IndyCar News

Having been forced to sit out the opening leg of the Champ Car World Series' trip to Europe, Dan Clarke has been given the nod to return to action this weekend in the Netherlands.

The planned final round of this year's Champ Car World Series has been cancelled for financial reasons, reducing the season to just 14 events and joining China on the list of events postponed or abandoned this year.

Dan Clarke has admitted that he just wants to 'move on' from the incident that saw him suspended from the Champ Car Grand prix of Belgium on the opening day at Zolder.

Eponymous Indycar Series team owner Marty Roth will add a second car to his arsenal in the season finale at Chicagoland next month for the redoubtable PJ Chesson.

Dan Clarke's exclusion from the opening round of Champ Car's European Tour at Zolder marked a clamp-down on a driver many felt had over-stepped the mark on numerous occasions, but the Briton remained tight-lipped about the incident that caused his downfall.

This weekend will mark a return to familiar surroundings for the majority of the Champ Car World Series field as it heads to Europe for a double-header 'flyaway' beginning at Zolder, in Belgium.

The awards have been handed out in the Champ Car Atlantic Series after the season drew to a close last weekend with the Grand Prix of Road America.

Indy Pro Series champion elect Alex Lloyd was beaten to pole position for the Kentucky 100 by Panther Racing's Hideki Mutoh on Friday at the Kentucky Speedway as the two class drivers in this years field once again showed why they are sitting 1-2 in the points table.

IndyCar Series points leader Dario Franchitti was lucky to escape unscathed from a high-speed accident during the Firestone Indy 400 at Michigan.

Dario Franchitti took the first step towards completing an Indianapolis-Michigan double by notching pole position for the Firestone Indy 400 at the historic Michigan International Speedway on Saturday night.

Milka Duno and Jon Herb will make their debut Indycar appearances at the Michigan International Speedway at the Firestone Indy 400 this weekend, having confirmed their return to the series.

Three familiar names battled over pole position in first qualifying for the San Jose Grand Prix, but eventual poleman Sebastien Bourdais had to rely on a late effort to secure the bonus point and guaranteed front row start.

Already looking ahead to 2008 and beyond, second-year Indy Pro Series team Michael Crawford Motorsports has signed 18-year-old karting stand-out Cole Mathewson to a development and testing programme.

Mario Dominguez will make a return to the Champ Car World Series this weekend at the Edmonton Grand Prix in place of the injured Tristan Gommendy at PKV.

Milka Duno and the SAMAX team are to receive the help of former IndyCar Series driver Tomas Enge as they prepare for the next round of the championship at Nashville.

Sam Schmidt Motorsports has won 20 races and two drivers championships in the past four seasons of Indy Pro Series competition and the team's dominance is perhaps no where more evident than at Nashville Superspeedway, where they have won the last three races at the 1.33-mile concrete oval.

With the Mont-Tremblant blocking row not have settled amicably, a second incident between Sebastien Bourdais and Robert Doornbos in the Steelback Grand Prix of Toronto could have caused a flashpoint, but the Frenchman decided not to make an issue of contact that put him out of the race.

After knocking on the door over the past few weeks, French rookie Franck Perera picked up his first career Champ Car Atlantic pole position in final qualifying for Sunday's race at Mont-Tremblant.

For the third consecutive Champ Car Atlantic qualifying session, points leader Raphael Matos added to his championship lead as he guaranteed himself a front row starting spot for Sunday's race at Mont-Tremblant.

Dario Franchitti's victory at the 91st Indianapolis 500 has inspired sponsor Canadian Club to develop a commemorative Canadian Club Indy 500 Collector's Edition bottle for its whisky.

European Minardi's two-seaters are back on-track again following a nine-week intermission, with the Champ Car F1x2 getting into gear to embark on an extremely busy summer programme.

Paul Tracy took the use of wings at Burke Lakefront Airport to extremes as he finally returned to the top step of the Champ Car podium in Cleveland.

Alex Lloyd passed polesitter Wade Cunningham with ten laps to go to win the Iowa 100 Indy Pro Series event, setting a new all-time victory record for the class in the process

Indy Pro Series points leader Alex Lloyd may 'only' have finished second in both Liberty Challenge races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at the weekend, but he was greeted by a familiar face after stepping down from the podium in race two.