Palou scores back-to-back wins for Honda to open2025 IndyCar season March 23, 2025 — THERMAL, CA Alex Palou continued his impressive start to the 2025 NTT INDYCAR SERIES season, scoring back-to-back victories to open his championship defense. The reigning and three-time IndyCar series champion started third at today’s Thermal Club IndyCar Grand Prix and made…...
Rough race notes with many, many errors. By Steve Wittich The colors were presented at noon, and Ariss Durazo sang the anthem. Teams prepared to get their drivers loaded into Read More
By Steve Wittich Generally, we know what the strategy for a particular race will be and am not often perplexed about what will happen throughout the 65-lap. Well, count us Read More
Steve Wittich When morning warm-up began, the sun shone with the ambient temperature at 66F and the track temperature at 66F. At the end of the warm-up, 25 minutes later, the Read More
By Steve Wittich Good morning from the southern end of the Coachella Valley, where we are 138 feet BELOW sea level at the 3.067-mile Thermal Club 17-turn road course. Here is Read More
By Steve Wittich The temperature when the ten minute Round 1, Group 1 hit the track, the ambient temperature was 84F and the track temperature was 118F. Malukas, Daly, and Abel Read More
By Steve Wittich Correction After the session, we checked with Arrow McLaren and were mistaken in thinking that Lundgaard was on Firestone Firehawk Alternate (Reds) race tires when he set Read More
By Steve Wittich The sun shone brightly when the 45-minute practice started; the ambient temperature was 74F, and the track temperature was 87F. Before practice, INDYCAR announced that Christian Lundgaard Read More
By Steve Wittich Good morning from The Thermal Club, where the NTT INDYCAR SERIES will practice and qualify for The Thermal Club INDYCAR Grand Prix with the following schedule: TIME Read More
By Steve Wittich When the 45-minute portion of Friday practice started at 3:30 pm (Pacific), the ambient temperature was 86F and the track temperature was 118F. With tire wear a Read More