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BRASELTON, Ga. (April 2, 2003) -- Former IMSA World Sports Car and Group C2 champion Fermin Velez died Monday in Barcelona, Spain, three days shy of his 44th birthday, following a battle with cancer. Former IMSA champion Fermin Velez,...

INDIANAPOLIS (February 10, 2003) - Fourteen years after giving Patrick Racing its first and only Champ Car World Series title, Emerson Fittipaldi will look to capture a championship of his own as he and business partner James Dingman announced the...

Craig Pollock, principal of the new CART Champ Car series team PK Racing, today announced Patrick Lemarie as the driver for the team's 2003 series efforts. Patrick Lemarié in the garage. Photo by Mark Gledhill. Lemarie has spent most...

INDIANAPOLIS (Wednesday, March 19, 2003) -- Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Arie Luyendyk will join Mo Nunn Racing's full-time IRL IndyCar Series drivers Felipe Giaffone and Tora Takagi for a three-car team entry at this year's 87th running of...

You never know who you'll see at a race track. Case in point: the NHRA have held closed [to the public] test sessions yesterday and today at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Wandering the paddock, one could find Indy Racing League and CART ...

TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, July 10, 2003 -- "The future for young Canadian drivers goes up in smoke today," said journalist Didier Schraenen before it was announced that cigarette maker Player's, who have supported Canadian motorsports since 1961,...

BC Motorsports, one of the many new teams joining the CART Champ Car Series for 2003, has signed Formula 3000 standout Giorgio Pantano as the driver for their Lola Ford entry. The team, headquartered in California, has also secured Sunoco as the...

Munich. Alessandro Zanardi will be competing in motorsport again for the first time since he suffered severe injuriesas a result of an accident two years ago. The Italian lost both legs when he was competing in a round of the American ChampCar ...

The second stop of the CART's European swing took place today in Germany, the fifth round of the Champ Car World Series. The event marked the return of the two-time CART champion, Alex Zanardi. Press conference: Alex Zanardi. Photo by...

INDIANAPOLIS, May 25, 2003 - Before today, everyone said this field for the 87th Indianapolis 500 Mile Race was the most competitive ever. Upwards of 15 drivers could have won. But the race, as many times before, went to those whose tenet is to...

Whatever Sam Hornish's future plans are once he leaves Pennzoil Panther Racing at the end of the 2003 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series campaign, the 24-year-old Indy Racing League IndyCar Series driver from Defiance, OH is keeping them to ...

INDIANAPOLIS, August 6, 2003 - The Indy Racing League will add the historic Milwaukee Mile to its list of venues in 2004, visiting the 100-year-old mile oval during the final weekend of July for the first time in League history. A view...

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (April 10, 2003) - Eddie Cheever Jr. will not drive in the Indianapolis 500 this May in order to focus on management of Red Bull Cheever Racing and other business interests. The decision ends a 13-year streak at the famous...

INDIANAPOLIS, April 1, 2003 --There's just a week to go before the IndyCar Series holds its first overseas event at Twin Ring Motegi in the middle of nowhere, Japan, but already Roger Yasukawa has returned to the land of his forefathers to prepare...

LANSING, Mich. - Two-time Trans-Am champion Scott Pruett will join the Rocketsports Racing stable for the 2003 Trans-Am Series for the BFGoodrich Tires Cup announced team owner Paul Gentilozzi. Pruett, who claimed his Trans-Am titles in 1987 and...

The Grand Prix of St. Petersburg opens this weekend as a new race that has the honor of opening the next great era of CART. The Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford opens the 2003 season with this inaugural event on a...

Paul Tracy opened the new era of the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford with a convincing victory in the inaugural Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Tracy passed rookie Tiago Monteiro for the lead on lap 36 and kept it to...

Kenny Brack has the credentials of a winner, as he is both the Indy Racing League's 1998 champion and victor in the 1999 Indianapolis 500 Mile Race. After a three-year hiatus from the League, Brack returned to action this year with Team Rahal, a...

One of the United States' best open wheel drivers now has gainful employment for the coming 2004 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series season. Andretti Green Racing confirmed today it will field four Indy cars next year: for returning drivers Tony...

Sports car and open-wheel racer Max Papis tested the No. 91 Dodge Intrepid research and development NASCAR Winston Cup car for Evernham Motorsports today at Kentucky Speedway. "It was a very good experience being in a Winston Cup car. It ...

