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The biggest drive at Road America IndyCar belonged to Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon who spoke with RACER’s Marshall Pruett after improving 19 positions in 55 laps.
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A clean opening day of NTT IndyCar Series action at Road America took a different turn Saturday morning as three contenders for pole position returned to pit lane with their cars dangling from tow trucks. The first to crash was Chip Ganassi Racing’s …
A clean opening day of NTT IndyCar Series action at Road America took a different turn Saturday morning as three contenders for pole position returned to pit lane with their cars dangling from tow trucks.
The first to crash was Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou, who flew off at Turn 14 and damaged the right side of the No. 10 Honda on his third lap. Although the damage was not excessive, the brief two-hour gap between the end of the second practice session and the start of qualifying is where the pressure to affect repairs in a timely manner was impossible to ignore.
The biggest crash, however, was reserved for Palou’s teammate Scott Dixon and Team Penske’s Will Power, who was hit by the No. 9 Honda on the way up the hill leaving Turn 12. With Dixon having spun, recovered, and while running slow on the right side of the track, the CGR driver waited for Romain Grosjean to clear him before turning left but didn’t appear to see the oncoming Power as he ventured directly into the path of the oncoming No. 12 Chevy.
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The ensuing crash did extensive damage to both machines, breaking suspensions and wings before the cars came to a stop on the grass. An enraged Power climbed from his car, flipped Dixon the middle finger with both hands — reminiscent of his “double birds” incident at the Loudon IndyCar race in 2011 — before charging down to Dixon’s car and pushing him before AMR Safety Team members restrained him.
Dixon, who took responsibility for the clash, didn’t attempt to parry Power’s advances, acknowledging his rival was “pretty fired up.”
Experience took precedence over youth in IndyCar’s second practice session on the new downtown Detroit racecourse, Scott Dixon leading Will Power, as all drivers struggled to find a clear lap between traffic and red flags. Since yesterday, the pit …
Experience took precedence over youth in IndyCar’s second practice session on the new downtown Detroit racecourse, Scott Dixon leading Will Power, as all drivers struggled to find a clear lap between traffic and red flags.
Since yesterday, the pit exit has been pinched, the blend line moving three feet closer to the right-hand wall to allow cars on the track to swing out and take a wider entry into the left-handed Turn 1 that follows.
The session was barely three minutes old when the first red flag flew as Indy 500 winner Josef Newgarden got his Penske-Chevrolet stuck down an escape road and needed retrieving.
One of his teammates, Scott McLaughlin, was the first driver to set a sub-650second time with a 1m04.3660s on his sixth lap, an average of 92.005mph around the 1.645-mile course.
Kyle Kirkwood obliterated that with a 1m03.5658s for Andretti Autosport-Honda, and Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda’s Alex Palou also ducked under the 64-second barrier but then out came the second red to retrieve Rinus VeeKay of Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet.
Palou had just moved up to the top of the times but then spun down an escape road and stalled, so out came the third red. The fourth followed soon after, thanks to Colton Herta’s Andretti car stranded in the Turn 8 runoff.
Another constant throughout the first half of the session, was the speed of yesterday’s pacesetter, the Arrow McLaren-Chevrolet of Pato O’Ward and Palou’s teammate Marcus Armstrong, the Kiwi shining on a track that is new to everyone. Both of them were within a tenth of Palou’s 1m03.7165s.
With a quarter-hour to go, Callum Ilott was a late improver in the Juncos Hollinger Racing-Chevrolet, but then he brushed a tire wall and pitted.
Scott Dixon delivered a 1m03.5s, then a 1m03.2317s to go to the top – a very impressive time on primary tires. Kyle Kirkwood’s earlier 1m03.5658s was also re-installed on the glitchy timing and scoring screens to put him second, while Penske’s Will Power kept trimming his time after a spring change at the rear of the No. 12 car to put himself in the top five. However, with 10mins to go he was bumped out of the top five by McLaughlin.
Just a couple of minutes later, Turn 7 claimed Devlin DeFrancesco who went in head-on and this was followed by a right-side impact.
