Bridgestone Announces Partnership, Plant Opening
Bridgestone’s Firestone brand is going to be the exclusive tire supplier and Official Tire for the NTT IndyCar® Series for at least another five years.
Bridgestone’s Firestone brand is going to be the exclusive tire supplier and Official Tire for the NTT IndyCar® Series for at least another five years.
The 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500 became even more compelling when Andretti Autosport announced the addition of Conor Daly to its already stellar four-driver lineup.
Although the series doesn’t start its 17-race calendar until the second weekend of March, the NTT IndyCar Series has been busy with announcements and will soon conduct its initial open tests in preparation for the season-starter at St Petersburg, Fla.
The IndyCar Series has a new sponsor for 2019 and, hopefully, many years to come. NTT, a global information technology and communications firm, has signed a multi-year agreement to become the series’ title partner.
If you look at the IndyCar Series and its collection of teams, you’ll find most of the owners have raced competitively in the sport.
Harding Steinbrenner Racing, which started in 2017 as a single-car entry at the Indianapolis 500 with Gabby Chaves at the controls of a Harding Racing-entered Chevrolet-powered Indy car, will switch brands for the upcoming 2019 IndyCar Series.
If Alexander Rossi shows the temperament that guided him and engineers Jeremy Milless and Brian Page to P2 in 2018, they’ve got to be favorites to succeed next year.
The IndyCar Series’ Harding Racing has added George Michael Steinbrenner IV as part owner, as the young entrepreneur joins Indianapolis businessman Mike Harding in the US’s top open wheel series, a team that will now be known as Harding Steinbrenner Racing.
As he crossed the start-finish line at Sonoma Raceway on Sunday, Scott Dixon equaled a record held by the great A.J. Foyt.
This weekend is the close of the Verizon IndyCar Series. It’s Verizon’s last stand as series sponsor – Sonoma Raceway’s finale as the site of the season closer in its now-15 years of hosting the series.