Jack Benyon

London

Editor at The Race

Motorsport Journalist at Freelance

American Editor @wearetherace, columnist @RACERHQ. Journalist specialising in motorsport, video and podcasting

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Articles

IndyCar's ramming inaction sets a worrying precedent

5 days ago | the-race.com | Jack Benyon

Will Power smashing into the back of Kyle Kirkwood and then driving him around the Detroit track like a rag doll was IndyCar's own version of Max Verstappen's collision with George Russell in Spain last weekend. The difference was, Power's went without any penalty whatsoever. It's seemingly been swept under the carpet with no further action taken. Power was on a hot lap in Detroit in first practice when he encountered traffic.
Winners and losers from a 'proper' Detroit IndyCar street race

6 days ago | the-race.com | Jack Benyon

Whatever you think about the really, really short Detroit street circuit, it creates what many would call 'proper' IndyCar street racing. For proper, read: strategic, chaotic, dramatic and fun (for the fans at least). In part because the pitlane is so short, there's the possibility of well-timed cautions making all sorts of strategies viable and that's one of the reasons this race had five drivers who started 15th or worse inside the top 10 at the finish.
Palou actually loses an IndyCar race (Kirkwood wins it)

6 days ago | the-race.com | Jack Benyon

Kyle Kirwood took a dominant victory in Detroit and a second win of the season, in a typically bizarre IndyCar street race which included runaway points leader Alex Palou being taken out while in podium contention. Still only two drivers have won this year with Palou and Kirkwood, and Honda has swept all seven races, with this one coming in Chevrolet's Detroit backyard. Such was the nature of the race that five drivers who started 15th or worse ended up in the top 10.
Power rams Kirkwood in outrageous IndyCar practice incident

1 week ago | the-race.com | Jack Benyon

After an Indianapolis 500 month filled with controversy, it took just minutes for this weekend’s Detroit IndyCar race to give us a fresh altercation as Will Power repeatedly rammed Kyle Kirkwood’s car in bizarre fashion in the first practice session.
Give Larson a break over his Indy 500 controversy

1 week ago | the-race.com | Jack Benyon

Kyle Larson has had a tough Month of May and might not be back at the Indianapolis 500 for a while, which made onboard footage and radio of him calling Scott McLaughlin a "f***ing idiot" for crashing on the formation lap a disappointing sign-off for now. https://t.co/v53Vxtxa4q pic.twitter.com/uIXVtNtAWF— Skid (@WhoisSkid) May 26, 2025 It's not the best look. But it's not that straightforward either, and it's obviously been taken out of context by his detractors.
'I had no drive and no hand' - an IndyCar redemption tale gets rewarded

1 week ago | the-race.com | Jack Benyon

"If I look back one year ago, I wasn't even in IndyCar anymore. I didn't have a left hand and I was up here in the media centre just being a fan."A lot has changed in a year for David Malukas - whose 2025 just got even better when the Indianapolis 500 post-race penalties elevated him to a remarkable second place.
Might Palou get bored? What next for the IndyCar dominator

1 week ago | the-race.com | Jack Benyon

Alex Palou's entering a new chapter, and it's going to be incredibly interesting to see how he handles it. His whole career he's been an underdog. On the junior single-seater ladder he didn't look like a future Formula 1 driver and identified IndyCar as his path, but getting there still meant impressing via Super Formula, and even in doing that in a really impressive way given how tight that championship is, a 2020 IndyCar seat at Dale Coyne while welcome was hardly a seat at the top table.
'It'll keep me up for a while' - How Ericsson lost the Indy 500

1 week ago | the-race.com | Jack Benyon

Marcus Ericsson says he is going to be "kept up at night for a while" by a "painful" Indianapolis 500 defeat to Alex Palou. Since his 2022 Indy 500 win, luck has deserted Ericsson. He almost won the 2023 event but a rule change, the result of a desire to finish the race under green-flag conditions, meant a late caution didn't end the race as it might have done previously and instead he was passed in a one-lap shootout by Josef Newgarden.
Winners and losers from the 2025 Indy 500

1 week ago | the-race.com | Jack Benyon

An absolutely bonkers Indianapolis 500 gave us far more losers than winners, but still: what a race the 109th edition ended up being. It went right down to the wire between two very familiar faces - and a third candidate potentially showing what he can do in the future - while a host of drivers who were expected to challenge were taken out (or took themselves out) of contention. Here we pick our winners and losers right after the chequered flag.
Five underdogs who could win the Indy 500

2 weeks ago | the-race.com | Jack Benyon

A sell-out near 350,000 crowd will gather for the 109th running of the Indianapolis 500, with the sell-out also meaning a blackout of the event will be lifted on local TV for the first time since 2016.