Keeping his cool when almost all others were losing theirs on a hot, sultry Saturday night at Richmond International Raceway, Tony Kanaan dominated the second half of the SunTrust Indy Challenge, leading 166 of the 300 laps to score his first IndyCar Series triumph of 2008.
Kanaan’s strongest challenger through the first two-thirds of the contest [...]

Blockbuster driver Marco Andretti scored his third podium finish of the 2008 season with a third-place result at Sunday’s running of the Iowa Corn Indy 250 at Iowa Speedway. It was Andretti’s best finish since a third-place result at the Indianapolis 500.
Less than 20 laps into the race, Andretti was running third, five [...]

Tony Kanaan, driver of the #11 Team 7-Eleven car, crashed with less than 40 laps remaining at finished 18th at Iowa Speedway on Sunday. Despite the finish, Kanaan remains in fourth place in the IndyCar Series standings.
From the race’s onset, the Team 7-Eleven car was strong. Kanaan, who started fourth, took the
lead on lap 16 [...]

Motorola driver Danica Patrick drove to a sixth place finish in Sunday’s running of the second annual Iowa Corn Indy 250 at Iowa Speedway.
Patrick’s team decided to go on an alternative fuel strategy which allowed her to make one less pit
stop than the majority of the other drivers on the field. This strategy proved to [...]

Formula Dream driver Hideki Mutoh scored a second-place finish Sunday at the second annual Iowa Corn Indy 250 at Iowa Speedway, his best career finish.
Mutoh, who started seventh, fought understeer in the beginning of the race, but ran near the top ten. As the race neared a conclusion, the Formula Dream team chose to keep [...]

Updated: Dan Wheldon has also pledged his winnings & Andretti Green Racing recently held an online auction that raised $10,000 for the American Red Cross.
Champion New Zealand driver Scott Dixon has pledged to donate any prizemoney he wins at Monday’s (NZ time) round of the United States Indycar Series to Iowa’s flood [...]

It’s been two months since the questions stopped, and Danica Patrick is thrilled about it. No longer can anyone ask when she’ll get her first win.
Patrick, who finally took her first checkered flag in Japan in April, said Friday that even though she used to be asked about it at nearly every stop on the [...]

The IndyCar Racing circuit took last weekend off.
Marco Andretti called it a ”much needed break.”
No wonder.
After encountering controversy and a disappointing third-place finish at last month’s Indy 500, the 21-year-old Nazareth native had late crashes at Milwaukee and Texas.
The crash at Texas came with five laps to go and Andretti fighting for second place with [...]

Dr. Indy Note - With Tickets for Richmond in Hand -I start to look forward to the “Challenge” in Richmond.
Danica Patrick has struggled on road courses throughout her four-year career. But she squeezes the most out of her talents on short tracks — including Richmond International Raceway.
With less than two weeks left before the SunTrust [...]

Andretti will be joined on the front row by another young IndyCar Series star — Rahal, who posted a four-lap average of 167.654 mph (1:27.1796) in the No. 06 Hole in the Wall Camps Honda-powered car for Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing.
“We lost the right-rear shock, it was fading the entire session and then went completely south in [...]

Andretti Green and Dario rain over Indy.
When the race was stopped the first time for rain, 113 laps were completed. A race is required to go a minimum of 101 laps before it can be official. If rain had continued the rest of the afternoon, it could have been declared over. Andretti Green Racing was [...]

Dan Wheldon won, the first English victor since Graham Hill in 1966., Michael Andretti won as a car owner…What great stories.
BUT. They took the back seat to the birth of Danica-Mania.
Rookie Danica Patrick, who qualified fourth and finished fourth, became the first female driver to lead laps during the race and won [...]

Dixon edged Target Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Dan Wheldon, who turned in the second-fastest time trial for the May 25 race at an average 226.110 miles an hour.
Ryan Briscoe of Penske racing will join Dixon and Wheldon on the front row.
Helio Castroneves, Danica Patrick and Tony Kanaan make up the second row. Marco [...]

Andretti Leads Opening Day - Honda Report Andretti Green Racing’s Marco Andretti was the only driver to break into the 226 mph speed range Tuesday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and led the opening day as practice began for the 92nd running of the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race. Teammate Tony Kanaan was second-quickest [...]

In a terse press release Thursday, Andretti Green Racing, which is seeking to purchase the rights to a Indy Racing League event in Toronto, said it and Grand Prix Association of Toronto have agreed to extend the closing date on staging the race to May 15.
“The additional period is needed to allow both parties time [...]