IndyCar News

Red Bull Cheever Racing opened the Homestead race weekend by announcing that it formed a new technical partnership with French engine concern Mecachrome.

Jeff Simmons has flown to the inaugural race of the 2004 Menards Infiniti Pro Series season at the reconfigured Homestead-Miami Speedway , but what happens when he gets there is another story entirely.

The Lexmark Indy 300 has celebrated several milestones and records over its 14-year history. Another significant occasion that guaranteed the event's future one year ago was celebrated today.

Thirty years ago, Brad Pollard watched his cousin, Art, race in the Indianapolis 500, and a dream of competing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was born.

RuSPORT's success with former Barber Dodge Pro Series champion AJ Allmendinger last season has led to the squad opening up greater opportunities for future graduates of the Skip Barber organisation.

Champ Car World Series officials and the city of St Petersburg have regretfully announced that, despite their best efforts, they have not been able to complete negotiations to acquire the rights to hold the Grand Prix of St Petersburg in 2004.

Widely regarded as the finest safety unit in all of motorsports, the 2004 Champ Car Safety Team will be under the leadership of Dr. Chris Pinderski, M.D., FACEP who takes over as series Medical Director after 12 years of working with the renowned Champ Car Safety Team.

Darren Manning and Greg Ray were the guests this week at the IRL weekly teleconference. Here they answer the many, many questions...

Hoping to make a great series even better, Champ Car officials have rewritten several rules for the 2004 Champ Car World Series.

Silly season is almost over for the Champ Car World Series as drivers and teams finally realize whether or not they'll be around for the upcoming season. We'll try to delve into the rumour mill to mix things up and who knows, some of this might be true. Then again...

This season will be one of change for the Champ Car World Series. Several teams are still finalizing their 2004 sponsor and driver line-ups and one of the teams that has been the focus of plenty of off season speculation is Mi-Jack Conquest Racing.

Officials from the Toyota Atlantic Championship Presented by Yokohama confirmed yesterday that Hasselgren Engineering Inc. has been designated as the exclusive engine builder for the series.

The Indy Racing Fan Experience, the one-of-a-kind, interactive mobile entertainment experience which touched more than 1.6 million people in 2003, returns for its second season-long, country-wide tour on February 18.

Associated Press 2/12/2004 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The new Champ Car World Series is on the verge of winning two battles.

Newman/Haas Racing announced today the departure of senior engineer Peter Gibbons who will leave the four-time Champ Car World Series champions. Gibbons joined the team as race engineer late in 1991 from Penske Racing and was promoted to senior engineer in 2001.

Scotland's Ryan Dalziel, it was announced today, will return to the US-based Toyota Atlantic Series to fight for the 2004 championship racing the #28 ProWorks/Daily Record entry with Sierra Sierra Enterprises.

After winning his first ever Champ Car Championship in 2003, Paul Tracy came close to having no Championship to defend.

Arie Luyendyk Jr, the 2003 IRL Crew 'Most Popular Driver Award' winner for the Menards Infiniti Pro Series, will return to the IRL support category with Sam Schmidt Motorsports in 2004.

Mi-Jack Conquest Racing was reunited with its 2003 driver Mario Haberfeld at Sebring late last week, as the combination put in a full day's testing ahead of the forthcoming Champ Car World Series.

The Formula Dodge National Championship, an official ladder series to the Champ Car World Series, announced its 2004 schedule today.

With less than a month to run before the opening round of the 2004 Indy Racing League series at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Red Bull Cheever Racing team-mates Alex Barron and Ed Carpenter gave the squad a morale boost by running at the head of the times in testing.

Sources in South Africa claim that the country is poised to ink a deal to bring the Champ Car World Series to the streets of Durban in the next couple of years.

Veteran team owner UE 'Pat' Patrick, has confirmed rumours that he is set to quit the series he helped found in the 1970s in order to set up shop with its bitterest rival.

The Skip Barber Racing School has announced that it will not run its renowned Barber Dodge Pro Series in 2004, replacing it at several high-profile events with a boosted National Championship Series.