IndyCar News

Kentucky Speedway officials announced that 2002 Miss Kentucky Mary Catherine Correll will serve as grand marshal for the Belterra Casino Indy 300 on Sunday at Kentucky Speedway.

This weekend Buddy Lazier and Hemelgarn Racing will attempt a feat no other Indy Racing League driver or team has accomplished, a three-peat victory when the dynamic duo returns to the Blue Grass State and the newly repaved 1.5-mile Kentucky Speedway to defend their two-time Belterra Casino Indy

Scottish born former Formula One, Can-Am and Indycar driver Jim Crawford, who team owner John Menard calls "the bravest man I ever knew," has died near his Florida home aged 54.

Dario Franchitti holds half the rights to the track qualifying mark at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. With a time of 124.394 mph (65.347 seconds) in 1999, Franchitti joins Gil de Ferran (2000) as co-owner of the record around the 2.258-mile permanent road course.

"There have been a lot of thoughts going through my mind, a lot of things in the past couple months. I've been thinking a lot about my life, my career. I've been training really hard in order to keep my physical fitness up, even if it's very difficult because you're not in a car.

The 12th annual Phil Casey Indy Racing Golf Tournament will take place Monday, Oct. 16, at the Tour 18 Golf Course in Fort Worth, Texas, the day after the Indy Racing League's season-ending Chevy 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.

Fernandez Racing has announced that Max Papis will replace owner/driver Adrian Fernandez at the CART Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio on August 11.

Ozzie Smith, the St. Louis Cardinals' newest member of Baseball's Hall of Fame, will serve as the Grand Marshal at the Gateway Indy 250 at Gateway International Raceway later this month.

Vitor Meira, the 2000 South American Formula 3 champion, passed the speed phase of his Indy Racing League rookie test last week at Kentucky Speedway in what could be the first laps of a longer relationship between team and driver.

Ray Parsons of Parsons Motorsports Marketing's health has taken an unexpected turn for the worse, causing him to put everything on hold for the remainder of the 2002 Indy Racing League season on Tuesday and leaving popular driver Robby McGehee without a ride.

CART FedEx Championship Series veteran Adrian Fernandez is wasting no time in recovering from the injuries suffered in Sunday's Molson Indy Vancouver, as he went through his first full day of rehabilitation therapy in Indianapolis on Tuesday.

Once again Felipe Giaffone came within a whisker of his maiden Indy Racing League victory as he drove to a third place finish in Sunday's superb Michigan Indy 400.

A gearbox problem ended a solid debut performance by Visteon/Patrick Racing driver Oriol Servia in Sunday's Molson Indy Vancouver leaving the Spaniard a disappointed 14th in the final standings.

Scotsman Dario Franchitti dedicated his Molson Indy Vancouver triumph to his late friend Greg Moore and then vowed to 'have a good time' in his memory with fellow podium finishers Paul Tracy and Tony Kanaan.

"We had a great car. We had no problems this weekend. I don't think they should have called the race. It had already been raining for 10 laps or more. To finish the race like that, it really is a bummer. I wish they would have waited." - Aaron Fike

"The cars are quite easy to drive around here with the downforce that we have. So from that point, it's not hard to get back in and get back up (to speed). After a few laps in practice yesterday, I was flat out, but we just didn't have the horsepower in that engine. We changed engines overnight.

While their far more illustrious namesakes were struggling in the main Indy Racing League event this weekend at Michigan International Speedway, the next single-seater racing generation of the Luyendyk and Foyt clan's were continuing to build their reputations.

Buddy Rice, the latest rapid rookie at Red Bull Cheever Racing, led the opening day of practice for the Michigan Indy 400 as the Cheever team swept the top three spots on the speed chart.

As preparations continue for this weekend's Indy Racing League debut at Michigan International Speedway, no one is more excited about the event than a group of 25 youngsters from Mott Children's Hospital in Detroit.

With the resignation of David Bowes, who has held the post of Managing Director at Lola Cars for the past four years, Chairman Martin Birrane moved to put in place new management structure for the chassis design and manufacturing firm. Bowes' departure is effective the end of August.

A.J. Foyt IV topped the speed chart after both practice sessions for the Indy Racing Infiniti Pro Series on July 26 at Michigan International Speedway, recording a top lap of 39.8217 seconds, 180.806 mph.

In his debut Indy Racing League appearance, 2000 Toyota Atlantic Champion Buddy Rice sensationally topped the timesheets after the first day of practice for Sunday's Michigan Indy 400 as Eddie Cheever's Red Bull squad dominated proceedings.

The opening day of Indy Racing League action at the two-mile Michigan International Speedway was not blessed with fine weather but the rains held off long enough to allow the IRL contenders virtually a full practice session which saw Red Bull Team Cheever take an amazing 1-2-3.

Championship Indy Racing League team owner Ron Hemelgarn will return to the two-mile Michigan International Speedway with the Indy Racing League this weekend. The inaugural Michigan Indy 400 will mark Hemelgarn's first appearance at the historical oval in a decade.