IndyCar News

It certainly has been a baptism of fire for Norberto Fontana in this year's Fed Ex Champ Car series. Just six races in this year's championship and the Della Penna driver is yet to score a point and has failed to start two of the last three races due to a persistent injury.

Canadian Champ Car star Patrick Carpentier was the centre of attention at Bagotville airfield in Quebec last weekend when he pitted his Reynard-Ford against a CF-18 Hornet jet fighter, one of the air-forces most potent weapons.

Dr Jim Logan is a well respected Air Force veteran and chiropractor. He has been involved in the US racing scene since the late 1970s and has recently established his own IRL team.

Anyone who witnessed the Casino Magic 500 at Texas will have forgiven whoever was responsible for the race being delayed for a day by rain.

When Jim Immke sold his partnership in the Hubbard-Immke IRL team it looked as though the likeable car dealer would disappear from the IRL paddock. However Immke has now announced that he is able to return to the series , this time with his own team.

Hot on the heals of Chip Ganassi's overwhelming success on his first trip to Indy since 1995, Roger Penske has announced his legendary team will contest the 2001 running of the Indy 500 with drivers Gil De Ferran and Helio Castroneves.

1. Juan Montoya COL Lola-Toyota 20.899. 2. Dario Franchitti SCO Reynard-Honda 20.954. 3. Patrick Carpentier CAN Reynard-Ford 20.964. 4. Gil De Ferran BRA Reynard-Honda 20.975.

The weekend after the Indianapolis 500 always used to mean a trip to Milwaukee and its famous Mile and, even though the 500 is no longer a part of the CART calendar, at least one part of the tradition still survives.

The kudos of qualifying for the Indianapolis 500 continues to attract sponsorship deals for those lucky enough to make it to the grid - some even on the morning of the race itself.

Britain's Mark Blundell had to be helped from his Motorola Reynard at Nazareth this evening, having been involved in a mid-race accident with Penske's Helio Castro-Neves.

Mark Blundell has apparently escaped serious injury after crashing out of the Nazareth CART round.

Gil de Ferran gave Roger Penske the 100th win of his career as a team boss by winning today's CART race at Nazareth.

Injured IRL driver Hideshi Matsuda has been released from hospital following his accident in practice for the Indianapolis 500 last week.

CART rookie Shinji Nakano and his Walker team will not attempt to race at Nazareth this weekend after a testing crash ruled the Japanese rookie out of the original event in early April.

Roberto Moreno has been CART's Mr Consistency so far this year finishing all four races held this year in the points.

There will be a Swift chassis present for Saturday's Bosch Spark Plug Grand Prix at Nazereth.

CART veteran Michael Andretti has been stripped of the points he scored at the Rio Champcar event two weeks ago, after injuring one of his pit-crew during a mid-race stop.

The Swift chassis is expected to return to the CART championship next weekend in the hands of Brazilian Tarso Marques.

Alex Tagliani followed up his impressive morning practice session by also topping the later qualifying session for tomorrow's CART Rio 200.

Carl Hogan will return to Champcar action in Australia when he runs local talent Jason bright in his debut event.

Mark Blundell heads for the CART Rio 200 this weekend hoping that his Brazilian jinx stays away.

The PacWest Racing Group has announced another new technical partnership, this time with the NTN Bearing Corporation of America.

New Zealander Scott Dixon has ended months of speculation and signed on the dotted line to drive in Indy Lights for PacWest.

The much-maligned Swift chassis returns to CART action this weekend, with its team keen to prove the sceptics wrong.