NEWS | 🇬🇧 Jamie Chadwick is actively targeting a part-time
#INDYCAR
campaign for 2025 and intends to compete in 6-8 races next year!
Chadwick finished 7th overall in
@INDYNXT
this season, after claiming her first series win at Road America in June.
(📸 Penske Entertainment)
NEWS | 🇧🇷 Cecília Rabelo claims pole position at Interlagos. She’s the first female driver to take pole in Brazilian F4, which holds its first event on F1 support bill.
Rabelo went on a different strategy as she was the only driver to use rain tyres in qualifying.
#F4Brazil
NEWS | It’s a big day for some feeder series stars, as they get a taste of
#INDYCAR
action at Sebring 👀
Juri Vips runs with Rahal Letterman Lanigan, while his F2 colleague Marcus Armstrong tests with Dale Coyne 💪
(📸 Formula Motorsport)
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇧🇷 Cecilia Rabelo will race 2023 Brazilian F4 season. She’s tested and took part in few Formula Delta races and now steps up to F4.
Cecilia is the second female driver to confirm her presence in 2023 Brazilian F4 grid.
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇬🇧 One of the worst kept secrets in feeder series racing is now finally official: Jamie Chadwick joins Andretti Autosport for the 2023
@INDYNXT
season!
Chadwick shifts to American open-wheel racing after dominating W Series for several years 💪
That’s a wrap for
@JamieChadwick
and
@FollowAndretti
at Sebring!
She completed 126 laps during the day with lap times that were very competitive, considering it was her first time in an
@IndyLights
car and she was the only car on track 👍
Will we see her in Lights in 2023? 👀
BREAKING | 🇺🇸 Nolan Siegel will not return to
@INDYNXT
and will instead replace Theo Pourchaire at Arrow McLaren in
@IndyCar
with immediate effect!
What this means for Pourchaire, the reigning
#FIAF2
champion, is unclear at the moment.
Here are your unofficial testing times from Sebring yesterday 👀
A good showing for Juri Vips (Rahal Letterman Lanigan) and Marcus Armstrong (Dale Coyne Racing) in their first
#INDYCAR
test!
Fastest of all, however, was IMSA and WEC ace Tom Blomqvist (Meyer Shank Racing) 💪
NEWS | 🇸🇪 2022 Indy NXT champ Linus Lundqvist will test an
#INDYCAR
with Rahal Letterman Lanigan at Texas on April 3 💪
Meanwhile, team owner Bobby Rahal told Swedish TV station SVT that RLL “will see what we can do to run him in a couple of races this year” 👀
(📸 RTD Media)
BREAKING | 🇵🇭 Bianca Bustamante will take part in this week’s USF Juniors test at Barber Motorsports Park!
The Phillippine driver, who is also expected to run in
@WSeriesRacing
this season, will join the IGY6 Motorsports team at Barber 💪
(📸 Bianca Bustamante PR)
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇺🇸 Myles Rowe joins HMD Motorsports with Force Indy in
@INDYNXT
in 2024!
The American won the
@USFPro2000
title in Portland last weekend and will first test with HMD on October 20.
Ernie Francis Jr. will not return as a Force Indy driver in 2024.
(📸 HMD)
BREAKING NEWS | 🇺🇸 Indy NXT has announced an improved scholarship for 2023 💪
The 2023
@INDYNXT
champion will receive a cash prize of USD 850,000 as well as IndyCar tests at the IMS road course and the Texas oval, plus a race seat in the Indy 500 and one additional IndyCar race.
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇬🇧 Jamie Chadwick continues with Andretti Autosport after all for the 2024
@INDYNXT
season!
The three-time W Series champ finished 12th overall in her rookie season in the series.
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇵🇭 Bianca Bustamante returns to
@USFJuniors
next weekend, joining Exclusive Autosport for the last three races of the 2023 season at COTA 💪
Bustamante, a race winner in
@f1academy
this season, also raced in USF Juniors in 2022.
(📸
@ExclAutosport
PR)
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇺🇸 Lindsay Brewer returns to
@USFPro2000
with Exclusive Autosport in 2023!
After making her part-time debut during the 2022 season,
@LindsayMBrewer
will run a full-time campaign next year 💪
(📸 Exclusive PR)
NEWS | 🇺🇸 W Series champion
@JamieChadwick
is scheduled to be one of four Andretti drivers during Friday’s
@IndyLights
test at the IMS road course, F1FS has learned 👀
HMD, Abel, Juncos and Force Indy will also attend the test day, meaning around 15 cars will be out on track 💪
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇧🇷 Caio Collet switches to
@INDYNXT
and has signed with HMD Motorsports for the 2024 season!
