IndyCar News

IRL IndyCar Series chassis manufacturer Panoz G-Force has set its sights firmly on a championship title and an Indy 500 victory for 2003 after putting in the hours creating what it believes is the best new generation car on the grid.

Racing For Kids and Aventis Pharmaceuticals have partnered to become the title sponsor for the 2003 Indy Racing League Infiniti Pro Series event at Kansas Speedway on 6 July.

Champ Car veteran Adrian Fernandez made his return to the cockpit last weekend at Laguna Seca following a three-month layoff recovering from a fractured vertebrae.

Former FIA Formula 3000 driver Alex Muller successfully passed the speed phase of his Indy Racing League IndyCar Series rookie test at Fontana yesterday driving for PDM Racing.

Indianapolis 500 winner Eddie Cheever Jr.

Paul Gentilozzi's Rocketsports team, which is adding the new-look CART Champcar to existing Trans-Am commitments this season, recently confirmed speculation by naming Canada's Alex Tagliani as driver of the Johnson Controls-backed entry.

Zetec Formula Ford 2000 veteran Jonathan Urlin will compete in the 2003 Indy Racing League Infiniti Pro Series season for Brian Stewart Racing, team officials announced Jan. 16. Urlin, 20, from London, Ontario, finished third in the 2002 Zetec Formula Ford 2000 championship.

Nick Goozee, Managing Director of Penske Cars, Ltd., announced that Nigel Beresford has been named Technical Director of the company.

Already a unique event in the world of racing, CART's annual trip to the Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland will have an added twist in 2003 with news that the series has secured plans to run next year's event at night.

The Bridgestone Presents the 2003 Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford unveiled a new corporate look and company logo on Wednesday.

Canadian Tom Wood will return to Sam Schmidt Motorsports for the entire 2003 IRL Infiniti Pro Series season after contesting three races for the team last year.

Western Union, a worldwide leader in money transfer services, will team with Duesenberg Brothers Racing for the 2003 Indy Racing League Infiniti Pro Series, Western Union officials announced Jan. 9.

Returning to one of the finest oval tracks in Europe, the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford will complete its May European Tour with an event at EuroSpeedway Lausitz featuring a battle on the state-of-the-art two-mile oval May 10-11.

Following through on a promise to return Champcar racing to Europe in 2003, CART has confirmed that it will race at the fabled Brands Hatch circuit.

Marlboro Team Penske has announced that Grant Newbury will be double Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves' race engineer for the 2003 Indy Racing League (IRL) IndyCar Series season.

Dale Coyne Racing is stepping up its commitment to being a competitive force in the 2003 Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford with the hiring of vastly experienced and highly respected engineer John Bright.

Joe D'Agostino, Phillippe Gelinas, Matt Jaskol, and David Jurca have been selected as the winners of the Barber-CART Karting Scholarship at Sebring International Raceway from a field of sixteen karters.

2002 North American Auto Racing Series (NAMARS) Regional MidgetCar Champion Aaron Pierce got his first taste of an Infiniti Pro Series car on Monday at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, hoping it'll prove to be a preview of things to come.

The Barber-CART Karting Runoff is underway at Sebring International Raceway with sixteen invitees, each the cream of the karting crop, competing for a slot in the Formula Dodge National Championship Series presented by RACER magazine.

Current FIA International Formula 3000 Champion Sebastien Bourdais will get a second test with defending CART Champion team Newman-Haas Racing at Sebring this week after matching Ricardo Zonta's time in his first outing.

Double Indy Racing League champion Sam Hornish Jr. will be a guest of ABC Sports at the 2003 FedEx Orange Bowl, one of American Football's biggest college games, on Thursday in Miami.

Seemingly against all the odds, Indy Racing League minnows PDM Racing have ordered their first 2003 Dallara chassis and are still planning on attending the major pre-season 'Test in the West' before contesting the 2003 IRL Championship.

Cory Witherill and Aaron Fike will return to Hemelgarn/Johnson Motorsports for the 2003 Indy Racing Infiniti Pro Series season, team officials have announced.

A CART Franchise Board meeting at the organisation's Indianapolis headquarters resulted in a number of positive rule changes for 2003, and also established the members of the 2003 technical advisory and safety advisory committees.