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1996 in sports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia See also: 1995 in sports, other events of 1996, 1997 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'. 1996 Summer Olympics takes place in Atlanta, United States Indy Racing League - Mike Groff wins inaugural IRL championship www.wikipedia.org /wiki/1996_in_sports

May 1997 Motorsport Results F1: THE SPANISH GP Damon Hill will be hoping for a drastic improvement in fortunes after an awful start to 1997, which has seen the World Champion fail to finish a single race. The German is chasing a hat-trick of Spanish successes after victories at the Catalunya circuit in 1995 and 1996. "It's a track where the smallest error can cost you dearly as I found out last year," said Schumacher who crashed on the first lap in 1996. www.teamdan.com /archive/1997/may97.html   (6211 words)

Scott Goodyear Speaker - Book Motivational Celebrity Speaker Scott Goodyear and Other Corporate Entertainment Goodyear and the new Panther Racing team seem to be one of the most solid programs in the 1997 IRL and already have a sixth-place finish at Phoenix under their belt. Goodyear was among the most consistent drivers in the IRL in 1997. Goodyear actually scored the second most points in the 1997 calendar year after missing the two 1996 races while driving for a CART team. www.allamericanspeakers.com /speakerbio/Scott_Goodyear.php   (1034 words)

Indy Racing League facts and statistics Luyendyk was the only Indianapolis winner to race in the IRL when the series began competition in January 1996, at Walt Disney World. Tony has three IRL wins, is the all time competitive lap leader (by a huge margin), the all time IRL pole qualifier and the 1997 series champion. He is the only four time race winner, in the IRL. www.bjwor.com /irl.html   (688 words)

Della Penna To Join PPG Indy Car World Series Full Time In 1997 During the 1996 season, the team competed in both the PPG IndyCar World Series and the Indy Racing League (IRL). We were forced to participate in both IndyCar and IRL this year. Now we are entering our fourth year and I feel Richie and the team is ready to compete in a full season in the IndyCar World Series. www.speedcenter.com /news96/sc_n0913_1.html   (688 words)

Buddy Lazier Teams Up With Ballew for Lowe's Truck Test Lazier has a winning track record at Lowe's Motor Speedway, he captured the checkered flag there in an IRL race in 1997, besting Billy Boat by 3.301 seconds in a Hemelgarn Racing entry. Lazier's most impressive Motorsports accomplishment came in 1996 when he won the Indianapolis 500 in a Hemelgarn Racing entry, edging Davy Jones by.695 of a second. Lazier's heroic underdog win came only two months after suffering significant back and pelvis injuries at Phoenix in an IRL car. www.truckseries.com /cgi-script/NCTS/articles/000016/001603.htm   (591 words)

"500" diary; Faster amongst the chaos Lazier won his second IRL race in July 1997 at Charlotte Motor Speedway after a fierce fight with Billy Boat in which Buddy went into the dirt inside the kink on the main straight to take the lead. His terrible practice crash at Phoenix International Raceway in March 1996 kept him from starting the next IRL event. Buddy is the son of Bob Lazier who ran the 1981 "Indianapolis 500." I think the older Lazier was one of the better SCCA Formula Super Vee racers of that period. www.bjwor.com /2k0320.html   (4469 words)

Tony Stewart biography & information After earning Rookie of the Year in IRL competition in 1996, Stewart won the championship the following year. It was in 1997 that Stewart began his NASCAR career running IRL and a full Busch schedule with team owner Joe Gibbs. Having snagged the 1999 Rookie of the Year award he also competed in the arduous Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the same day! www.racehippie.com /biographies/tony-stewart-biography.php   (863 words)

Automotive Design & Production: Power grid - Engineer - GM Racing transforms Aurora V8 engine Its Aurora V8 had won all but two Indy Racing League (IRL) events since the series began in 1997, but its identification with Oldsmobile, the nearly dead division, posed a growing problem the closer the division came to its termination date. A lot has changed since 1996, and many of the things we used to do on a mainframe computer, we now do on a desktop system." Some of the modeling involved studying how the aluminum alloy used to produce the block and heads flowed into the mold and hardened. The IRL's restrictive rules package not only keeps costs down by reducing the differentiation between engine and chassis packages, it leaves a very small development window for teams to crawl through. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0KJI/is_1_114/ai_82321970   (863 words)

GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > Michael Andretti Michael switched to Newman/Haas again in 1995 and finished second in the CART title to Jimmy Vasser in 1996 before Newman/Haas began a new relationship with Swift which did not prove to be very successful in 1997-1999. In July it was announced that Michael had bought the team and intended to shift the entire operation (which was renamed Andretti Green Racing) to the IRL. Michael retired in 2003 and turned his attention to running his own IRL team Andretti Green Racing. www.grandprix.com /gpe/drv-andmic.html   (461 words)

