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Team Penske starts on the pole for the second consecutive race after David Malukas broke through on Friday for his first career pole position ahead of Saturday’s IndyCar Series Good Ranchers 250 at Phoenix Raceway.

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This will be the first time that IndyCar has raced at Phoenix since Josef Newgarden took the checkered flag in 2018. Open-wheel racing has been hit-or-miss at the circuit, as the series ran at Phoenix from 2016 to 2018, but did not run in the previous nine seasons before.

Josef Newgarden threw down the gauntlet shortly after winning the IndyCar opener of the “desert doubleheader” at Phoenix Raceway that paired Roger Penske's open-wheel series with NASCAR for a first-ever twin billing at an oval track.

It’s time for a doubleheader in the desert. For the first time since the 2018 season, IndyCar returns to Phoenix International Raceway for the Good Ranchers 250. The second round of the IndyCar 2026 series is part of a special weekend where the motorsport league will partner with NASCAR to share the one-mile oval throughout the weekend.

INDYCAR has announced an update to the race qualifying format for the Java House Grand Prix of Arlington on Friday-Sunday, March 13-15 on the streets of Arlington, Texas. For NTT INDYCAR SERIES qualifying,

Alex Palou's hold on the IndyCar Series points lead will evaporate for the first time in years after a crash at Phoenix Raceway