IndyCar News

Dreyer & Reinbold Racing has announced that it will expand to a two-car team for the events at Motegi and Indianapolis, and is set to introduce a new sponsor to the Indy Racing League on regular driver Roger Yasukawa's machine this weekend.

Just hours after invitations were mailed out to teams, former Indy Racing League champion Panther Racing filed three entries for the 2005 Indianapolis 500.

Fans of the Champ Car World Series can join its inner circle for free this year as registration for the Champ Car Inner Circle Fan Club is now open on the series website www.champcar.ws .

Marty Roth has confirmed that he is aiming to compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and the entire Menards Infiniti Pro Series season again in 2005.

Preparations have officially started for the Grand Prix of Ansan, with groundbreaking ceremonies taking place on the site that will host the Champ Car World Series on 16 October.

Panther Racing's two Tomas,' Scheckter and Enge, are among the most colourful in the IRL IndyCar Series paddock and are the two men charged with helping get Panther Racing back into the winners circle in 2005.

'Drifting,' the latest craze in the world of streetcar based racing, will form a very smoky part of the support event programme at the inaugural San Jose Champ Car street race later this year.

While he remains one of the youngest members of the grid, AJ Foyt IV will be looking to learn from his grandfather as he continues his education in the IRL - although the famous elder member of the Foyt family feels it could be tough at the start of the season.

Austrian Norbert Siedler is to follow in the recently-taken footsteps of Christijan Albers, Nicky Pastorelli and Timo Glock by crossing the Atlantic to sample a Champ Car with the view to possibly joining the World Series this season.

Double Indy 500 winning car owner and the man whose team won the 1958 'Race of two Worlds' at Monza John Zink, died last week aged 75.

Even though what looked to be a very promising Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona debut for Dan Wheldon and Dario Franchitti ended suddenly at 6am on Sunday morning, both drivers were full of praise for their Howard-Boss team and the Grand Am Series as a whole.

The Mi-Jack Conquest Racing team has confirmed that Nelson Philippe, the youngest-ever driver to race in Champ Car, will return to the team for the 2005 season.

Ron Hemelgarn has confirmed that his eponymous team will be returning to the Indy Racing League on a full-time basis in 2005, and revealed that Infiniti Pro Series stand-out Paul Dana will graduate with the outfit this season.

Fans of the Champ Car World Series already have a number of ways to keep up to date with all the latest goings on in the championship, and they will soon have an option they can carry in their pockets thanks to an innovative new feature from Digital Orchid.

Andretti Green Racing has hired John Anderson as team manager and race strategist for the Klein Tools/Jim Beam car of Dan Wheldon, who is aiming to go one better than last season, where he finished as overall runner-up on the back of three race wins.

Tomas Enge has received the Golden Wheel Award as the Czech Republic's top racing driver for the sixth year in a row - and will be looking to do the sae in 2005 as he transfers full-time to the Indy Racing League.

Legendary team boss Brian Stewart has lived and breathed racing for the last 40 years, winning championships both as a driver and an owner, and that passion and success will now be rewarded by an induction into the Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame.

With 249 major race wins under his belt, Roger Penske certainly needs more than just a trophy case to house his motorsports memories; in fact he needs a whole building.

The 2005 marks the 10th season of racing for the IndyCar Series, which held its first race on January 27th 1996 and throughout it's tenth anniversary season, the series will provide a collection of insights and memoirs from the past decade.

After two years away in Formula One, 2002 Champ Car World Series title winner Cristiano da Matta believes there is a 'pretty high chance' that he will return to the championship this season.

Former USAC president and Indianapolis television and radio personality Charles T. "Charlie" Brockman died last week aged 77.

The G-Force chassis, which carried Buddy Rice to Indianapolis 500 glory in 2004, will be no more from this season, following the news that Elan Motorsports Technologies is to rename its IRL chassis.

Buddy Rice, the 2004 Indianapolis 500 winner, is finally realising that he has won the world's biggest auto race after special presentations made during the last week.

The Andretti family has a had a rich tradition of racing in the Toyota Atlantic Championship and another generation will get an opportunity to show what he can do behind the wheel of an Atlantic machine at the end of the month when Marco Andretti will test at California's Buttonwillow Raceway roa