IndyCar News

CART officials confirmed on Monday that next year's Rio 200 will not be the 2001 season curtain-raiser on February 11th as originally planned nor will it take place on the current 1.8-mile quad oval that has been home to the race for the past four years.

Indy Racing star Stephan Gregoire walked away from a crash during a test session at Texas Motor Speedway this afternoon [Thursday].

The future of PPI Motorsports could be decided in the next few weeks as team owner Cal Wells seeks a replacement for driver Cristiano da Matta and a deal with Ford for engines.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.