About Kurt Darling

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Sports Corp. has proposed a plan to host a college basketball bubble at the Indiana Convention Center, should that be the route any college basketball teams, conferences, or even the entire NCAA would want to take for the upcoming season. The NCAA has given its blessing for the college basketball season […]

SPEEDWAY, Ind. — Thought to be one of the contenders for the series championship at the beginning of the year, Andretti Autosport has had a season plagued, no pun intended, with bad luck. Perhaps, an omen of the bad luck came in Colton Herta’s hauler catching on fire on the way to the season-opening race […]

LEXINGTON, Ohio. — Second-year driver Colton Herta won his third career race in the NTT IndyCar Series in Race 2 of a doubleheader weekend at Mid-Ohio Sportscar Course. Herta, like Will Power the day before, won from the pole position, which he secured on a wet race track thanks to early morning thunderstorms that rolled […]

LEXINGTON, Ohio. — Will Power led a Team Penske sweep of the top two spots in the first race of two at the Mid-Ohio Sportscar Course on Saturday. Power led all but a handful of laps starting from the pole position when the green flag dropped. The win is Power’s first at Mid-Ohio and his […]

INDIANAPOLIS — Tony Kanaan said back in February that this IndyCar season would be his last, saying it’s time for him to step aside so younger talent can have a shot to make it in the series. That announcement was right before the United States was turned on its head because of the coronavirus pandemic […]

MADISON, Ill. — Josef Newgarden was able to cut into the enormous lead of Scott Dixon in the NTT IndyCar Series championship standings with his second win of the year at the World Wide Technology Raceway in St. Louis. Newgarden held off the charging rookie Pato O’Ward in the closing laps, and secured the win […]

MADISON, Ill. — Scott Dixon collected his 50th career win in the NTT IndyCar Series in the first of two races at the World Wide Technology Raceway on Saturday. Dixon, who had run in the top five all day long, moved ahead race leader Pato ‘O’Ward thanks to a blistering pit stop by his pit […]

SPEEDWAY, Ind. — Takuma Sato took the checkered flag in the Indianapolis 500 for the second time in four years on Sunday. Sato won the race under a caution that was caused by his teammate, Spencer Pigot, in the closing laps. Scott Dixon took second in spite of leading a majority of the race. “We […]

SPEEDWAY, Ind. — Pato O’Ward had the fastest in the last practice drivers would have before the Indianapolis 500 on Carb Day. “I think today was a good step forward,” O’Ward said. “We’re just going to have to go with our gut and hope this works like it did today on a hotter race day […]

SPEEDWAY, Ind. — The coronavirus pandemic has thrown a monkey wrench in many plans that Roger Penske and the NTT IndyCar Series have been making since Penske bought the series last year. One endeavor to bring a third engine manufacturer to IndyCar has not been deterred, says IndyCar president and head of competition Jay Frye. […]