With the No. 29 AA car scooped up and cleared away, there were nine minutes left as the field got the green flag, the drivers blended together from the two-abreast pitlane and then tried to find a gap to set a flyer. On such a short track, that was near impossible for anyone more than five cars back.
Power’s original best was invalidated for a yellow flag violation, but in the closing moments he set a 1m03.4627s to vault into second, albeit still 0.23s off Dixon’s benchmark and after a wild fishtail moment into the tires at the final turn.
NBC Sports revealed that Meyer Shank Racing did not have to change Helio Castroneves’ Honda unit despite his electronics causing engine over-revs yesterday, but they did make an early switch-out of the Honda unit in the back of his teammate Simon Pagenaud’s No. 60 entry.
Chip Ganassi Racing’s No. 9 team and Scott Dixon took down Team Penske and Will Power in the final of the Pit Stop Challenge, ahead of Sunday’s 107th running of the Indianapolis 500. Round 1 saw the No. 9 CGR crew and Dixon set the fastest time, …
Chip Ganassi Racing’s No. 9 team and Scott Dixon took down Team Penske and Will Power in the final of the Pit Stop Challenge, ahead of Sunday’s 107th running of the Indianapolis 500.
Round 1 saw the No. 9 CGR crew and Dixon set the fastest time, eclipsing Callum Ilott and Juncos Hollinger Racing by 2.4s. CGR’s 12.066s was almost half a second up on the previous best, set by Power and the No. 12 Penske crew.
Poor Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, running the No. 24 now piloted by Graham Rahal, produced a pit stop time while losing to Power that would have eclipsed all but Dixon in Round 1. Then in Round 2, Power rubbed it in by defeating the other DRR car of Ryan Hunter-Reay, which had already beaten Arrow McLaren and Pato O’Ward.
Rinus VeeKay and Ed Carpenter Racing took down Kyle Kirkwood and Andretti Autosport, but was then defeated in Round 2 by Jack Harvey of Rahal Letterman Lanigan, when he slid through the artificial pitbox. Harvey had already had his dramas in Round 1, when he struck the wheelnut from Simon Pagenaud’s Meyer Shank Racing car as it departed the No. 60 car.
Scott McLaughlin and the No. 3 Penske crew was another Round 1 winner by default, when Colton Herta beat him out of the pitbox but his Andretti Autosport car grazed his recently removed rear tire and he was penalized. But McLaughlin didn’t survive Round 2, despite setting a 12.008s, as Felix Rosenqvist’s Arrow McLaren crew, after defeating Alex Palou, delivered the first sub-12s stop, an 11.933s.
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Dixon’s crewmembers excelled themselves in Round 2, their 11.582s easily defeating RLL/Lundgaard’s 13.924s.
RLL had another car in the fight, but Harvey’s fine 12.293s in the semi-final wasn’t enough to beat Power’s 11.336s. Rosenqvist was then defeated by Dixon (11.411s), setting up a battle between Penske and Ganassi — perhaps to be expected.
It was decided by best of three, with both cars getting to start in each lane. Dixon won the first encounter from the less-favored right lane, 11.561s vs Power’s 12.047s, but when Power took over that lane, he and the Penske No. 12 crew delivered an 11.829s to Dixon’s 11.947s.
Dixon’s faster time in the first encounter gave the team choice of lane for the decider, and they went back to the left, inside lane. That wasn’t what decided it, however. Dixon’s crew were flawless with a startling 11.012s, and Power’s were less so, resulting in a 12.552s.
In the 106 runnings of the Indianapolis 500 from 1911 through 2022, 11 drivers earned back-to-back pole positions… and that’s where the story ends. With so few records left to be set at “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing,” a significant one remains …
In the 106 runnings of the Indianapolis 500 from 1911 through 2022, 11 drivers earned back-to-back pole positions… and that’s where the story ends.
With so few records left to be set at “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing,” a significant one remains as 2021-22 pole winner Scott Dixon has a chance this weekend to become the first driver in Indy 500 history to score three consecutive poles.
“Three in a row…honestly, I haven’t even thought about that,” Dixon told RACER. “I haven’t even thought there was two in a row. Most of the time you think about the ones that got away more than the actual ones you knew you nailed and got. But what I love about qualifying is the roller coaster ride that you take to get there to try and pull it off. What’s special about the pole is just the amount of effort that goes into making these cars super fast. It’s a whole team effort. The pressure is definitely on and then there’s trying to nail that right downforce level.
