IndyCar News

Paul Tracy is pretty much resigned to not being able to challenge for this year's Champ Car World Series following full diagnosis of the back injury that will rule him out of this weekend's Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.

Paul Tracy has been ruled out of the second Champ Car World Series round at Long Beach after injuring his back in a heavy crash during free practice, the former champion being replaced at Forsythe Racing this weekend by Oriol Servia.

A decade after he formed Chastain Motorsports to field a car in the Indycar Series, Indianapolis entrepreneur Tom Chastain is reunited key members of the team for a ten-year anniversary Indianapolis 500 programme.

The little-known Luczo-Dragon Racing team was among the late entries for this year's Indianapolis 500, after it was confirmed that IndyCar Series veteran Ryan Briscoe will attempt to qualify the #12 Symantec-backed Dallara-Honda for the 2007 race.

The Champ Car World Series saw its 2007 season open at a new venue, with a new car and a new race winner as Team Australia's Will Power converted pole position into victory in the inaugural Vegas Grand Prix.

Target Chip Ganassi Racing was the biggest name among the first batch of Indianapolis 500 entries to arrive after the annual deadline, with PDM Racing and Playa Del Racing helping to take the confirmed field to 60 cars and 22 drivers.

Star Wars creator George Lucas will serve as the Grand Marshal for the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach next weekend.

Champ Car team owners Paul Newman and Carl Haas are among the second group of racing luminaries to be confirmed in the Long Beach Motorsports 'Walk of Fame.'

Monster Energy and its iconic M-claw logo will adorn the side of Champ Car legend Paul Tracy's helmet from this weekend's Vegas Grand Prix, after the pair agreed to work together in 2007.

Having made a brief one-race comeback for the team last season, Ronnie Bremer has secured a full-time return to Polestar Racing in the Champ Car Atlantic Championship for 2007, alongside newcomer Bret McDonald.

Condor Motorsports have strengthened their Champ Car Atlantic line-up to three with the signing of Brian Thienes, who joins Franck Perera and Junior Strous in the team.

IRL IndyCar Series newcomers Samax Motorsport have joined forces with Jon Herb's Racing Professionals outfit for a two-pronged assault on this year's Indianapolis 500.

Indy Pro Series rookie Pablo Perez was airlifted to hospital following a serious accident marred the season-opening round at Homestead-Miami Speedway, bringing the event to an early conclusion.

The 2007 Indy Pro Series is set to kick off at Homestead with possibly the strongest line-up the championship has experienced yet, thanks to a record 26 entries.

Milka Duno will add an unprecedented third female presence to the IndyCar grid this season, having agreed a ten-race deal with a new team put together by Grand-Am entrant CITGO Racing/SAMAX Motorsport.

Vision Racing has filed three entries for this year's Indianapolis 500, naming veterans Tomas Scheckter, Ed Carpenter and Anthony 'AJ' Foyt IV as its drivers for the blue riband event on 27 May.

Greg Beck's eponymous team will make a return to the IndyCar Series in next week's season-opener at Homestead-Miami Speedway, having signed IRL veteran Alex Barron to pilot its lone Dallara-Honda.

A unique piece of motorsports memorabilia, in the shape of a crash helmet signed by all surviving Indianapolis 500 winners, will be up for auction later this month on behalf of the Victory Junction Gang Camp set up by Kyle Petty.

Citing the need for further testing of its standing-start procedures, the Champ Car World Series has announced that it would not use standing starts for the first three races of the 2007 season.

Roth Racing has filed an entry for the 91st Indianapolis 500, unsurprisingly naming team owner Marty Roth as the driver of its #25 Dallara-Honda.

Having allowed arch-rival Paul Tracy to take the spoils on day one of the final pre-season test before the start of the Champ Car World Series season, Sebastien Bourdais saved his best for last by smashing the official lap record at Laguna Seca, earning a $5,000 prize in the process.

Englishman Dan Wheldon wants to banish all thoughts of 2006 to the back of his mind as he prepares to launch a campaign that he hopes will see him regain the IRL title he won in 2005.

One of the last remaining hiccups ahead of Champ Cars new Grand Prix of Phoenix was overcome last week when the event organisers satisfied local police that the noise of the cars wouldn't disrupt a nearby emergency call centre.

Minardi Team USA has confirmed rumours that Zsolt Baumgartner is the first driver officially signed by the team for the 2007 Champ Car World Series season - although the Hungarian will not be filling one of the vacant race seats with the former CTE-HVM outfit.