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"Send in the Clowns!"
Max Papis works some magical strategy to come away with a win at Laguna Seca, but everyone's talking about Paul Tracy talking himself into a major fine or Honda leaving CART in a huff over engine changes.
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The Quiet Before The Storm
The CART/FedEx racing season is poised to begin this coming weekend, with the first race set for Monterey, Mexico. There's little hard news, but there's been lots of hype about "Driven," the new Slyvester Stallone film about champ car racing.
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California Here We Come!
The Championship Auto Racing Teams head for the track at Fontana, California to settle the CART/Fed-Ex Championship for 2000, with Gil de Ferran, Adrian Fernandez, Paul Tracy and Kenny Brack at the top of the points chart.,The Championship Auto Racing Teams head for the track at Fontana, California to settle the CART/Fed-Ex Championship for 2000, with Gil de Ferran, Adrian Fernandez, Paul Tracy and Kenny Brack at the top of the points chart.
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Could CART Become Too Popular?
The CART season is over -- and it was one of the best in recent memory -- but NASCAR devotees and those who pass judgement only at the bottom line still don't give the USA's premier open wheel series proper respect.
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Farm Team?
Mutterings in the press and paddock accuse Chip Ganassi, a guy with four consecutive CART championships in his pocket, of running a farm team for F-1. Looking at his selection of drivers for the 2001 season, you have to wonder a bit.
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Goodbye Oldsmobile, Thanks for the Rocket 88 Ride
It's a quiet week in the racing off-season and so word that General Motors will pull the plug on the venerable Oldsmobile name spurs talk among auto enthusiasts around the world. What effect the decision will have on the Indy Racing League, for which Olds provides engines under the Aurora badge, is not yet known.
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Presidents: USA 0, CART 1
CART winding up its tour and heading into the off-season doesn't stop rumors, news and views from racing around the Internet. Fans were delighted last week to learn of the return of Alex Zanardi, a former champion with a win-to-start ratio of 1 to 3.4 ... but veteran media watchers were at odds over the appointment of Joseph Heitzler as the new president of the racing series.
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Taking a Spin Through Rumor Town
Everyone comes equipped with a nose ... and with an opinion. It's off-season for the Cart/FedEx Series. What do we have better to do than take a spin around the Internet?
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The Blue Light Special
Thinking about internationalism in auto racing, a fan wonders how a Lincoln Navigator-driving Brazilian who likes his fish hot from a George Foreman grille ends up driving an English chassis powered by a Japanese motor owned by a famous American film star and sponsored by a discount store chain.
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Who Is This Guy Anyway?
A brief look at Gil de Ferran, winner of the 2000 CART Series Championship, taking the prize in his first year with Team Penske.
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"Say It Ain't So, Joe!"
Is CART collapsing? A series of bad decisions, late decisions, and protested decisions has left the series with no engine providers for the 2003 season other than a Ford-Cosworth spec offering.
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Cleveland: the Anti-TMS
Team Kool Green's Dario Franchitti takes his first win in the CART FedEx Series since 1999, but the buzz after Cleveland's Marconi Gran Prix was near win by Team Target Chip Ganassi's new driver, Memo Gidley.
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Right Things, Wrong Things
Ganassi put four drivers from Team Target in the Indy 500 after giving the seats in his primary cars to two experienced US open wheel drivers. The Brickyard now has the greatest CART contingent participating since the war between the series and Indy owner Tony George began 6 years ago.,Ganassi put four drivers from Team Target in the Indy 500 after giving the seats in his primary cars to two experienced US open wheel drivers. The Brickyard now has the greatest CART contingent participating since the war between the series and Indy owner Tony George began 6 years ago.
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Doesn't Anybody Want This Trophy?
A rain delay pushed the completion of the California 500 - and the crowning of the CART 2000 Season Champion - back one day, but the delay didn't deter Gil de Ferran from outlasting the other contenders to earn the Vanderbilt Cup and his first title.
