INDIANAPOLIS — Simon Pagenaud has won his first Indianapolis 500, making an audacious pass of Alexander Rossi before taking the white flag and holding off the hard-charging driver from Andretti Autosport. Pagenaud’s victory after an incredible duel with Rossi completed a sweep of the Month of May for him. […]
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Kyle Kaiser feels lucky after bumping Alonso — lucky enough to win Indy
INDIANAPOLIS — Kyle Kaiser’s comeback story began by bumping two-time Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso out of the Indianapolis 500. He hopes Sunday’s final chapter will be every bit as compelling. After beating the odds during a topsy-turvy month, the 23-year-old Californian hopes to become the first driver to […]
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Indy 500 mourns Lauda but has no plans for official tributes
INDIANAPOLIS – The heartbreak of Niki Lauda’s death has washed over the Indianapolis 500 paddock this week but there are no formal tributes planned to honor the three-time Formula One world champion, IndyCar said on Friday. Although Lauda never raced IndyCar, the Austrian touched many lives across the North American […]
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IndyCar adopting ‘Aeroscreen’ driver protection
INDIANAPOLIS — IndyCar will use an “Aeroscreen” to provide cockpit protection from next season, with the Red Bull Advanced Technologies-designed system giving cars a jet fighter appearance, the U.S. open wheel series announced on Friday. IndyCar believes the Aeroscreen concept is better suited for the series, considered the most dangerous […]
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McLaren vows to learn from their Indy blunders and return stronger
McLaren boss Zak Brown shouldered the blame on Thursday for the team’s failure to qualify Fernando Alonso for this weekend’s Indianapolis 500 and said he would do things very differently next time. Speaking to reporters at the Monaco Grand Prix, the American was confident there would be a return to […]
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Attention turns to Indy 500’s most closely matched field in history
INDIANAPOLIS — The soap opera surrounding McLaren’s failed bid to qualify Fernando Alonso for the Indianapolis 500 is over. The spotlight is there for the taking. The McLaren debacle dominated the first week at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and dwarfed every other team and driver trying to make Sunday’s race — […]
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McLaren admits its string of errors washed Alonso out of the Indy 500
INDIANAPOLIS — The comedy of errors that doomed McLaren’s disastrous return to the Indianapolis 500 began months before Fernando Alonso failed to qualify for the race. How bad was it? A week before Alonso’s first test in the car, the team realized it didn’t even have a steering wheel. McLaren […]
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NBC takes over Indy 500 broadcast after half-century on ABC
Like most aspiring broadcasters of his era, Mike Tirico remembers tuning into ABC every Saturday to watch “Wide World of Sports,” listening in rapt attention to the dulcet tones of Jim McKay. “It was Channel 7 back in New York,” Tirico recalled fondly, “and this was a time that was […]
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Fernando Alonso fails to qualify as Pagenaud takes Indy pole
Former Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso narrowly failed to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday as France’s Simon Pagenaud took pole position for the May 26 race. Kyle Kaiser beat out Alonso for the final spot in the 33-car field when he finished third, one spot ahead of […]
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Fernando Alonso just misses qualifying for Indy 500 on first day
Former Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso will need a clutch run on Sunday to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 on May 26 after he failed to seal a guaranteed spot on Saturday. The Spaniard tried fives times to put his McLaren Racing Chevrolet in the top 30, but wound […]