IndyCar® Series 6, 1996: Indy Racing League and Pikes Peak International Raceway officials announce that the newly built 1-mile oval in Fountain, Colo., would be host to an Indy Racing League event June 29, 1997, featuring the stars and cars of the Indianapolis 500. Tony George, president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and founder of the IRL, made the announcement alongside C.C. Myers, PPIR owner and president. He started from the pole, led 101 laps and won at Pikes Peak International Raceway the next race. indycarseries.com /news/story.php?story_id=5173   (396 words)

The Callahan Racing Page: IRL News Wattles returns to the Indy 200 in a dual role as both the team owner and driver for Metro Racing Systems, based in nearby Stuart, Fla. Wattles announced formation of his IRL team during the 1997 Indy 200 and spent the year preparing the new team for competition. Indy Racing League (IRL) team owner/driver Stan Wattles and Metro Racing Systems have logged a lot of miles since receiving their first Indy car on Sept. 5. He led two laps of the inaugural Indy 200 in 1996 and had solid command of third place when an admitted rookie mistake took him out of the race. www.theautochannel.com /callahan/irl/97122201.html   (396 words)

Tony Stewart: NASCAR Racing, Tony Stewart NASCAR Merchandise, NASCAR Drivers, Tony Stewart Racing, Team Lowes Racing, Tony Stewart Racing News, NASCAR News, Team Lowes Auto Racing, NASCAR, Racing He also was named Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year before winning the IRL championship in 1997. Stewart jumped into the Indy Racing Northern Light Series in 1996, where he won rookie of the year. Stewart finished seventh in the standings in 2003 after reaching victory lane twice, (Pocono in June and Charlotte in October). www.racingone.com /driver.asp?driverid=96&subseries=1   (674 words)

The Callahan Racing Page: IRL News Menard spent a lot of money testing his racers in 1997, but his racing budget in previous years was much higher. In 1996, Scott Brayton was killed during practice for the Indianapolis 500. Considering John Menard's competitive nature, it is a safe bet there will be a Menard car in victory lane at Indy in the near future. www.theautochannel.com /callahan/irl/97120801.html   (674 words)

1996 in sports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia See also: 1995 in sports, other events of 1996, 1997 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'. Indy Racing League- Scott Sharp and Buzz Calkins tie for the inaugural IRL championship Rusty Wallace wins the Suzuka NASCAR Thunder 100 at Suzuka City November 24, the first NASCAR event held in Japan. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1996_in_sports   (674 words)

Las Vegas SUN: Ganassi announces he's taking Vasser, Montoya to Indy Target/Chip Ganassi racing has won the past four CART championships, with Vasser in 1996, Alex Zanardi in 1997 and 1998 and Montoya this past season. Ganassi said Vasser and Montoya will test their new IRL cars at LVMS on March 29, and will make a final determination about racing here in April after that test. CART team owner Chip Ganassi ended months of speculation this morning when he formally announced he would campaign drivers Jimmy Vasser and Juan Montoya this May in the 84th running of the Indianapolis 500. www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/sports/2000/feb/28/509912492.html   (674 words)

AAP Sports News (Australia): European Cup rugby union champions@ HighBeam Research European Cup rugby union champions LONDON, Oct 10 (AFP) - European Cup rugby union champions: 1995-96: Toulouse (Fra) 1996-97: Brive (Fra) 1997-98: Bath (Eng) 1998-99: Ulster (Irl) 1999-00: Northampton (Eng) 2000-01: Leicester... AAP Sports News (Australia): European Cup rugby union champions@ HighBeam Research All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to ProQuest Information and Learning Company. www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:68639667&refid=ip_almanac_hf   (674 words)

U.S. Grand Prix Will Add Volumes To Speedway's Rich History Buddy Lazier won the first Indianapolis 500 run under the IRL flag in 1996, followed by Luyendyk in 1997 and Cheever in 1998. Grand prix racing had begun in Europe and at some sites in America, but F1 didn't start until 1950 and NASCAR didn't run its first race until the year before that. Almost 90 years to the day that the land now located in the town of Speedway, Ind. (the town wasn't incorporated until 1926), was designated as the site for a magnificent new 2.5-mile oval, another world-class event was added to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway schedule. www.usgpindy.com /press/1998/ims-120298.html   (674 words)

Popular Mechanics - CART Racing Versus IRL Racing By 1997, the IRL had its own rule book, and its own engine and chassis formulas. A fierce rivalry quickly developed between the two organizations, and on Memorial Day 1996, the same day as the Indy 500, CART ran its own 500-mile event, the U.S. 500, at Michigan International Speedway. And so, a few days before the IRL race in Phoenix in March, we rented Firebird International Raceway and had at it. popularmechanics.com /automotive/motor_sports/1269136.html?page=2&c=y   (607 words)

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