IndyCar News

Forsythe Racing have tested three young hopefuls in one of their Lola Champ Cars as team boss Gerald Forsythe tries to piece together his team for 2007.

Forsythe Championship Racing has confirmed that Adam Carroll will be of three drivers to take part in a testing session with the Champ Car World Series frontrunners at MSR Houston later this month.

Alex Premat posted the quickest time on day one of testing at MSR Houston as the Frenchman got behind the wheel of a Champ Car for the first time on Tuesday.

RuSPORT will have a new owner for the 2007 Champ Car World Series season after confirmation that PKV Racing co-owner Dan Pettit has completed the purchase of the Colorado based team from founder Carl Russo.

2006 Pacific F2000 Champion and Team USA Scholarship winner Robert Podlesni is to test with the PR1 Motorsports team at Buttonwillow Raceway Park with ahead of a possible 2007 Champ Car Atlantic campaign.

Next years inaugural Champ Car race on the streets of Las Vegas will be supported by the Historic Grand Prix Series, a series that has already attracted several star names to compete in what looks like being an excellent event.

After an impressive season that saw him claim the 2006 Star Mazda Championship, 17-year-old Adrian Carrio will get a chance to prove that he's ready to compete in the 2007 Champ Car Atlantic Championship.

Forsythe Championship Racing sported a different look for the Mexican season finale, in which both David Martinez and Buddy Rice scored solid top ten finishes on their Champ Car debuts.

The Indy Pro Series will feature a series-record 16 races - including seven races on ovals, seven on road courses and two on street courses - next season, and will compete three times at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Heading into the final round of the 2006 Champ Car World Series having been forced to adopt not only an all-new, but also a rookie line-up, Forsythe Racing's debutants David Martinez and Buddy Rice nonetheless acquitted themselves admirably during first qualifying around the Mexico City circuit.

With Danica Patrick and Buddy Rice moving on to pastures new, Rahal Letterman Racing has confirmed that it will cut back to a two car entry in the 2007 Indy Racing League, with Scott Sharp coming in to partner Jeff Simmons.

Having almost gone out of business just twelve months ago, Panther Racing has announced a new partnership with Super Aguri that will see Kosuke Matsuura join Vitor Meira in a two car assault on the 2007 Indy Racing League.

Two-thirds of Forsythe Championship Racing's new-look Mexico City line-up, Buddy Rice and David Martinez, completed over 400 trouble-free miles in their first test with the squad at the MSR Houston road course yesterday.

Mario Dominguez is hoping to put a successful end to what he has described as one of the worst years of his Champ Car career by building on his Surfers' Paradise result at the season finale in Mexico City next weekend.

Justin Wilson will travel to Mexico City for the final round of the Champ Car World Series, although the RuSPORT team will have Adam Carroll on standby should the former F1 racer be unable to compete due to his broken wrist.

In only his second race for the team, Mario Dominguez carried Rocketsports Racing to a first podium finish of the Champ Car World Series season at Surfers Paradise.

Turn four on the 2.795-mile Surfers Paradise street circuit proved to be the bugbear of PKV Racing's Katherine Legge on Saturday as the British Champ Car rookie and Crash.Net columnist struggled to find her rhythm.

No sooner had RuSPORT returned to full two-car strength than another injury blow reduced it to a single entry for Surfers' Paradise, after Justin Wilson was ruled out of the rest of the meeting after picking up a wrist injury in practice.

Dr Henry Bock will retire as senior director of medical services for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indy Racing League at the end of the year, ending an era that has seen him involved in both some of the more horrific accidents and revolutionary safety advances.

Champ Car World Series president Steve Johnson has admitted he is hopeful that European races will be added to the 2007 schedule 'in the next few weeks'.

British Champ Car rookie and Crash.Net columnist Katherine Legge walked away from the biggest accident of her career on Sunday at Road America after a possible rear wing failure pitched her off the track and into a series of sickening somersaults.

Sebastien Bourdais cursed the rain that he claims prevented him from taking provisional pole position around Road America, the Newman/Haas driver instead having to settle for fifth place in a changeable qualifying session.

Pink Champ Cars have been few and far between in what is a male-dominated arena, but that is set to change this weekend, as Katherine Legge's #20 Bell Micro Lola-Cosworth will be transformed in support of Ford Motor Company's 'Warriors in Pink' programme.

The new Panoz DP01 Champ Car has drawn attention from the past, present and possible future of the series during the latest test session at Sebring.