IndyCar News

Oriol Servia opened up Saturday's running in the Lexmark Indy 300 round of the Bridgestone presents the Champ Car World Series powered by Ford with the fastest time at a gloriously sunny Surfers Paradise street course in Australia.

New Menards Infiniti Pro Series champion Wade Cunningham has been penalised and fined for unsportsmanlike behaviour during the season finale at California Speedway on the weekend, but still retains the title.

Ryan Hunter-Reay has expressed his disappointment at the news that Rocketsports Racing is to bring in sportscar racer Michael McDowell to replace him for the final two races of the Champ Car World Series season.

Dario Franchitti and Tony Kanaan, two of the late Greg Moore's closest friends, put on a fitting show to end the IRL IndyCar Series' tenure at the two-mile California Speedway, finishing 1-2 at the track that claimed Moore's life in 1999.

Another of the Indianapolis 500's past alumni has made it to the great track in the sky with news that former Indy 500 starter Wayne Weiler passed on earlier this week after suffering an apparent heart attack.

Grand-Am Daytona Prototype star Michael McDowell will get a late-season opportunity to race in the Champ Car World Series after impressing during a test with Rocketsports Racing last week.

Queenslander Will Power is set to join the Champ Car World Series for the Surfers' Paradise round of the championship, joining Team Australia in a third car using a Lola chassis.

The Champ Car World Series has announced its latest evolution in chassis design with the news that a new Panoz DP01 chassis built by Elan Motorsports Technologies will be paired with a turbo-charged Ford-Cosworth engine on every Champ Car from the start of the 2007 season.

Despite having yet to finalise a new contract with the Andretti-Green team - and being touted as a possible F1 driver with either Williams or BMW next season - recently-crowned Indy Racing League champion Dan Wheldon has said that he will be fighting to run with the #1 plate next season.

The HVM Racing team has announced that it will expand to a three car line-up for the final round of the Champ Car World Series season in Mexico.

For any avid IRL IndyCar Series fan with $75,000 burning a hole in their back pocket, the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book has the ideal Christmas present for you and, well, not many of your loved ones.

The Champ Car World Series has officially announced that the inaugural Ansan Champ Car Grand Prix, which was due to take place next month in South Korea, has been put back to 2006.

Scott Mansell put in stunning qualifying effort at Watkins Glen in only his second outing in the Menards Infiniti Pro Series, but was denied the chance to start after a freak problem at the end of his flying lap.

Champ Car Hurricane Relief 400 winner and 2005 Champ Car World Series Champion elect Sebastien Bourdais says he is sick of the controversy that follows him and Paul Tracy around, controversy that nearly spilled overboard on Saturday night in Las Vegas.

Complete qualifying results for Sunday's Corning 100 Menards Infiniti Pro Series race at Watkins Glen.

Saturday's Marlboro pole qualifying session and subsequent top six shootout at the Watkins Glen International road course gave Target Chip Ganassi Racing a rare chance to celebrate as both Giorgio Pantano and Scott Dixon marked themselves out as potential winners of Sunday's race.

Helio Castroneves claimed his second Marlboro Pole Award of the season - and the eleventh of his career - by posting the fastest time in qualifying for the Watkins Glen Indy Grand Prix.

Tomas Scheckter's eyes widen at the mention of "The Boot," "The Loop" and "The Chute" at Watkins Glen International, where the IndyCar Series driver will compete this weekend in the inaugural Watkins Glen Indy Grand Prix presented by Argent Mortgage.

Larry Connor will return to the Menards Infiniti Pro Series this weekend at Watkins Glen where he will be hoping for better luck that he experienced on his series debut at Indianapolis in June when his car was written off in pre-race practice.

The beleaguered Target Chip Ganassi Racing teams enters this weekend's Watkins Glen Indy Grand Prix one car short of its usual quota as Ryan Briscoe continues to recover from the injuries sustained in the last race on the schedule in Chicagoland.

Ryan Briscoe should be allowed to leave hospital early next week following his spectacular crash last weekend at the Chicagoland Speedway.

More than a week on from Ryan Briscoe's fiery Chicagoland accident and with the young Australian driver still recovering in hospital from his injuries, investigations have already begun as to how his equipment stood up to the impact and what can be learnt from the wreckage.

While Ryan Briscoe's fiery crash understandably dominated the post Chicagoland headlines, the young Australian driver wasn't the only person to leave the 1.5-mile oval in an ambulance.

Neither the unfamiliarity of the Menards Infiniti Pro Series nor the scores of track workers busy disassembling tents or hauling out the rubbish from the sold-out weekend at Chicagoland Speedway fazed Geoff Dodge on Monday.