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|Races ||13 ...ing as championship runner-up that year and the next year He took his sole IndyCar championship in 1991.

...| [[Grand American Road Racing Association|Grand-Am]] [[Rolex Sports Car Series]]<br>[[AMA Superbike Championship]] ...as hosted numerous motorsport races including [[Grand-Am]], Vintage Racing Series events, and [[AMA_Superbike | AMA Superbike]]. It serves as the home of th

...ution of CART in [[2003 CART season|2003]], as part of the Champ Car World Series. ...dyCar Series]] event, however the race was omitted from the [[2009 IndyCar Series season]] calendar, and subsequently dropped by the IRL completely.

...kart race in 1987. After winning several All Japan National Kart A2 series races, Takagi ended his kart racing career in 1991 and began racing [[Formula Toy ...tories in ten races, the most dominant performance ever by a driver in the series. He later competed in [[CART]] ([[Champ Car]]) for the [[Walker Racing]] te

...ic Championship|Toyota Atlantic series]] and the [[Indy Lights|Indy Lights series]]. Wheldon is playfully nicknamed "Difficult Dan" in the [[Indy Racing Leag ...[[Scott Dixon]] and [[Casey Mears]]. After five races he lies third in the series behind [[Helio Castroneves]] and Dixon.

...03, most of the established top US open-wheel teams were now racing in the series, with [[Honda]] and [[Toyota]] providing engines superior to the establishe ...-place [[Bryan Herta]]. The finish was the closest 1-2-3 finish in IndyCar Series history.

| Current series || [[Indy Racing League|IRL]] [[IndyCar Series]] | Year || [[2006 IndyCar Series season|2006]] & [[2008 IndyCar Series season|2008]]

...t was built in [[1997]] by [[Honda]], as part of Honda's effort to bring [[IndyCar]] racing to Japan, as well as increase their own knowledge of that form of ...500]], it is seen as a useful tune-up venue for the teams. In addition to IndyCar Racing, the track has also hosted a single NASCAR exhibition race in 1998.

...m]]<br>[[Champ Car World Series]]<br>[[Formula One]]<br>[[American Le Mans Series]]<br>[[Atlantic Championship]] ...dian Grand Prix]] events staged here. Of the forty cars entered those two races, only 16 reached the checkered flag.

...[[Grand Prix of Portland]] was a (now defunct) [[Champ Car|Champ Car World Series]] race held at [[Portland International Raceway]] in [[Portland, Oregon]]. | [[1984 CART World Series Season|1984]]

| Races || 104 ...onstructors&#8217; championships), and have won three [[Indianapolis 500]] races, as well as [[24 hours of Le Mans|LeMans 24 hours]] and Sebring 12 hours.

|Races || 264 ...for the next season. He also had success in [[sports car racing|sports car races]], winning the [[1981 in sports#Auto Racing|1981]] [[24 Hours of Daytona]],

...ng. For 1978 Mears was offered a ride in nine of the eighteen championship races, including the Indianapolis 500. ...chanical problems. Three wins and four seconds in the eleven CART-eligible races won Mears his first championship. His worst finish in the season was fifth.

! colspan=2 |'''GP2 Series season''' | Current season || 2008 GP2 Series season

...66]] [[Dallas, Texas]]) is a former [[Indy Racing League|IRL]] [[IndyCar]] Series driver. ...for Thomas Knapp in an unsponsored black #97 car, but made his mark on the series a year later during qualifying for the [[Indianapolis 500]]. He qualified

...e 1997 [[Indy Lights]] champion, driving in the [[Champcars|ChampCar World Series]], initially for Tasman. He raced for [[Mo Nunn]]'s start-up team for three ...Eatzza sandwich, to be unveiled in April 2006, as part of a task on the US Series 5 of [[The Apprentice 5|The Apprentice]]. Synergy had Kannan eating the sa

...acer, see [[Quarter-midget]]. For the British sports car with its own race series it's the MG Midget. ...roll cage]]s and other safety features. They are intended to be driven for races of relatively short distances, typically 2.5 to 25 miles (4 to 40 km), ofte

|Races || 232 |First race || 1992 Dailkyo IndyCar Grand Prix (Surfer's Paradise)

Footage exists of classic races like the 1986 [[Los Angeles Times Grand Prix]] in which the [[Chevy Corvett Of the entire road course races run at RIR, there was at least one that was run in a counter-clockwise dire

...won what today is referred to as the first [[IndyCar]] championship racing series that began with the Milwaukee Mile Championship Car Race over a dirt oval i ...h DePalma retired from racing after a career in which he competed in 2,889 races, winning an astonishing 2,557. He died in [[South Pasadena, California]] in

|Website || [http://www.indycar.com IndyCar.com] ...roduced some of the closest finishes in any racing series. Ironically, the series is now dominated by many of the same wealthy multi-car teams that once domi

| Current series || [[Indy Racing League|IRL]] [[IndyCar Series]] | Prev series || [[Champ Car|CART]]

|Races || 141 ...champion to win the title before the 1996 CART/IRL split created two rival series. As such his achievements perhaps carry greater weight.

