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By Adam Tate, Managing Editor To commemorate the team’s historic 50th anniversary, Penske is outfitting the chassis for their two top IndyCar aces, Will Power and Juan Pablo Montoya in a slick silver livery for the 2016 season. The cars are a bright silver with red or black accents depending on the driver. Power’s car features the red accents and will run in the new colors for 16 races this season, whereas Montoya’s in the black accents will stick with the color scheme for 9 rounds. We will get a closeRead More

The 2005 Grand Prix of St. Petersburg marked a watershed moment in American open-wheel racing; the IndyCar Series’ first race on anything other than an oval. After 9 years the series decided to take on Champ Car directly, bolted new bodywork on the Dallara’s and took to the streets. 11 years later and St. Pete is the traditional season opener for the IndyCar Series, and the schedule has a healthy mix of ovals, road courses and street circuits like St. Pete. Below is the 2005 race in its entirety. ItRead More

By NASCAR Wire Service Following a tough-luck 31st-place finish in the season-opener at Daytona, 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Erik Jones is beginning to hit his stride in his first full-time NASCAR XFINITY Series season. The 20-year-old NASCAR Next alum has produced a third-place finish in each of the last two races, jumping from 22nd in the points standings to seventh, 20 notches behind leader Daniel Suárez. Jones will attempt to continue his ascent up the standings and try to capture the first berth in the 12-driver, four-roundRead More

By NASCAR Wire Service Mother Nature might be the only person who can stop Kevin Harvick from winning at Phoenix International Raceway. Last fall, the No. 4 Chevrolet driver appeared to be on his way to his fourth consecutive victory at the one-mile track, leading 143 of the 219 laps when rain brought out a caution as he was leaving pit road. Dale Earnhardt Jr., who was slightly ahead of second-place Harvick on the track, earned the win when NASCAR called the race due to the precipitation. Harvick will tryRead More

INDIANAPOLIS (March 10, 2016) – ABC’s enhanced coverage of the epic 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race presented by PennGrade Motor Oil and increased programming on NBCSN, including 10 hours of live practice telecasts, highlight the Verizon IndyCar Series television programming schedule for 2016. Total on-air programming from INDYCAR’s network partners is more than 110 hours, up from 2015. It includes live coverage of all 16 races on the Verizon IndyCar Series schedule, qualifying shows for all NBCSN events and Indianapolis 500 time trials on ABC, practice sessionsRead More

PALMETTO, Fla. – A high-quality entry of 16 drivers representing nine different nations are set to battle it out for early honors as the Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires season kicks off this weekend with a pair of races at the Indy Lights Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Presented by Lucas School of Racing. Indy Lights will be joined by the other two levels of the Mazda Road to Indy open-wheel development program, the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda and the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by CooperRead More

Tampa, Fla. (March 8, 2016) – Patricio “Pato” O’Ward signed with Team Pelfrey for the St. Petersburg, Fla. and Birmingham, Ala. rounds of the 2016 Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires after testing with the team at Barber Motorsports Park on Sunday and Monday. “I am thrilled and massively thankful for the opportunity Team Pelfrey has given me,” said O’Ward. “I will start the season at St. Pete and Barber and hopefully, complete the whole year with them if everything goes to plan. Testing has gone great and asRead More

One of the most famous names in motorsport will return to the Le Mans 24 Hours this season as Rebellion Racing is pleased to confirm today that Nelson Piquet Jr will join forces with Nicolas Prost and Nick Heidfeld at the wheel of the #12 Rebellion R-One LMP1 AER powered car in the French classic in June. To ensure Nelson Piquet Jr gets the most racing experience and mileage aboard the #12 Rebellion R-One LMP1 ahead of the 24 hour endurance event, the Brazilian ace will race at the openingRead More

By Adam Tate, Managing Editor Worldwide film star Patrick Dempsey is set to take a step back from his racing commitments in the World Endurance Championship this year. The 50 year old calling for at least a temporary hiatus behind the wheel. He will remain the co-owner of the Dempsey Proton Porsche team and still attend some of the races in that capacity but his personal life and shooting schedule are to put an end to his time driving the car, something he has done the past three seasons where heRead More

By Joey Barnes, Editor-in-Chief The third NASCAR round from Las Vegas Motor Speedway is over, and after a long hiatus from Victory Lane Brad Keselowski made his long awaited return in the Kobalt 400 on Sunday. 1) Weather Someone somewhere was throwing every odd obstacle at the NASCAR community on Sunday. First, there was rain. Then, there was intense gust of winds. Later, there was a sandstorm that hit so hard that the cameras from the FOX telecast were shaking, which made it where we were barely able to seeRead More