IndyCar News

Indy Pro Series champion elect Alex Lloyd was beaten to pole position for the Kentucky 100 by Panther Racing's Hideki Mutoh on Friday at the Kentucky Speedway as the two class drivers in this years field once again showed why they are sitting 1-2 in the points table.

IndyCar Series points leader Dario Franchitti was lucky to escape unscathed from a high-speed accident during the Firestone Indy 400 at Michigan.

Dario Franchitti took the first step towards completing an Indianapolis-Michigan double by notching pole position for the Firestone Indy 400 at the historic Michigan International Speedway on Saturday night.

Milka Duno and Jon Herb will make their debut Indycar appearances at the Michigan International Speedway at the Firestone Indy 400 this weekend, having confirmed their return to the series.

Three familiar names battled over pole position in first qualifying for the San Jose Grand Prix, but eventual poleman Sebastien Bourdais had to rely on a late effort to secure the bonus point and guaranteed front row start.

Already looking ahead to 2008 and beyond, second-year Indy Pro Series team Michael Crawford Motorsports has signed 18-year-old karting stand-out Cole Mathewson to a development and testing programme.

Mario Dominguez will make a return to the Champ Car World Series this weekend at the Edmonton Grand Prix in place of the injured Tristan Gommendy at PKV.

Milka Duno and the SAMAX team are to receive the help of former IndyCar Series driver Tomas Enge as they prepare for the next round of the championship at Nashville.

Sam Schmidt Motorsports has won 20 races and two drivers championships in the past four seasons of Indy Pro Series competition and the team's dominance is perhaps no where more evident than at Nashville Superspeedway, where they have won the last three races at the 1.33-mile concrete oval.

With the Mont-Tremblant blocking row not have settled amicably, a second incident between Sebastien Bourdais and Robert Doornbos in the Steelback Grand Prix of Toronto could have caused a flashpoint, but the Frenchman decided not to make an issue of contact that put him out of the race.

After knocking on the door over the past few weeks, French rookie Franck Perera picked up his first career Champ Car Atlantic pole position in final qualifying for Sunday's race at Mont-Tremblant.

For the third consecutive Champ Car Atlantic qualifying session, points leader Raphael Matos added to his championship lead as he guaranteed himself a front row starting spot for Sunday's race at Mont-Tremblant.

Dario Franchitti's victory at the 91st Indianapolis 500 has inspired sponsor Canadian Club to develop a commemorative Canadian Club Indy 500 Collector's Edition bottle for its whisky.

European Minardi's two-seaters are back on-track again following a nine-week intermission, with the Champ Car F1x2 getting into gear to embark on an extremely busy summer programme.

Alex Lloyd passed polesitter Wade Cunningham with ten laps to go to win the Iowa 100 Indy Pro Series event, setting a new all-time victory record for the class in the process

Paul Tracy took the use of wings at Burke Lakefront Airport to extremes as he finally returned to the top step of the Champ Car podium in Cleveland.

Indy Pro Series points leader Alex Lloyd may 'only' have finished second in both Liberty Challenge races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at the weekend, but he was greeted by a familiar face after stepping down from the podium in race two.

Hideki Mutoh earned his first career Indy Pro Series pole position, winning the SWE Pole Award for race one of the Liberty Challenge double-header on the road course at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Although he was prevented from challenging for outright pole position, Robert Doornbos was nonetheless delighted to have emerged as the fastest driver in the wet during final qualifying at Portland.

Scott Sharp has admitted that the word 'polesitter' sounded good after he used a pair of blazing laps to claim the front of the grid for Saturday's Bombardier/Learjet 550 at Texas Motor Speedway.

Sebastien Bourdais has admitted he is not keen on the idea of standing starts in the Champ Car World Series on the eve of the Portland Grand Prix, the first race to be started in such a way.

Having been team-mates in the 2006-07 A1GP World Cup of Motorsport, James Hinchcliffe and Kevin Lacroix will finally meet on track this weekend as the latter makes the step up to the Champ Car Atlantic Championship at Portland International Raceway.

Two of the IndyCar Series' more celebrated competitors took it upon themselves to add a little more colour to proceedings 'after hours' in the ABC Supply/AJ Foyt 225 at the Milwaukee Mile.

Helio Castroneves' Milwaukee jinx struck again on Sunday when a comfortable lead in the ABC Supply/AJ Foyt 225 was wiped out in an instant as the rear wing mounting on his Penske Dallara collapsed.