The Indy Racing League, effective immediately, has launched a new Technical Review Committee that will have league and team representatives meeting weekly to review technical proposals from IZOD IndyCar Series teams. According to a league press release, the new group will make recommendations to IRL president of competition Brian Barnhart, who will have the final […]

http://youtube.com/watch?v= ECmsd46n4fc[/youtube] Today starts the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach weekend for the IZOD IndyCar Series and Firestone Indy Lights series. Here’s your full IRL schedule for the next three days: TodayIZOD IndyCar Series practice: 1:15-2:15 p.m. ET, 5:25-6:25 p.m. ET.Firestone Indy Lights practice: 3:15-4:15 p.m. ET. SaturdayFirestone Indy Lights practice: 11-11:45 a.m. ET.IZOD […]

Silent Pagoda’s Roy Hobbson now on Versus.com If you follow the IndyCar blogosphere, then you know of IndyCar.com’s Silent Pagoda blog. It’s not a traditional news blog, but one with a more comedic take on the happenings in and around the IZOD IndyCar Series. Please keep in mind that by comedic, we don’t mean good-natured […]

1. Record crowd. Last Sunday’s attendance of over 53,000 fans at the Indy Grand Prix of Alabama set a new record for Barber Motorsports Park. Now keep in mind that some of the more recent oval races in the IZOD IndyCar Series have drawn half that many people or less. For those annoyed with the […]

Qualifying for the Indianapolis 500 is getting overhauled once again. The new format, which will debut next month for the 94th running of the world’s greatest race, will feature a 90-minute battle for the pole amongst the nine fastest drivers, plus $175,000 going to the pole winner and IZOD IndyCar Series championship points being doled out […]

Two and a half weeks after the IZOD IndyCar Series’ team owners elected Gil de Ferran as their representative, the Indy Racing League today announced six appointments to the ICONIC committee charged with recommending a future chassis/engine platform to the IRL and its chief executive officer, Randy Bernard. Joining De Ferran on the committee are […]

Beautiful Barber proves tough to pass on — but not impossible Everybody expected a solid crowd for yesterday’s inaugural Indy Grand Prix of Alabama at Barber Motorsports Park. “Solid” turned out to be a record gathering of over 53,000 fans. Everybody also expected a boring race on a 2.3-mile layout that had plenty of quick […]

Three-time Indy 500 champ bests Dixon, teammate Power Upon retrospect, it figures that it would take a Penske driver to stop the win streak of another. Will Power rode a massive wave of momentum into today’s Indy Grand Prix of Alabama with back-to-back wins to start the season in Brazil and St. Petersburg, Florida. But he […]

A two-stop pit strategy paid off for Helio Castroneves as he went on to claim the inaugural Indy Grand Prix of Alabama at Barber Motorsports Park, ending Team Penske teammate Will Power’s two-race reign atop the podium. Castroneves assumed the lead for good when Marco Andretti had to go to pit road for a splash […]

The third round of the 2010 IZOD IndyCar Series championship is coming up in about half an hour (3:45 p.m. ET). You can check out the action on Versus, SiriusXM, IMS Radio Network stations, and IndyCar.com, but if you also want to interact with me and some of the best fans in all of motorsports, […]

Before we show you this video of Simona de Silvestro tracing the Barber Motorsports Park course blindfolded, it’s important to say that this has been done before. Formula One driver Nico Rosberg did the same thing with each grand prix track while he was a member of the Williams squad (he’s now with Mercedes). You […]

Will Power of Team Penske paced this morning’s final warmup for today’s Indy Grand Prix of Alabama, which is slated for a 3:45 p.m. ET green flag. Power, the pole sitter for today’s race, lead the time charts with a lap of 71.5256 seconds in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske car. Raphael Matos will […]

The IZOD IndyCar Series is attacking its first road course of the season this afternoon at Barber Motorsports Park (3 p.m. ET, Versus). Here are a few storylines to keep an eye on today. 1. A historic day for Will Power? Only three drivers in IZOD IndyCar Series history have been able to win three […]

Will Power will attempt to become the first driver to start an IZOD IndyCar Series season with three victories tomorrow, and he’ll go about it from the pole position. The Toowoomba, Australia native and his No. 12 Verizon Team Penske machine were at the top of the heap once again in qualifying at Barber Motorsports […]

IZOD IndyCar Series qualifying is on tap later this morning at Barber Motorsports Park, and the question that has emerged early on this year — Can anybody stop Will Power? — continues to be answered with a resounding “no.” We’ll see if the awesome Aussie can attain his second straight pole today, but if he […]