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Tagliani wants bragging rights for second home.
Alex Tagliani will be looking for bragging rights when the Champ Car World Series debuts at Las Vegas Motor Speedway next weekend - but knows that he will face stiff opposition from fellow Vegas residents Paul Tracy, Jimmy Vasser and Patrick Carpentier.
Fernandez delighted with second win.
Adrian Fernandez claimed his second IRL victory in the Delphi Indy 300 on his first visit to the Chicagoland Speedway.
Bridgestone, Corona back Vegas event.
Champ Car World Series sponsors Bridgestone and Corona have both announced that they will increase their role in the series when the championship makes its first-ever visit to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

TA: Full circle - Lynx prepare to say goodbye.
It will be the end of an era when the chequered flag falls on the final Toyota Atlantic race of the season this weekend when the Lynx Racing team completes its final race.
Q&A: James Chesson.
James Chesson makes his Menards Infiniti Pro Series debut at this weekend's Chicagoland Speedway round, joining rookie sensation brother PJ in the Mo Nunn Racing team.

V8 Supercar star to replace Hunt in Lexmark.
Toyota Atlantic star Josh Hunt has made the decision to surrender his drive in this year's Lexmark Indy 300 race in favour of a second year in the TA series next season, with Australian V8 Supercar driver David Besnard set to take his place.

Andretti Green Promotions get St. Pete role.
Andretti Green Promotions, an affiliate of the Andretti Green Racing team, has been named as the promoter of the 2005 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on April 3, 2005.
St Pete to be series' first non-oval race.
The Indy Racing League's initiative to enhance its schedule with the addition of road and course events continued with the addition of St Petersburg to the 2005 schedule.
IRL firms up 2005 schedule.
The addition of the Honda Grand Prix gives the 2005 IndyCar Series a 17-race schedule, made up of 14 ovals, two road courses and a temporary street circuit.

Post-qualifying quotes - Molson Indy Montreal.
Driver quotes after second qualifying for the Molson Indy Montreal - round ten of the Champ Car World Series. Sebastien Bourdais: (#2 McDonald's Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone)

McDonald's partnership press conference.
Team members: Paul Newman, Carl Haas, Sebastien Bourdais Champ Car members: Kevin Kalkhoven, Dick Eidswick McDonalds USA: John Lewicki

Champ Cars announce McDonald's deal.
The Champ Car World Series has announced a partnership with McDonald's that will see the fast food chain serve as the "Official Fast Food Restaurant of Champ Car" through the 2006 season.
Q&A: IRL founder Tony George.
On 27 January 1996, plans that Indianapolis Motor Speedway President and CEO Tony George presented two years earlier for a new open-wheel series came to fruition at Walt Disney World Speedway.
TA: Freshman Festa puts lessons to one side.
Chris Festa differs from most new students in the way he spends his spare time.

Mi-Jack switch Philippe to Lola.
Mi-Jack Conquest has announced that it will be running a second Lola chassis this weekend in Montreal for Nelson Philippe.
Q&A: Eddie Cheever, Jack Arute.
As the IRL IndyCar Series reaches its 100th race, two figures who were present at the very first event give their thoughts and personal memories of the Series' first eight and a half years.
Indy construction gets underway on Gold Coast.
The construction of one of the finest motor racing street circuits in the world takes only 96 days on Australia's bustling Gold Coast. Wednesday 18th August marks the start of construction of the Lexmark Indy 300 circuit, as the countdown continues towards the October 21 to 24 Event.
Resurfacing underway at Indy.
Four time Indy 500 winner Al Unser was on hand to oversee the start of the biggest resurfacing project at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway since the original brick track surface was removed more than 30 years ago.

Bourdais delighted with 'most beautiful win.'
Sebastien Bourdais produced one of the drives of his life to win the Grand Prix of Denver after fighting back up the field from a spin at the very first corner of the race to take his fifth win of the Champ Car season.
Rookie Gregg claims pole in maiden IPS outing.
Travis Gregg, making his debut in the IRL Menards Infiniti Pro Series, won pole position for this weekend's Kentucky 100, seeing off the challenge of current points leader Thiago Medeiros.
Surfers promoters split from Forsythe.
The D3 Motorsport Development group, responsible for the Champ Car World Series events in Mexico City, Surfers Paradise and Monterrey, have resigned from Forsythe Racing Inc.

Champ Car organisers modify pit stop rules.
The Champ Car World Series has announced that it has modified its mandatory pit-stop rules with immediate effect. A single mandatory pit stop, made under green or yellow flag conditions, is now required within a specified race lap window during all Champ Car World Series events.
Despite Michigan loss, AGR still dominating 2004.
Tony Kanaan may have lost out to Buddy Rice in the last round of the IRL IndyCar Series at the Michigan International Speedway but that blip doesn't disguise the fact that Kanaan and his Andretti-Green Racing teammates have dominated the 2004 season to date and are collective favourites for victo

Q&A: Buddy Rice, Vitor Meira.
Since his breakthrough win at the Indy 500, Buddy Rice had led the chase of Tony Kanaan and the Andretti-Green Racing powerhouse in the IRL IndyCar Series ably supported by his equally fired-up Rahal-Letterman Racing teammate Vitor Meira.