, finished this year’s race in fifth position in his first start in the event for McLaren since his switch from Andretti Autosport.

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Jewel slammed for 'disrespectful' national anthem as her 'rewrites' get mixed reaction

Jewel took to the stage at the Indy 500 over the weekend to perform the US national anthem The Star-Spangled Banner, but her rendition of the song has promoted a mixed reaction from viewers

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How Newgarden rose to be a thorn to Ericsson’s double Indy 500 bid

For the majority of the 107th running of the Indianapolis 500, the race lived up to its grand billing as ‘The Greatest Spectacle in Racing’. Run at a searingly fast pace, and with just a couple of minor shunts to disrupt its flow, it became bogged down by a sequence…

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Ericsson: Final-lap Indy 500 restart was “unfair and dangerous”

Chip Ganassi Racing driver Ericsson was beaten to victory by Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden by 0.0974s after leading him to the green flag for a green-white-checkered finish.

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