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Flat Spot On By Jonathan Ingram LONG BEACH JUBILEE The Long Beach race weekend began with a reunion, which fit just right. A birthday party and tribute to Dan Gurney, attended by his many longtime friends and colleagues, launched the weekend...

The race track at St. Petersburg, Fla., is not your typical tight, twisty, short street circuit. Its location in this medium sized city's waterfront area is ideal for both drivers and spectators. At just under two miles in length, there are a ...

Perennial Indy Lights premier operation Sam Schmidt Motorsports has added one of Canada's rising stars to its 2009 lineup. James Hinchcliffe, the Toronto native who has spent his last three years in the Atlantic Championship, joins Schmidt for the...

Racing Heroes Tour -- Iraq (December 11-17 By: Arie Luyendyk Jr. Hi everyone here is my blog from the last few days hope you enjoy! 11-13 Baghdad Arie Luyendyk Jr. visits U.S. troops in Iraq. Photo by Arie Luyendyk Jr.. The ...

Racing Heroes Tour -- Iraq (Day 1-3) By: Arie Luyendyk Jr. Day 1: Arrival into Kuwait. Going into this 11 day tour of Kuwait and Iraq I find myself not knowing at all what to expect. I like many others in our country only see the news...

Prodigious American talent J.R. Hildebrand will contest a second full season of Firestone Indy Lights competition in 2009, replacing outgoing series champion Raphael Matos at Andretti Green Racing/AFS Racing. Hildebrand shifts from RLR Andersen ...

Arie Luyendyk Jr. pulled through to score his first Indy Lights victory following a nail biting one-lap shootout Sunday in the SunRichGourmet.com 100 at Chicagoland Speedway. Luyendyk passed AFS Racing/Andretti Green teammate Raphael Matos on the...

Dillon Battistini won the Freedom 100 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, earning his second Firestone Indy Lights victory this season. Battistini was able to hold off a late race challenge, crossing the finish line 0.2458 seconds ahead of...

When Duane "Pappy" Carter Sr. first raced at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1947, he had no idea his offspring would still be hurtling across the famous yard of bricks nearly six decades later. Though the 11-time Indy 500 starter and...

Well more than 400 members of the Indy Racing League community, along with friends of motorsports, helped the Sam Schmidt Paralysis Foundation celebrate the sixth annual Racing to Recovery Gala benefiting former driver Schmidt's foundation and the...

Ohio native Travis Gregg enters the 2005 14-race Menards Infiniti Pro Series as a rookie despite running three events with his current team owner Sam Schmidt Motorsports last year. Travis Gregg. Photo by Ron McQueeney - IRL. In that...

Sam Schmidt Motorsports swept the front row for Sunday's Homestead-Miami 100 with Travis Gregg earning his second career pole position. This will be Gregg's fourth start in the Menards Infiniti Pro Series and the young Camden, Ohio driver has not...

Temperatures may have been a bit cooler today on the Texas Motor Speedway 1.5-mile oval, but the activity was hot, as seven expert female drivers from around the globe took part in the second of three days of testing for Kathryn Nunn's Menards ...

Six women were nominated for the Nunn Racing shootout to find a suitable female for Kathryn Nunn's Menards Infiniti Pro Series team that won three races this season with P.J. Chesson at the helm of the ...

The Indy Racing League's Menards Infiniti Pro Series has finalized its 2005 schedule, which expands to a series-high 14-event campaign next year, adding three road courses and one street race. Rolando Quintanilla and Leonardo...

Earlier this summer, Kathryn Nunn became the first woman to own an Indy Racing League Menards Infiniti Pro Series team, a move that has since paid off with three victories for lead driver P.J. Chesson and now encompasses a two-car squad with ...

The youngest Unser to strap into an open-wheel car grabbed his first Infiniti Pro Series pole today on one of the tracks he grew up at: Al Unser III won his first career pole in the series today at Michigan International Speedway. "I'm having...

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 ...

Many sons are groomed to go into the family business and so it has been for 22-year-old Arie Luyendyk Jr., born to the two-time Indianapolis 500 Mile Race winner whose name he bears. Arie Luyendyk Jr.. Photo by Earl Ma. The younger...

Thiago Medeiros earned his second consecutive Menards Infiniti Pro Series race after winning the Futaba Freedom 100 at the historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Medeiros started from the pole position in the Sam Schmidt Motorsports No. 11, setting...

Thiago Medeiros earned the pole position for Saturday's Futaba Freedom 100 Infiniti Pro Series race after averaging 189.274 mph around the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway. After practice, it was evident the pole would come down to a three way...

Incredibly, it's been 25 years since Rick Mears notched his first Indianapolis 500 Mile Race victory en route to becoming one of only three four-time winners of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing. Practice session 2: Rick Mears. Photo by...

Brad Pollard is a late-starter in the world of professional auto racing. Brad Pollard. Photo by indyracing.com/Dana Garrett. The cousin of Art Pollard, who competed in six Indianapolis 500 Mile Races during a career cut short by a...

Menards Infiniti Pro Series standout Arie Luyendyk Jr. took some time after his April 23rd open test in preparation for the Futaba Freedom 100 on May 22nd just to let Motorsport.com readers in on his experiences at his home race in Phoenix, 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 ...

Who ever heard of a rookie driver coming into a Menards Infiniti Pro Series, one who had never driven on an oval or even seen the track before practice, winning his first race? Phil Giebler. Photo by Anne Proffit. If that seems like...

For a guy who had never seen an oval track much less driven on one -- before -- the Menards Infiniti Pro Series open test at Phoenix on February 10th, Phil Giebler learned the ropes in a hurry, winning the Homestead-Miami 100 season opener on the...

This time Thiago Medeiros expects to come out on top and the young Brazilian is prepared to work as hard as he can to make his way to the finish line first when the Indy Racing League's Menard Infiniti Pro Series starts its third season this...

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 ...

Seven Menards Infiniti Pro Series drivers had their first opportunity to check out the changes to Phoenix International Raceway's one-mile oval, now that a tunnel has been inserted near Turn 4, making the infield accessible throughout the ...