The Brazilian, a former Alpine Academy member, spent the past three years in FIA F3, winning three races and scoring 11 podiums 💪
NEWS | 🇧🇷 Felipe Massa will participate in the official tests of Brazilian F4 with
@racingtmg_
tomorrow at Interlagos!
The former F1 driver, currently racing with the team in Stock Car Brazil, will test the car and then provide feedback on it to all drivers on the grid.
At Barber,
@LindsayMBrewer
will join the Indy Pro 2000 field - to prepare, she is on an intense testing schedule to get up to speed 💪
Want to know how she’s doing? Check out this vlog on her YouTube account, including some pretty cool onboard footage!
NEWS | 🇧🇷 The Brazilian Automobile Confederation has created its own driver academy!
The project will start with karting, selecting four drivers to race in the OK Junior World Championship and OK-N World Cup. Also, Brazilian F4 will be transformed into a school category in 2025.
NEWS | 🇺🇸 Sebastian Wheldon, the son of two-time Indy 500 winner Dan Wheldon, wins the Skip Barber Formula Race Series!
That means the Andretti Global-backed youngster gains a USD 100,000 scholarship to graduate to USF Juniors! 💪
NEWS | 🇧🇷 Aurelia Nobels will not race Brazilian F4 last round this weekend at Interlagos. The newest FDA member was admitted to hospital for appendicitis and underwent last minute surgery. Nobels is doing well and, if she improves quickly, will support TMG Racing from the boxes.
✅ Kyle Kirkwood at Andretti
✅ Colton Herta at Andretti
✅ Linus Lundqvist at Ganassi
✅ Rinus VeeKay at ECR
✅ Pato O’Ward at Arrow McLaren
✅ David Malukas at Arrow McLaren
The
@INDYNXT
and the Road to Indy ladder *works* 💪
🇩🇰 CHRISTIAN RASMUSSEN IS THE 2023 INDY NXT CHAMPION! 🇩🇰
After winning the
@USF2000
title in 2020 and getting the
@USFPro2000
championship in 2021, the Danish driver has now won all categories on the Road to Indy he competed in 💪
(📸 Gavin Baker)
NEWS | 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Multiple FIA F3 race winner Caio Collet and Kaylen Frederick are part of a 9-car HMD Motorsports squad at Friday’s
@INDYNXT
test 👀
Other new names are Michael d’Orlando and Niels Koolen, alongside Nolan Siegel, Myles Rowe, Reece Gold, Josh Pierson and Chris Bogle.
ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇺🇸 F1 Feeder Series is going to the Americas! We want to increase our coverage of racing there and are now launching this dedicated channel 😎
We’ll cover the full Road to Indy, FR Americas, F4 US, F4 NACAM, F4 Brazil and F4 Argentina.
So hit that Follow button!
NEWS | 🇺🇸 THIS is the new name and logo of what used to be known as Indy Lights 👇
As of the 2023 season, the main feeder series to
#INDYCAR
will be called INDY NXT, while Firestone becomes the official title sponsor.
Keep an eye out for an in-depth report later today 👀
NEWS | 🇸🇪 Linus Lundqvist will finally make his
@IndyCar
debut later this month, joining Meyer Shank Racing at Nashville! 💪
The 2022
@INDYNXT
champion will run instead of Simon Pagenaud.
(📸 Motorsport Publication)
NEWS | 🇺🇸 That’s a wrap on the morning session of
@INDYNXT
testing at Barber!
Jacob Abel is fastest, followed by a very strong run for Caio Collet in his first ever laps at Barber 💪🇧🇷
Gold, Roe, Bogle, Foster, Rowe, Siegel, Green and Aron complete the top-10.
NEWS | 🇸🇪 Linus Lundqvist is testing an
#INDYCAR
with Ed Carpenter Racing at Sebring on June 8!
The 2022
@INDYNXT
champion will join Toby Sowery on track, who is testing with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing the same day.
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇧🇷 Kiko Porto will make his
@INDYNXT
debut at IMS this weekend, joining Cape Motorsports in the
#47
Dallara 💪
The Brazilian, currently second in the
@USFPro2000
standings, will also race with Cape at the Gateway oval round.
(📸 Indy NXT PR)
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇺🇾 Maite Cáceres will be racing for International Motorsport in US F4 this season! She recently took part in the W Series Arizona test, and did F4 testing at Homestead last year.
