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Chip Ganassi (above with Franchitti) announced on Tuesday that Dario Franchitti will replace Dan Wheldon in his Indycar team next year. Ganassi had decided to drop Wheldon (below) after a disappointing year and move Franchitti from his NASCAR team to his IRL squad. Wheldon sealed his fate by qualifying in…
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Sep 3 2008
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Sep 3 2008
Justin Wilson’s first IRL win
This has been a very tough year for Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing. After winning four consecutive Champ Car titles with Sébastien Bourdais, America’s second most successful open-wheel team has struggled this season, like all the former Champ Car teams, in making the eleventh-hour switch to the IRL. Minimal testing, a serious shortage…
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Aug 20 2008
Can Carl Edwards beat Kyle Busch?
Carl Edwards has emerged as the strongest challenger to Kyle Busch for this year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup championship. The 29-year old Edwards scored his fifth win of the year at the high-banked Michigan superspeedway last Sunday, beating championship rival Busch who again led his share of the race and came…
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Aug 13 2008
An Aussie wins in NASCAR & Franchitti shows his stuff too
NASCAR ran it’s twenty-third consecutive Cup race at Watkins Glen last weekend, drawing the usual huge crowd. Championship leader Kyle Busch emphasised his ability to win on any kind of track as the 23-year old scored his eighth Sprint Cup victory of the year and led team-mate Tony Stewart to…
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Aug 8 2008
NASCAR has arrived in Canada
It’s taken NASCAR only twelve months to take centre stage in Canadian motor sport. NASCAR entered the Canadian market last year, debuting a mid-summer, second-division Nationwide Series race at le Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal and the first NASCAR Canadian stock car championship series sponsored by Canadian Tire, the country’s…
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Aug 1 2008
Jacques tries NASCAR again
Jacques Villeneuve will try to kick-start his stalled attempt at breaking into NASCAR this weekend. The former F1 world champion, CART champion and Indy 500 winner hasn’t raced in NASCAR since crashing-out of the Daytona 500 in February, but Jacques returns to stock car racing this weekend at the wheel…
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Jul 4 2008
The delights of Watkins Glen
I’m off to Watkins Glen this weekend for an IndyCar race and because I haven’t been there in sixteen years I’m very much looking forward to it. Back in the seventies and early eighties I used to go to the Glen two or three times every year to cover Can-Am,…
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Jun 20 2008
Defining the Indy car of 2011
Retired Ford Racing and Jaguar executive Neil Ressler (above) convenes an industry round table next week to discuss the motor manufacturers’ interest in the IRL’s new IndyCar formula for 2011. Over the next few months, as Ressler reports back to the IRL on the findings from his meeting with the…
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May 30 2008
Bobby Rahal’s Indycar formula for the future
In Indianapolis last week Tony George (above) and the IRL announced they are convening an industry roundtable to determine the new IndyCar formula for 2011. The roundtable will be headed by retired Ford racing executive Neil Ressler and will kick-off on June 24 with discussions with engine manufacturers, car builders…
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May 23 2008
Sage words from Rick Mears
The 92nd running of the Indy 500 takes place on Sunday with Scott Dixon and Dan Wheldon favoured to score Chip Ganassi’s first win at the ‘Brickyard’ since Juan Montoya turned the trick in 2000. Dixon and Wheldon will start from the pole and the middle of the front row…
