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Former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush lead a long list of well-known names and faced expected to be at the famed 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the 87th running of the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday.

Sarah Fisher will support the Girl Scouts' new "Girls Go Tech" campaign throughout the 2003 IRL IndyCar Series season, starting at the 87th Indianapolis 500.

Twelve of the fastest pit crews in motorsport will challenge for bragging rights at Indianapolis Motor Speedway tonight [22 May], looking to take away the first-place trophy and $30,000 winner's cheque in the 27th annual Checkers/Rally's Pit Stop Challenge.

Hot on the heels of the announcement that the Kraft corporation had joined Tony Kanaan's assault on the Indianapolis 500 comes news that battery giant Energizer has added its support for the Andretti Green Racing pilot.

World of Outlaws star Craig Dollansky made an impact on his Infiniti Pro Series debut last weekend but not the kind he wanted to after an early race accident left him nursing a fractured lower spine.

"The hard part was knowing that we didn't have a sponsor on the race car, and you watch all these drivers walking in and out of the garage knowing that any one of them for the right check or the bad time of the day for the car owners I could be out of the ride.

"It is very frustrating. We had a great car and a great weekend going. To start and just run a couple of corners and then have the yellow come out, it just teases you.

Greg Ray and his new Access Motorsports team have confirmed that current associate backers TrimSpa will increase their role to that of primary sponsors for the Indy 500 and the remainder of the 2003 IRL IndyCar season.

"It was a pretty good day. We went out obviously running full tanks like everybody else, trying to get a race setup. The car is working really good. We had one big moment down there in Turn 1 where I had full opposite lock to catch the racecar.

The third incarnation of Dallara's IRL IndyCar Series chassis has been given the 37th Borg-Warner Louis Schwitzer Award less than a week after the Italian firm's IR3 took pole for the Indy 500 with driver Helio Castroneves.

Former IRL IndyCar drivers Scott Harrington and Billy Roe have joined the field for the historic Freedom 100 Infiniti Pro Series event at Indianapolis this weekend, swelling the field to a series-best 19.

Arie Luyendyk Jr, currently leading the polls as the most popular driver of the 2003 Infiniti Pro Series season, has been handed a double boost for Saturday's historic Freedom 100 with the news that the legendary Smith & Wesson gun making firm will provide personal sponsorship while current a

Borg-Warner Inc., the automotive supplier whose name has been on the world-famous Borg-Warner Trophy since 1936, will award a $50,000 bonus to Helio Castroneves if he wins the Indianapolis 500 for a third consecutive year.

Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Herron School of Art representatives unveiled the official logo for the 2004 Indianapolis 500 on Thursday. The logo represents a clean, retrospective design worthy of the heritage of the world's most prestigious auto race.

Tony Kanaan and Robby Gordon placed their Andretti Green Racing Dallara-Honda's on the front row in a cold and blustery "Pole Day" qualifying session on Sunday for the 87th running of the Indianapolis 500.

"I think actually the car, the other night when we did the first few laps, was slightly faster. There is a problem with the electronic throttle, which we have installed, which tends to make a lot of spikes in the boost because it operates directly the butterfly.

"Yeah, it was a lot of fun, for sure. It was a lot of stress, too. But I think we did such a great race with Mario [Dominguez]. We just had a very little struggle when he didn't really see me and I had one wheel alongside and I went across the grass. I think that's why they penalized him.

Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Miller Brewing Company officials announced on Friday morning (before the bar opened no less!!) that the Miller Lite brand is returning to IMS as the official beer for the Indy 500 and Brickyard 400.

American billionaire IndyCar owner John Menard has bought one of the former Tom Walkinshaw Racing [TWR] sites, taking over TWR Engineering in the process, as he adds to previous acquisitions from the former F1 boss.

SAM HORNISH Jr (#4 Pennzoil Panther Dallara-Chevrolet):

When the inaugural German 500 was run in 2001, several of the current crop of veteran drivers in the Champ Car World Series were on hand to push the limits on the daunting 2.023-mile superspeedway, including Paul Tracy, Patrick Carpentier, owner/driver Adrian Fernandez, Team Rahal's Michel Jourda

Round five of the Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford marks a return to the state-of-the-art EuroSpeedway Lausitz after a year's absence due to the track's recent financial difficulties.

In his first run at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway since the 1995 Indy 500, Bryan Herta strapped into Dario Franchitti's regular #27T Archipelago/Motorola Dallara-Honda and posted a best speed of 225.380mph (39.9326secs) in 53 laps around the 2.5-mile Brickyard.