#F4US
#Formula4
LOUIS FOSTER IS THE 2024 INDY NXT CHAMPION! 🇬🇧🇬🇧
The 21-year-old Briton dominated this season, winning seven races and clinching an additional four podium finishes and six poles.
Foster now gains a scholarship worth USD 850,000 to graduate to
#INDYCAR
(📸 Penske Entertainment)
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇺🇸🇯🇵 Reece Ushijima (20) joins Jay Howard Driver Development in
@USFPro2000
, adding another strong name to a stacked field! 💪
The Japanese-American driver ran with Van Amersfoort Racing in
#FIAF3
in 2022 and scored one podium in his rookie year.
(📸 JHDD)
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇩🇰🇺🇸 Benjamin Pedersen is the first 2022
@IndyLights
driver to graduate to
#INDYCAR
! 💪
The Danish-American joins AJ Foyt Racing for 2023, after finishing fifth overall with one win in Lights this year.
(📸 GRG PR)
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇧🇷 Caio Collet returns to
@INDYNXT
in 2025 with HMD Motorsports!
Collet, who already has Rookie of the Year and 3rd in the championship secured for 2024, won one race this year and aims for the title in 2025 👀
(📸 Chris Jones, Penske Entertainment)
NEWS | 🇧🇷 A good start to the
@INDYNXT
weekend at Mid-Ohio for HMD Motorsports driver Caio Collet!
Fastest in Practice 1, and the Brazilian has secured a new sponsor in the form of Amazonas-focused logistics firm Combitrans 💰
(📸 HMD Motorsports)
NEWS | Lots of 2023 car count talk at the
@IndyLights
finale in Laguna - so here’s what our intel tells us 👀
With growth at HMD, continuity at Andretti, Abel and Force Indy, the arrival of Cape and Legacy, and the planned return of Juncos, we expect around 20 cars next year 🙌🏻
NEWS | Former
@USF2000
race winner Prescott Campbell has announced he’s ended his career:
"I’ve decided to stop racing competitively in order to put my undivided effort towards my lifetime goal of becoming an engineer in Formula One."
Good luck! 💪
(📸
@PCampbell_60
Instagram)
First reported by RACER and Marshall Pruett last night, F1 Feeder Series can now also confirm that Myles Rowe has secured the necessary budget to complete the
@USF2000
season with Pabst Racing 💪
(📸 Gavin Baker)
NEWS | 🇺🇸 Nolan Siegel will do double duty this week, as he has been named as a replacement for Agustin Canapino at Juncos Hollinger in
#INDYCAR
!
Siegel will also race in
@INDYNXT
this weekend, while Canapino has taken “a leave of absence” as per the team.
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇺🇸 Myles Rowe graduates to
@USFPro2000
with Pabst Racing in 2023 😎
Like Ernie Francis, last year’s runner-up in
@USF2000
will be backed by Force Indy, which has morphed into a support programme that aligns with leading
#RoadToIndy
teams.
(📸 Gavin Baker)
NEWS | 🇧🇷 Stepping up from karting and facing her first year in open-wheel racing, Rafaela Ferreira will race 2023 Brazilian F4 season. She was the first female driver to set F4 Graduados class pole position in Copa Brasil and has been testing formula cars in the past few months.
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇧🇷 Cecília Rabelo joins Bassani Racing for the 2024 Brazilian F4 season!
The 16-year-old finished 11th in 2023 and changed teams for this season. She is the first woman to secure a pole position in F4.
#BrazilianF4
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇩🇪 Lirim Zendeli joins TJ Speed Motorsports for the 2023
@USFPro2000
season, completing the team’s three-car squad! 💪
Zendeli, a German with Albanian roots aged 23, has competed in
#FIAF2
and
#FIAF3
and hopes to move on to
@INDYNXT
in 2024 👀
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇧🇷 Kiko Porto returns to
@INDYNXT
and joins HMD Motorsports!
The Brazilian replaces Nolan Siegel for Road America, after the young American was recruited by Juncos Hollinger to replace Agustin Canapino in IndyCar!
Here he is, Brazilian fans: Recife’s own Kiko Porto, making his debut in
@INDYNXT
for Cape Motorsports at Indianapolis 💪🇧🇷
Follow along with free practice via IndyCar Live 📺
NEWS | 🇺🇸 Sting Ray Robb makes the move up to
@IndyCar
after two years in
@INDYNXT
(formerly Indy Lights).
