Author: Nathan Brown, Indianapolis Star

A year ago, Indianapolis Motor Speedway welcomed IndyCar and NASCAR on the same weekend, but almost all anyone remembers is the Cup race’s messy end.

All 4 Andretti Autosport cars traded contact over the last 25 laps of Sunday’s Mid-Ohio race, a symptom, Michael Andretti said, of private infighting.

Arrow McLaren SP strategist Taylor Kiel said that while there is a “fine line with the blocking rules,” his team would’ve done the same thing.

It’s been 7 years since F1 had an American driver and 16 since one ran a full-season. But the path to fixing the U.S. drought in F1 is unclear.

For 75 years, Indy 500 grid has held at least 33 cars, but less than 60 days till race day, it’s difficult to see where the 33rd car will come from.

Danny Ongais is the only Hawaiian to drive in the Indy 500 and was one of most versatile drivers. He was 79.

Scott McLaughlin started from the pole then held off the reigning IndyCar champion in the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg for his first career win.

Whether its ‘Will you win a race?’ or ‘Will you even be here in 2023?’, IndyCar drivers face tough questions that will color their 2022 campaigns.

The young star says he’ll be in IndyCar for at least the next 2 seasons before he’d make the move to F1, should Michael Andretti’s team be approved.

Some in the paddock wondered whether NASCAR and IMS would finish the 200-mile experiment that went horribly wrong in the closing laps.