IRL News

29th Aug 2010

JOLIET, Illinois - One week ago, at Infineon Raceway, Dan Wheldon’s day ended early and upside down.  This week, at Chicagoland Speedway, he was right-side up.  Wheldon, driving the No. 4 National Guard-sponsored Dallara, finished second in...

29th Aug 2010

 JOLIET, Illinois - Dario Franchitti won Saturday night’s PEAK Antifreeze & Motor Oil Indy 300 at Chicagoland Speedway despite running mid-pack for much of the race.  Opting, at the last minute (read: three pits away from pulling into his stall), to not...

27th Aug 2010

JOILET, Illinois – Team Penske’s Ryan Briscoe, driving the No. 6 Dallara, has won his third consecutive pole at Chicagoland Speedway. His two-lap average speed of 216.346 pushed him ahead of Target Chip Ganassi Racing’s Dario Franchitti.

Franchitti, who trails Team Penske’s Will Power by 59 points in the 2010 IndyCar Series’ overall championship standings, will start P2 in tomorrow...

27th Aug 2010

JOLIET, Illinois – Ryan Briscoe, driver of the No. 6 Team Penske car and last year’s polesitter and winner of the PEAK Antifreeze and Motor Oil Indy 300, clocked the fastest lap (217.874) during this morning’s practice session at Chicagoland Speedway.

The morning practice session is the sole practice session before the IZOD IndyCar drivers attempt to make a qualifying run at 2 pm (EST...

26th Aug 2010

Twenty-nine cars are expected to enter Chicagoland Speedway’s PEAK® Antifreeze & Motor Oil INDY 300 IZOD IndyCar® Series race this Saturday, marking the highest car count ever for an IZOD IndyCar Series race at the 1.5-mile tri-oval and the most outside of the 33 starting positions for the Indianapolis 500. Twenty-three cars were entered in Chicagoland Speedway’s 2009 race.

For the...