The Idaho native joins Dale Coyne Racing after 34 races in NXT. In 2022 he won 1 race and claimed 8 podiums on his way to runner-up in the championship 💪
(📸 Gavin Baker)
NEWS | 🇺🇸 It’s track day for
@INDYNXT
at the Indianapolis road course today!
21 cars and drivers will take to the track, including this exciting rookie from Brazil 👇👀
The test runs between 9 am and 4 pm Eastern and live timing is available at ✌️
NEWS | 🇩🇰 Reigning
@INDYNXT
champion Christian Rasmussen has signed an
#INDYCAR
contract with Ed Carpenter Racing for 2024!
The Danish driver will become teammate to Dutchman Rinus VeeKay, one of the stars of the 2019 Indy Lights season.
Congrats Christian! 💪
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇺🇸 Josh Mason joins Abel Motorsports for the 2024
@INDYNXT
season! 💪
Mason, who raced in FIA F2 last year, joins Jacob Abel and Yuven Sundaramoorthy in what will be a four-car Abel squad in Indy NXT 👀
NEWS | Brazilian F4 promotes two days of testing in Interlagos.
This is the first time the drivers are testing the Tatuus F4 T-021 at the Brazilian motorsport temple, the track that will host the 2nd round of the championship.
#F4Brazil
NEWS | 🇺🇸 The 2024
@INDYNXT
grid is on track to have 22 cars, Feeder Series has learned 👀
HMD Motorsports (📸) plans to field 10 cars next year, with Andretti running 4, Abel looking at 3, and both Cape and Juncos entering 2 cars - the final entry is for Jack William Miller 💪
NEWS | 🇺🇸 Nolan Siegel will make his
#INDYCAR
debut this season, signing with Dale Coyne Racing for the races at Thermal, Long Beach, Toronto and the
#Indy500
💪
The American will also race the full 2024
@INDYNXT
season with HMD Motorsports, his sophomore year in the series.
NEWS | 🇩🇰 Reigning
@INDYNXT
champion Christian Rasmussen has won the 24 Hours of Daytona in the LMP2 class!
The Danish driver, who will race in
#INDYCAR
with Ed Carpenter Racing in 2024, finished 9th overall in the race in his Era Motorsport Oreca.
(📸 Penske Entertainment)
NEWS | 🇺🇸 That’s a wrap on the morning session of
@INDYNXT
testing at Barber!
Jacob Abel is fastest, followed by a very strong run for Caio Collet in his first ever laps at Barber 💪🇧🇷
Gold, Roe, Bogle, Foster, Rowe, Siegel, Green and Aron complete the top-10.
NEWS | It’s a first ever
#INDYCAR
pole position for the Road to Indy GOAT Kyle Kirkwood 😎🐐
From your old friends at
@feeder_series
: huge congrats Kyle!
RESULTS | Myles Rowe does it again: he wins his fifth
@USF2000
race of the season and extends his lead in the standings 💪
Jace Denmark is second ahead of Jagger Jones, while Michael d’Orlando is fourth. Race 2 tomorrow!
(📸 Gavin Baker)
NEWS | 🇺🇸 A total of 19 drivers are scheduled to appear at Monday’s
@INDYNXT
test at Barber!
We hear F3 race winner Caio Collet returns to HMD, while Cape Motorsports runs Salvador De Alba and Kiko Porto 👀
Juncos again fields a car for
@LindsayMBrewer
; Callum Hedge is absent.
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇸🇪 This will be a popular one 😎
Linus Lundqvist returns to Indy Lights with HMD Motorsports after finishing 3rd in the series last year!
The 2020
@FRAmericas
champion should be an an instant favourite for the Lights title 💪
(📸 Gavin Baker/RTD Media)
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇸🇪 Rasmus Lindh joins Juncos Hollinger Racing for the
@INDYNXT
race at Indianapolis, replacing Reece Gold.
That completes a driver swap between Juncos and HMD, as Lindh returns to the team where he also raced in 2019 and 2021.
(📸 Gavin Baker)
NEWS | 🇺🇸 All
@INDYNXT
broadcasts via INDYCAR Live are behind a paywall for international viewers as of 2024.
Last year, INDYCAR Live streaming access was free after registration for most non-US viewers.
Now fans must pick a payment plan, with the fee based on their location.
NEWS | 🇺🇸 Chip Ganassi Racing has conrfirmed to
@RACERmag
it will join
@INDYNXT
in 2025 with a two-car operation, becoming the latest IndyCar team to expand into Indy NXT.
The move by Ganassi into NXT is related to a planned downsizing of its number of IndyCar entries.
