Jeff Simmons will return to the IndyCar Series for his annual assault on the Indianapolis 500, having agreed a deal to join AJ Foyt Racing as team-mate to Darren Manning.
Simmons began the season by returning to the Firestone Indy Lights series with Team Moore Racing, producing two top ten finishes in three starts - and [...]

Larry Foyt is on the 500’s entry list and hopes to qualify the second car of A.J. Foyt Enterprises.
But Foyt’s father, who owns the team, said Wednesday someone else will drive the car if it is used this month.
“I’m not letting him in it,” A.J. Foyt said. “He’s more important to me as (the team [...]

Tony Stewart doesn’t think much of the job Goodyear is doing in NASCAR, and A.J. Foyt is no fan of Firestone’s performance in the Indy Racing League.
Asked before Saturday night’s Gainsco Indy 300 what he thought of Stewart’s rant about Goodyear a few weeks ago after NASCAR’s Atlanta race, Foyt took aim at the IRL’s [...]

After 12 years of hostilities between the Indy Racing League and the Champ Car World Series, the merged IndyCar Series debuts Saturday night at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Sadly, the fighting has driven most IndyCar fans and some of the best talent to NASCAR. Had this happened two or three years ago, we still might have drivers such [...]

Returned to IndyCar Series with Foyt team last year and finished 13th in the standings after sitting out the 2006 season. Manning had two top-fives and five top-10s for Foyt, matching his career best with a fourth-place run at Detroit’s Belle Isle. Was test driver for BAR Formula One team in 2002 and finished ninth [...]

Nine former Champ Car entries will be on the 26-car grid for the first round of the merged IRL IndyCar Series at Homestead next weekend.
HVM Racing have confirmed that former GP2 driver Ernesto Viso will race their single-car entry, and Keith Wiggins’ squad will be joined in the field by two-car teams from fellow Champ [...]