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From Super Sub to Super Star?
A few thoughts about Team Target Chip Ganassi's new driver, Memo Gidley, as we await the CART series assault on the streets of Toronto.
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"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"
The <b>CART FedEx</b> raced in the rain at Portland last week, with Max Papis winning from the pole.
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A Mile Ain't Far Enough
The swift Swede sophomore, Kenny Brack, takes the victory at the CART-FedEx Series race at Chicago, proving once again the Ford/Lola combination is the class of the field on the short ovals.
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All I Want for Christmas Is a New Team Engineer
The holidays are over, and the teams again are setting their sights on the CART season opener at Monterey, Mexico. It's more than two months away, but it's not too early for Team Players to add one of racing's best engineers to its staff.
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Are We Really Going Racing Again?
The CART/Fedex Series heads to Texas for a first-time appearance at Bruton Smith's Texas Motorspeedway, a fast 1.5 mile oval. This same weekend Sylvester Stallone's new movie about the adventures of the CART series -- DRIVEN! -- will open.
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CART Came, CART Saw, CART Conquered
CART Teams dominate the 2001 Indy 500, with IRL Teams fading to also-rans while Team Penske avenges its ignominious 1995 appearance by taking the top two positions.
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Cold Tires, Hot Cars
Team Rahal driver Kenny Brack makes it two in a row with a victory at the Milwaukee Mile, a race which included a competitor being black-flagged out of the competition for the first time in recent memory.
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Forty Days to Monterey!
Checking the latest news as teams test, drivers practice, and fans gear up for the start of the 2001 CART season.
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Gentlemen, Start Your Season!
The 2001 CART/FedEx Racing Season gets under way in Monterey, Mexico, and a crowd of 100,000+ watch Brazilian Cristiano da Matta grab the win in his first ride with the legendary Newman-Haas Racing Team.
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Is CART A Goner?
A funny rumor -- Kenny Brack to NASCAR -- began circulating last week, but long-time fans are more worried about the health of the series rather than the destination of a driver.
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Isn't it Long Beach yet?
The CART/FedEx Series seems in limbo after the cancellation of the race in Rio, and fans are impatient for the Long Beach Gran Prix, which is still nearly two weeks away.
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It's Official! Team Penske Back Home Again in Indiana.
Team Penske uses CART's Winter Sneak Peek to announce a return to competition at the storied Indy 500. The 10 time winners join Team Target/Chip Ganassi to become the second CART team to compete at the Brickyard under the new Indy Racing League formula.
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Leaving Home
It's time for qualifying and practice for the legendary <b>Indy 500</b>, and so <b>CART</b> heads for Japan to run at Twin-Ring Motegi. The man happiest about that migration is 1999 Indy winner Kenny Brack, who picked up his first <b>CART</b> victory.
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Meandering Through Mid-Ohio
CART fans appreciate the good racing when Team Penske comes away with a dominating victory at Mid-Ohio, but it's Silly Season too, and the fans enjoy the racing rumors just as much.
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More on the Engine That Could
We're still nearly two weeks from the next race in the CART/FedEx series, and so we're left to speculate on engines, the IRL and why CART may no longer be the premier auto racing series in the USA.
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Mr. Miller Has Left the Building
Robin Miller, a veteran auto racing reporter, left his long-term employer, the Indianapolis <i>Star</i>, under circumstances no one has been able to decipher. The news stirred talk among fans because Miller, love him or hate him, knew how to get people's engines wound to the maximum rpm.
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Parading Through The Streets of Long Beach
The CART/FedEx Racing Series ends a long lay-off with a parade through the streets of Long Beach. The race draws celebrities, a hundred thousand fans, but the lack of passing zones turned it into a parade.
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Quick Studies, Slow Learners
New Zealander Scott Dixon becomes the youngest winner in <b>CART</b> by holding off challenges from veterans Kenny Brack and Paul Tracy at the tight little bullring at Nazareth. The series next moves to the Japan and the Twin Ring Motegi oval.
