IndyCar teams have spent the past year trying to learn everything they can about the hybrid engines introduced midway through last season.

Former Indianapolis 500 champion Marcus Ericsson hails from Sweden but calls Circle City home. Here are his top local recommendations ahead of the Indy 500.

Last year at the season-opening Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, Team Penske was also found to have run afoul of the rules. The team was found in violation of the “Push to Pass” rules, IndyCar Rules 14.19.15 and 14.19.16. The team’s No. 2 and No. 3 entries were disqualified from that event, and its No. 12 entry received a ten-point penalty.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Natalie Grant, a nine-time Grammy nominee and five-time GMA Dove Awards Female Vocalist of the Year, will perform the national anthem Sunday before the Indianapolis 500.

He took over the business from his father in 1997 and turned the team into one of the best in the league, with a Super Bowl win during the 2006 season.

INDIANAPOLIS — Jim Irsay, the Indianapolis Colts’ owner who leveraged the popularity of Peyton Manning into a new stadium and a Super Bowl title, died Wednesday at age 65. Pete Ward, Irsay’s longtime right-hand man and the teams chief operating officer, made the announcement in a statement from the team. He said Irsay died peacefully in his sleep.

An Indianapolis man has been found guilty of causing a fatal crash while intoxicated. According to a press release from the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office, a jury turned in

Schwartzman will be flanked on the front row by two-time Indy 500 champion Takuma Sato and last year's runner-up Pato O'Ward. Sato is one of three former champions who will start in the first three rows, with 2008 winner Scott Dixon in fourth and 2022 champion Marcus Ericsson in ninth.