“And then each year is its own thing of what you’re finding, whether it’s wind direction, track temp, or a combination of the two. Last year’s pole for me was one of the most enjoyable because the car was so well balanced. It was just a perfect scenario.”
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Earning pole would also give the New Zealander six starts from P1, tying Dixon with all-time Indy 500 pole leader Rick Mears.
“If we could pull that off, go for the six, three in a row, be the first to do that, obviously that would be would be huge,” the 2008 Indy 500 winner added. “But at the moment, the process is just trying to make the car the best that we can and then come end of Saturday, be in the Fast 12 and then hopefully Sunday we can make it to the Fast Six and then obviously go on to try and fight for the pole.
“But you know this place can throw weird things at you and we could even be out of it on the first day. So we’ll keep our heads down, keep after it and hopefully we can be fighting for a pole on Sunday.”
Of Dixon’s 11 predecessors, all but the late Scott Brayton had the opportunity to go for three straight poles.
Ralph DePalma: Consecutive poles set in 1920-1921, but qualified 3rd in 1922
Rex Mays: 1935-1936, qualified 23rd in 1937
Eddie Sachs: 1960-1961, qualified 27th in 1962
Parnelli Jones: 1962-1963, qualified 4th in 1964
Mario Andretti: 1966-1967, qualified 4th in 1968
AJ Foyt: 1974-1975, qualified 5th in 1976
Tom Sneva: 1977-1978, qualified 2nd in 1979
Rick Mears: 1988-1989, qualified 2nd in 1990
Scott Brayton: 1995-1996
Helio Castroneves: 2009-2010, qualified 16th in 2011
Ed Carpenter: 2013-2014, qualified 12th in 2015
Thanks to statistician Scott Richards for the historical breakdown.
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon and RACER’s Marshall Pruett talk through IndyCar qualifying at Barber Motorsports Park where the Kiwi secured fifth in his No. 9 Honda. Presented by: RACER’s IndyCar Trackside Report at Barber Motorsports Park is …
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon and RACER’s Marshall Pruett talk through IndyCar qualifying at Barber Motorsports Park where the Kiwi secured fifth in his No. 9 Honda.
Six-time IndyCar Series champion Scott Dixon (pictured above) and seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson are among the eight luminaries who will be inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in Daytona Beach next year. …
Six-time IndyCar Series champion Scott Dixon (pictured above) and seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson are among the eight luminaries who will be inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in Daytona Beach next year.
Joining the pair, who will be inducted under the Open-Wheel and Stock Car categories respectively, will be Austin Coil (Drag Racing), the NHRA’s all-time winningest Funny Car crew chief; HANS device inventors Jim Downing and Dr. Robert Hubbard (Technology); desert racer and Hollywood stuntman Bud Ekins (Motorcycles); four-time SCCA national champion and eight-time IndyCar title-winning owner Paul Newman (At Large); and and 1966 Can-Am champion and championship-winning constructor John Surtees (Sports Cars). Two additional Historic Category inductees will be announced this summer.
“I’m extremely honored to be thought of in this way and mentioned among many of the greats across so many forms of motorsports,” Dixon said.
“The first thing that comes to mind is how I was able to get here. A single person can never do it alone. I’m grateful to Chip [Ganassi], the team and everyone who has helped make this possible over the last 20 years, and then going back to the start of it all with my parents and the group that helped me along. But it comes down to racing for me and the pure love that I have for this sport across every different category. First and foremost, I am a racing fan and that’s where the desire comes from. I’m extremely lucky to be able to do what I do, and I am grateful for everybody that has helped give me the possibility, and this is in their honor.”
Both Johnson and Dixon were inducted in their first year of eligibility.
“It’s hard to imagine a much more-accomplished group of racers,” said MSHFA president George Levy. “Our voters chose these seven from an incredible array of the sport’s greatest achievers. We can’t wait to welcome them into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America next March.”
