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CART: PacWest Racing Preview, Rockingham

CART: PacWest Racing Preview, Rockingham

September 20, 2001 ROUND 17 - 2001 CART FEDEX CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES CORBY, ENGLAND: SEPEMBER 20 - SEPTEMBER 22 What: Rockingham 500 - Round 17 of the 21-race CART FedEx Championship Series When: Saturday, September 22. Broadcast: 7:30 a.m. ET on ESPN. Broadcast live on CART Radio Network affiliates. Coverage of practice, ... Continue reading

CART: Gidley and Junqueira look to continue point-scoring streak

CART: Gidley and Junqueira look to continue point-scoring streak

September 20, 2001 Rockingham, England - Team Target continues its European tour this weekend as it heads to Rockingham, England for the inaugural Rockingham 500. The team is on a point-scoring streak, recording at least one championship point in the last six races. However, in addition to the challenge of racing on a ... Continue reading

CART: Toyota Teams Prepare for Racing at Rockingham England

CART: Toyota Teams Prepare for Racing at Rockingham England

September 19, 2001 OVAL SUCCESS HELPS DIXON CLIMB TO FIFTH - Rookie Scott Dixon (Nextel Powerware Panasonic Toyota) has climbed up to fifth-place overall with a ninth-place finish in Germany. What made Dixon's run even more impressive was that after having all of Thursday's practice rained out, he then missed Friday's ... Continue reading

CART wraps up European tour with inaugural Rockingham 500

CART wraps up European tour with inaugural Rockingham 500

September 19, 2001 DETROIT- Having played to an impressive throng in its first-ever appearance in Europe last Saturday, the FedEx Championship Series continues its overseas tour this weekend with the inaugural Rockingham 500 at Rockingham Motor Speedway in Corby, England (7:30 a.m. ET Saturday, live, ESPN). A crowd of ... Continue reading

CART: Update on Alex Zanardi

CART: Update on Alex Zanardi

September 18, 2001 The following update on Champ Car driver Alex Zanardi was provided earlier Monday by Dr. Walter Schaffartzik, Director of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Unfallkrankenhaus (Hospital) Berlin: A scheduled surgery was conducted to clean out wounds and make sure no pieces of debris from the in ... Continue reading

Alex Zanardi Medical Update/Team Statement

Alex Zanardi Medical Update/Team Statement

Contact: Laz Denes, 256-657-6190 ldenes@monunnracing.com www.monunnracing.com Alex Zanardi #66 Pioneer-WorldCom/Mo Nunn Racing Honda-Reynard German 500 - Race Notes/Quotes - Saturday, Sept. 15, 2001 EuroSpeedway - Lausitz, Germany - 2-Mile Oval Round 16 of 21 on the 2001 CART FedEx Championship Series Alex Zanardi, dri ... Continue reading

CART: Arciero Blair Racing finished 18th in Germany

CART: Arciero Blair Racing finished 18th in Germany

September 16, 2001 LAUSITZ, Germany (September 15, 2001) -- Arciero-Blair Racing with driver Max Wilson competed in round 16 of 21 events in the Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) race today at the recently constructed EuroSpeedway at the Lausitzring Complex, located approximately 135 kilometers from Berlin. Wilson, ... Continue reading

CART: Andretti finishes where he started in Germany

CART: Andretti finishes where he started in Germany

September 16, 2001 Michael Andretti, Car No. 39, Motorola/Honda-Reynard "Team Motorola did a great job with strategy today. We were equal pace with the leaders but I think some of the guys just got better fuel mileage than we did today. It was a case of who could stay out the longest on a tank of fuel and I ended up wi ... Continue reading

CART: Takagi top Toyota; Earns personal best in Germany

CART: Takagi top Toyota; Earns personal best in Germany

September 16, 2001 - Rookie Tora Takagi was the top finishing Toyota and earned a personal-best sixth-place finish in today's American Memorial at the EuroSpeedway in Germany. Had a late-race yellow not occurred, Takagi very possibly could have earned his first career podium finish as he was running second among cars t ... Continue reading

CART community, drivers to provide aid to WTC releif fund

CART community, drivers to provide aid to WTC releif fund

September 16, 2001 LAUSITZ, Germany (September 15, 2001) - Championship Auto Racing Teams, on behalf of its entire community, will make a donation to a designated World Trade Center Relief Fund that is equivalent to the race purse for today's American Memorial event at EuroSpeedway in Lausitz, Germany. The standard pur ... Continue reading

CART: Brack moves back into championship lead with Germany win

CART: Brack moves back into championship lead with Germany win

September 16, 2001 LAUSITZ, Germany (September 15, 2001) - Kenny Brack of Team Rahal regained the FedEx Championship Series championship lead while becoming the season's first four-time winner Saturday when he captured The American Memorial before a crowd of 87,689 at EuroSpeedway. Brack's victory was tempered by a ser ... Continue reading

CART: Zanardi in critical condition following Germany race

CART: Zanardi in critical condition following Germany race

September 16, 2001 LAUSITZ, Germany (September 15, 2001) - Two-time CART racing champion Alex Zanardi, 34, of Bologna, Italy, was in critical condition at Berlin's Klinikum Berlin-Marzahn hospital Saturday as a result of injuries sustained in a late-race accident during The American Memorial CART event at Lausitz, Germ ... Continue reading

CART: Weather clears for afternoon practice in Germany

CART: Weather clears for afternoon practice in Germany

September 15, 2001 (Lausitz, Germany) - PacWest Racing's Mauricio Gugelmin hit the track for a two-hour practice session this afternoon after the morning session was rained out at the 2-mile oval in Germany. Gugelmin, driver of the #17 Nextel PacWest Toyota, completed 93 laps today and finished the session P10 overall. ... Continue reading

CART: Andretti arrives in Germany for practice

CART: Andretti arrives in Germany for practice

September 15, 2001 Michael Andretti, No. 39 Motorola/Honda-Reynard "The EuroSpeedway is quite different, I really don't know what to compare it to at this point. We were really just trying to get an overall feel for the track and for our race set-up this afternoon. This new speedway package, the Euro wing, is a bit dif ... Continue reading

CART: Herta happy to get on the track in Germany

CART: Herta happy to get on the track in Germany

September 15, 2001 "It was good to get out on the track, all this rain has been a little frustrating, I was really anxious to get out there. This is definitely a state-of-the-art facility, I just wish we had a little more track time to figure it out."--Bryan Herta *Qualifying and all other practices were cancelled due ... Continue reading

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