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Arie Luyendyk Jr., the 2003 IRL Menards Infiniti Pro Series "Most Popular Driver Award" winner, will be contributing regular race journal entries to Motorsport.com throughout the 2004 racing season. Arie Luyendyk Jr.. Photo by Earl ...

Crime really does not pay in the scope of things. Larry Curry, indicted and jailed for defrauding John Menard of nearly a million dollars over a three-year period, had most of his personal possessions trophies of all mien from the good days sold...

Peter Jennings made him one of ABC's "Person of the Week" honorees on a Friday April evening a few years; Mario Andretti counts him as a lifelong friend. Where there's a major American- based open wheel race weekend, Father Phil De Rea has been...

Racing is a young man's game. At one time turnover of drivers came by death; in these modern days of HANS devices, SAFER barriers and a plethora of safety items that keep drivers working into their 40s and beyond, retirement must be a deliberate...

Adrian Fernandez took the battle today in the Toyota Indy 400 by 0.0183 seconds, but second finisher Tony Kanaan won the war. The 2004 Indy Racing League's IndyCar Series championship belongs to the driver of Andretti Green Racing's ...

Robby Gordon is hoping the tenth try will be the charm as he attempts to conquer the 88th Indianapolis 500 Mile Race. For the fourth straight year, the Californian will attempt to perform the Memorial Day weekend "double" by racing at Indianapolis...

It was supposed to be first race of the year, but the late assumption of CART Inc. assets by Open Wheel Racing Series helped lead to a tentative mid-May rescheduling of the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on the streets of that gulf-side ...

Rahal Letterman Racing, winners of the 2004 Indianapolis 500 Mile Race - and MBNA pole position - with Buddy Rice has clarified its plans for the upcoming Indy Racing League IndyCar Series 17-race season. Danica Patrick. Photo by Shawn...

With eight first-timers making up the field of 33 drivers for the 88th Indianapolis 500 Mile Race, the Bank One Rookie of the Year contest will be a tight one. Kosuke Matsuura receives fastest rookie of the year award. Photo by Jim...

Dale Coyne finally secured two viable drivers for his two-car 2004 Champ Car World Series team and announced them this morning prior to initial practice for the 30th annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Veteran Champ Car and open wheel stars...

The 2004 racing season marks Helio Castroneves' fifth with Marlboro Team Penske and third as the driver of the team's ...

Champ Car World Series driver Sebastien Bourdais recovered from an early spin and worked his way up through the pack to take top prize at the Grand Prix of Denver. The victory for the Le Mans, France native was his fifth this season and eighth...

After setting the second fastest lap of the morning session, Tony Kanaan shaved nearly two-tenths of a second in the second session, topping the day's speed charts with a lap of 214.797 mph around the high-banked two-mile Michigan International ...

The racing world has lost one of its finest photographers and friends. Art Flores, who resided in Alameda, California but whose passion for all of life and for racing reminded many of the heady, protest-filled days in nearby Berkeley, passed away...

Roger Penske and his eponymous team have seen both sides of the mountain and, as might be expected prefer the top. After Marlboro Team Penske's third consecutive victory in the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race victory, Roger Penske, team president Tim...

Paul Tracy is becoming the new King of the Beach, now that the Canadian ace has won his fourth Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach and his second in a row, driving the ...

2002 Indianapolis 500 Mile Race polesitter Bruno Junqueira will get another stab at winning the Greatest Spectacle in Racing this May 30th, driving the ...

The list of drivers for this year's Indy Racing League IndyCar Series is filling fast as Super Aguri Fernandez Racing confirmed the signing of rookie Kosuke Matsuura to drive its ...

The Indy Racing League has enhanced its partnership with Delphi Corp., as the electronics firm has agreed to become the "Official Safety Supplier" to the IRL. Delphi press conference: new earpiece sensor system by Delphi. Photo by Eric...

The battle between Bruno Junqueira and Paul Tracy is on again through the streets of Long Beach as this duo, combatants to the final round of last year's Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford went to work in preliminary...