Each of the MSHFA’s inductees is elected by a straight vote of 200 motorsports experts — half of them inductees themselves. Regular voters include Mario Andretti (MSHFA Class of 1990), Don Garlits (MSHFA Class of 1989), Ganassi (MSHFA Class of 2016), Tom D’Eath (MSHFA Class of 2000), Scott Parker (MSHFA Class of 2009), Richard Petty (MSHFA Class of 1989), Don Prudhomme (MSHFA Class of 1991) and Rusty Wallace (MSHFA Class of 2014).
The nine new inductees will formally join the 288 existing Hall of Famers in a ceremony at the MSHFA Museum in Daytona Beach next March.
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America Class of 2024:
Austin Coil(Drag Racing) (1945-) — The winningest Top Fuel Funny Car crew chief of all time, Coil directed 2008 inductee John Force to 15 NHRA Funny Car titles — 10 of them in a row — and 17 overall including two won back-to-back captaining Frank Hawley and the Chi-Town Hustler (1982-83).
Coil, engineering mentor John Farkonas and driver Pat Minick made The Hustler one of the dominant match racers of the late ‘60s and 1970s. Coil joined a then-struggling Force to become of the most successful driver/crew chief pairings ever. In addition to 15 titles, they won 130+ tour victories. Coil was named Car Craft Magazine Funny Car Crew Chief of the Year 12 times and was inducted into the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame in 1997.
Scott Dixon(Open Wheel) (1980-) — Currently the second-most successful IndyCar Series driver ever, the New Zealander has won six series championships (2003, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2020), 32 poles, and 53 races, including the 2008 Indianapolis 500. His six national titles put him second to 1989 inductee A.J. Foyt (seven) on the all-time list. His 53 wins are second all-time to Foyt (67) and ahead of inductees Mario Andretti, Michael Andretti, Al Unser Sr., Bobby Unser, and Al Unser Jr.
Dixon has started the Indy 500 from pole five times, second only to 1998 inductee Rick Mears (6), and finished in the top three on five occasions. He’s excelled in virtually every form of racing he’s tried, including three Rolex 24 at Daytona triumphs (2006, 2015, 2020).
Jim Downing & Dr. Bob Hubbard (Technology) — The HANS (Head and Neck Support) Device has saved more drivers than possibly any other advance in the past 50 years. Head and neck injuries, including basilar skull fractures, used to claim many lives, including Dale Earnhardt, Bill Vukovich, Neil Bonnett and Tony Bettenhausen. Five-time IMSA champ Downing teamed with brother-in-law Hubbard, a biomechanical engineering professor at Michigan State University, to create the U-shaped device which restrains the head from whipping back and forth in a crash.
They built prototypes in the 1980s, but the racing establishment didn’t begin to embrace it until Ayrton Senna was killed in 1994. Widespread acceptance came after Earnhardt’s death in 2001. Today, the HANS Device is required by virtually every major sanctioning body.
Bud Ekins (Motorcycles) (1930-2007) — In the 1950s and ‘60s, Ekins was the man to beat in California scrambles and desert races, winning the Big Bear National Hare and Hound three times (1954, 1957, 1959), and the Catalina Grand Prix (1955). In 1962 Ekins was the first American to win gold at the International Six Days Trial (ISDT), repeating in 1963, 1966, and ‘67. He was Steve McQueen’s racing mentor and performed stunts in over 200 films, including the fence jump in 1963’s The Great Escape.
In 1966, Ekins captained a foursome that rode the Baja length in record time, setting the stage for the Baja 1000. Later, Ekins switched to trucks, winning the inaugural Baja 500 (1969). Ekins was inducted into the Hollywood Stuntmen’s Hall of Fame, the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame (1980), and AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame (1999).
New Hall of Famers Scott Dixon (left) and Jimmy Johnson at the Goodwood Revival last September. Kevin Wood/Motorsport Images
Jimmie Johnson (Stock Cars) (1975-) — His seven NASCAR Cup Series championships (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2016) tie him for most ever with inductees Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt. His five in a row (2006-10) has never been equaled. His 83 wins, including two Daytona 500s (2006, 2013), put him sixth all-time. His streak of 16 seasons with at least one victory ranks fourth all-time. (Kyle Busch is No.1 with 19.)
