Fernandez Racing back with 2 cars
According to a radio interview with Adrian Fernandez today in Homestead, Super Aguri Fernandez Racing will be back with a 2-car effort in the IRL in 2006 with Scott Sharp … Read More
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According to a radio interview with Adrian Fernandez today in Homestead, Super Aguri Fernandez Racing will be back with a 2-car effort in the IRL in 2006 with Scott Sharp … Read More
Throw away those Road to Indy hats. The best dirt track and short oval racers in the USA are now wearing Road to Daytona hats, such is the destruction to … Read More
Tony Kanaan will start fifth Nov. 20 in the ninth annual Granja Viana 500, a charity go-kart race held at Kartodromogranjaviana on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Kanaan, a … Read More
UPDATE #3 Other rumors say Ganassi will indeed use Honda power and Dallara, instead of Panoz, chassis. With Panoz doing Champ Car in 2007, we suspect the IRL will become … Read More
UPDATE #2 “PKV and I are still talking and we are not too far apart," said da Matta at Mexico City. “But the Andretti-Green offer is a serious one. For … Read More
Hot on the heels of Adrian Fernandez team partner Aguri Suzuki announcing he is off to F1 to run the Honda B team next year comes word that NASCAR wants … Read More
With Chevy already gone from the IRL and Toyota presumably out if Ganassi also did a deal with Honda, comes rumors that Honda will have to ramp up and supply … Read More
Hearing that Patrick Carpentier is the top choice to replace a departing Dan Wheldon at AGR. Putting the Canadian in a winning car will be a big boost to interest … Read More
Rumor has it that Sarah Fisher and RCR will announce next week that they will part ways. After a horrible season in the lowly NASCAR Grand National West Series where … Read More
With today's announcement that Aguri Suzuki will run the Honda 'B' F1 team, and the fact that he will be scrambling to make the grid in time for the 2006 … Read More
UPDATE #5 Honda's announcement (see Hot News page) that it will indeed supply Toyota's most successful team, Penske Racing, with engines in 2006 is certainly not going to make Toyota's … Read More
The following IRL drivers have been rumored on these pages to have no idea where they will be racing in 2006 and that was reaffirmed on SPEED News Sunday: Tomas … Read More
Development proposals for Governors Island, NY (pictured right) will be sought in February, Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff told the NY Daily News. The Governors Island Preservation & Education Corp., a … Read More
The IRL is rift with speculation that with the departure of Dan Wheldon from the 4-car Andretti Green team, it opens the door for Marco Andretti to move up full-time … Read More
UPDATE #15 Perhaps more evidence that Ganassi is not going to enter Champ Car – we hear that Target and Ganassi are looking at putting Dixon and Wheldon (Dixon's rumored … Read More
UPDATE Georgia-Pacific Corp. (GP) is expected to announce later today a multi-year associate sponsorship deal with NASCAR Nextel Cup driver Jeff Gordon and his Hendrick Motorsports team. Terms of the … Read More
Our inside sources in Los Angeles tell us that the IRL is talking to the Mayor's office in Los Angeles about a street race. Apparently the businessmen in downtown don't … Read More
Besides Panther Racing and Cheever Racing, hearing that Rahal Letterman had some people leave after the season and others were given their pink slips when they did not figure in … Read More
UPDATE Panther Racing cut loose 12 mechanics in the first of what figures to be many layoffs in the Indy Racing League. SPEEDTV.com 10/14/05 Panther Racing could lose its entire … Read More
UPDATE #2 Panther Racing cut loose 12 mechanics and Eddie Cheever gave eight their walking papers last week in the first of what figures to be many layoffs in the … Read More
Dan Wheldon will get a Honda F1 test drive sometime in 2006, according to American speculation. The Indy 500 winner and newly crowned IRL champion, an Englishman, can expect the … Read More
Engineering firm Mecachrome, last seen in F1 with their Renault-based Supertec engines, has been trying to drum up interest of late in an IRL engine they plan to build. Representatives … Read More
UPDATE We have learned a bit more about the history of the DHL sponsorship in the USA. The IRL pitched DHL a year before Champ Car got involved. It was … Read More
UPDATE Vitor Meira finished seventh in the Indy Racing League's IndyCar Series standings this season, five positions ahead of one Rahal Letterman Racing teammate (Danica Patrick) and eight in front … Read More