IndyCar News

Visteon/Patrick Racing driver Townsend Bell had a streak of three consecutive points paying finishes snapped at the Molson Indy Toronto when CART officials excluded him following a crash with Bruno Junqueira.

For the third time this year, Indy Racing League rookie Tomas Scheckter led more laps than any other driver, only to drop out of contention because of a late race mishap whilst seemingly on course for a maiden IRL win.

"I tried to get in it as fast as I could on the warm-up lap, and the car was perfect. I could run it on the bottom like my grandpa told me, and everything went as planned. My grandpa and Jack Starne set the car up, and it was fast from the start." - AJ Foyt IV

Complete results from Sunday's opening round of the Indy Racing Infiniti Pro Series event on the 1.5-mile Kansas Speedway.

Airton Dar? earned his first career Indy Racing League victory on Sunday, winning the Ameristar Casino Indy 200 with a dramatic late pass at Kansas Speedway and completing a great double win for team owner AJ Foyt.

Laurent Redon continued his impressive debut season in the Indy Racing League with Eric Bachelart's equally professional Conquest Racing team by setting fastest time in the opening day of practice at the Kansas Speedway.

"We started off the day kind of slow with a little push in the car. Through the sessions, we've worked it out. Our people are starting to jell, and it's that combination of people that are sorting things out." - Sarah Fisher

Tomas Scheckter reminded the rest of the Indy Racing League fraternity that he is all set to take his first career IRL win any time soon as he took pole position for Sunday's Ameristar Casino Indy 200 at Kansas Speedway.

With only ten weeks to go the UK's fastest race at the Rockingham Motor Speedway, Scotland's Dario Franchitti is looking forward to racing on the streets of Toronto in his bid to take the 2002 CART title. British viewers can catch all the action live on Sunday evening on Sky Sports Extra.

Indy Racing League veteran Billy Boat and CURB/Agajanian/Boat Indy Racing are switching to Infiniti engines starting with the Ameristar Casino Indy 200 this weekend at Kansas Speedway.

Lynx Racing has won three times, twice from the pole with a Canadian driver, in the Toyota Atlantic race at the Toronto Molson Indy - and is going for a hat trick this weekend with Vancouver's Michael Valiante.

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As the CART FedEx Series tries to weather the current storm and begin its proper rebuilding process in 2003 the series announced yet another change behind the scenes promoted Shelley Shafer to Senior Manager of Promotions.

"Chicago was the first race we could have gone to. We chose not to because I love road racing, you know, my goal is Formula 1, so it seemed kind of silly to go out and run an oval first that we have no experience on in the car.

Kyle Krisiloff, son of former Champcar driver Steve Krisiloff, has announced that he will compete in the CART Toyota Atlantic Championship Series, beginning at the Molson Indy Toronto this weekend.

When Roger Penske signalled his intent to join the IRL in 2002 some observers mentioned that they might have cleaned up at Indy in '01 but wait till they get to Richmond where the IRL will show its true colours.

What a race, in more ways than one. Sam Hornish Jr. earned his third victory of the Indy Racing League season by passing Gil de Ferran with two laps remaining to win the SunTrust Indy Challenge on June 29 at Richmond International Raceway.

Short-track veteran Ronnie Johncox will return to the Indy Racing fold with his own Infiniti Pro Series operation after confirming he will pilot the No. 8 Rev 1 Racing entry in the inaugural IPS Championship, which will make its debut July 7th at Kansas Speedway.

Despite not making the Indy Racing League's inaugural trip to the Richmond International Raceway last year the Marlboro Team Penske steamroller continued on a cloudy Friday night in Virginia as Gil de Ferran and Helio Castroneves claimed a crucial front row clean sweep for the SunTrust Indy Chall

After undergoing successful test at the last oval race on the CART FedEx calendar at Milwaukee, all teams will use a new two-stage pit-lane speed limiter in this weekend's CART Grand Prix of Chicago.

The SunTrust Indy Challenge at Richmond International Raceway on 29 June will be the 15th scheduled night race in Indy Racing League history and, if either defending champion Buddy Lazier or Scott Sharp - last year's fifth-place finisher - wins, he will become the IRL king of nocturnal racing.

While most high-school students are enjoying their summer vacation and avoiding summer school, A.J. Foyt IV actually is looking forward to furthering his education.

After winning the pole on CART's last visit to a one-mile oval and backing it up with a fine second place finish, Adrian Fernandez is looking to finish the job and score a maiden owner/driver win this weekend at Chicago.

A plaque in memory of CART FedEx Championship driver Jeff Krosnoff and track worker Gary Avrin is to be unveiled on Wednesday, July 3rd at Exhibition Place in Toronto, replacing a makeshift memorial which stood at the site of the accident that took their lives during the 1996 Toronto Molson Indy.