This message is for all the naysayers who were certain the 88th Indianapolis 500 Mile Race would consist of fewer than 33 cars: wrong! When the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval opened for final qualifying at the crack of noon there were...

If you expected Alex Zanardi to lose his zest for life after having both legs amputated above the knee by a competitor's race car at EuroSpeedway Lausitz on September 15, 2001 you'd be wrong. Zanardi, who claims he hasn't shed a tear over the ...

One would think there aren't enough hours in the day for Paul Gentilozzi, whose motorsports concerns include the Champ Car World Series, the Motorock Trans-Am Tour, the occasional Trans-Am drive to keep his hand in, prepared by his own...

The 88th Indianapolis 500 Mile Race began with rain and ended the same way, after 180 of the scheduled 200 laps at the 2.5- mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway. At the end of the day it was raining Rice, as polesitter Buddy Rice won in a wacky race,...

It was time to get back to work for drivers who have already qualified for the 88th Indianapolis 500 Mile Race today at the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Scott Dixon goes out to practice. Photo by Michael C. Johnson. Just 13...

On Leap Day, February 29th, Sam Hornish Jr. made the big jump to victory at Homestead-Miami Speedway, leading Marlboro Team Penske teammate Helio Castroneves to the checkered flags by a nominal .0698 seconds in the first Indy Racing League ...

In February, Kelley Racing announced that it would field a car for the Indy Racing League's IndyCar Series perennial Most Popular Driver, Sarah Fisher. Details of that effort for the 88th Indianapolis 500 Mile Race were revealed today at ...

Carl Russo didn't intend to enlarge his fledgling Champ Car World Series team from one entry for rookie A.J. Allmendinger, winner of the Toyota Atlantic Championship Series as a rookie last year. That would have been quite enough, thank you, with...

Today's excitement at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was a case of "what could have been," as NASCAR NEXTEL Cup star Tony Stewart showed up at his favorite track -- one of the few where he has not tasted the spoils of victory -- thinking of maybe...

The only type of car Paul Tracy has driven with a roof on top is one of his myriad street machines but that will change with the 2005 running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway. Paul Tracy. Photo by Linda Rydell. Tracy,...

The Indy Racing League has a point to make. Several points, in fact. To give all teams and drivers additional scoring opportunities, the League has adjusted its scoring system for the 2004 IndyCar Series season. Dario Franchitti and...

2003 Champ Car World Series Champion Paul Tracy joined Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell, Molson Sport and Entertainment Vice President Bob Singleton to kick off the ticket sales for this years' Molson Indy Vancouver. Mayor Campbell and Molson ...

Super Aguri Fernandez Racing is first out of the box to announce their 2005 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series plans, bringing back potential Bombardier Rookie of the Year candidate Kosuke Matsuura to the ...

The month of May might not have arrived yet, but don't tell that to the legions of dogs who showed up for Indianapolis Motor Speedway's inaugural Mutt Strut today. Kati Castroneves and her pal. Photo by Anne Proffit. Pooches (and ...

Tony Kanaan made it two in a row at the tricky Phoenix International Raceway mile oval today, winning his second consecutive Indy Racing League IndyCar Series Copper World Indy 200 here in searing heat on the second day of spring. Tony...

INDIANAPOLIS, August 10, 2004 - Is Rahal Letterman Racing the team to beat this year for the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series title? It's starting to look that way with the results posted to date by drivers Buddy Rice ( ...

Being the Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford "bridesmaid" for the past two years hasn't been the best scenario for Bruno Junqueira. Bruno Junqueira. Photo by Tom Haapanen. The 28-year-old Brazilian, who...

There are plenty of drivers wandering the Indianapolis Motor Speedway this month looking for the right opportunity. With fewer cars available in 2004 due to the financial impact of fielding a team that relies on leased rather than built engines,...

Rahal-Letterman Racing, Buddy Rice at the wheel and the crew under the leadership of Chief Mechanic Ricardo Nault, won today's Checkers/Rally's Indy 500 Pit Stop Challenge. Their final-round victory was against Helio Castroneves' Marlboro Team ...