PLAINFIELD, Ill. — The IndyCar driver carousel keeps turning as two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato has been signed to drive for Dale Coyne Racing full-time in 2022 IndyCar season. He will be driving the #51 car in a partnership with Rick Ware Racing. It’s the same seat given up by Romain Grosjean from last […]
PRINCETON, Ind. — A baseball player from Princeton is one of the six candidates elected to the Pro Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday. Through the Eras Committee, Gil Hodges was elected into this year’s Hall of Fame class. Hodges was both a first baseman and a manager in Major League Baseball from his rookie […]
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The University of Notre Dame has promoted defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman to be the new head coach of the school’s football team. Freeman served as defensive coordinator under previous head coach Brian Kelly, who resigned earlier this week and took the open head coaching job at Louisiana State University. “It is […]
INDIANAPOLIS — Indy Lights driver Devlin DeFrancesco will be the driver of the No. 29 car for Andretti Autosport in the next NTT IndyCar Series season. DeFrancesco, a native of Ontario, Canada, is being promoted to IndyCar after spending the last two years in the Road To Indy ladder as part of the Andretti Autosports […]
SPEEDWAY, Ind. — Three young drivers who dominated the Indy Lights Series last season are getting more reps in an Indy car this week with hopes of impressing some IndyCar team owners. The test was comparable to the NFL Scouting Combine, but for young drivers who are looking to make the jump to the NTT […]
SPEEDWAY, Ind. — Romain Grosjean and Jimmie Johnson both passed their rookie orientation programs (ROP) for the oval at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Dodging intermittent rain showers, both drivers were able to move through most of the three phases of their rookie tests. Both drivers were able to turn the required 10 laps at 205 […]
PORTLAND, Ore. — Alex Palou drove to victory in the Grand Prix of Portland on Sunday and in doing so regained the lead in the NTT IndyCar Championship standings. Palou started on pole but quickly lost the top spot in the field having driven too hot into the first corner, forcing him to take the […]
SPEEDWAY, Ind. — It seems the trickle of Formula One driver interest in Indy car racing is getting stronger as F1 Scuderia Ferrari test driver Callum Ilott tested an Indy car for the first time on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course on Thursday. Illott has been brought in by Juncos Hollinger Racing to run […]
INDIANAPOLIS--The Indianapolis Colts have a team coronavirus vaccination rate of 75%, which is below the NFL average of 90%. “Do I think everybody should be vaccinated? Absolutely, I do. I am for the vaccine. (Head Coach) Frank (Reich) is for the vaccine. We have a lot of guys on our team that are for the […]
NEWTON, Iowa. — After a one-year absence from the IndyCar calendar, Iowa Speedway will be back on the 2022 schedule as a doubleheader weekend. In a new multi-year sponsorship deal with Hy-Vee, which is based in Des Moines, IndyCar will be running two races on the short-oval during a weekend in late July. On July […]
