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[[Champ Car|CART]] races were held at the track in 2001 and 2002 and were won by [[Gil de Ferran]] a ...]] series (formerly known as ASCAR and later "Days of Thunder") In which 6 races are held at the track, and the [[Pickup Truck Racing]] series.

| Events || [[Formula One]]; [[Champ Car|CART]]; [[Trans-Am Series|Trans-Am]] ...nds Prix in the [[1982 Formula One season|1982 season]]. (The other two US races, [[1982 United States Grand Prix West|Long Beach]] and [[1982 Caesars Palac

==International Races== The [[Champ Car World Series]] is scheduled to race at the circuit for the very first time

| Events || [[Can-Am]]<br>[[Champ Car World Series]]<br>[[Formula One]]<br>[[American Le Mans Series]]<br>[[Atlan ...dian Grand Prix]] events staged here. Of the forty cars entered those two races, only 16 reached the checkered flag.

|Events || [[Formula One]], [[Champ Car]] (2002-2006), [[NASCAR Busch Series]] (2007-on) ...leneuve]], father of [[Jacques Villeneuve]]. The venue hosted the [[Champ Car World Series]] [[Grand Prix of Montreal]] from 2002-2006.

...stien Bourdais]]), plus a few British [[Stock Car Speed Association|SCSA]] races. .... Among other series, [[Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters|DTM]] (German Touring Car Championship) and [[Superbike World Championship]] take place there annuall

===Formula One races=== ===CART Champ Car history===

|F1 car || Y |Races || '''14'''

|Former names || Elkhart Lake Road Races *[[Champ Car]] World Series - Road America Grand Prix - September 21-24, 2006

...t a select number of races for Penske in [[1992]] and ended up starting 11 races, many of his starts were as a substitute driver for the injured [[Rick Mear ...ounded from his poor start and finished on the podium in 8 of the final 12 races with victories at Detroit, Nazareth, and Laguna Seca. His third-place show

...es are often conducted in [[vehicle]]s, such as [[boat]]s and [[automobile|car]]s, on or with [[animal|animals]] such as [[horse]]s and in [[aircraft]]. Early records of races are evident on [[pottery]] from [[ancient Greece]], which depicted running

| Races || 63 (''all models'')<br>19 (''312B'')<br>12 (''312B2/B2-72'')<br>27 | Cons champ || '''1''' ([[1970]])

|Races || 59 |Cons champ || '''2''' ([[1982 Formula One season|1982]],[[1983 Formula One season|19

...World Series]]), and the [[Indy Racing League]]. There have also been many races in regional series such as [[ARTGO]]. ==2006 Races==

|Director || car designed by [[Simtek]] |Races || 13

| F1 car || Y | Races || '''14''' <br><small>Lancia: 4<br>Ferrari: 10</small>

The '''Las Vegas Grand Prix''' was a car race which was a [[Formula One]] World Championship event in 1981 and [[198 ...Tyrrell, but that was the end of Formula One racing in Las Vegas since the races had drawn only tiny crowds.

| Races || | Cons champ || '''4''' ([[1975 Formula One season|1975]],[[1976 Formula One s

| Races || 10 | Cons champ || 0

...f CIE's subsidiaries. CIE also organizes the [[NASCAR]] and Desafío Corona races in this circuit and rents the circuits to other parties, including race org ...aseball stadium was built on the innerpart of this curve. When the [[Champ Car]] series began using the track in 2002, the ''peraltada'' curve was partial

| Races || 13 | Cons champ ||

...he successor to the earlier dominant aerodynamic theory of streamlining. [[Champ Cars]] employed ground effect to some extent, but [[Formula One]] and most ...car so that incoming air is accelerated through a narrow slot between the car and the ground, lowering pressure by [[Bernoulli's principle]].

