IndyCar News

Red Bull Cheever Racing has withdrawn the entry for the No. 53 Red Bull Cheever Racing Dallara-Infiniti for the Gateway Indy 250 after Tomas Scheckter elected not to participate in the race this weekend.

Full MBNA Pole Qualifying results and starting lineup for Sunday's Gateway Indy 250 at the Gateway International Raceway, round thirteen of the 2002 Indy Racing League Championship.

The level of interest in the All-England team to run in the CART FedEx series race at Rockingham on September 13/14, has been so great that Team St. George may continue into the 2003 season.

Treadway-Hubbard Racing has joined up with digital image company Dartfish to incorporate the 'DartTrainer' into its driver development and pit-crew training programmes.

The world's largest manufacturer of racing cars, Elan Motorsport Technologies (EMT) is set for a dramatic expansion in 2003 with the establishment of a new chassis design center in the UK and the key appointment of several new staff.

Although the CART FedEx Championship Series has never brought its turbocharged, 800-plus horsepower Champ Cars to the 2.747-mile Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve, which annually entertains Formula 1, be very aware of the three drivers competing on their native soil in this Sunday's Molson Indy Montreal.

Open-wheel veteran and St Louis native Curtis Francois will make his Indy Racing Infiniti Pro Series debut this weekend as the IRL support series resumes at Gateway International Raceway.

Oriol Servia's most impressive performance to date for Patrick Racing came to a premature end when the Spanish driver appeared to run out of fuel on lap 36 of Sunday's 60-lap Motorola 220 at Road America.

Full results from Sunday's 60-lap Grand Prix of Road America featuring the Motorola 220 at the 4.048-mile Road America circuit in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, round twelve of the 2002 CART FedEx Championship Series.

"Well, this [Road America '82] was my last race at that time in the CART series. Then I went back to Europe and I drove one Formula 1 race at the Race of Champions in '83, and then I retired." - Hector Rebaque

Indy Racing Infiniti Pro Series driver Jason Priestley underwent successful surgery on Wednesday at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis to repair fractures in his back and feet.

Kelley Racing team owner Tom Kelley and General Manager Jim Freudenberg today announced that Kelley Racing pledges 100% continued support for injured team members Jason Priestley and Bernie Hallisky.

MK Racing, selected by the Indy Racing League in May to be one of three manufacturers for the 2003-05 generation of chassis, will supply IRL cars under the name "Falcon Cars."

Marlboro Team Penske driver Helio Castroneves helped Toyota Racing Development fine-tune its 2003 Indy Racing League engine during testing Aug. 12-13 at Kentucky Speedway.

Hideki Noda will make his racing return to the IRL at Gateway International Raceway on August 25th. Rookie Noda will drive the No. 28 Nimo Eikoh/Indy Regency Racing G Force/Chevrolet/Firestone fielded by Indy Regency Racing.

"I couldn't be happier with the way things have gone lately. Team Player's has done a fantastic job at every level of the operation and the Reynard-Ford Cosworth package has been flawless.

Dario Franchitti holds the rights to the track qualifying mark at Road America with a time of 1:39.866 (145.924 mph) in 2000. In addition to his track record, Franchitti also scored a win on the monstrous 4.048-mile permanent road course in the 1998 event.

Robby McGehee will drive Treadway-Hubbard Racing's No.55 Atlas Van Lines/Sam Schmidt Motorsports Indy Car in next weekends Gateway Indy 250 in McGehee's hometown of St. Louis.

As the planning for the 2002 Rockingham 500 CART event, Britain's fastest ever motor race, moves into its final month, the date has already been set for the 2003 event at Rockingham Motor Speedway, near Corby in Northamptonshire.

Adrian Fernandez, who has been undergoing intensive physical therapy for injuries received in a multi-car crash at Vancouver, just over two weeks ago, will attempt to return to action at Road America this weekend.

On Tuesday afternoon, Infiniti Pro Series driver Arie Luyendyk Jr escaped with bruising after a high speed testing crash at the Gateway International Raceway in St Louis in what has been a dark, yet lucky week for the Indy Racing League and its subsidiary Pro Series Championship.

Bernie Hallisky, one of two Kelley Racing crewmembers injured in a pitlane accident last weekend at the Kentucky Speedway, has had his condition upgraded from fair to good at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.

"He [Jason Priestley] was moving all his extremities down there. When you have a spine fracture, of course, that's something you worry about. There is no indication that his spinal cord itself has been damaged in any way." - Dr. Henry Bock

The first edition of the 2003 CART FedEx schedule has been released which sees several events shifting dates and the European tour brought forward to a very risky April/May date.