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What Autosport is looking forward to in 2024

The motorsport winter is quickly coming to an end, while several series across the globe have already begun their 2024 activities, meaning plotlines and talking points are unfolding right now.

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IndyCar 2023 season review: Team Penske

#3– Scott McLaughlin, 3rd in the championship standings (488 points) – 17 races

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Robb eager to soak up learnings from Foyt's partnership with Penske

Recently confirmed to drive Foyt’s #41 entry, next year will mark the Idaho native’s second season in North America’s premier open-wheel championship. He spent his rookie campaign with Dale Coyne Racing with Rick Ware Racing, scoring a best result of 12th in the finale at Laguna Seca.

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Ranked! Top 10 best IndyCar race drives of 2023

The 2023 IndyCar Series season was dominated by Chip Ganassi Racing's Alex Palou, but the Spaniard didn't have a monopoly on top-drawer performances on his way to sealing a second title.

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Q&A: Ryan Blaney on his first NASCAR title and IndyCar teammate Josef Newgarden getting a tattoo of his face

For The Win chatted with 2023 NASCAR champ Ryan Blaney about his title victory, the celebrations and a tattoo deal among friends.

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Top 10: Ranking the best IndyCar race drives of 2023

The 2023 IndyCar Series season was dominated by Chip Ganassi Racing's Alex Palou, but the Spaniard didn't have a monopoly on top-drawer performances on his way to sealing a second title.

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Ganassi puts IndyCar rookie Simpson through testing gauntlet

The challenging schedule for the 19-year-old driver has been put together by CGR’s managing director Mike Hull.

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Triple Eight signs Pye as enduro driver for 2024-25

Pye will join either Broc Feeney or new recruit Will Brown at Bathurst and other long-distance races on the calendar in 2024 and ‘25.

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Indy 500 champ Newgarden would “love to” race at Le Mans in future

Newgarden co-drove in the 10-hour sportscar classic, which ended the 2023 IMSA SportsCar Championship on Saturday, with Felipe Nasr and Matt Campbell in a Porsche Penske Motorsport 963. They finished fourth in the LMDh machine, which also races in the World Endurance Championship with the factory Penske squad.

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Ranking the top 10 IndyCar drivers of 2023

It was a season of surprisingly few race winners, with Alex Palou sweeping to the championship with a round to spare and Josef Newgarden cleaning up on the majority of the oval tracks.

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The factors that fuelled Palou’s 2023 IndyCar domination

It wasn’t supposed to be this easy. IndyCar’s USP is the high number of potential race winners in its pack for such a high-level open-wheel racing series. But Alex Palou defied this logic in 2023, making his second title appear routine on track with five victories. Off the track, however,…

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Has IndyCar's Texas loss come at the right time?

The writing had been on the wall for several years, but the inevitable separation of the IndyCar Series and Texas Motor Speedway finally came with the arrival of the 2024 schedule. A relationship that began in 1997, the two transitioned through nearly every phase possible in the best and worst…

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Simpson's path to Ganassi IndyCar seat aided by sportscar experience

The Barbados-born Caymanian was signed as a development driver with CGR in May 2022, only two races into his Indy NXT career that already featured a fifth-place finish at Barber Motorsports Park. He ended up finishing his rookie campaign ninth in the standings after switching teams from TJ Speed Motorsports…

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Indy NXT grad Simpson's path to CGR seat aided by sportscar experience

The Barbados-born Caymanian was signed as a development driver with CGR in May 2022, only two races into his Indy NXT career that already featured a fifth-place finish (Barber Motorsports Park). He ended up finishing his rookie campaign ninth in the overall standings despite switching teams – TJ Speed Motorsports…

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Will chaotic IndyCar finales become the norm in future?

Laguna Seca has seen a thing or two since its construction in 1957, nestled among the dusty, sweeping hillsides between Monterey and Salinas, but not many races around the ‘dry lake’ have been as chaotic or frenzied as Sunday’s IndyCar Series finale, which very much had the feel of ‘School’s…

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Chevrolet captures second consecutive IndyCar Manufacturers’ title

The achievement comes after claiming five victories across 17 rounds, including the 107th Running of the Indianapolis 500 on May 28.

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McLaughlin “hit everything but the pace car” at IndyCar finale

The 30-year-old Kiwi started second but involved in an opening lap crash in Turn 2, which pushed him down the running order and onto pit road for service.

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IndyCar Laguna Seca: Dixon wins chaotic season finale

The six-time champion kept his head when many around him lost theirs, beating Scott McLaughlin (Team Penske) and his champion team-mate Alex Palou after a race punctuated by eight caution periods caused by a series of wildly over-optimistic lunges and collisions that had a definite end-of-term feel.

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IndyCar Laguna Seca: Rosenqvist takes pole by 0.01s in final McLaren race

The speedy Swede, who is joining Meyer Shank Racing in 2024, drove “a gorilla lap” flyer of 1m06.6416s lap on the 11-turn, 2.238-mile natural terrain road course.

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IndyCar Laguna Seca: Herta tops crash-filled opening practice

The 23-year-old Californian set the tone early with a flying lap of 1m07.5382s around the 11-turn, 2.238-mile natural terrain road course.

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IndyCar track records set to tumble at “badass” repaved Laguna Seca

Team Penske’s Will Power led a series test on Thursday with a session-best lap of 1m07.2762s.

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IndyCar Portland: Alex Palou wins to be crowned 2023 champion

Palou beat Arrow McLaren’s Felix Rosenqvist by 5.4s to claim his fifth win of the season and his second IndyCar championship, following up his 2021 success. It is Ganassi’s 15th title in the series.

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IndyCar Portland: Palou wins to be crowned 2023 champion

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IndyCar Portland: Graham Rahal takes pole, Newgarden crashes

Rahal put down a flying lap of 58.3195s to best the 27-car field at the 1.964-mile, 12-turn natural terrain road course.

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IndyCar Portland: McLaughlin tops FP2, Grosjean and Ilott clash

The New Zealander turned a flying lap of 58.1516s around the 1.964-mile, 12-turn natural terrain road course to take the top spot with 18 minutes remaining in the 45-minute session. He led a Team Penske 1-2, besting teammate Josef Newgarden by 0.1179s.

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