The El Cajon, CA native began racing motorcycles at four. After high school, he became one of the top off-road racers, winning rookie of the year in the SCORE, MTEG, and SODA series and going on to accumulate six championships. Transitioning to stock cars in 1998, Johnson captured ASA Rookie of the Year and was noticed by inductee Jeff Gordon, who recommended him to inductee Rick Hendrick.
Paul Newman (At Large) (1925-2008) — He was so famous as a movie star that it’s easy to forget his many achievements in motorsports. After starring in 1969’s Winning, Newman began to drive in SCCA events. He won his first race and captured four national championships between 1979 and 1986. He also won two SCCA Trans-Am events and came second in the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Porsche 935 with Dick Barbour and Rolf Stommelen.
In 1977, he formed the Newman-Freeman Can-Am team with Bill Freeman, fielding winning cars for inductees Elliott Forbes-Robinson and Danny Sullivan. Later he formed Newman/Haas Racing with longtime friend Carl Haas, capturing more than 100 races and eight IndyCar Series titles. At 70, Newman scored a class win at the Rolex 24 at Daytona with Mike Brockman and inductees Tommy Kendall and Mark Martin.
John Surtees (Sports Cars) (1934-2017) — By MSHFA rules, only a non-American’s achievements in North America should be considered for induction. “Big John’s” record was profound. The Briton captured the inaugural (1966) Can-Am title with three wins over an international field that included inductees Mark Donohue, Dan Gurney, Jim Hall, Phil Hill, Denny Hulme, Parnelli Jones, David Hobbs, Sam Posey, and Bruce McLaren. His other victories include the 1963 Sebring 12 Hours, 1965 Player’s 200 at Mosport, 1965 Player’s Mont-Tremblant, 1966 Mexican Grand Prix and 1967 Las Vegas Can-Am. As a constructor, his eponymous single-seaters won seven U.S. F5000 races with Hobbs and Posey and finished second in the championship three times. Surtees remains the only person to have won world championships on two and four wheels.y at the 2023 Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach. The 36th Motorsports Hall of Fame of America Induction Celebration presented by Toyota Racing, which will formally usher the Class of 2024 into the MSHFA, will be held in the Hall’s home in Daytona Beach, Florida, in March of 2024.
Scott Dixon in the No. 01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac is in command of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring as the race reached one-third on the clock. All four manufacturers were represented in the top four before the most recent round of pit …
Scott Dixon in the No. 01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac is in command of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring as the race reached one-third on the clock. All four manufacturers were represented in the top four before the most recent round of pit stops, but the order at the end of the hour behind Dixon sees Louis Deletraz in the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport Acura ARX-06 ahead Felipe Nasr in the No. 7 Porsche Penske Motorsports 963 in third.
If the first four hours of the race have taught the racers anything, it’s that a GTP car is going to a handful halfway through a second tire stint in the Sebring heat. Polesitter Pipo Derani, double-stinting the tires he qualified on, was the first to find out just how bad it was. The No. 31 Action Express Cadillac V-Series.R began falling back through the field after most cars took tires in the first round of stops, likely putting Derani into position for the next bit of misfortune — contact with a spinning LMP3 car immediately in front of him, breaking the nose of the Cadillac and leaving him stationary for a moment.
Derani tried to stay out, waiting for the pits to open during the ensuing full-course caution, but eventually had to come in for emergency service as the nose rubbed the left-front tire before it started shedding bits of carbon. It would take several trips to the pits to get the car back into shape, and then a stop plus 10s penalty for emergency service, but the car remained on the lead lap and seems fine, now in the hands of Alexander Sims who was bringing the car up through the field.
“We were struggling late there with the qualifying tires like a lot of teams,” said Derani. “Unfortunately, a P3 car spun right in front of me and I had no time to react. The car should be OK. The tire didn’t damage a lot, perhaps only the front wing that we were able to change. We changed the things we had to change – the tires and nose – and it’s still early on. We have time to recover whatever we lost.”
