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	Auto Racing Digest: Season's Greetings, Motor Sports Fans - Brief Article
		THE 2000 SEASON WAS ONE OF the most exciting years in recent motor sports history.
		Now, thanks to new tracks, bulked-up schedules, increased annual team budgets, and exponential rises in television and merchandising revenues, this season seems nearly as promising.
		Unlike Formula One, the titles in NASCAR, CART, and the IRL are up for grabs.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FCH/is_3_29/ai_78680456 (618 words)

	ALMS News :: 06/09/03 DANICA PATRICK JOINS PRODRIVE FERRARI TEAM FOR AMERICAN LE MANS SERIES
		She made her debut in the Formula Vauxhall Winter Series in 1998, then ran a full season in 1999.
		Shortly after Patrick won the Long Beach Grand Prix Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race in 2002, Rahal signed her to drive for his team, and she ran a limited Barber-Dodge Pro Series schedule for Team Rahal in preparation for a full CART Toyota Atlantic Series assault in 2003.
		But Rahal wanted more opportunities for his young protégé, and he had been working behind the scenes, talking to various teams in the American Le Mans Series to try and put together a ride for Patrick in the remaining part of the 2003 season and beyond.
	www.americanlemans.com /storyArchives/060903danicaprodrive.asp (618 words)

	Greg Moore
		open-wheel race car driver from Canada killed during the final CART Fed-Ex Series race of the 1999 season; won five career CART races, including the Grand Prix of Miami in 1999; youngest driver to win a CART race in 1997; finished fifth in driver's standings in 1998.
		CART DRIVER GREG MOORE DIES IN WRECK (United Press International)
		He died of head injuries sustained in a one-car crash during the competition.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0781896.html (618 words)

	Formula One Champion, CART Champion And Indy 500 Winner Jacques Villeneuve Without A Ride: Car reviews, pricing, SUVs, trucks, maintenance, safety, lemon law, travel
		He moved into Formula One racing after two stellar seasons in CART, capturing that series' Rookie of the Year Award with the Player's Racing Team in 1994, and then winning the Driver's championship in 1995, the same year he triumphed in the fabled Indy 500.
		The native of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, joined the team for its inaugural season in 1999, after winning the Formula One World Driver's championship with Williams.
		Former F1, CART and Indy 500 champ Jacques Villeneuve has been informed that he will not be renewed by the British American Racing team for the 2004 Formula One season, his long time manager and mentor, Craig Pollock, announced today.
	www.womanmotorist.com /index.php/news/main/2470/event=view (433 words)

	Adrian Fernandez's Biography
		In 1999, enjoying his most successful season in the CART series, Adrian Fernandez behind the wheel of the #40 Tecate/Quaker State Reynard Ford-Cosworth completed the year fourth in the championship battle although he lead the points series early in the season for the first time in his CART career.
		Fernandez joined Patrick Racing for the 1998 season and proved his ability to challenge for the championship.
		The win in Toronto made him the first Mexican to win a CART event since Hector Rebaque in 1982.
	www.latinosportslegends.com /AF_Bio.html (628 words)

	Teleconference with Christian Fittipaldi and Cristiano da Matta
		Christian is in his eighth year of competition in CART and he's posted two career victories, one at Road America in 1999 and in the 2000 season finale at California Speedway.
		Christian Fittipaldi: Well, it is a little bit like on the sad side, but at the same time it's very clear in my contract that the CART series has like No. 1 status over any situation, including a race situation on the Busch Series that could eventually come up.
		We're going to put all the effort in the CART series and try to win the whole series by all means.
	www.speedcenter.com /interviews/sc_i0403_02.html (3994 words)

	Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach - AutoWorld.Com
		Round Two of the PPG-Dayton Indy Lights Championships: Now in its 14th season as the "Official Development Series" of the CART FedEx Championship Series, drivers compete in identical Lola race cars.
		Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race: Celebrating its 23rd year in 1999, well-known celebrities from the worlds of sports and entertainment will challenge professional drivers in identically prepared Toyota Celicas.
		BFGoodrich Tires Trans-Am Series: In its 34th year of competition as North America's longest-running road racing series, these American muscle cars will challenge Long Beach's reconfigured circuit for their '99 season-opener.
	www.autoworld.com /news/Toyota/Grand_Prix.htm (332 words)

	rpm.espn.com: Driver capsules for Indy 500
		Won Formula Opel Euroseries championship in 1999 and was runner-up in the British Formula 3 series in 2000.
		Won three races in the European Le Mans series in 2001 and drove in the final two IRL races of the season, with best finish seventh at Chicagoland.
		Made CART debut in 1998 with 10 top-10 finishes and was the series' rookie of the year.
	espn.go.com /rpm/irl/2002/0526/1387020.html (332 words)

