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First Indy 500 on FOX yields big gain in TV audience
The first Indianapolis 500 aired on FOX produced a vast year-over-year increase as Sunday’s race won by Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou was watched by an average of 7,050,000 million viewers, the race’s largest audience in 18 years when…
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Andretti, PREMA penalized for Indy 500 tech violations
The IndyCar Series’ technical inspection team found three cars that breached its rulebook during Sunday's Indianapolis 500, with the Nos. 27 and 28 Andretti Global Hondas and the No. 90 PREMA Racing Chevy being moved to the rear of the…
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Palou chalks up Indy 500 immortality to ‘a little bit of everything’
Newly-minted Indy 500 winner Alex Palou clearly had a fast car at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday. But that alone isn’t what got him to victory lane.“It was a little bit of everything,” he said. “My car was very capable. But I…
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Palou ticks the last boxes with Indy 500 triumph
Alex Palou has spent the last few years answering questions about what it would mean to add an Indy 500 win to his vast list of achievements. He’s answered just as many questions about when he’d finally earn that first oval win.He won’t…
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Monaco – a qualifying session unrivaled
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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Shwartzman chased F1; now he’s living the Indy 500 dream
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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Hunter-Reay forced into backup car after Carb Day fire
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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Newgarden leads Carb Day practice
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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F1 drivers offer their takes after seeing the F1 movie
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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O’Ward doesn’t want retrospective Indy 500 win
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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