2025 IndyCar News / Misc

donthaveanickname said:
The Indy Lights career of Sophia Flörsch seems to be over after just one race as HMD Motorsports has announced her departure.
@DanicaFreak

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Sophia Flörsch: Vorzeitige Trennung von IndyNXT-Team - Wie geht es weiter?

Sophia Flörsch und das Team HMD Motorsports haben ihre Zusammenarbeit in der IndyCars-Nachwuchsserie IndyNXT vorzeitig beendet.
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Yeah, I read that. Seems odd to me. I wonder why? She only had 1 race - she didn’t do as well I thought she would/
- but it was just 1 race.
 
She was 3 or 4 seconds off the pace.

Sometimes the writing is on the wall.
 
kkfan91 said:
Unless your name is Deegan and then you "still learning"
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Sophia and Hallie aren’t equal. Deegan has less time in cars like this by a long shot.

Sooo Deegan shouldn’t be there either? But Deegan has name recognition and followers.

I really want to see Deegan succeed…but maybe she needs to run arca or the INDYCAR version.
 
Penalties from Thermal, both safety related.
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PREMA penalized for Thermal safety infraction

PREMA Racing has been fined $25,000 and lost 10 entrants’ points from its No. 83 Chevy driven by Robert Shwartzman after IndyCar found the car to be in breach of its technical regulations at The Th…
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Andretti fined, docked for chassis assembly violation at Thermal

Colton Herta’s No. 26 Andretti Global Honda failed post-race technical inspection at The Thermal Club for the incorrect assembly of its front suspension, resulting in penalties to the team. In resp…
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ROP: Jacob Abel, Robert Shwartzman, Louis Foster

Veteran refresher program: Marco Andretti, Kyle Larson, Devlin DeFrancesco, Takuma Sato, Callum Ilott

Thursday morning will feature a high boost (qualifying trim) practice session at the request of the manufacturers, similar to Fast Friday, with it being the first full test here with the hybrids.

 
Raceday Preparation. 🤪
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DanicaFreak said:
He seemed to keep his foot in it after connection with the wall. Someone tell him he’s not wall riding at Bristol this week in a cup car. Lol.😆
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He was on the brakes. Steering was broken at that point, not much you can do to keep it off the wall.

Unfortunately the team decided not to go back out for the rest of the day.
 
FLRacingFan said:
He was on the brakes. Steering was broken at that point, not much you can do to keep it off the wall.

Unfortunately the team decided not to go back out for the rest of the day.
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I wondered as much/ my post was pretty much tongue in cheek.

Glad he’s ok.
 
rd45usa said:
Final practice without added boost.
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Palou looked awfully dangerous across both days, both with and without traffic. Kind of a ‘no ****’ statement, but the only thing missing from his résumé is an oval win after all. He came as close as it gets in 2021, and very possibly wins in 2023 without the pit incident with VeeKay. He’s gonna be a problem next month.
 
I have (one) parking passes and general admission tickets for
Fiday and Saturday for the Indycar race at Barber this weekend that I
can not use. If you want them for free pm me and we will
make arrangements to get them to you. It should be just as easy
as forwarding an email with the ticket pdf's to print off.
First come first serve.
 
Some changes to broadcast times throughout the rest of the season to better avoid competition with NASCAR and/or F1, after some less than impressive figures since the big number for St. Pete:

- Gateway moves from 3 PM to 8 PM, becoming a Sunday primetime event (NASCAR Mexico City, F1 Canada)
- Road America from 3:30 to 1:30 (Pocono)
- Mid-Ohio from 2 to 1 (Streets of Chicago)
- Iowa #2 from 2 to 1 (Sonoma)
- Toronto from 2 to Noon (Dover)

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Bommarito Automotive Group 500 Moves to Sunday Primetime on FOX

The event June 15 at World Wide Technology Raceway is the first-ever scheduled primetime network NTT INDYCAR SERIES race on a Sunday night.
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According to sport.de which is quoting an interview he did with an Australian Youtuber, Pato has taken himself out of consideration for a Cadillac F1 seat.
He said unless McLaren, Red Bull or Ferrari are calling he ain't interested in F1.
He's arguably IndyCar's biggest star right now, losing him would hurt the series a lot.
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Cadillac kassiert Absage von Fahrerkandidat

Der neue Formel-1-Rennstall Cadillac sucht nach seinem ersten Fahrerduo, das 2026 an den Start gehen soll. Ein Kandidat, der zuletzt zumindest als Option gehandelt wurde, scheint aber keine allzu große Lust zu haben, seinen jetzigen Job für das Projekt von General Motors aufzugeben.
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Really good interview with Callum Ilott about leading Prema’s IndyCar entry and what it is like starting a team from scratch. He talks about his career path, the differences between F2 and IndyCar, and why he feels he has “unfinished business” here. Worth a watch:

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Very good piece on how imperative it is that an independent officiating body be put together in order to retain Honda moving forward, and how the latest drama has only hastened the efforts to do so.

It’s unclear how deep the group’s reach would extend, but RACER understands the unaffiliated group concept revolves around recruiting well-established figureheads within racing, some with IndyCar experience and some without, to act as the on-the-spot referees to police technical violations and competition violations. Their authority would extend to all teams and drivers, not just adjudicating driving penalties or inspection failures by Team Penske.

The group would be limited to the on-track racing side of IndyCar. The matters of running the series on a day-to-day basis, directing its future, and all other operational aspects of facilitating a sports league would remain in the hands of Penske Entertainment’s existing leadership. But when it’s time to go racing, the independent board would assemble and intercede for racing matters at the track.
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IndyCar evolving toward officiating revolution | RACER

Down in Daytona Beach, NASCAR had been watching IndyCar do an exemplary job of hand-delivering its fourth manufacturer. But in the wake of the Team Penske attenuator controversy, Roger Penske has started taking the sort of action that may help ward off that scenario.If Honda chooses to leave the...
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