	Shigeaki Hattori: CHAMP Racing, Shigeaki Hattori CHAMP Merchandise, CHAMP Drivers, Shigeaki Hattori Racing, Team Lowes Racing, Shigeaki Hattori Racing News, CHAMP News, Team Lowes Auto Racing, CHAMP, Racing
		Hattori competed in the CART FedEx Championship Series for one year in 1999 and also raced in the Indy Lights series, earning wins at Miami and St. Louis in 1998.
		Shigeaki Hattori raced part-time in the IRL IndyCar Series in 2002 and 2003.
		Although he did not qualify for the Indianapolis 500 in 2001, Hattori earned his best career start of fifth and tied his best career finish of seventh twice during the season on the way to another career best: 13th in the IRL points standings.
	www.racingone.com /driver.asp?driverid=529&subseries=4 (254 words)

	JS Online: Road America, CART might split
		Road America's contract with the series, signed in 1999, is up after this season.
		Brands Hatch will be the first road race for an American open-wheel series in Europe since Rick Mears won a USAC champ-car event at the track in 1978, a year before CART was formed.
		The track's CART stop is set for Aug. 3 this season, two weeks earlier than its traditional position on the calendar.
	www.jsonline.com /sports/race/jan03/111170.asp (914 words)

	U.S. 500 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While the Indianapolis 500 has a history of one-off participants (teams and drivers who participate in only the single race and not in other series events), the fields for the U.S. 500 were comprised almost exclusively of teams and drivers who participated in the full CART season.
		The U.S. was an automobile race sanctioned by CART between 1996 and 1999 at the Michigan International Speedway as an alternative to the Indianapolis 500.
		After George's 25/8 restriction for the Indianapolis 500 was dropped for the 1997 season, the Memorial Day U.S. 500 was cancelled thus removing it from direct competition with the Indianapolis 500.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._500 (456 words)

	Goodyear leads IRL lineup today
		Goodyear has two career IRL wins (1999) and also won twice in CART before that series split with the IRL in 1996.
		Goodyear stands third in the IRL season points but is winless, which disappoints both him and the wealthy Pennzoil operation.
		Goodyear's speedway-record lap of 219.191 mph eased the sting of what has become, for him, a midlife crisis of a season.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2000/08/27/spt_goodyear_leads_field.html (540 words)

	Sauber Sauber, Jacques Villeneuve, AUTO RACING - CBS SportsLine.com
		The 34-year-old Villeneuve, who won the Indy 500 and the title in the CART series in 1995, sat out the 2004 season.
		LONDON -- Former series champion Jacques Villeneuve will try to improve on a poor season when he returns to the BMW Sauber Formula One team.
		The French-Canadian driver won the Formula One title in 1997 with Williams, but moved to the new BAR team in 1999.
	cbs.sportsline.com /autoracing/story/9072159/rss (344 words)

	CART: Kenny Brack gets first career FedEx Championship win in Japan
		Brack, winner of the 2000 Jim Trueman Rookie of the Year Award, scored Team Rahal's first FedEx Championship Series victory since Max Papis won the 2000 season opener at Homestead.
		It was Brack's first open-wheel victory since the 1999 Indianapolis 500.
		He averaged a race-record 178.113 miles per hour en route to the triumph, eclipsing the 176.195 miles per hour averaged by Adrian Fernandez en route to victory in 1999.
	www.theautochannel.com /news/2001/05/19/021172.html (1869 words)

	The Honda Engine
		With the HRS engine in 1999, Honda-powered drivers won a total of 14 races and finished 1-2-3 in the driver's championship for the third consecutive season.
		Honda's engine for the 2001 CART FedEx Championship Series is designated the HR-1 Series Turbo V-8.
		Using the HRK engine in 1998, Honda-powered drivers won a total of 13 races and finished 1-2-3 in the PPG Cup title chase for the second consecutive season.
	www.cartracingupdate.com /Cars/honda.htm (266 words)

