2003 Season

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Tracy Is Champion After Action-Packed Afternoon

Bruno Junqueira (#1 PacifiCare Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) and Paul Tracy (#3 Indeck Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) were the lead story in Sundas Lexmark Indy 300 in Surfers Paradise, Australia as the two drivers were the only ones left standing in the title hunt with two races left in the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season. Read More »

Tracy Wins In Mexico, Takes Control Of Title Chase

Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford points leader Paul Tracy has the wordsgood-by printed on the top of the rear wing of his Team Players machine as part of the cigarette manufactures new paint schemes celebrating their final three races in the sport. Read More »

Dominguez Wins Action Packed Grand Prix Americas

Going back through many long and lean years as Bettenhausen Motorsports, the newly-rebuilt Herdez Competition team has pushed its team into the spotlight on occasion in the last two years of racing in the Champ Car World Series, but on a sunny Sunday in Miami, the duo of Mario Dominguez (#55 Herdez Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) and Roberto Moreno (#4 Herdez Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) took all the spotlight and most of the hardware home as they swept the top two spots in the Grand Prix Americas Presented by Sportsbook.com. Read More »

CART Champ Car World Series Confirms 15 Venues For 2004

The 2004 Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season will feature another year of providing one of the most challenging tests in all of motorsports, as its drivers will continue the tradition of having to master every discipline of racing. Challenging street courses, fabled road venues, short ovals and superspeedway slugfests await the drivers of the Champ Car World Series in 2004 as the series today released a list of confirmed venues for the upcoming season. Read More »

Open Wheel Racing Series to Acquire Championship Auto Racing Teams

Championship Auto Racing Teams, Inc. (NYSE:MPH) and Open Wheel Racing Series LLC today announced they have signed a definitive agreement providing for Open Wheel Racing Series to acquire Championship for cash equivalent to $0.56 per share, based on the number of shares of Championship common stock currently outstanding. Read More »

Junqueira Wins In Denver, Tracy Now Leads The Championship By 18pts

Brazilian Bruno Junqueira delivered team owners Paul Newman and Carl Haas top honors in the teas 350th Champ Car start in this afternoos Centrix Financial Grand Prix of Denver, beating Newman/Haas Racing teammate and Rookie of The Year frontrunner Sebastien Bourdais to the stripe by 0.335 seconds to complete the sweep. Read More »

Tracy Wins At Mid-Ohio, And Retakes Series Lead

There aren't many things that Paul Tracy (#3 Player's/Indeck Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) hasn't done in the seat of a CART Champ Car but the Canadian veteran got to cross a couple of lines off what was already a short list by taking a victory Sunday at the Champ Car Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio. Read More »

Tracy Takes Overnight Pole, Closes In On Junquiera!

Paul Tracy (#3 Player's/Indeck Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) had one of his worst days of the 2003 Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season last Sunday at Road America when he failed to finish and saw the points lead that he had worked so hard to build, snatched away by race winner Bruno Junqueira (#1 PacifiCare Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone. Read More »

Junqueira Wins At Road America, Takes Series Lead

Bruno Junqueira won his first race of 2003, and as a result is the new leader of the Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford. With race day dominated by heavy rain, delays, red flags and difficult conditions, Junqueira didn't put a foot wrong, and leaves Elkhart Lake with a maximum 23 point score, and moves three points clear of Paul Tracy in the Championship. Read More »

Junqueira Confirms Pole At Road America, Tracy Sixth

Bruno Junqueira will start Sunday's Mario Andretti Grand Prix of Road America from pole position. The Brazilian has been fastest in every session so far, and even better news for him is that series leader Paul Tracy will be starting in sixth position. The extra point he earned this afternoon reduces the gap to 18 points. Read More »