Dale Coyne to run Team St George effort.

Currently dormant CART team Dale Coyne Racing has been recruited to run the projected Team St George FedEx Series entry next month at the Rockingham Motor Speedway according to leading Champ Car analyst Paul Cherry.

Speaking on SKY Sports on Sunday evening, Cherry, who himself tendered a bid to run the one-off effort, stated that CART had elected to go with veteran team owner Coyne, whose eponymous team has been mothballed for the past 18 months.

Cherry, who was a former Team Manager for Sigma Autosport, also confirmed that he plans to enter the CART FedEx Series in 2003 with his own team and was awaiting the go-ahead from CART.

Speaking to SKY Sports presenter Keith Huewen, Cherry also revealed that the team would run a Lola-Ford chassis/engine combination as had been widely predicted and that three British drivers were under consideration for the ride.

Former CART winner Mark Blundell and fellow British favorite Johnny Herbert have been strongly linked with the drive while other British drivers with recent open wheel oval experience include Jonny Kane and Guy Smith.

Alternatively the ride could go to one of Britain's rising ASCAR stars. Formula One test drivers Darren Manning and Darren Turner have both starred in the UK's newest oval racing phenomenon and have racked up countless miles of the 1.5-mile quad-oval near Corby.