If you're a driver racing in the Verizon IndyCar Series, there's good news and bad news. On the plus side, incredibly sophisticated data collection tools allow your team to understand nearly every aspect of your race car's performance - and identify ways to make it even faster.

As he walks around his practically new, nearly 40-foot long Montana RV, IndyCar driver Charlie Kimball is like a kid at show-and-tell, bubbling with excitement to share the nifty features of his new toy.

Sarah Dixon raised her hand to ask Max Chilton a question. First, the driver of the No 8 Chip Ganassi Racing Teams Honda posed a question to the middle school student from Berkeley, California: "I see your name on your jacket. Are you related to my teammate?"

There are no Davids in this battle. Only a pair of Goliaths. In one corner stand a trio, bound together by their alliance with the winningest owner in Indy car history, Roger Penske. In the other corner stands a living legend, who is looking to join A.J. Foyt as the only other driver to win five American open-wheel championships.

Four-time IndyCar champion and three-time Sonoma Raceway winner Scott Dixon knows he’s the party crasher in the Penske Racing parade that is the top five points leaders heading into the GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma series finale this weekend.

Chip Ganassi Racing's managing director Mike Hull believes that four-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon stands comparison with the legends of the sport.

On Saturday night, he was in the right place at the right time to win the Federated Auto Parts 400. Did Larson have the fastest race car at Richmond Raceway? No. That honor went to regular-season champion Martin Truex Jr., who led 198 of 403 laps until he was wrecked by Denny Hamlin following a questionable late-race caution.