May 2025

In a 24-race season, events need to have something unique that sets them apart from the others on the calendar.Night races, street tracks, high speed historic venues – it’s not quite the IndyCar road, street and oval combination, but there…
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Robert Shwartzman’s life changed on Sunday. The odds are long, but they could change again this Sunday if he’s able to complete the wildest story in modern IndyCar history.Before he captured pole position for the 109th Indianapolis 500, the…
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Ryan Hunter-Reay’s challenging month of May took another step in the wrong direction on Carb Day, as a fire at the rear of his No. 23 Dreyer & Reinbold/Cusick Motorsports Chevy forced the 2014 Indianapolis 500 winner into using a backup…
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Josef Newgarden claimed the Carb Day honors in an eventful final two-hour practice session ahead of Sunday’s Indianapolis 500.Newgarden’s best of 225.687mph in the No. 2 Team Penske Chevrolet came early – he set it on his seventh lap – and…
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The Cannes Film Festival runs until this weekend, just 30 miles down the coast from where the Monaco Grand Prix is taking place. But on Wednesday night it was Monaco that was seeing a form of premiere that will have been of interest to many…
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Arrow McLaren ace Pato O’Ward says he wouldn’t want to inherit victory in last year’s Indianapolis 500, despite suggestions that he was beaten by a car running in illegal specification.During Sunday’s Fast 12 qualifying session for this…
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Welcome to the RACER Mailbag. Questions for any of RACER’s writers can be sent to mailbag@racer.com. We love hearing your comments and opinions, but letters that include a question are more likely to be published. Questions received after…
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Down in Daytona Beach, NASCAR had been watching IndyCar do an exemplary job of hand-delivering its fourth manufacturer. But in the wake of the Team Penske attenuator controversy, Roger Penske has started taking the sort of action that may…
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There are three names in the lexicon of auto racing greatness that are forever bound together in history and only require a first name for identification: A.J., Mario and Parnelli.Throw in Dan Gurney and you have the four most versatile,…
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If there is a time when Jimmie Johnson will see his NASCAR career come full circle, it might be this weekend.On Sunday night, in NASCAR’s longest race and one of its crown jewel events, the Coca-Cola 600, Johnson makes his 700th career…
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