IndyCar News

As rumoured, Michael Andretti will line up with Team Green in 2001, running a Reynard-Honda backed by communications giant Motorola.

As expected, Indy Lights driver Jason Bright will make his Champcar debut at Surfers' Paradise next month.

There have been days when Al Unser Jr's performance on the race track has been described as 'monstrous' but, come the Excite 500 race at Texas Motor Speedway, Little Al's car will be a monster again...literally.

Despite not exactly having a love affair with the track that nearly ended his career last season, Mark Blundell buckled down and put in 110% with a car that was virtually undrivable on Friday to give himself a shot at a top 12 grid position going into Saturday's single qualifying session for Sund

Despite trying some major set-up changes in Sunday mornings final warm-up session, Mark Blundell was still left with almost no grip on his PacWest Reynard-Mercedes and entered Sunday's race with a car that was exceptionally difficult to drive on such a tight, bumpy street circuit.

The late Greg Moore was commemorated in his home town when the Molson Indy Vancouver witnessed the unveiling of two memorial awards in his honour.

Dale Coyne has changed his driver line-up for (hopefully) the final time this year, announcing that ex-Toyota Atlantics star Alex Barron will race the No. 19 Lola-Ford previously pedalled by Gualter Salles and Takuya Kurosawa.

With much discussion surrounding CART's expansion into Europe next year and its own 22 race schedule, the fact that the rival Indy Racing Northern Light Series is also planning to embark on its biggest ever season at the same time has almost gone unnoticed.

The October finale for Indy Racing's Northern Light Series at Texas Motor Speedway is getting a new name, as the Excite@Home-sponsored event becomes the 'Excite 500.'

All Champ Cars will be fitted with the Head and Neck Support system (HANS) in 2001 after the device was made mandatory this week by the CART Team Owners.

With 2001 driver/engine contracts seemingly changing on a daily basis, here are the latest possibilities from stateside.

With seven winners from seven races so far this year, it is unsurprising to learn that the inaugural Belterra Resort Indy 300 is wide open with any number of drivers in with a chance of victory.

PacWest's Indy Lights leader Scott Dixon is all set for his first CART group test alongside regular drivers Mark Blundell and Mauricio Gugelmin.

PacWest Racing's Mark Blundell was robbed of possibly his best result of the 2000 FedEx Championship Series when mechanical problems ended his day in the Motorola 220 at Road America.

With less than ten minutes to go in the final qualifying session at Elkhart Lake, Dario Franchitti in the Team KOOL Green Reynard-Honda became only the second driver ever to lap the four mile circuit in under 1 minute and 40 seconds when the Scottish driver produced a mark of 1 minute 39.866 seco

Colombian Roberto Guerrero will attempt to qualify for his second Indy Racing Northern Light Series event of the 2000 season when he gets behind the wheel of the Team Coulson G Force-Aurora for the August 27th race at the new Kentucky Motor Speedway.

Jaques Lazier has been selected to pilot the #43 Dallara-Aurora for David Didero's Mid-America Motorsports outfit for the final two events of the 2000 Indy Racing Northern Light Series starting with the Belterra Resort Indy 300 at the new Kentucky Motor Speedway on August 27th.

Next season's Fed-Ex Championship Series could have a completely new-look to it with many of the top drivers either leaving the championship or moving teams. The Mid Ohio round of the CART series is often the scene of much transfer talk and the situation was no different this year.

As in Formula One qualifying, the last two minutes of the final timed session is a frantic period in the CART Fed-Ex Championship with all drivers trying to improve their time in the dying seconds.

The 1999 Indy Racing Northern Light Series Rookie of the Year Scott Harrington has been arrested and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, a situation which has seen him removed from the Mid America Motorsports team for the rest of the year.

With the Fed-Ex Championship Series taking a well earned break for one weekend, Christian Fittipaldi and Takuya Kurosawa will be using the time to bring themselves back to full fitness while Norberto Fontana will be grateful that the series is back on circuits that turn right aswell as left.

Swedish driver Kenny Brack was the man to beat on the first day of practice at the Chip Ganassi owned oval in downtown Chicago, taking his Shell sponsored Reynard-Ford to the top of the time sheets with a record lap.

Lap 98 of last Sunday's Michigan 500 saw a frightening accident between Kenny Brack and Christian Fittipaldi and although both drivers were uninjured, the closely following Gil De Ferran suffered more than anyone else.

Reynard Motorsport has confirmed that it will continue to supply Marlboro Team Penske in next year's FedEx Championship Series, after the former constructor switched its own chassis for that of the Bicester marque in 2000.