IndyCar News

Pat Sullivan: We're delighted to have Buddy with us. Obviously, he comes in as the defending Indy Racing Northern Light Series champion, the only driver to win two events last year.

Scott Sharp has shown plenty of speed on the racetrack this month at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and his Kelley Racing team did the same in the pits to win yesterday's Coors Indy 500 Pit Stop Challenge.

2001 Fed-Ex Series new-boys Arciero-Brooke Racing have announced that the team will now be known as Arciero-Blair Racing and after missing the latest round of the CART series, rookie driver Max Wilson will be back with the team's Lola-Ford, not Lola-Phoenix at Milwaukee next Sunday.

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Indy Racing League team Heritage Motorsports has formed a unique marketing partnership with legendary rock band Aerosmith for the Indy 500, it was announced today at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Racing and rock-and-roll fans will enjoy a full day of entertainment at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's Coors Carb Day on May 24. The event marks the final day of track activity leading up to the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race on May 27.

Team Rahal's Kenny Brack scored Lola's 99th victory in the CART Fedex Championship Series at the Twin Ring Motegi on Saturday, moving the British race car manufacturer one step closer to a prestigious CART century.

The starting grid for the Casino Magic 500 at Texas Motor Speedway will feature some of the top open-wheel drivers in the world, but Indy Racing has assembled an impressive collection of talented and entertaining field of competitors off the race track as well as on it.

Maurice Lacroix Swiss Watches will present the winner of the 85th Indianapolis 500 with a truly unique gift for winning the "Greatest Spectacle in Racing."

Kenny Brack scored Team Rahal's first Fed-Ex Series victory for over a year in Saturday's Firestone Firehawk 500 while a retro-looking Max Papis scored his second points paying finish of the 2001 season with a steady run to sixth spot for the Lola-Ford team.

Kenny Brack continued Ford's stranglehold on victory lane at the Honda-owned Twin Ring Motegi circuit by taking a well deserved win in a gripping Firestone Firehawk 500 despite a contentious late caution period caused that resulted in a one-lap dash to the flag.

Miller Genuine Draft, a major part of Miller Brewing Company's auto racing heritage, returns to the track this week as part of the brewery's sponsorship for Team Rahal's 2001 CART FedEx Championship Series programme.

CART Charities - the charitable arm of Championship Auto Racing Teams - announced today that it has donated several items of memorabilia to the Eastern Motor Racing Association [EMRA] in exchange for the right to use the Vanderbilt Cup as the championship trophy for the FedEx Championship Series.

Indy Racing Northern Light Series standout Eliseo Salazar and his wife, Kari, easily won the pole position at South Miami Hospital early yesterday [15 May] with the birth of their first son, Eliseo Salazar VI.

After the controversial Champcar race at the Texas Speedway two weeks ago, Kristian Kolby's manager has decided that his driver should use the HANS device for the rest of the Indy Lights season.

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway's annual Armed Forces Day salute to the United States military is scheduled for May 20. The day is also Bump Day for Indianapolis 500 competitors - the final day of qualifying for the 85th running of the "Greatest Spectacle in Racing."

Returning to the Indianapolis 500 after a year of supposed retirement, Arie Luyendyk was a natural target for the media in teh build-up to the great race.

Eddie Cheever Jr.: "We took the #51 Excite@Home T-car out this afternoon, and we made some gains. I think we're starting to get a handle on the handling.

Double world champion Nigel Mansell will return to the driving seat of a Champcar at the opening ceremony of Rockingham Motor Speedway later this month.

Veteran Indy Racing driver Dr. Jack Miller announced May 8 that he will not participate in the 85th Indianapolis 500, instead concentrating on his recovery from a concussion suffered in a racing crash last month.

Bill Vukovich II, who finished second in the 1973 Indianapolis 500 and drove in the race 12 times, returned to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway May 8 for the first time in nearly a decade.

With the announcement that Chip Ganassi was passing over his CART rookies Nicolas Minassian and Bruno Junqueira in favour of a pair of old hands for the Indy 500, the new line-up - and their bosses - became media targets at the Brickyard today.

Lyn St James ran her final two laps of the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway before slowly making her way down pit-road and handing her racing helmet to Speedway President Tony George and announcing her retirement from top-line Single Seater Racing.

Owner-driver Adrian Fernandez admitted that he was puzzled by the problem which eliminated him from the Lehigh Valley Grand Prix at Nazareth on Sunday.