IndyCar News

Despite crashing out of his first career Indy Racing Northern Light Series start, Chris Menninga is hopeful of a return to action in the season closing Chevy 500 at the Texas Motor Speedway as a precursor to a full rookie campaign with the No.92 Hemelgarn/Metro Racing team as long as the finance

Dreyer & Reinbold Racing announced on Saturday that current sponsors Purex have resigned with the team as title sponsors for a fourth consecutive Indy Racing Northern Light Series campaign with driver Robbie Buhl in 2002.

Kaptain Robbie Knievel will attempt to make one of his most expensive jumps before the start of the season-ending Chevy 500 at the Texas Motor Speedway as the stunt legend tries to vault a full grid of Indy Racing Northern Light Series machines valued at approximately $10 Million.

Sam Schmidt announced today that Alex Barron would assume the duties of the #99 Sam Schmidt Motorsports Racing Special. Barron, who has demonstrated the ability to perform well with limited resources in CART, has been on Schmidt's shortlist for a long time.

Former Formula One test driver Laurent Redon completed his Indy Racing League Rookie Test at the new Chicagoland Speedway and now plans to race at Chicagoland on Sept. 2 and at Texas Motor Speedway on Sept. 16.

Target/Chip Ganassi driver Memo Gidley, who was involved in a serious single-car incident on Lap 21 of Sunday's Motorola 220 at Road America, has left hospital with a small fracture in his upper leg.

The Champ Car silly season got off to a dramatic start at Road America this weekend with the announcement that current points leader Kenny Brack had signed for the Target Chip Ganassi Racing outfit for the 2002 CART FedEx Championship.

Newman-Haas Racing has won a total of 59 CART events since Paul Newman and Carl Haas began their association back in 1982 and win number one was scored by Mario Andretti at Road America in the summer of 1983 meaning that every visit to Elkhart Lake is a special one for the squad.

Following the arrival of Jaques Lazier with the team, John Menard has confirmed that 1999 Indy Racing Northern Light Series Champion Greg Ray has left his squad and that Lazier will be Team Menard's driver for the remainder of the 2001 season.

Michael Andretti (Pictured last year) has collected three FedEx Championship Series victories at Road America (1990, '91 and '96) and has scored championship points in 10 of his 16 career appearances at the venue, with three runner-up finishes (1985, '86 and '99).

T.E. McHale: Some quick background on Dario before we begin taking questions.

Sam Schmidt has reacted angrily to the news that Jaques Lazier has left his fledgling squad and defected to Team Menard, leaving him driverless for the next round at St Louis.

Patrick Racing's General Manager Jim McGee pronounced the team "pleased" with Townsend Bell after the current Dayton Indy Lights Championship leader completed a trouble free day of testing for the Reynard-Toyota outfit at the Mid Ohio Sports Car Course on Monday.

Visteon/Patrick Racing's Jimmy Vasser qualified a season high fourth while team-mate Roberto Moreno will line-up 15th for tomorrow's Miller Lite 200 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio.

Rookie CART FedEx team Arciero-Blair Racing return to the Champ Car arena this weekend at Mid Ohio following their one race lay-off with the exciting announcement that the much vaunted 'Driving 101' program had signed on as sponsors of the team for the remainder of the year.

Not content with signing Aerosmith as a sponsor for the Indianapolis 500 earlier this year, Heritage Motorsports have teamed up with another major rock-star in the shape of John Mellencamp for the remainder of the season giving Heritage the mantle of being true rock and roll racers.

PacWest Racing's participation in Sunday's Miller Lite 200 is now in doubt following an apparent dispute with engine suppliers Toyota, which resulted in neither Mauricio Gugelmin nor Scott Dixon turning a single lap in either of Friday's two practice sessions.

Former Grand Prix winner Johnny Herbert will test an Indy Racing car with Heritage Motorsports at Kentucky Speedway on Monday (Aug. 13), the team announced today.

Michael Andretti (pictured at Mid-Ohio last year) owns five top-five finishes in 16 career starts at Mid-Ohio, including back-to-back victories from the pole in 1990 and '91.

T.E. McHale: Kenny Brack, the driver of the No. 8 Shell/Ford/Lola became the first driver of the FedEx Championship Series season to reach 100 championship points when he drove to victory two weeks ago in the Target Grand Prix presented by Energizer at Chicago Motor Speedway.

Cahill Racing's Robby McGehee very likely holds a distinction that no other driver entered in this coming Sunday's Belterra Resort Indy 300 at Kentucky Speedway holds: He won his last race.

Championship Auto Racing Teams, Inc., and ESPN International, its worldwide television rights holder and partner, have completed an agreement with leading Italian television group Mediaset for the airing of CART's two European races on Italian national television.

The next A.J. Foyt - literally - is rushing into the future of open-wheel auto racing. A.J. Foyt IV, grandson of the legendary four-time Indianapolis 500 champion of the same name, already is involved in the Indy Racing Northern Light Series.

Former Indy Lights competitor Chris Menninga has spent the past week in the cockpit of the No. 92 Hemelgarn/Metro Racing Oldsmobile-powered Dallara chassis after successfully completing his Indy Racing Northern Light Series rookie orientation test.