	Auto Racing Fatalities Timeline
		CART series driver Greg Moore, 24, of Canada, dies in a crash in the final race of the 1999 season at California Speedway in Fontana, Calif. Moore lost control of his car at 220 mph on lap 10 and crashed into a wall, sending his car into wild spins.
		NASCAR driver Adam Petty, 19, is killed after his car spins out and crashes into the wall in Turn 3 at New Hampshire International Speedway in Loudon, N.H. A fourth-generation NASCAR driver (along with great-grandfather, Lee, grandfather, Richard, and father, Kyle), Petty was practicing for a Busch series race the following day.
		Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) driver Gonzalo Rodriguez, 27, of Uruguay, is killed during practice for the Shell 300 at the Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, Calif.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/autotimeline1.html (712 words)

	Bryan Herta Joins McDonald's Team
		HILLIARD, Ohio (January 17) -- American talent Bryan Herta has been signed to drive for the McDonald's Championship Racing Team in the CART FedEx Championship Series after Jerry Forsythe, chairman of Forsythe Championship Racing, agreed to release Tony Kanaan from his contract for the 2000 season.
		He ended the 1999 season with six top-six finishes, including a flag-to-flag win at Laguna Seca.
		Herta, who enters his seventh season of Champ Car competition, will make his debut with McDonald's Championship Racing this Wednesday as the team takes to the track with the new Swift 011.c chassis for the first time in a scheduled two-day test at Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, California.
	www.speedcenter.com /news00/sc_n0117_00.html (712 words)

	ChevronTexaco Press Release - ChevronTexaco Signs Nascar Winston Cup Sponsorship Contract With Chip Ganassi Racing With Felix Sabates
		The Target Chip Ganassi Racing team earned Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) championships in four consecutive years from1996 through 1999.
		Jamie McMurray will drive the Havoline Dodge for the Ganassi team in the 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season.
		Ganassi entered NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing in 2000, and with Sterling Marlin currently leading the point standings, Ganassi appears to be building for continued success.
	www.chevron.com /news/press/2002/2002-09-07.asp (712 words)

	Formula One: Michelin to supply F1 tires in 2001; Toyota accelerating return
		Bridgestone, parent company of Firestone, which supplies tires to the Indy Racing League and the CART series, entered F1 in 1997 and was the sole supplier to the F1 series in 1999 after Goodyear withdrew at the end of the 1998 season.
		Michelin has been successful in other series, as well.
		Michelin has a solid heritage as a winner in racing.
	www.theautochannel.com /news/date/19991221/news004828.html (712 words)

	ESPN.com: SPORTSNATION - Chat-3293
		Kanaan got his only CART victory at Michigan in 1999 and never placed higher than eighth in the series.
		Kanaan, who had the pole for the Indy Racing League season opener at Homestead, Fla., on March 2, became the fifth driver in IndyCar Series history to earn consecutive pole positions.
		Jason (Green Bay, WI): Hi Tony, If your last name were George rather than Kanaan, what changes would you make to the IRL Indycar series?
	proxy.espn.go.com /chat/chatESPN?event_id=3293&print=true (1232 words)

	Raul Boesel to Drive for Kool Green at Homestead
		Boesel replaces Team KOOL Green's regular driver Paul Tracy, who was suspended from the opening race of the 1999 FedEx Championship Series by CART following an incident during October's Honda Indy Australia.
		The 1987 FIA World Sports Car champion, Boesel is seventh on the all time CART list with 169 starts to his credit.
		Boesel is scheduled to test with Team KOOL Green at Homestead on Monday, February 1 and again during CART's Spring Training February 2-4.
	www.speedcenter.com /news99/sc_n0129_99.html (446 words)

	Formula 1 on Naharnet.com
		1999 saw Montoya win the CART Championship with seven wins - he was the youngest champion in the history of the series.
		Montoya continued winning in karts until 1992 when he competed in Formula Renault in Colombia winning eight races that season.
		Montoya won two races in the British Formula Three Championship that season.
	web.naharnet.com /f1/drivers/drivers6.asp (194 words)

	www.cartracingupdate.com
		That track was also the site of a new CART race earlier this season and remains part of the schedule in 1999.
		Naoki Hattori of Japan will join Gil de Ferran next season as part of a two-car team at Walker Racing.
		Hattori, 32, is currently ninth in the PPG-Dayton Indy Lights series, driving in the Team Kool Green car.
	www.cartracingupdate.com /News/100898hattori.htm (273 words)

