IndyCar News

Red Bull's Buddy Rice and Eddie Cheever Jr. were in top form on Friday, setting the two fastest speeds of the day in practice at the 1.5-mile Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill.

Sam Hornish Jr won his first MBNA Pole Award since the opening round of the season at Homestead on Saturday afternoon at Chicagoland as he watched his Championship rivals struggle to crack the top ten.

Buddy Rice led a Red Bull Team Cheever 1-2 during the opening practice session of the weekend at the Chicagoland Speedway as Infiniti powered cars took four of the top five positions on the 1.5-mile track.

Texas Motor Speedway has announced that BG Products Inc will sponsor the inaugural Infiniti Pro Series race at the circuit, expanding the company's involvement in the sport from team sponsor to event backer.

"This is going to be hard to articulate, but it was kind of like time was standing still. So, the moment took forever. But at the same time, I don't actually remember it taking a lot of time. It's a place I've never been before in my entire life of mind set.

Shinji Nakano was within touching distance of playing a part in what would have been a best ever double finish for Fernandez Racing when he suffered a gear selection problem during his final pitstop and was forced to retire.

The CART FedEx Championship Series may be the cornerstone of American Open Wheel racing outside of the Indianapolis 500 but with its ever-increasing international presence comes an equally increasing number of foreign personnel.

Target Chip Ganassi Racing will feature a new paint scheme for the Shell Grand Prix of Denver this weekend, as Colorado-based brewer Coors features on the #44 Lola-Toyota driven by Scott Dixon.

Transnet Racing have announced that due to lingering problems with the race car as a result of a crash sustained during the last few minutes of Friday qualifying, the team will not compete in the Toyota Atlantic Championship season finale in Denver.

"Basically as far as Toyota Atlantics go, I was offered a great opportunity mid-season, 1999, to move in with a P1 racing team. I spent a year and a half there, basically Dave Cutler, a Microsoft engineer, who is a good friend of ours, he wanted to put me in the car and give me an opportunity.

Indy Racing Infiniti Pro Series driver Jason Priestley has been admitted to an undisclosed orthopaedic rehabilitation centre after being released last weekend from Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.

Alex Barron and the Rayovac Blair Racing team have continued to quietly prove they are one of the top units in the Indy Racing League, despite being new to the series.

During most of Sunday's 80-lap, Gateway 100 Infiniti Pro Series race at Gateway International Raceway, Ryan Hampton was the rabbit. On the event's four restarts, however, he became a sitting duck.

Buddy Rice finished fourth and Eddie Cheever Jr tenth in the Gateway Indy 250 at Gateway International Raceway, starting a new era for a team that had struggled to finish races this season.

The pendulum better known as the Indy Racing League point standings continued to swing on Sunday after Gil de Ferran earned his second victory of the season at the Gateway Indy 250.

The level of interest in the All-England team to run in the CART FedEx series race at Rockingham on September 13/14, has been so great that Team St. George may continue into the 2003 season.

Full MBNA Pole Qualifying results and starting lineup for Sunday's Gateway Indy 250 at the Gateway International Raceway, round thirteen of the 2002 Indy Racing League Championship.

Red Bull Cheever Racing has withdrawn the entry for the No. 53 Red Bull Cheever Racing Dallara-Infiniti for the Gateway Indy 250 after Tomas Scheckter elected not to participate in the race this weekend.

The world's largest manufacturer of racing cars, Elan Motorsport Technologies (EMT) is set for a dramatic expansion in 2003 with the establishment of a new chassis design center in the UK and the key appointment of several new staff.

Treadway-Hubbard Racing has joined up with digital image company Dartfish to incorporate the 'DartTrainer' into its driver development and pit-crew training programmes.

Open-wheel veteran and St Louis native Curtis Francois will make his Indy Racing Infiniti Pro Series debut this weekend as the IRL support series resumes at Gateway International Raceway.

Although the CART FedEx Championship Series has never brought its turbocharged, 800-plus horsepower Champ Cars to the 2.747-mile Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve, which annually entertains Formula 1, be very aware of the three drivers competing on their native soil in this Sunday's Molson Indy Montreal.

Oriol Servia's most impressive performance to date for Patrick Racing came to a premature end when the Spanish driver appeared to run out of fuel on lap 36 of Sunday's 60-lap Motorola 220 at Road America.

"Well, this [Road America '82] was my last race at that time in the CART series. Then I went back to Europe and I drove one Formula 1 race at the Race of Champions in '83, and then I retired." - Hector Rebaque