IndyCar News

For the past two seasons, Team Rahal has captured the Craftsman Pit Crew Challenge (CPCC) championship utilizing two different crews to win the championship. 2003 will see the Gigante sponsored pit crew of Michel Jourdain Jr gunning for three in a row.

Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves is still hearing friends and fans talk about his amazing save during the season-opening True Value IROC race Feb. 14 at Daytona International Speedway.

Pan-European satellite network Eurosport has signed a deal to carry the majority of the 2003 Champ Car World Series live across the continent.

The Champ Car field for the 2003 season opening event in St Petersburg has been swelled to 19 with the official announcement that racing legend Emerson Fittipaldi and business partner James Dingman have joined forces with Conquest Racing to run Portuguese rookie Tiago Monteiro this year.

Matt Beardsley will return to the Indy Racing League Infiniti Pro Series in 2003, as his family-owned team has formed a technical alliance with the crew, equipment and facilities of IndyCar Series standout Billy Boat.

Impressive rookie Sebastien Bourdais saved his best for last on Thursday at Sebring International Raceway, carding the best time of the three-day Champ Car Spring Training testing session with a top lap of 50.584 seconds (118.781mph).

Tuesday was a bad day for the Indy Racing League's 'Bowtie Brigade' as the previously dominant Chevy V8 IndyCar motor found itself comprehensively outshone by new arrivals Toyota and Honda at the two-mile California Speedway in Fontana.

NASCAR Winston Cup star Kurt Busch will swap his Roush Racing Ford Taurus for a Team Rahal Lola-Ford today at Sebring when he takes the team's back-up #9 chassis out for a few laps of the Sebring Raceway.

Finance house Conseco has been conformed as title sponsor of the car to be driven by IndyCar rookie AJ Foyt IV in this year's Indy Racing League Series, while team owner AJ Foyt has also announced that his grandson will be partnered by IRL veteran Shigeaki Hattori for the first four races of the

Looking to put some muscle and increased speed in its brand and company positioning, PacifiCare Health Systems has reached an agreement with the Newman-Haas Racing team to sponsor its #1 car in the CART series for 2003.

Jack B. Hinkle, who owned cars that Jack McGrath placed on the front row of the Indianapolis 500 five years in a row during the early 1950s, died in his sleep last weekend at his home in Kansas, aged 90.

Following a year full of near-misses and 'what ifs,' Eddie Cheever's eponymous Indy Racing League team has been aided in its preparations for the upcoming season thanks to its alliance with Team Menard and a primary focus just a single-car.

Rumours doing the rounds in CART Champcar circles at present are linking Max Papis and none other than Emerson Fittipaldi to a possible second car to run out of Conquest Racing's hauler in 2003.

Michael Andretti will retire following May's Indianapolis 500 after a distinguished career that has spanned two decades, a CART title, a season with the McLaren Formula One team and more than 40 CART victories.

Newman-Haas Racing has announced that Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais will join Brazil's Bruno Junqueira in attempting to earn the team its fifth CART Champcar title in this season's Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford.

Open-wheel racing veteran Paul Dana has signed to drive for Kenn Hardley Racing during the 2003 Indy Racing League Infiniti Pro Series season, team manager John Paul Jr. announced Jan. 29.

Racing For Kids and Aventis Pharmaceuticals have partnered to become the title sponsor for the 2003 Indy Racing League Infiniti Pro Series event at Kansas Speedway on 6 July.

IRL IndyCar Series chassis manufacturer Panoz G-Force has set its sights firmly on a championship title and an Indy 500 victory for 2003 after putting in the hours creating what it believes is the best new generation car on the grid.

Former FIA International Formula 3000 contender and BAR Formula One test driver Patrick Lemarie, was today named as the driver for PK Racing, the new Champ Car World Series team owned by Craig Pollock and Kevin Kalkhoven.

Champ Car veteran Adrian Fernandez made his return to the cockpit last weekend at Laguna Seca following a three-month layoff recovering from a fractured vertebrae.

Indianapolis 500 winner Eddie Cheever Jr.

Former FIA Formula 3000 driver Alex Muller successfully passed the speed phase of his Indy Racing League IndyCar Series rookie test at Fontana yesterday driving for PDM Racing.

Paul Gentilozzi's Rocketsports team, which is adding the new-look CART Champcar to existing Trans-Am commitments this season, recently confirmed speculation by naming Canada's Alex Tagliani as driver of the Johnson Controls-backed entry.

Nick Goozee, Managing Director of Penske Cars, Ltd., announced that Nigel Beresford has been named Technical Director of the company.