The '''Maserati A6GCM''' is a single seater racing car from the Italian manufacturer [[Maserati]]. Only 12 cars were built between ...ich comprised many models from street cars to racing cars. The name of the car is derived as follows:

...ze marque, to be at least considered, was yet quite nice. The minor street races in the country ended and this model mainly landed in the middle of the resu ...a 125 cc two-stroke engine with horizontal cylinders was introduced. Cycle champ Gino did some branding and even put his name on wines and after shave.

...the current Champ Car World Series and the Indy Racing League see [[Champ Car]] and [[Indy Racing League|IRL]].'' ...Indianapolis speedway disliked the idea. The CRL was abandoned before any races were run and CART exclusively sanctioned the championship. [http://www.neta

...f CIE's subsidiaries. CIE also organizes the [[NASCAR]] and Desafío Corona races in this circuit and rents the circuits to other parties, including race org ...aseball stadium was built on the innerpart of this curve. When the [[Champ Car]] series began using the track in 2002, the ''peraltada'' curve was partial

|Races || 21 |Cons champ ||

|Races || 1 |Cons champ || 0

|Races || 16 |Cons champ || 0

* the [[United States Grand Prix]] races held at the [[Watkins Glen International|Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Cours ...the [[Detroit street circuit]] from [[1982]] through [[1988]]; the Detroit races were also called the '''Detroit Grand Prix'''.

! colspan=2 |'''Champ Car''' | category || [[Open wheel car|Open wheel racing]]

...2]], [[1979]] in [[Defiance, Ohio]]) is an [[United States|American]] race car driver and [[Indianapolis 500]] champion, currently driving in the [[Indy R ...ampion [[Buddy Lazier]]. In 2002 the [[Penske]] team switched from [[Champ Car]], and Sam was able to beat their top driver [[Hélio Castroneves]] to his

...car without mutual consent (excluding crashed and immobile cars). In some races, though, cars may pass one another on the [[pit stop|pit road]] during a ca ...able to respond to accidents until the cars were under control of the pace car, which markedly slowed their response times to potentially injured drivers.

|Races || 111 (109 starts) ...ver [[Ricardo Zonta]], Salo did get a short-term drive for 1999, for three races. However, when [[Michael Schumacher]] broke his leg at a crash during the [

...wheeled]] circuits like the [[U.S. Ford Formula 2000 series]], the [[Champ Car Atlantic Championship|Toyota Atlantic series]] and the [[Indy Lights|Indy L ...a]] with Ganassi teammates [[Scott Dixon]] and [[Casey Mears]]. After five races he lies third in the series behind [[Helio Castroneves]] and Dixon.

...to be used by privateer teams until 1991. It was also the company's first car meeting [[Group C]] regulations, replacing the previous [[Lancia LC1|LC1]] ...tions, Lancia (under the direction of [[Cesare Fiorio]]) needed an all-new car to replace the open-cockpit LC1s that were no longer eligable for champions

...ted with a straight-six short-stroke BMW. This was converted into a sports car, however. ...un drivers for a whole season. A badly-implemented "two driver changes per car per season" rule meant that some cars had to sit idle while drivers with bu

| Car number || 91 | Prev series || [[Champ Car|CART]]

|Races || 82 <small>(only 14 races started)</small> |Cons champ ||

...ornia Speedway) - Sports Car.png|<center><font color=black> Primary sports car layout ...onal configurations and facilities to accommodate "road" races, motorcycle races, vehicle testing, and [[drag race]]s (Auto Club Dragway). The racetrack is

'''[[Grand American Road Racing Association|Grand-Am]] [[Rolex Sports Car Series]]'''<br>[[6 Hours of Watkins Glen|Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen]]<b ...|| [[Grand American Road Racing Association|Grand-Am]][[Rolex Sports Car Series]]

[[Image:Alfa-Romeo-159-(1951).jpg|thumb|300px|left|Alfa Romeo 159 Formula-1 car]] {{Racing car |

...Ironically, the series is now dominated by many of the same wealthy multi-car teams that once dominated CART. ...e CART competetors. The IRL's early seasons consisted of only a handful of races, comprised of mostly unknown drivers, even in the Indy 500. Eventually the

|Races || 132 |Cons champ || 0 (11th 1984)

