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By Christopher DeHarde, IndyCar & Road to Indy Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Juan Pablo Montoya has now been confirmed by Team Penske to run in the Indianapolis Grand Prix on May 13th. “For Juan, I’ll run him in the G.P. and we want to get him a race with our mechanics before the ‘500. We’ll run him for both the Grand Prix and the 500,” team owner Roger Penske told reporters. Montoya was replaced as a full time driver by Josef Newgarden in the No. 2 Verizon Wireless Chevrolet andRead More

By Christopher DeHarde, IndyCar & Road to Indy Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Honda continued their dominance of Verizon IndyCar Series practice in preparation for Sunday’s Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg by taking the top six positions on the time sheet. The No. 9 GE LED Lighting Honda of Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon topped the charts with a lap of 1 minute, 01.6240 seconds (105.154 mph) ahead of James Hinchcliffe in the Schmidt Peterson Motorsports’s No. 5 ARROW Honda. Third was the No. 98 NAPA Auto Parts Honda ofRead More

By Christopher DeHarde, IndyCar & Road to Indy Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The recent manufacturer change of Chip Ganassi Racing from Chevrolet to Honda hasn’t affected their standing at the front of the field as Scott Dixon’s No. 9 GE LED Lighting Honda led the second Friday practice session for Sunday’s Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, the opening round of the 2017 Verizon IndyCar Series season. Dixon’s lap of 1 minute 2.5591 seconds (103.582 mph) was 1.3 seconds faster than his first session time that netted him third-place inRead More

By Christopher DeHarde, IndyCar & Road to Indy Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — INDYCAR has announced that all four major auto manufacturers involved in this year’s Verizon IndyCar Series have announced multi-year extensions with IndyCar racing. Representatives from Honda, Chevrolet, Firestone and Dallara confirmed that each supplier has signed a multi-year extension to remain with the IndyCar Series for an unspecified amount of years. Each partner has a storied history with IndyCar racing. For Honda, the extension continues a presence in American open wheel racing that began in 1993 with the formationRead More

By Christopher DeHarde, IndyCar & Road to Indy Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — In the first official practice session for the 2017 Verizon IndyCar Series season, Honda is at the top of the charts in preparation for Sunday’s Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Marco Andretti’s No. 27 Andretti Autosport Honda timed in at 1 minute 3.7559 seconds (101.638 mph), leading a quartet of Honda cars as Ganassi Racing’s Tony Kanaan and Scott Dixon were second and third, while James Hinchcliffe brought his No. 5 Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Honda to fourth.Read More

By Frank Santoroski, Staff Writer This coming weekend the Verizon IndyCar Series will kick off their 2017 season with a return to St. Petersburg, Florida for what has become known as “The World’s Fastest Spring Break Party.” The Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg is round one of seventeen for the Series in 2017. The event is held on a temporary street circuit, one of five such races on the schedule. The race weekend is scheduled March 10-12, 2017. The defending race champion is Juan Pablo Montoya, who took back-to-backRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter Simon Pagenaud is ready to attack and defend his crown when the Verizon IndyCar Series gets back in action on the Streets of St. Petersburg this weekend. Six months removed from winning his first title, Pagenaud has a feeling of satisfaction of clearing this hurdle in his career. “It has been a relief,” he said. “It also helped me grow into a different position mentally. I feel a lot more clear in my head because I’m not stressing about getting my first championship. “We alwaysRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter General Electric will serve as the sponsor for Scott Dixon in the Verizon IndyCar Series season opening Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. The four-time Verizon IndyCar Series champion’s No. 9 Honda will feature branding from the Fairfield, Connecticut’s GE Light | LED line of products. The electronic corporation has served as an associate sponsor for CGR since 2012, sponsoring drivers Dario Franchitti and Sage Karam. “With more than a century of engineering game-changing lighting products, we can appreciate the science and physics that go intoRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter Jay Howard will make his return to the Verizon IndyCar Series in the 101st Running of the Indianapolis 500 Presented by PennGrade Motor Oil. The Britton, who has started 12 IndyCar races, will drive the No. 77 Team One Cure foundation Honda, which is also supported by NASCAR and IndyCar veteran Tony Stewart. “I can’t begin to tell you how honored I am to have this opportunity,” Howard said. “I’m not one to give up on a dream and I have every bit of determinationRead More

By Josh Farmer, IndyCar Reporter Age: 42 Years in IndyCar: 19 Wins: 17 Podiums: 76 Career Laps led: 3996 2016-17 Team: Chip Ganassi Racing Tony Kanaan is still going strong as he enters his 20th season in Indy car racing. The 2004 Verizon IndyCar Series champion went winless in 2016 and ended the year in seventh place, just one spot behind teammate Scott Dixon. He had a couple legitimate shots at winning at Road America and Texas. An extended yellow at Road America robbed his chance at overtaking Will Power for the win. He was inRead More