IndyCar News

Buddy Lazier will drive in the familiar yellow colours of Pennzoil when he turns out for Panther Racing at this weekend's Firestone Indy 200 at Nashville Superspeedway.

Last year, Buddy Rice and Vitor Meira qualified one-two for the Firestone Indy 200 marking Rahal Letterman Racing's first front row qualifying sweep in the IRL IndyCar Series.

After a competitive weekend in Toronto with drivers Nelson Philippe and Andrew Ranger, Mi-Jack Conquest Racing will race north of the border once again for round seven of the Champ Car World Series in this weekend's West Edmonton Mall Grand Prix in Edmonton.

Paul Tracy managed to hide the anger that must have been bubbling inside him quite well at the conclusion of Sunday's Molson Indy Toronto but only because it was the Champ Car rulebook that denied him victory rather than arch-rival Sebastien Bourdais.

Oriol Servia was typically gracious in defeat despite allowing a maiden Champ Car World Series victory to slip between his fingers in Sunday's Molson Indy Toronto.

Canadian teenager Andrew Ranger was just a handful of laps away from finalising a superb weekend in front of a large and supportive Toronto crowd when a bizarre mistake left him stranded on the track in the final few yellow flag laps to the chequers.

Jason Priestley, who made his name in the hit TV series Beverly Hills 90210, has been named as grand marshal of the 2005 CENTRIX Financial Grand Prix of Denver.

Helio Castroneves scored his first victory and his first trademark fence-climb of 2005 with a victory in the SunTrust Indy Challenge at Richmond International Raceway.

Cristiano da Matta topped his win at the Portland International Raceway with provisional pole for this weekend's Champ Car Grand Prix of Cleveland at the Burke Lakefront Airport.

Disgruntled Formula One fans who missed out on seeing the action at Indianapolis may finally have something to smile about after the Champ Car World Series announced that it will honour tickets purchased for the US Grand Prix at the latest round of the Champ Car season in Cleveland this coming we

Menards Infiniti Pro Series debutant Larry Connor escaped injury after a spectacular accident saw him flip his Genoa Racing entry during qualifying for Saturday's Liberty Challenge race on the Indianapolis road course.

It is hard to imagine the New Zealand All Blacks' rugby coaching staff lending a hand to the Australian Wallabies, but that is almost what you have in this year's Champ Car World Series.

With its 15th IRL IndyCar Series victory, Panther Racing regained the title as winningest team in IRL history thanks to Tomas Scheckter's nail biting triumph last Saturday at the Texas Motor Speedway.

The damaged wing from the #16 Rahal Letterman Racing Panoz-Honda driven by Danica Patrick in the 89th Indianapolis 500 fetched an astounding $42,650.01 on eBay with the proceeds going towards charity.

Travis Gregg forgot to do a backflip following his win in the season-opening Homestead-Miami 100 Menards Infiniti Pro Series event. He made up for it by doing two flips at Texas Motor Speedway.

Target Chip Ganassi Racing's disappointing IRL IndyCar Series campaign continued at the Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday for while all three of the team's Panoz-Toyota's made it to the chequered flag, not one of them was in the top ten.

Champ Car World Series co-owner Kevin Kalkhoven, one half of the Aquarium Asset Management group who acquired the rights to run the Grand Prix of Long Beach, has pronounced himself 'delighted' at the city council's decision to approve the future running of the event as a round of the Champ Car Wo

Tony Kanaan, the defending champion of the Bombardier Learjet 500 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series race at Texas Motor Speedway, arrived in the Lone Star State on Tuesday and engaged in some light-hearted monkey business at the Dallas Zoo.

After her stunning Indianapolis 500 debut, Danica Patrick is undoubtedly THE face of the IRL at the moment, with her merchandise sales rocketing to previously unseen levels and her popularity even threatening to rival some of the NASCAR Nextel Cup personalities.

With a trio wins and a grand total of 531 laps led at the Milwaukee Mile already to his credit, Paul Tracy entered this weekend as the most decorated active driver at the venerable one-mile oval in Wisconsin.

Champ Car fan favourite Jimmy Vasser broke PKV Racing's pole-less streak with fastest time in Friday's sole qualifying session for the Time Warner Cable Road Runner 225 at Milwaukee.

The Champ Car World Series has witnessed many a change at the venerable Milwaukee Mile ever since the chequered flag first flew there over Wilbur Shaw's victory in 1933 and the 2005 event witnesses yet another as the circuit's two-year love-affair with night racing comes to an end.

Although Kenny Brack's Indianapolis 500 return ended with handling difficulties before half of the 200-lap had been completed, the 1999 event winner was still awarded the Scott Brayton's Driver Trophy.

Danica Patrick has been confirmed as this year's JPMorgan Chase Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year. Patrick's nomination as RotY came on Monday's traditional Indianapolis 500 Victory Celebration at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway.