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Scott Dixon passed Mario Andretti for second on IndyCar’s all-time win list with a victory Sunday in the messy Music City Grand Prix.

Scott McLaughlin won the second pole of his IndyCar career in rain-delayed qualifying for the Music City Grand Prix.

Alexander Rossi snapped a 49-race losing streak that dated all the way back to the 2019 IndyCar season by winning at one of his favorite tracks.

Josef Newgarden collapsed in the motorhome lot following his late crash Sunday at Iowa Speedway and was taken to a Des Moines hospital by helicopter for evaluation.

Defending IndyCar champion Alex Palou says he's leaving Chip Ganassi Racing after this season.

Scott McLaughlin has picked up his second career IndyCar victory, which may go down as one of the most special wins of his career.

The IndyCar championship race faces a major shakeup at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, where the top title contenders struggled and Pato O’Ward won the pole to match a series mark set in 1961.

Josef Newgarden earned a $1 million bonus that rewards his versatility by winning on Sunday at Road America.

Competitive balance has defined the opening portion of this IndyCar season.

Josef Newgarden became the seventh different pole winner through seven IndyCar qualifying sessions this season when he put Team Penske at the front for Sunday’s final Detroit Grand Prix on Belle Isle.

NASCAR is still alive and well in Charlotte.

Dalton Kellett became the first driver to crash while preparing for the Indianapolis 500, ending a streak of six days without major incident.

Rain held off long enough to complete the first round of qualifying for the Indianapolis 500.

Rain held off long enough on Saturday to complete the first round of qualifying for the Indianapolis 500 on a soupy day that still produced eye-popping speeds not seen in 26 years at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Rinus VeeKay and Pato O'Ward, a pair of young new stars, posted blistering qualifying averages of over 233 mph in a flex of Chevrolet horsepower. NASCAR star Jimmie Johnson qualified for his first Indy 500 and his Chip Ganassi Racing team showed it might be the strongest organization at Indy right now.

It was a challenging “Fast Friday” at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with serious wind disrupting practice for the Indy 500.

One of the many popular events that preludes the Indianapolis 500 is the annual road race at the famous venue, as IndyCar holds its final event before the big race in the GMR Grand Prix on Saturday. A lot of shuffling has happened in the points standings happened in the last IndyCar race, in the Grand Prix of Alabama. This will be the 12 Grand Prix of Indianapolis, and each winner dating back to 2014 is expected to be in the field on Saturday. What: GMR Grand PrixWho: NTT IndyCar SeriesWhen: Saturday, May 14Time: 3:00 p.m. Channel: NBCStream: FuboTV (7-day free trial), Sling, DirecTV Stream, PeacockCheck out the IndyCar standings and results here

This Weekend In Racing

The NTT IndyCar Series hits the road course for the second time in the early stages of the 2022 season, as the best in open-wheel racing head to sunny California for the Acura Grand Prix on Long Beach on Sunday afternoon. Newgarden officially won the race by less than seven-tenths of a second. Quite a few active drivers are former winners in Long Beach, and will be looking to win their first race of the season. What: Acura Grand Prix of Long BeachWho: NTT IndyCar SeriesWhen: Sunday, April 10Time: 3:30 p.m. ETWhere: Long Beach, Calif.Channel: NBCStream: FuboTV (7-day free trial), Sling, DirecTV Stream, PeacockCheck out the NASCAR standings and results here

It was quite the weekend in motorsports, which is typically the bit player on the massive stick-and-ball sporting landscape so eager for its own time in the spotlight.

Josef Newgarden used the nonexistent high line to pass Scott McLaughlin in the final turn at Texas Motor Speedway and steal the IndyCar race his teammate had dominated.

Roger Penske met Josef Newgarden in victory lane with six crisp hundred dollar bills to gift the race winner. Newgarden used the nonexistent high line to pass Scott McLaughlin in the final turn Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway and steal the IndyCar race his teammate had dominated. It was the 600th overall victory for Roger Penske across all of his platforms.

IndyCar’s long relationship with Texas Motor Speedway is at a crossroads headed into the 35th race at the track that has always embraced the open-wheel series.

Scott McLaughlin got his first IndyCar Series victory in the season-opening race through the downtown streets of St. Petersburg, Florida.

Roger Penske picked up a third Daytona 500 win last weekend on his 85th birthday.

The IndyCar Series is feeling rather bullish as it heads into its final two races of the season.

Alex Palou earned the first pole of his IndyCar career and put himself in position to reclaim the championship lead headed into Sunday’s race at Portland International Raceway.

Will Power took the lead early Saturday, then watched it shrink over the final half of the race before holding on to win another Indianapolis Grand Prix.

