IndyCar News

PAUL TRACY (#3 Player's/Indeck Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone):

The Champ Car series heads to Elkhart Lake this weekend to race at a venue christened by the first Mexican success in CART racing and with the country's senior statesman eager to add his name to the list of victors.

Canada has long been one of the strongholds of the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford, with crowds in excess of 160,000 coming out for a three-day weekend every time the CART Champ Car World Series contenders turn a wheel 'north of the border.'

"That was a real battle. I've still got the old donuts on the side of the RAC Walker Racing car from hitting Adrian (Fernandez), unfortunately. I damage my front wing in that incident and I had to keep going with a broken wing until my final pit stop window opened up with 30 laps to go.

"What I've done is been able to concentrate on what I have to do, the job in front of me. And my concentration is not what happened on Friday or what's going to happen in the future, because it's out of my control.

Due to the late addition of the Mario Andretti Grand Prix of Road America onto the 2003 CART Champ Car schedule, the complicated issue of finding a network/cable television slot to carry the race live has meant that the 12th round of the season will only be available on a pay-per-view basis.

Target Chip Ganassi Racing drivers Tomas Scheckter and Scott Dixon swept the front row during MBNA Pole Qualifying for the Firestone Indy 400 on Saturday at the ultra-quick Michigan International Speedway.

Arie Luyendyk Jr. won the pole on Saturday for the Michigan 100 Infiniti Pro Series race. Luyendyk turned a lap of 38.2216 seconds, 188.375 mph in his No. 5 Dallara-Infiniti prepared by Sinden Racing Service.

Complete MBNA Pole Qualifying results and starting lineup for Sunday's Firestone Indy 400 at the Michigan International Speedway, round ten of the 2003 IRL IndyCar Series Championship.

Heralded across the motorsports landscape as the standard to which at-the-track safety services should be held, the CART Champ Car Simple Green Safety Team will be featured in a video piece to be aired as part of TNT's NASCAR pre-race show leading up to this weekend's Pennsylvania 500 event at Po

In a remarkable debut for the new Chevrolet Gen. IV engine, defending IRL Champion Sam Hornish Jr set the fastest time of all during Friday's two practice sessions for Sunday's Firestone Indy 400 at the Michigan International Speedway.

Motor racing and football has long been a staple of Brazil's sporting pastime, producing great names over the years like Pele, Fittipaldi, Senna and most recently the world's finest footman, Ronaldo.

A muddled European swing took some of the glitter off of the monstrous start to the Champ Car World Series for Paul Tracy, and his large series lead evaporated under the lights of the Milwaukee Mile, but, undaunted, the Canadian simply pulled his belts a litter tighter and went back to work.

The Indy Racing League announced on Saturday that it has approved a new engine design for Chevrolet for competition in the IRL IndyCar Series as early as next Sunday's race at the Michigan International Speedway.

Complete results from Saturday's Firestone Indy 200 at the 1.33-mile Nashville Superspeedway, round nine of the 2003 IRL IndyCar Series Championship Race ended under caution

Gil de Ferran won an eventful Firestone Indy 200 on Saturday night at the 1.33-mile Nashville Superspeedway, his second win of the season and the fourth IRL IndyCar Series victory of his career.

Mark Taylor won the Cleanevent 100 Infiniti Pro Series race on Friday night at the Nashville Superspeedway. Taylor led all 77 laps of the event en route to victory in his No. 4 Fulmar Panther Racing Dallara-Infiniti.

"Yeah, the car was very good. We started off today, the car wasn't great, and we've been struggling with a lot of push through the day. We were able to pull that out for qualifying, put it on the pole, changed quite a lot of stuff for the warm-up and for the race.

The inspirational story of Alex Zanardi's emotional return to the cockpit of a 750hp CART Champ Car thrilled racing fans across the globe when he turned laps around the two-mile EuroSpeedway Lausitz at an average speed of 194 mph less than two years after losing both legs in an accident at the sa

Dreamers Candles will sponsor the 2003 IRL Infiniti Pro Series season finale on October 11th at the Texas Motor Speedway. The dreamerscandles.com 100 will take place on the high-banked, 1.5-mile oval at Texas and should be one of the most spectacular races of the season.

After several, largely secret test sessions with Panther Racing and some of the other currently underpowered Chevrolet IRL teams, the struggling manufacturer has finally submitted an official request to the IRL to allow them to introduce a new unit that will hopefully allow them to compete with T

When the CART Champ Car World Series moved its corporate headquarters to Indianapolis last spring, the intention was to put the open-wheel sanctioning body in close proximity to many of its teams, suppliers and sponsors.

"I had a backup offer from P.K. Racing to do Laguna Seca for them in the Champ Car Series and there was talk of actually continuing the season with the team. That's when Dario consulted with his doctor and they decided to operate.

Sam Schmidt Motorsports has filed a third entry for the Nashville 100 IRL Infiniti Pro Series race on Friday at Nashville Superspeedway, as Ross Fonferko will drive the No. 6 Dallara-Infiniti as a teammate to series regulars Brandon Erwin and Tom Wood.