IndyCar News

Gigante driver Michel Jourdain Jr. captured his first career Champ Car World Series pole position with a fast lap of 103.918 mph for Sunday's Grand Prix of Long Beach.

Complete starting line-up for Sunday's Indy Japan 300 at the 1.5-mile Twin Ring Motegi Speedway, round three of the 2003 IRL IndyCar Series Championship.

Michael Andretti has 45 days remaining in his race-driving career. There is little doubt in his mind that he is making the right decision to retire at the conclusion of this year's Indianapolis 500 on May 25.

The Ford Motor Company awarded its highest supplier honor - the World Excellence Award - last week to 41 suppliers for their superior performance during 2002.

Heading into the third round of this year's Champ Car World Series, Paul Tracy's decision to remain loyal to CART instead of going to the rival Indy Racing League looks a good one, as he sits proudly atop the point standings with a 100 per cent record.

Now in its 29th year, the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach continues to stand tall as America's longest running and most recognizable street race. The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach has long been considered a crown jewel of the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford.

Officials from Champ Car confirmed that the Series has entered a partnership with World Audio Visual Entertainment Systems (W.A.V.E.S.), making the Montreal-headquartered hi-tech company the "Official Interactive Video and Audio Viewing System Provider" with its breakthrough television broadcasti

Indy Fever - Catch the Heatwaves. That is the tag line that will become synonymous with the Lexmark Indy 300, heralding a new chapter in the success of the annual Gold Coast showpiece.

The streets of Long Beach, California, come alive this weekend as the city prepares for the 29th running of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.

There have been many historic and memorable races in the eight-year history of the IRL IndyCar Series but next weekend's trip to Twin Ring Motegi marks the most historic of them all as the series makes its first ever trip outside U.S. soil.

Kelley Racing filed a third entry for the 87th Indianapolis 500, with rookie Tony Renna named as the driver and Cure Autism Now Foundation and HomeMed Pharmacy as sponsors.

Penske Racing has filed four entries for the 2003 Indianapolis 500, including one assigned to two-time race winner Helio Castroneves, who will attempt to become the only driver ever to win 'the greatest spectacle in racing' three years in a row.

Team Menard has filed Indy 500 entries for its regular driver Jaques Lazier and test driver Vitor Meira as the Chevrolet powered IRL IndyCar teams continue to work on strength in numbers ahead of 'The Month of May.'

"I would say my idol was and probably still is Michael Andretti. I think it is an honour for me to be able to race with him now, and hopefully I could be running up front more often and be able to battle with Michael before his retirement comes after the Indy 500." - Roger Yasukawa

The German 500, the return of the Champ Car World Series at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz, will be broadcast live on May 11th on German television networks ARD and ORB.

Double Indy Racing League Champions Pennzoil Panther Racing have entered a second Dallara-Chevrolet in this year's Indianapolis 500 for veteran IRL fan favourite Billy Boat, whose own IRL team was forced to suspend operations earlier this season through a lack of funding.

"I'm actually doing great. I'm up, as you can tell, walking. I've been in racecars, I've tested for A.J. [Foyt] at Phoenix, and I've tested my super modified, Silver Crown cars for George Snyder, getting laps in.

"I just live right down the road on 25th Street. I wake up every morning and look at Turn Four. Now when I wake up I get to look forward to racing here finally. It's been my dream for a long time. I've been coming to the 500 since I was eight years old.

World-renowned pop art icon Peter Max has been commissioned to create official artwork, including the Official Program cover, for the 2003 Indy 500.

While much of Thursday's hoopla surrounded the four-car Indy 500 entry for Andretti-Green Racing, the IRL IndyCar outfit at the opposite end of the series food chain also submitted their entry for the 87th running of the 'Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

The engine building alliance between Team Menard and Red Bull Cheever Racing, known as Menard Cheever Technologies, has acquired the U.K based TWR Engines, the engine design arm of Tom Walkinshaw's TWR empire.

Gil de Ferran will miss the Indy Racing League's inaugural trip to Twin Ring Motegi after suffering a small fracture to his lower back and a concussion in a fiery late-race crash in last Sunday's Purex Dial Indy 200 at Phoenix.

After his serious accident in the premiere year of the German 500, the Italian racing driver Alessandro "Alex" Zanardi returns to the EuroSpeedway Lausitz as Grand Marshal on the occasion of the Champ Car race on May 11th.

Panel Chris Pook, Alex Tagliani, Paul Gentilozzi, Jim Michaelian (Long Beach GP President), Jim Liberatore (SPEED Channel President pictured). Host Tommy Kendall.