	Formula 1 Drivers
		It took him just two seasons to become CART Champion (1995) and after joining Formula 1 in 1996 with Williams won the Formula 1 World Drivers title in 1997.
		1999 saw a season interrupted when he broke a leg at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, but as one would expect of Michael Schumacher he bounced back with a win the Japanese Grand Prix at the end of the season.
		After joining Benetton, he won the 1992 Belgian Grand Prix, the 1993 Portuguese Grand Prix and in 1994 and 1995 the World Championship.
	www.formula-one-drivers.co.uk (273 words)

	Da_Matta
		He joined the Champ Car ranks for the 1999 season with a team run by Cal Wells.
		He captured Rookie of the Year honours in the PPG-Dayton Indy Lights series with four wins, three poles and seven podium appearances en route to winning the overall championship.
		For exciting young Newman/Haas driver Cristiano da Matta, it was clearly a case of "father knows best." While he was growing up in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Cristiano's mother dreamt of him becoming a world-class swimmer or gymnast.
	www.homestead.com /formulakaz/Da_Matta.html (604 words)

	CNN/SI - Motor Sports - Walker Racing puts Shinji Nakano behind the wheel - Saturday December 04, 1999 03:23 PM
		Posted: Saturday December 04, 1999 03:23 PM INDIANAPOLIS (CNN/SI) -- Walker Racing, one of only 7 winning CART FedEx Championship Series teams last year, announced that Japanese driver Shinji Nakano will drive the team's Honda-powered Reynard Champ Car next season.
		Nakano, 28, spent 1999 as a test and development driver for winning Formula One team Jordan Grand Prix, powered by the Mugen Honda engine.
		"Shinji has successful experience in Formula One and other powerful open-wheel road-racing series," said team owner Derrick Walker said.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /motorsports/news/1999/12/04/cart_nakano (604 words)

	WINFIELD WILLIAMS F1 TEAM SPONSORSHIP
		This year, the drivers of the Winfield WilliamsF1 teams are Italian Alex Zanardi, the PPG Cart World Series Champion of 1997 and 1998, and German Ralf Schumacher, a promising young driver who ranked 10th in the 1998 FIA Formula One World Championship.
		As the positive images of F1, such as "progressive", "worldwide", and "speedy", are becoming associated with the Brother brand's goal, we will continue the sponsorship activity and aim at further promotion to achieve higher brand values.
		The first of the 16 Grand Prix races of 1999 will be held on March 7th in Australia where the Brother name will appear on the Williams FW21 cars, as well as on the driver's race suits.
	www.brother.com /E-topics/williams (604 words)

	Who is Jenson Button? Where is Alex Zanardi?
		Alex Zanardi kicked ass in CART for most of the three seasons he raced in the series.
		In fairness I think Zanardi is a good racing driver but he apparently became "spooked" by the treaded tires and smaller width of the current Formula One car and I think its shabby but typical that the Williams team never gave Zanardi a chance to redeem himself for 1999.
		Zanardi didn't score a single point throughout 1999.
	www.bjwor.com /2k0305.html (604 words)

	Interview with Paul Tracy
		CART noticed, as well: Tracy had been on probation several times for rough driving and was suspended for the opening event of the 1999 season, in Miami.
		Paul Tracy is a new man in a new-look CART-and he hopes to become the series' newest champion
		When hints were dropped that after five seasons Tracy would leave Team Green, the team placed a gag order on him to prevent him from discussing his plans.
	www.chrisdolack.com /Storylinks/ARDstories/ARDPART2/ARDSEPT03.html (1257 words)

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		Coming off of his sixth career win in the CART FedEx Championship Series at the Rio 200 in Rio de Janeiro, this friendly Mexican is just hitting his stride in his eighth season in the series.
		Fernandez broke a radius bone in his right wrist in practice, at the Belle Isle circuit, in Detroit, in August of 1999.
		Considering that five of Fernandez six victories have come in two seasons plus three races his tallies are comparable to those two bigger names.
	www.racingone.com /article.asp?artnum=602 (908 words)

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