...Championship|BTCC]]; [[Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters|DTM]]; [[World Touring Car Championship|WTCC]] ...Clark|Clark Curve]], whose off-camber, uphill approach tends to carry the car towards the outside. After the Clark Curve comes the pit straight, and anot

| Races || ...ny privateer entrants, leading to numerous examples being involved in most races during this period.

|Races:||68 ...978 to his death in 1982 drove for the Italian team. He won six Grand Prix races in a short career at the highest level. In 1979 he finished second by four

...s Barrichello]] came in a solid second place, winning two of the last four races. [[Jenson Button]], though failing to win a grand prix, finished third, sec ...n, both privately owned teams, had engine-production agreements with major car companies, [[BMW]] and [[Mercedes-Benz]] respectively, and [[Honda]] produc

...regulated by the [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile]] (FIA), and races (collectively known as ''A1GP World Cup of Motorsport'') are held in the tr ...r the operation of international teams. Paul Cherry, formally of the Champ Car Racing Team, Sigma Autosport, was later brought in as the General Franchise

|Races || 15 |Cons champ || ''none''

...to the "[[IndyCar]]" class of [[formula racing|formula]], or [[open wheel car|open-wheel]], race cars that have competed in it. It has been broadcast liv ...ce allowed the track to rapidly acquire a privileged status for automobile races. The [[1911 Indianapolis 500|first "500"]] was held at the Speedway on [[Me

|Races ||131 ...urney]]). He also won races in [[midget car racing|midget cars]], [[sprint car racing|sprint cars]], and [[drag racing]].

|Car number || 4 |Races || 81

| Races || 191 (187 starts) ...pion when he moved over to CART, being the first person to win the [[Champ Car|CART]] title in his debut season, making him the only person in history to

...ing testing at Valencia, Super Aguri turned up to test their SA07B interim car for the first time. ===New car launches===

| Races || 5 | Cons champ || 0

|Races || 215 ...e [[1997 24 Hours of Le Mans]] and [[2001 12 Hours of Sebring]] sports car races. Alboreto competed in [[Formula One]] from {{f1|1981}} until {{f1|1994}}, r

| Races || 247 (246 starts) [[File:Coulthard pacific f3000.JPG|thumb|left|Coulthard's [[Formula 3000]] car that he drove for [[Pacific Racing]] in the [[1993 International Formula 30

...nced on [[March 4]], [[2001]], and ended on [[October 14]] after seventeen races. [[Michael Schumacher]] won the title with a record margin of 58 points, af ...ain Prost]]). With [[Rubens Barrichello]] performing solidly in the second car, [[Ferrari]] also won the Constructor’s Championship at a canter.

...0px|[[Fernando Alonso]] qualifying in a [[Renault F1|Renault]] Formula One car at the [[2005 United States Grand Prix]]]] ...l]] [[formula racing|formula]] [[auto racing]]. It consists of a series of races, known as [[List of Formula One Grands Prix|Grands Prix]], held on purpose-

|Races || 202 (199 starts) ...ost's total of 51 victories at the [[2001 Belgian Grand Prix]] . Prost now races on ice in the [[Andros Trophy]].

|Races || 27 (44 starts from 54 entries) |Cons champ || 0

|Races || 345 |Cons champ || ''none''

...at they would run with a new "Earth livery" on their [[Honda RA107|RA107]] car, the first time since [[1968 Formula One season|1968]], when sponsorship in ...None'' <!-- Do not add Sébastien Bourdais. Just because he has driven the car does not make him a test driver. -->

...s always been the main focus of the category, non-championship Formula One races were held for many years. Due to the rising cost of competition, the last o ...gnificant. Most competitive cars came from Italy, particularly Alfa Romeo. Races saw pre-war heroes like Varzi, [[Jean-Pierre Wimille]] and [[Tazio Nuvolari