Mark Glendenning

6pm, May 11, 1996: Scott Brayton takes pole for the Indianapolis 500. 12:17pm, May 17, 1996: Scott Brayton dies in a practice crash. MARK GLENDENNING shares his story

A real American hero was lost from the history books within sight of the finish of the 1967 Indianapolis 500. MARK GLENDENNING revisits the infamous STP turbine Indycar

Newly-crowned Indy Lights champion Spencer Pigot will contest three IndyCar races with Rahal Letterman Lanigan next year, including the Indianapolis 500

Alexander Rossi ended an eight-year Formula 1 exile for American drivers last month, but it seems he has been overlooked for a seat by the new Haas team. MARK GLENDENNING looks at why US drivers should be taken more seriously

Chevrolet subjugated Honda in the first year of IndyCar's aero-kit contest. The season might be over, but the battle has moved off-track and into a political row, as MARK GLENDENNING explains

Josef Newgarden will remain at CFH Racing for the 2016 IndyCar season, the team has confirmed

Tony Stewart will retire at the end of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup season

IndyCar officials have informed New Orleans Motorsport Park that the series will not return to the venue in 2016

Travis Pastrana will return to NASCAR next month when he joins the Truck field at Las Vegas

NASCAR will hold an appeal hearing on September 30 in order to decide whether to uphold the penalties issued to Michael Waltrip Racing and Clint Bowyer earlier this week

James Hinchcliffe will return to the IndyCar cockpit for next Monday's test at Road America, over four months after suffering a thigh injury in a crash during Indianapolis 500 practice

Clint Bowyer's 2015 Sprint Cup championship aspirations have taken a huge hit after NASCAR penalised his Michael Waltrip Racing team for a technical irregularity at Chicagoland last weekend

IndyCar drivers praised the Road America layout after the cars returned to the venue for the first time in eight years for a team test on Tuesday

There have been renewed calls to improve driver safety after the death of Justin Wilson. As MARK GLENDENNING explains, such work was already under way but a solution is not straightforward

Spencer Pigot secured the 2015 Indy Lights title with a commanding win in the season finale at Laguna Seca on Sunday

Spencer Pigot reclaimed the Indy Lights points lead from Jack Harvey with a victory in the first of this weekend's two races at Laguna Seca

Max Chilton secured pole position for the opening race of this weekend's Indy Lights season-finale at Laguna Seca

A nail-biting championship finale and an unlikely champion capped off a gripping IndyCar title battle. MARK GLENDENNING rates the season's best

IndyCar and NASCAR team owner Chip Ganassi is recovering from a broken clavicle after falling off his bicycle last weekend

IndyCars will lap Road America for the first time in eight years later this month ahead of the fabled four-mile road circuit's return to the calendar next season

Honda has hinted that its years as IndyCar's sole engine supplier may have left it under-prepared for the intensity of manufacturer competition after losing another manufacturers' title to Chevrolet

Team Penske and CHF Racing have both been fined over the bizarre pitlane incident that occurred midway through Sunday's IndyCar season-finale at Sonoma

Juan Pablo Montoya has slammed IndyCar's awarding of double points for its season finale after his season-long championship lead turned into a loss on countback to Scott Dixon at Sonoma

Scott Dixon won the 2015 IndyCar title on a tiebreak with Juan Pablo Montoya thanks to victory in an eventful season-finale at Sonoma on Sunday



Will Power crushed the Sonoma track record as he claimed pole for Sunday's IndyCar finale, while points-leading Penske team-mate Juan Pablo Montoya shares row three with main rival Graham Rahal

Ryan Hunter-Reay smashed the Sonoma lap record on his way to setting the fastest time in the second practice session for this weekend's IndyCar season finale

Sage Karam hopes being in the IndyCar paddock at Sonoma will help him come to terms with the circumstances of Justin Wilson's death following a crash at Pocono last Sunday

Will Power was fastest for Penske in the marathon three-and-a-half hour opening IndyCar session at Sonoma on Friday

Marco Andretti remains open to the possibility of looking at Formula 1 in the future, although he insists that IndyCar is still his current focus