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So Many Races and Only One VCR
Father's Day weekend saw four major races, different series on different venues, with winners old and new. It was a great weekend to be a race fan.
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Tanglin' in Toronto
Michael Andretti displays some of the old Andretti magic at the Molson Indy Toronto. Andretti drops to the back of the pack after nearly being shunted into the tire barriers at the first turn of the first lap, and then he comes back for his 7th win on the streets of the Canadian capital.
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The Teams, The People, The Cars
A brief run-down of who's driving what in the upcoming season, including observations about who's gone where to drive what and links to each team's Web site.
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The Week That Was
Auto racing safety continues to highlight media discussion of the sport in the week after NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt was killed on the last lap of the Daytona 500.
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The Week That Wasn't
The CART/FedEx Series sits in the middle of a long lay-off brought about when Brazilian politicians and series executives couldn't get together on who owes whom what to stage a race in Rio. Team Penske made use of the downtime by fielding a couple of IRL cars at Phoenix.
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Toyota in the IRL, Emmo in the Hall of Fame
It's an off-week for the CART FedEx Racing Series, but fans are still discussing Toyota's decision to provide engines for the rival IRL Series and wondering what influence that decision will have on the two series merging.
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Two Series, One Engine?
With every other series running rings around the US's premier open wheel series, CART drivers took another week off. The Long Beach Gran Prix is scheduled for Saturday, and true fans are eager to hear the engines roar.
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Waiting Game
Okay, I'm jealous. The straight-line NHRA hot rods burned rubber at Pomona over the weekend. The email lists and Web sites buzz with the countdown numbers for the Daytona 500. But we CART/FedEx Series fans are stuck in the groundhog's hole, waiting for the March open wheel opener down in Mexico.
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Wishin' We'd Go Again To Michigan
The CART/FedEx Series races again on the big oval at Michigan, and the fans are treated to the traditional 500 miles of wheel-to-wheel racin' and passin' on every lap making it all the more puzzling the series and the track owners say, "Sorry. This is the last CART race here, folks."
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Zanardi Tests, Fans Await New Season
The CART/Fed-Ex racing season doesn't begin until March, but, with former series champion Alex Zanardi testing in Florida, a fan can while away cold winter nights by doing a little 'Net Racing.
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"Give Me Two of What Roger Ordered."
A review of The CART - FedEx Racing Series visit to the Mid-Ohio Sportscar Course, where Team Penske ran away with the race while a fog of rumors swirled around other teams and drivers.
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"My Kind of Town," da Matta sings.
Cristiano da Matta takes the checkered flag at the CART FedEx Series champ car race at Chicago for his first victory -- and the first victory for PPI Motorsports. Michaeal Andretti again runs second and maintains his point lead, but only 11 of the 24 starters finish the race.
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Cancellation? Postponement? No Race by Whatever Name
CART cancels -- or maybe, postpones -- the race at Texas Motor Speedway after sustained high g-forces generated by the 900 horsepower cars on the banked oval suggest the race will be physically-impossible for the drivers.
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Did Anybody Service My Gearbox?
A fan's review of CART's 2000 visit to Road America at Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, where Paul Tracy came away with the victory, leaving in his trail half the field sweeping up parts from broken cars.
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Champ Car World Series Preview
The 2007 Champ Car season will commence this weekend on the streets of Las Vegas for the Vegas Grand Prix.
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Heading for Homestead
News and views as CART heads for the racing series opener at Homestead in the Sunshine State.
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Who Are These People and What Do They Want?
A discussion of CART's new "fan friendly" attitude, with notes on how fame and fortune throws up a barrier than can never be breached.
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Canada's Concrete Canyons
The CART Fed-Ex series invades the concrete canyons of downtown Toronto, Canada, and veteran Michael Andretti comes away with his 40th champ car victory.
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