IndyCar News

Zetec Formula Ford 2000 veteran Jonathan Urlin will compete in the 2003 Indy Racing League Infiniti Pro Series season for Brian Stewart Racing, team officials announced Jan. 16. Urlin, 20, from London, Ontario, finished third in the 2002 Zetec Formula Ford 2000 championship.

Already a unique event in the world of racing, CART's annual trip to the Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland will have an added twist in 2003 with news that the series has secured plans to run next year's event at night.

The Bridgestone Presents the 2003 Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford unveiled a new corporate look and company logo on Wednesday.

Canadian Tom Wood will return to Sam Schmidt Motorsports for the entire 2003 IRL Infiniti Pro Series season after contesting three races for the team last year.

Returning to one of the finest oval tracks in Europe, the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford will complete its May European Tour with an event at EuroSpeedway Lausitz featuring a battle on the state-of-the-art two-mile oval May 10-11.

Western Union, a worldwide leader in money transfer services, will team with Duesenberg Brothers Racing for the 2003 Indy Racing League Infiniti Pro Series, Western Union officials announced Jan. 9.

Dale Coyne Racing is stepping up its commitment to being a competitive force in the 2003 Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford with the hiring of vastly experienced and highly respected engineer John Bright.

Marlboro Team Penske has announced that Grant Newbury will be double Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves' race engineer for the 2003 Indy Racing League (IRL) IndyCar Series season.

Following through on a promise to return Champcar racing to Europe in 2003, CART has confirmed that it will race at the fabled Brands Hatch circuit.

2002 North American Auto Racing Series (NAMARS) Regional MidgetCar Champion Aaron Pierce got his first taste of an Infiniti Pro Series car on Monday at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, hoping it'll prove to be a preview of things to come.

Joe D'Agostino, Phillippe Gelinas, Matt Jaskol, and David Jurca have been selected as the winners of the Barber-CART Karting Scholarship at Sebring International Raceway from a field of sixteen karters.

Current FIA International Formula 3000 Champion Sebastien Bourdais will get a second test with defending CART Champion team Newman-Haas Racing at Sebring this week after matching Ricardo Zonta's time in his first outing.

The Barber-CART Karting Runoff is underway at Sebring International Raceway with sixteen invitees, each the cream of the karting crop, competing for a slot in the Formula Dodge National Championship Series presented by RACER magazine.

Double Indy Racing League champion Sam Hornish Jr. will be a guest of ABC Sports at the 2003 FedEx Orange Bowl, one of American Football's biggest college games, on Thursday in Miami.

Cory Witherill and Aaron Fike will return to Hemelgarn/Johnson Motorsports for the 2003 Indy Racing Infiniti Pro Series season, team officials have announced.

Seemingly against all the odds, Indy Racing League minnows PDM Racing have ordered their first 2003 Dallara chassis and are still planning on attending the major pre-season 'Test in the West' before contesting the 2003 IRL Championship.

After several previously unsuccessful attempts to expand from one to two cars, reports from Mexico and several CART 'insider' forums indicate that Keith Wiggins' Team Herdez outfit are finally set to add a second driver to their lineup.

A CART Franchise Board meeting at the organisation's Indianapolis headquarters resulted in a number of positive rule changes for 2003, and also established the members of the 2003 technical advisory and safety advisory committees.

Two times CART champion Alex Zanardi has been showing that racing is still his life despite the horrific injuries he suffered at Germany's Lausitzring last year which left the CART and F1 star near death and without his lower limbs.

Organisers at the Grand Prix of St Petersburg have revealed that the inaugural 2003 event will host the season opening Barber Dodge Pro Series round during the 21-23 February race weekend.

After three days of intensive competition at Sebring International Raceway, the Barber Dodge Pro Series was able to announce the winners of the annual Barber-CART Scholarship run-off, with Colin Fleming taking the top prize of $100,000 in funding towards the 2003 Barber Dodge Pro Series season.

Former IRL team Conquest Racing and Brazilian Mario Haberfeld are set to join the 2003 Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford according to reports on our sister site Crash Brazil .

Newman-Haas Racing's General Manager, Brian Lisles says that the 2002 Champion team faces a tough decision over who to chose as a teammate to Bruno Junqueira with Ricardo Zonta, Sebastien Bourdais and Jon Fogarty all closely matched.

Mexican Rodolfo Lavin has been signed to drive for Walker Racing in 2003 with sponsorship from the Corona brewing company.