The first stop on Romain Grosjean’s monthlong tour of the United States with his family was the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, where his wife had arranged a tour for the race car driver and their three children.

Sunday’s launch will be Virgin Galactic’s first fully crewed flight, and their second from Spaceport America in New Mexico.

Scott Dixon was again atop the leaderboard for the final practice before the Indianapolis 500.

Team Penske had an uncharacteristically slow first day of Indianapolis 500 qualifying and Will Power will have to avoid being bumped from the 33-car field when the lineup is finalized.

The three cars from Rahal Letterman Lanigan were idled or the first 30 minutes of Friday practice for the Indianapolis 500.

IndyCar has punished Rahal Letterman Lanigan for trying to stage a photo in the opening minutes of Indianapolis 500 practice.

Rinus VeeKay continued IndyCar’s youth movement Saturday by scoring his first career victory with a win on the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Tony Kanaan will make his IndyCar season debut this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway, where the series will race a doubleheader.

Colton Herta has rebounded from a first-lap crash in the IndyCar season opener to win the pole on the downtown streets of St. Petersburg.

Alex Palou scored his first career IndyCar victory in his debut race with Chip Ganassi Racing by winning the series opener at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama.

Pato O'Ward set a track record at Barber Motorsports Park to win the pole for the IndyCar season-opening race.

McLaughlin's pandemic-postponed IndyCar debut at last comes Sunday in the season finale at St. Petersburg, Florida. “I obviously never thought I’d get a chance this year due to the nature of the beast with COVID,” McLaughlin said Thursday before boarding yet another flight, this one headed to his first IndyCar race. It’s something that I’m just going to go in like a sponge, soak everything up, see what comes out of it. I’m pretty confident that I’m going to like the series, I’m going to like the cars, I’m going to like everything.”McLaughlin has accomplished all he can racing touring cars in Australia, where he's won 56 races, including last year's Bathurst 1000, and all those titles. He drives for Roger Penske in Supercars and in 2019 the boss asked McLaughlin if he was interested in driving an Indy car.

It is finally May and time to declare this a crummy year to have purchased Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Then came the coronavirus pandemic and the IndyCar Series was suspended 48 hours before its March 15 season-opening race. Before sports shut down, IMS was scheduled to open this week for the GMR Grand Prix on the road course. Its new owner was determined to make the 111-year-old landmark Penske Perfect in time for the Indianapolis 500 on Memorial Day weekend. When Penske was forced to reschedule the Indianapolis 500, he used an optimistic view in discussing the opportunities ahead of his staff.

Scott McLaughlin was supposed to leave Australia for Indianapolis this month to make his IndyCar debut on the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. With sports on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic, the two-time V8 SuperCars champion saw his IndyCar plans postponed. McLaughlin and Pagenaud won twice, and Norris and Sage Karam were the other winners of this series created for content while IndyCar is on hold. Lets try to have some fun.Daly, who has earned new fame through the iRacing series for his colorful commentary on his in-race stream, again delivered with one-liners and a humorous post-race speech. Also absent from the field were fan-favorite James Hinchcliffe as well as Kyle Kaiser, Felipe Nasr, and Spencer Pigot, who had all participated in previous IndyCar iRacing events.

A second straight victory in virtual racing for Simon Pagenaud and Team Penske and tempers were hot at the end of this one. Pagenaud, the reigning Indianapolis 500 winner, competed in his firesuit and captured IndyCars race Saturday on a simulated Twin Ring Motegi in Japan. McLaughlin, the Australian V8 SuperCars champion and winner of the virtual race three weeks ago at Barber Motorsports Park, was sent spinning into the wall and out of contention. Thats what I sent to Askew.Pagenaud then raced Power wheel-to-wheel and the cars appeared to touch before Pagenaud took the lead. Kudos obviously to the NTT IndyCar Series and iRacing iRacing have so much on their plate at the moment with so many different series.

Then he joined the first of a six-week series that launched Saturday to give IndyCar fans content during the coronavirus pandemic. IndyCar followed the lead of NASCAR and other racing series in throwing together something anything to fill the void created when COVID-19 brought sports to a halt. NASCAR had a successful launch of its iRacing series last Sunday, and it was the most-watched televised esports event ever with more than 900,000 viewers. YouTube streams from IndyCar and iRacing combined for about 45,000 viewers to watch a virtual race called by NBC Sports regular booth of Leigh Diffey, Townsend Bell, and Paul Tracy. He wore a T-Shirt honoring late open-wheel driver Greg Moore for his virtual IndyCar debut, which he streamed live on his social media channels.