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Less than a week to go before the inaugural Grand Prix Americas, and the respective 'heads of state' for the CART FedEx Championship and American Le Mans Series got together to answer questions about the Miami event, their race series and a lot more besides...

Less than a week to go before the inaugural Grand Prix Americas, and the respective 'heads of state' for the CART FedEx Championship and American Le Mans Series got together to answer questions about the Miami event, their race series, the threat from opposition and a lot more besides...

Rockingham Motor Speedway has hired former Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Ashley Pover (right) to replace David Grace, who is stepping down from the helm of Europe's fastest Motor Racing circuit.

Preparing to assume the lead role in powering the CART FedEx Championship Series in 2003 and '04, Cosworth Racing put its new 2003-spec XFE engine on the dyno this week where it underwent its first endurance testing in advance of expected road testing later in the year.

In the wake of his angry retirement from the Sure For Men Rockingham 500, Adrian Fernandez is pleased that CART have said they will address the three-tier pitlane speed limit and the issue of speeding in the pits under yellow at the end of the year.

Ricardo Mauricio will have to wait a little longer before getting his first laps in behind the wheel of a full-blooded Indy Racing League car after Mother Nature put paid to his initial test session with Re Bull Cheever Racing on Thursday at Kentucky.

On Friday, September 27, sometime Indy Racing League driver Jimmy Kite will return to his roots at the Auto Tyre and Parts Race Park in Benton, Missouri.

With the future of his IRL squad cloudy for 2003, team boss Sam Schmidt has been busy organising potential drivers for his Infiniti Pro Series team as he attempts to secure the future of Sam Schmidt Motorsports.

Leading Indy Racing League outfit Red Bull Cheever Racing will test 23-year-old Brazilian Ricardo Mauricio at Kentucky Speedway on Thursday following the closure of Dr Helmut Marko's Red Bull Junior FIA International Formula 3000 team.

After an extensive evaluation of its participation in motorsport, the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation [B&W] has announced that it will end its sponsorship programme at the end of the current racing season.

Fernandez Racing co-owners Adrian Fernandez and Tom Anderson have confirmed that Don Halliday will be leaving the team to pursue other opportunities in the motorsports arena.

With several far-reaching changes planned for next year's CART FedEx Championship Series, the organising body's vice-president of racing operations, John Lopes, and director of technology and competition, Lee Dykstra, made themselves available to discuss the competition-enhancing rule revisions t

Despite losing one of its highest profile sponsors, following the announcement that the KOOL brand will no longer feature in its FedEx Championship Series, CART has praised parent company Brown & Williamson Tobacco for its foresight in investing in the sport.

Jimmy Vasser's recent resurgence in the CART FedEx Championship has gone hand-in-hand with the climb that the crew of the #8 Shell Lola-Cosworth machine has made in the standings of the Craftsman Pit Crew Challenge, securing a chance to earn $50,000 with its skill on pit-lane.

"It was 20 years ago today......." goes the famous song, and this Sunday 20 years ago in September in Elkhart Lake, H?ctor Alonso Rebaque became the first Mexican and the first foreign driver to win in the CART series.

The 2003 Indy Racing League event at California Speedway will be named the Toyota Indy 400, speedway and Toyota officials confirmed last night, tying in with the Japanese manufacturer's planned arrival as an engine supplier to the category next season.

Andretti Green Racing has confirmed the long expected news that it will move from CART to the Indy Racing League next season - but then surprised some by also announcing that Dario Franchitti and Tony Kanaan will join new team owner Michael Andretti in the move to the all oval series - while curr

Laurent Redon, driver of the #34 Mi-Jack Dallara-Infiniti earned his first Indy Racing League title at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday.

With the start of the 2003 Indy Racing League season still more than five months away, Chevrolet took the wraps off its all-new, third-generation, IRL engine at Texas Motor Speedway's 2002 campaign finale.

The 2002 Indy Racing League Championship season has truly done its part to try and revitalise mainstream American interest in open-wheel racing outside of the Indy 500 and Sunday's Chevy 500 at the Texas Motor Speedway was a fitting end to one of the most closely fought title battles in series hi

It may not have been as close as the preceding event at Chicagoland, but the Indy Racing League season-ending Chevy 500 at Texas Motor Speedway still provoked its fair share of quote and comment.

After Ryan Hampton lost an engine in the final Infiniti Pro Series warm-up session on Saturday morning at Texas Motor Speedway, it looked doubtful that he would make the start of the season-ending BG Products 100.

GEORGE MACK (No. 31 310 Racing G Force/Chevrolet/Firestone): "Nowhere close. I don't know what happened. It was slower than we did in the last session. I don't know. I can basically chalk this season up to learning."

Vitor Meira became the second rookie to win an MBNA Pole this season in the Indy Racing League, capturing the top spot Sept. 14 as the last driver on the track during qualifying for the Chevy 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.