Ricky Taylor was the next to make the slick discovery when he was running second in the No. 10 Acura. Taylor not only couldn’t leave Philip Eng in the No. 24 BMW M Team RLL, but was backing up everyone behind him as Dixon pulled out a big gap on fresh tires. Helio Castroneves in the No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing with Curb Agajanian Acura also appeared to be struggling with the tires in their second stint.
Both BMWs have been running well and hanging onto the leaders, a very different situation from the Rolex 24 at Daytona where the BMWs were not only off the pace but both experienced significant mechanical issues before the four-hour mark in that race. For a long time in the last hour, they were running second and third and holding off the two Porsche Penske Motorsports cars.
The Porsches were running well together until Nick Tandy experienced an unknown issue when he slowed due to a “weird gas” in the cockpit and then limped around the track with the door open. The crew tightened a hose, closed the door and sent Tandy back out. Deletraz in the No. 10 was behind him when he slowed, and the Acura made light contact with the Porsche.
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GTD PRO is developing into a battle between the No. 3 Corvette and the No. 79 WeatherTech Racing Mercedes-AMG, which has come through the field after starting last due to a ride-height infraction in qualifying. Jordan Taylor took the lead in the No. 3 from Maro Engel just before the hour. Engel had been leading, but light contact with the No. 60 MSR Acura as Castroneves came through slowed him enough for Taylor to get through. Laurens Vanthoor in the No. 9 Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 is running third in pursuit, but has the GTD leader in between him and the leading pair.
That GTD leader is Mike Skeen in the No. 32 Team Korthoff Motorsports Mercedes-AMG. Kenton Koch put the car into the lead in his first stint before handing over to Skeen, and Skeen has a couple of other GTD PRO cars between him and second-place runner Corey Lewis in the No. 1 Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 GT3. Lewis also has a GTD PRO buffer between him and Zacharie Robichon running third in the No. 16 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911.
Fourth in GTD is the No. 57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG that, like the No. 79, had to start in the back due to a ride-height infraction, currently in the hands of Indy Dontje, followed by Jaxon Evans in the No. 91 Kellymoss with Riley Porsche 911.
The No. 11 TDS Racing team has had to serve several penalties for not meeting minimum refuel time, yet Mikkel Jensen currently has the car in the lead of LMP2, followed by George Kurtz in the No. 04 CrowdStrike Racing ORECA. Alex Quinn is running second in the No. 52 PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports ORECA, polesitter Ben Keating having exited the car after driving the first 2h40m of the race.
The polesitting No. 36 Andretti Autosport has a commanding lead in LMP3, despite a spin for current driver Jarett Andretti after contact while lapping the GTD No. 80 AO Racing Porsche. Garret Grist is second in the No. 30 Jr III Racing Ligier, followed by Orey Fidani in the No. 13 AWA Duqueine.
Everything you need to know before the 2022 Indy 500 green flag.
The 2022 Indianapolis 500 is nearly here, and it’s an exciting weekend for motor sports fans everywhere.
One of the biggest and most anticipated races on the planet, the 106th running of the Indy 500 is Sunday, May 29 at the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.5-mile oval, and the green flag is set to fly at 12:45 p.m. ET (NBC).
We here at For The Win have put together a bunch of preview content for the race, from a beginner’s guide to the 2022 Indy 500 to the latest odds to interviews with now-five-time pole winner and 2008 Indy 500 champ Scott Dixon and Indy 500 rookie Jimmie Johnson.
Here’s all of that content in one place for you to enjoy before the green flag waves on Sunday.
You don’t want to miss out on Memorial Day Weekend in Indianapolis.
The Greatest Spectacle in Racing returns on Monday, May 29 as Indianapolis Motor Speedway hosts its second IndyCar event of the month and the marquee race of the season: The Indianapolis 500.
One year after Hélio Castroneves captured a miraculous and record-tying fourth Borg-Warner Trophy, the 2022 field is wide open and features some no shortage of star names.
Takuma Sato, Will Power and, of course, Hélio have already qualified. But so has stock car legend Jimmie Johnson and IndyCar royalty Ed Carpenter and Marco Andretti.
Scott Dixon will start on the pole alongside Alex Palou and Rinus VeeKay.
Here’s a full look at each driver’s starting position and odds to win the race via Tipico Sportsbook.