🇧🇷 VINÍCIUS TESSARO IS YOUR 2023 BRAZILIAN F4 CHAMPION! 👏👏👏
Despite retiring on the first lap of Race 2, the 16-year-old driver secured the championship from the pits with a race to spare, having accumulated 224 points this season!
#BrazilianF4
NEWS | 🇸🇪 Linus Lundqvist will join Avalanche Andretti Formula E for this month’s series Rookie Test in Berlin!
The 2022
@INDYNXT
champ tested an
#IndyCar
with
@RLLracing
earlier this week, while he also tried an LMP2 with
@DragonSpeedLLC
at Spa last month 👀
(📸 RTD Media)
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇸🇪 Joel Granfors is joining Exclusive Autosport for the 2023
@USFPro2000
season!
Granfors is the team’s third driver in the series and joins Exclusive from GB3, where he finished second overall in 2022 with two race wins 💪
NEWS | 🇬🇧 Williams Racing has confirmed that Jamie Chadwick will remain affiliated with the team as an F1 Academy Adviser to Lia Block.
Chadwick, who next month starts her sophomore
@INDYNXT
season with Andretti Global, also remains a Williams Racing Driver.
(📸 Chris Jones)
NEWS | Juncos returns to
@IndyLights
in 2023 with two cars and transfers its Indy Pro 2000 team to TJ Speed!
TJ Speed will leave Lights but has agreed to take over Juncos’ two-car Indy Pro team. It also plans to enter USF2000 in 2023 with at least two cars.
(📸 Gavin Baker)
NEWS | 🇧🇷 Here’s the calendar of 2023 Brazilian F4 season:
1. Apr 23, Interlagos
2. Jun 18, Brasília
3. Ago 6, Velocitta
4. Ago 27, Goiânia
5. Nov 5, Interlagos - GP São Paulo
6. Nov 26, Brasília
#F4Brazil
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇺🇸 Sebastian Wheldon joins VRD Racing for the 2024
@USFJuniors
season!
The Andretti-backed son of two-time Indy 500 winner Dan Wheldon is the 2023 Skip Barber Formula Racing Series champion, which landed him a USD 100,000 scholarship for USF Juniors 💪
NEWS | 🇺🇸 Last year’s
@INDYNXT
Rookie of the Year Nolan Siegel will get a first
#INDYCAR
outing at Homestead today, testing with Dale Coyne Racing 💪
Siegel is already confirmed to return to Indy NXT with HMD Motorsports in 2024, and HMD tells Feeder Series this hasn’t changed.
As the 2023
@INDYNXT
winner, Christian Rasmussen gets $850,000 in cash, two
#IndyCar
tests, plus a race seat in the
#Indy500
and one more IndyCar race 💰
Rasmussen is rumoured to test with Ed Carpenter Racing later this month 👀
As runner-up, Hunter McElrea gets $125,000.
NEWS | Legacy Autosport has bought an
@IndyLights
chassis which it plans to run as of the 2023 season 🥳
F1 Feeder Series is aware of at least one other Road to Indy team that has ordered Lights cars, as well as a European team that’s looking at a Lights entry 👀
(📸 Legacy PR)
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇧🇷 Rafaela Ferreira confirms she joined TMG Racing on her open-wheel racing debut season. Differing from last year, Brazilian F4 in 2023 lets their drivers negotiate with the teams for a seat, thus, apparently there won’t be car draws anymore.
#F4Brazil
Brazilian F4 | 🇧🇷 Big crash in Brazilian F4 involving Álvaro Cho and João Tesser. Thankfully, all drivers are okay and both cars 21 and 29 were safely removed off the track.
#F4Brazil
NEWS | 🇧🇷 Caio Collet will miss today’s
@INDYNXT
test at Iowa Speedway, after the
@HMDMotorsports
driver was called up by Nissan to replace Oliver Rowland in this weekend’s Formula E race in Portland.
Luckily for Collet, the Iowa oval test is currently on hold due to rain.
DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT | 🇺🇸 As first reported by F1 Feeder Series, Josh Pierson joins HMD Motorsports for the 2023
@IndyLights
season and beyond 💪
The American wonderkid, who raced at Le Mans aged 16, will combine Lights with WEC - so Pierson will miss some Lights races in 2023.
NEWS 🇸🇪 | Rasmus Lindh will not race with HMD Motorsports in
@INDYNXT
at Barber this weekend due to funding issues, Feeder Series has learned 😕
The Swedish driver, who finished 9th in St Petersburg, already tested without decals earlier this month at IMS.
(📸 Joe Skibinski)