INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis 500 is the one race Josef Newgarden desperately wanted to win. It’s basically the only race that matters to his boss. Coming up empty for 11 consecutive years had become personal […]
MADISON, Ill. — The focus in IndyCar is clearly on the seven-driver championship race as it heads into the final oval race of the season. But one more round racetrack also means a chance for […]
INDIANAPOLIS — Jimmie Johnson used fast hands to wrestle his car out of a sideways slide that seemed headed toward a massive crash at 230 mph. He saved his car, but his Indianapolis 500 qualifying […]
FORT WORTH, Texas — Oh, JJ, if only you had run IndyCar’s ovals from the start. That was the sentiment following Jimmie Johnson’s sixth-place finish Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway, where he ran his first […]
Jimmie Johnson will enter the Indianapolis 500 next year and run a full IndyCar schedule. The seven-time NASCAR champion had been speeding toward the Indy 500 decision he finally announced Wednesday since he moved to […]
CHARLOTTE — Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson will represent the United States in the upcoming international Race of Champions, an event he won with Jeff Gordon in 2002. Johnson will compete in the event scheduled […]
A professional race car driver by day and drummer in a band by night, California surfer Colton Herta is as Gen Z as you ever will see. He’s 21 with a perfect flow — Herta […]
Jimmie Johnson moved one step closer to adding the Indianapolis 500 to his IndyCar schedule with a successful test on his first oval. The track was familiar — Johnson has a record seven victories at […]
INDIANAPOLIS — At long last, Helio Castroneves joined the exclusive club of four-time Indianapolis 500 winners on Sunday. Then Spiderman scaled the Indianapolis Motor Speedway fence for his trademark victory celebration at the largest sporting […]
INDIANAPOLIS — At an eerily empty Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Takuma Sato snatched a second Indianapolis 500 victory in an odd and unsatisfying finish to “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.” Sato held off Scott Dixon and […]
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