Oriol Servia will race Justin Wilson's car at this weekend's IndyCar season finale at Sonoma as a tribute to the Briton, who died earlier this week following a Pocono crash

Tristan Vautier will miss the first two hours of Friday running time at Sonoma after being found guilty of causing avoidable contact with IndyCar title contender Graham Rahal at Pocono

Justin Wilson has died from head injuries sustained when he was struck by debris during Sunday's IndyCar race at Pocono. He was 37 years old

Sage Karam has been released from hospital following his heavy crash during Sunday's IndyCar race at Pocono, although he is yet to receive clearance to drive in this weekend's Sonoma finale

Justin Wilson remains in a critical condition after suffering a severe head injury in a freak accident during Sunday's IndyCar race at Pocono

Justin Wilson is in a coma and in a critical condition after suffering a severe head injury when he was struck by debris during Sunday's IndyCar race at Pocono

Ryan Hunter-Reay won Sunday's chaotic IndyCar race at Pocono, although the afternoon was overshadowed by a frightening accident involving his Andretti Autosport team-mate Justin Wilson

Justin Wilson has been airlifted to hospital after being struck by debris in a crash late in Sunday's IndyCar race at Pocono

Helio Castroneves led a Penske top-three sweep in Pocono IndyCar qualifying, although team-mate and championship leader Juan Pablo Montoya faces the prospect of fighting through from the 10th row

Charlie Kimball set the pace in the opening practice session for this weekend's IndyCar round at Pocono

The lawsuit filed against Andretti Autosport by Andretti Sports Marketing has been resolved, although the terms of the settlement have not been disclosed

AJ Foyt will miss the final two races of the IndyCar season while he recovers from recent surgery to his knee

Indy Lights championship leader Jack Harvey declared himself happy with his first IndyCar test after narrowly beating Nelson Piquet Jr and Matt Brabham to lead the non-regulars at Sonoma

Dirt track star Bryan Clauson is aiming to use next year's 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 as the centerpiece of an attempt to complete a 200-race schedule in 2016

Fontana will not return to the IndyCar calendar in 2016, the series has confirmed

Penske's Simon Pagenaud is optimistic that his team took a step towards improving its understanding of the speedway-spec IndyCar aero kit after testing at Indianapolis on Wednesday

Michael Andretti has vowed to "aggressively" fight a lawsuit from within his own organisation after his partners in Andretti Sports Marketing commenced proceedings claiming that the race team is insolvent

Road America will end an eight-year absence from the IndyCar calendar next year after the series confirmed that the historic road course will return to the schedule in 2016

The family of a sprint car driver killed in a crash involving Tony Stewart last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion

IndyCar officials have cleared Sage Karam and Chip Ganassi Racing of any wrongdoing after an investigation into the rookie's spin late in Sunday's race at Mid-Ohio

Respected former team boss Derrick Walker's abrupt exit from a top IndyCar job shocked some, but not the paddock. MARK GLENDENNING looks at why he's going and whether expectations on him were ever fair

Formula E champion and ex-Formula 1 racer Nelson Piquet Jr will test an IndyCar with Team Penske as part of a special rookie test day at Sonoma next week

Graham Rahal blasted the IndyCar title fight wide open with a hometown win at Mid-Ohio on Sunday

Indy Lights part-timer Sean Rayhall took the win in a spiteful second Indy Lights encounter at Mid-Ohio on Sunday

Scott Dixon saw off a late challenge from Will Power to secure pole position for Sunday's IndyCar race at Mid-Ohio

RC Enerson converted pole position into the first Indy Lights win of his career with a commanding drive at Mid-Ohio on Saturday

Scott Dixon continues to set the early-weekend pace at Mid-Ohio after topping the third IndyCar practice session on Saturday morning

RC Enerson held off Schmidt team-mate Jack Harvey to secure the first Indy Lights pole of his career at Mid-Ohio

Scott Dixon denied Sebastien Bourdais a clean sweep of the opening day of IndyCar practice at Mid-Ohio with a last-gasp fastest time during the second session on Friday

Sebastien Bourdais ended the morning fastest after a busy first practice session for this weekend's IndyCar round at Mid-Ohio