...worth responded with the brand new AC engine. Costs, not unlike the senior series, were getting out of control. ...tructor)|Dome]] chassis were seen in Europe. [[Dallara]] briefly tried the series before moving up to [[Formula One]], and [[AGS]] moved up from Formula Two

...ce. Another reason for retaining the turbocharger is with many city street races on the calendar, the muffling effect it has on the exhaust note helps keep ...formance, Champ Cars remain using tread-less 'slick' racing tires. To make races more unpredictable, drivers are permitted to use one set of higher performa

...ists in some form in many countries around the world. It is an entry-level series to motor racing, in which in the past many drivers aspired to one day reach ...campaign purpose-built racecars for many years. Many [[Formula Ford 1600]] series exist for drivers of the older Kent powered cars.

...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 ...the race back to the caution, [[NASCAR]] and some other lower level NASCAR series have implemented ''the "Lucky Dog" rule'', which allows the highest-placed

...cing championship, for specific information on 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

...ation often failed to qualify and was uncompetitive when it did run in the races. In 1971 a similar arrangement saw de Adamich run most of the second half o ...ks. Murray's increasingly adventurous designs, like the BT46 which won two races in 1978, were partly a response to the challenge of producing a suitably li

|Major events || '''[[Indy Racing League|IRL]] [[IndyCar|IndyCar Series]]''' - [[Indianapolis 500|Indianapolis 500-Mile Race]]<br>'''[[Formula One] To date, a total of 222 automobile races between [[August 19]], [[1909]] and [[July 3]], [[2006]] have been held, wi

|Races || 73 ...ing [[Jaguar D-Type]]s and [[Porsche]]s in national events, and winning 18 races.

...nship Racing League]], the [[Indy Racing League]], and the Champ Car World Series (CCWS). ...Car World Series Powered By Ford'''. The series merged into the [[IndyCar Series]] before its planned 2008 season.

...me Depot's orange and white color scheme) and #33 Old Spice Chevy in Busch Series. He is also nicknamed '''"The Columbus Comet"''' (for his hometown of [[Col ...t was the USAC rookie of the year in [[1991]], and was the National Midget series champion in [[1994]].

'''[[NASCAR]] [[Sprint Cup Series]]'''<br>[[Centurion Boats at the Glen]] '''NASCAR [[Nationwide Series]]'''<br>[[Zippo 200]]

...erbike series]]; [[Superbike_racing#World Superbike series|World Superbike series]]; [[British Touring Car Championship|BTCC]]; [[Deutsche Tourenwagen Master ...ch leads to Hawthorn Bend. The track then loops around the woodland with a series of challenging mid-speed corners, most notably the dip at Westfield and the

...00/2004-05-27-attendance-count_x.htm]. The event lends its name to the "[[IndyCar]]" class of [[formula racing|formula]], or [[open wheel car|open-wheel]], r ...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

'''[[American Le Mans Series]]''' '''[[Rolex Sports Car Series|Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series]]'''

|Races || 108 ...to buy him an [[Austin A40]] Special, which he entered in some minor local races and [[hillclimbing|hillclimbs]]. He progressed to a 1,500cc [[Cooper Car Co

|Races ||131 ...hampionship]] and [[NASCAR]] (the other being [[Dan Gurney]]). He also won races in [[midget car racing|midget cars]], [[sprint car racing|sprint cars]], an

|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 || 191 (187 starts) | Prev series || Formula One

|Races || 81 ...[[Chevrolet Impala]] for [[Earnhardt Ganassi Racing]] in the [[Sprint Cup Series]].

| Races || 247 (246 starts) ...na]]. In 1992, he raced in the [[International Formula 3000|Formula 3000]] series, finishing ninth, and in 1993 he improved to third overall.

...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- ...rket; however, Grands Prix have been held all over the world, and with new races in [[Bahrain]], [[People's Republic of China|China]], [[Federation of Malay

|Engine || [[Cosworth]] TJ2005 Series 10 |Races || 345

...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