News By Topic: Championship Auto Racing Teams

CART: Gidley recovering and expected to race at Vancouver

Aug 22, 2001

August 21, 2001 , INDIANAPOLIS –– Target Chip Ganassi Racing driver Memo Gidley, who experienced a major crash during Sunday's Motorola 220 in Elkhart Lake, Wis., is expected to compete in the Sept. 2 Molson Indy Vancouver, the next CART FedEx Series event. According to Dr. Terry Trammell, Gidley suffered a ... Continue reading

CART: Junqueira puts Toyota in winner's circle at Road America

Aug 20, 2001

August 20, 2001 - Bruno Junqueira's win is the third of the season for a Toyota-powered car with Junqueira joining Cristiano da Matta (Mexico) and Scott Dixon (Nazareth) as Toyota winners this year. The win is the eighth victory for a Toyota-powered car over the past year and a half. - Bruno Junqueira's victory today i ... Continue reading

CART: Medical update on CART driver Memo Gidley

Aug 20, 2001

August 20, 2001 MEDICAL UPDATE (7:39 p.m. CT): Target/Chip Ganassi driver Memo Gidley, who was involved in a serious single-car incident on Lap 21 of Sunday's Motorola 220 at Road America, sustained a small fracture of the non-weight bearing portion of his right femur, according to Dr. Steve Olvey, CART director of med ... Continue reading

CART: Junqueira collects first career win at Road America

Aug 19, 2001

August 20, 2001 ELKHART LAKE, Wis. - Rookie Bruno Junqueira of Target Chip Ganassi Racing used a perfectly timed splash-and-go pit stop on the 42nd of 45 laps to drive to his first career FedEx Championship Series victory Sunday in the Motorola 220 at Road America. Junqueira (Target Toyota Lola) took the lead on the 36 ... Continue reading

CART: Dixon earns career best third in wet weather to lead Toyota effort

Aug 19, 2001

August 19, 2001 DIXON QUALIFIES CAREER-BEST THIRD - Scott Dixon (Powerware Panasonic Toyota) earned a career-best third today in qualifying to lead the nine Toyota-powered cars entered for tomorrow's Motorola 220 at Road America. The third place is Dixon's best-ever qualifying performance, surpassing his previous best ... Continue reading

CART: Brack adds to points lead with pole position at Road America

Aug 19, 2001

August 19, 2001 ELKHART LAKE, Wis. - Kenny Brack of Team Rahal cut loose a spectacular lap on a damp race track in the waning moments of qualifying to capture his fifth FedEx Championship Series pole position of the season Saturday during qualifying for the Motorola 220 at Road America (1 p.m. ET Sunday, live, ESPN). W ... Continue reading

CART: Dixon, Gugelmin ready for racing at Road America

Aug 19, 2001

August 19, 2001 SCOTT DIXON - # 18 POWERWARE PANASONIC PACWEST TOYOTA Position: 3rd Time: 2:04.631s Laps: 10 Speed: 116.928mph "I was up one-and-a-half seconds on my lap time when the red flag flew, so I know I would have moved up a lot had we stayed green," said Dixon. "Then, when we did go green again, there wasn't m ... Continue reading

CART: Andretti to start from the fourth row at Road America

Aug 19, 2001

August 19, 2001 Michael Andretti, No. 39 Motorola/Honda-Reynard "Thank God we had that last little bit there at the end. I wish it had been dry because I think we had a car that was going to go pretty well in the dry but at least we finished in the top seven. Seventh isn't too bad, we can still win from there. In t he ... Continue reading

CART: Michael Andretti happy with setup in practice at Road America

Aug 18, 2001

August 18, 2001 Michael Andretti, No. 39 Motorola/Honda-Reynard "We're very close to exactly where we want to be for this track. I think just a little bit here and there and we'll be great. We started off the day in pretty decent shape and we made good progress on the changes that we tried. The track is coming in an d ... Continue reading

CART: Gugelmin, Dixon have good practice day at Road America

Aug 18, 2001

August 18, 2001 MAURICIO GUGELMIN - # 17 NEXTEL PACWEST TOYOTA Position: 11th Time: 1:41.965s Laps: 25 Speed: 142.920mph "Overall, we had a good day of practice," said Gugelmin. "It started off kind of shaky when I had a slight vibration in my transmission during the first practice session. It wasn't really affecting m ... Continue reading

CART: Takagi leads first session in practice, Vasser second overall

Aug 18, 2001

August 18, 2001 ELKHART LAKE, Wis. - Tora Takagi (Pioneer Toyota) and Jimmy Vasser (Visteon Toyota) ran one-two in the morning practice session and then Vasser followed that up by finishing second in the afternoon and second overall in the first day of practice for Sunday's Motorola 220 at Road America. For the day, Va ... Continue reading

INDY 500: Busy three week schedule is set for 86th Indy 500

Aug 18, 2001

August 18, 2001 INDIANAPOLIS - Indianapolis Motor Speedway officials today announced the schedule for the 2002 edition of the "Greatest Spectacle in Racing," the 86th Indianapolis 500-Mile Race. After rave reviews from fans, sponsors and participants following the 85th running of the race, the schedule for the 86th Ind ... Continue reading

CART: DeFerran sets practice pace for Motorola 200 at Road America

Aug 18, 2001

August 18, 2001 ELKHART LAKE, Wis. - Defending FedEx Championship Series champion Gil de Ferran added to Marlboro Team Penske's impressive recent record of success on permanent road courses when he topped Friday's speed charts during testing for this weekend's Motorola 220 at Road America (1 p.m. ET Sunday, live, ESPN) ... Continue reading

CART announces expanded TV deal with CBS, and FOX Cable

Aug 17, 2001

August 17, 2001 DETROIT - Championship Auto Racing Teams, Inc. announced today that racing fans throughout the U.S. will be seeing a lot more domestic television broadcasts of the CART FedEx Championship Series as a result of the television package CART has finalized with the CBS Television Network and Fox Cable Networ ... Continue reading

CART: Brack, Castroneves in dogfight for championship headed to Road America

Aug 16, 2001

August 16, 2001 DETROIT (August 16, 2001) - The dog days of summer have produced a dogfight for the FedEx Championship Series championship as the series heads to Wisconsin's Kettle Moraine this weekend for Round 14, the Motorola 220 at Road America (1 p.m. ET Sunday, live, ESPN). Series leader Kenny Brack of Team Rahal ... Continue reading