INDIANAPOLIS - SportsBusiness Journal held the second annual Open-Wheel Racing Summit at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Tuesday and Wednesday, taking over the fourth floor Media Center that overlooks the 2.5-mile historic oval's front ...

Dare undergoes successful surgery at Parkland Hospital Ft. Worth, TX June 6, 2003--Indy car driver Airton Dare underwent successful surgery at Parkland Hospital in Dallas last night to repair fractures in his right upper arm (humerus) and right...

INDIANAPOLIS, May 21 - Robby McGehee, driver of the Panther Racing/Pedigo Chevrolet Dallara Chevrolet Firestone ...

Two of the three principals of Open Wheel Racing Series, LLC, Paul Gentilozzi and Kevin Kalkhoven, spoke to the media today about their plans for the future of the "racing series formerly known as CART." That's right, formerly! While the CART...

INDIANAPOLIS, October 22, 2003 - Driver Tony Renna, 26, was so looking forward to his new slot as teammate to Scott Dixon at Target Chip Ganassi Racing. The duo had partnered at PacWest Racing Group while competing on the Indy Lights ladder...

After heavy rains rolled through the Milwaukee area tonight, the first-ever night qualifying session at the Mile and for the Champ Cars was cancelled. The grid for Saturday night's Centennial 250 will be set by the lap times recorded during the ...

INDIANAPOLIS, April 23, 2003 -- With less than five minutes to go in today's private test at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, it had been the best of days for Mario Andretti. Mario Andretti. Photo by indyracing.com/Ron McQueeney. Back in...

The 18th running of the Molson Indy in Toronto, Ontario will have three Canadians in the top five of the starting grid, following a very competitive second qualifying session at the Exhibition Place circuit. Paul Tracy. Photo by Eric ...

LANSING, Mich. - Three-time Trans-Am Series for the BFGoodrich Tires Cup champion Paul Gentilozzi set out last year to add to the Trans-Am Series legacy. Gentilozzi-a successful team owner in both the Trans-Am Series and Champ Car World Series,...

BROOKLYN, MI, July 25, 2003 - Even before practice began for the IndyCar Series' second visit to the 2-mile Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, MI, all eyes have been on Sam Hornish Jr. and the ...

Certainly, Scott Sharp expected more from his ...

INDIANAPOLIS (January 16, 2003) - The city of Cleveland has seen more than its share of innovations over the years. It was in Cleveland where Alan Freed first coined the term 'Rock and Roll', an act that led many years later to the establishment...

INDIANAPOLIS (January 10, 2003) -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...

Fast cars, beautiful weather and beautiful people combine to provide a weekend of heart-stopping race action for the spectators at the 2003 Lexmark Indy 300 on the Gold Coast. Pitlane activity before the session. Photo by David ...

Twenty-one IndyCar and 16 Infiniti Pro Series entrants gathered at this 1.549-mile circuit for the Indy Racing League season opener, scheduled for Sunday, March 2nd. With two Friday sessions dedicated to practice, it was finally time to...

Toronto, Ont. (July 12, 2003) - The first Canadian round of the 2003 Champ Car World Series, the Molson Indy Toronto, holds much promise for its three Canadian drivers. Going into Sunday, the 10th event of the 2003 season, Paul Tracy's 118 points...

INDIANAPOLIS (December 23, 2002) - Championship Auto Racing Teams, Inc. (NYSE: MPH) announced today that team owners Eric Bachelart and Mike Lanigan will bring their Indianapolis-based Mi-Jack Conquest Racing operation to the Bridgestone Presents...

Michel Jourdain, Jr. ran the fastest lap in tonight's practice session for the Champ Car World Series cars at the Milwaukee Mile, the first nighttime session in CART history. Jourdain's lap of 21.040 seconds (176.578 mph) was more than one second...

It was a hard hit that Gil de Ferran took at Phoenix International Raceway, little more than a week ago, his second concussion in six months and the third in the Brazilian's illustrious career. Fighting with Michael Andretti for possession of ...

Toronto, Ont. (July 13, 2003) - For Paul Tracy, the Molson Indy Toronto could not have been easier or better. For Alex Tagliani, it could not have been much worse, and for Patrick Carpentier it was somewhere in between. The start: Paul...

Indianapolis, Ind. (April 7, 2003) - Andretti Green Racing's Dario Franchitti will be unable to compete in the Indy Racing League event at Twin Ring Motegi on April 11-13 as the result of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident last week. Dan...