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Topic: 2005 Champ Car World Series Season

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Champ Car World Series :: Champ Car Announces 14 Dates for Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford 2005 Schedule But in auto racing, the end of one season simply signals the beginning of a new one, and the Champ Car World Series today marked the start of the 2005 season with the announcement of 14 race dates for next year. Champ Car Announces 14 Dates for Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford 2005 Schedule Champ Car World Series :: Champ Car Announces 14 Dates for Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford 2005 Schedule sev.prnewswire.com /auto/20041028/DETH03228102004-1.html

FastMachines Champ Car News Blog The 2004 Champ is starting right where he left off, winning the season opener in the ChampCar World Series. The relationship between Champ Car and Ford remains solid, and two new sponsors are added to the roster as teams put the finishing touches on their packages for 2005. Champ Car is in Canada for the next two consecutive races, and Paul Tracy and Alex Tagliani are looking strong in Toronto. www.fastmachines.com /archives/cat_champ_car.php

CART News Their reasons for choosing the Champ Car World Series were twofold, according to John Lewicki, Director of Alliances, McDonalds U.S.A. “First of all,” he said, “this is all thanks to Paul Newman. As 2003 Series champions, Forsythe Racing is regarded as one of the most competitive and professional teams in Champ Car and has a long history of success in identifying talented race drivers and for its driver development programmes. Hunter-Reay holds the Champ Car record for the most laps lead in a race, surpassing Nigel Mansell’s record, became the first American in over 20 years to win in his Rookie season, and is the only American driver to win a Champ Car race in the previous two seasons. www.rfmsports.com /CART/News/CARTnews.html

McDonald's Corporation :: McDonald's(R) and Champ Car World Series Unite to Raise Awareness and Funds for Ronald McDonald House Charities(R) The Champ Car World Series features some of the greatest race car drivers in the world competing in the most diverse and exciting series in the world. In addition to being the Official Fast Food Restaurant of the Champ Car World Series, McDonald's is a sponsor of Newman/Haas Racing, the team that earned its fifth series title in 2004 and is owned by actor/race car driver Paul Newman and racing entrepreneur Carl Haas. The team will begin their 23rd season in Champ Car competition in 2005 and will attempt to score their sixth overall title after winning 82 races and 86 pole positions. sev.prnewswire.com /auto/20050407/CGW05506042005-1.html

Race By Race - Champ Car World Series Driver and Team Changes Expected for 2005 His debut at last season's finale was denied when local wildfires led to the cancellation of the California Speedway event. According to rumors, the driver for the first race of the season may be a one-off deal, with Memo Gidley a possibility. The driver hopes to announce his 2005 plans by the end of next week, possibly assisted by his father's recent sale of his packaging business for over $200 million. www.racebyrace.com /future/cartteams2005.phtml   (7071 words)

Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach France’s Sebastien Bourdais, the 2004 Champ Car Series king, wasted no time in defense of his crown, holding off defending race champion Paul Tracy to win the 31st Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, the April 10 opening round of the 2005 Champ Car season. The sale of the assets of Grand Prix Association of Long Beach to Aquarium Asset Management, LLC, an affiliate of the Champ Car World Series, was unanimously approved by the Long Beach City Council last night at its weekly meeting. It is YOUR responsibility to notify us of change of address or non-receipt of the renewal package. www.longbeachgp.com   (7071 words)

Toyota Atlantic Entering the 2005 Toyota Atlantic Championship Presented by Yokohama season, it was tough to predict which drivers and teams would emerge as dominant forces in North America's top open-wheel development series. Jul 15, 1:17 AM ET Series Point Standings Tighten As Toyota Atlantic Championship Lands in Edmonton for Round 8 Sat, Sep 3 9:00 pm ET Long Beach www.toyotaatlantic.com   (7071 words)

Crash.Net CHAMP CAR: Latest Motorsport news, results with radio player The Champ Car World Series has retained the bulk of its 2005 broadcasting team for the new season with host Rick Benjamin and 'play-by-play' duo Derek Daly and Jon Beekhuis all coming back for another season in 2006. My first leg of testing with the 2005 car went really well, we had a good test programme comprising of ten days across three or four different circuits and covering some good set up work - there were no real problems at all. » Dan Clarke sets his sights on Champ Cars www.crash.net /uk/en/home.asp?cid=3   (206 words)

VRACE.COM Champ Car Series The 2005 Champ Car World Series season is closed. Just about half of the Champ Car drivers are rookies or sophomores in 2005. Timo Glock won the rookie's championship with a respectable 202 points and placed 8th overall in the season. www.vrace.com /CART/index.asp   (132 words)

Cowen Truck Line, Inc. - Trucking for Now and the Future The 2005 Trans AM series has nine races scheduled with eight races scheduled as part of the Champ Car weekend. The series is poised to make history in 2005 by being the longest American sports car road racing series in North America. This year is the second year Trans AM will race under the Champ Car umbrella. www.cowentruckline.com /racing.html   (301 words)

Champ Car Fanatics News Junqueira left Fundidora Park with the Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford points lead and high hopes for the 2005 season. ERIC MAUK: Welcome, everyone, to today's Champ Car/Atlantic media teleconference where we have a very exciting announcement as we continue to build on the future of the Champ Car Atlantic Series, what we believe is the top driver developmental system in all of open-wheel racing. Champ Car is committed to building the strongest driver development system in open-wheel racing, and we feel that the improvements in this year's Atlantic Championship helps achieve that goal. www.champcarfanatics.com /news.php?cat=&perpage=15&pagenumber=2   (5402 words)

Indy Pace Cars NEWS, INFORMATION AND RESOURCES TORONTO, CANADA -- SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2005 -- Round #6 -- 2005 Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season -- PKV Racing's Jimmy Vasser finished fourth today in a crashed filled Molson Indy Toronto at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Canada. Sam Schmidt is owner of Sam Schmidt Motorsports, which fields cars on the Menards Infiniti Pro Series and in the Indianapolis 500, and founder of the Sam Schmidt Paralysis Foundation. Orphan Indy 500 Pace Cars by Bob Hagin April 2, 2001 Every year since its inception 85 years ago, the Indianapolis 500 race has been paced by a standard production car usually driven by a... www.theindyweb.com /indy-pace-cars.html   (5402 words)

Boston.com / Sports / Other sports / Auto racing news / RuSport, Allmendinger join Champ Car The Champ Car World Series got a boost Friday with the addition of the RuSport team and driver A.J. Allmendinger, who helped the team to the 2003 Toyota Atlantic Championship title. Open Wheel Racing Series, the newly formed company that bought the assets of CART in bankruptcy court, has said it hopes to have 18 cars on the grid when it opens the season April 18 at the Long Beach Grand Prix. The series, which ended the season with 19 cars, has lost at least three of them over the winter. www.boston.com /sports/other_sports/autoracing/articles/2004/02/20/rusport_allmendinger_join_champ_car   (5402 words)

Champ Car Fanatics News The Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford is in the middle of one of its most successful and exciting years as nearly 1.2 million fans have attended its first nine events in the 2005 season. Champ Car and the home team prevailed, and that was good news for Champ Car. Champ Car themed wallpapers and ring tones can be accessed over a wide variety of mobile carriers including Telefonica Movistar, nTelos and IUSACELL. www.champcarfanatics.com /news.php?cat=&perpage=10&pagenumber=2   (5953 words)

IndyCar® Series It is his affinity for competing on ovals -- and especially on the grandest of them all -- that played into Carpentier's decision to move from the Champ Car World Series after eight years to the IRL IndyCar® Series. The 2005 IndyCar Series season will include 14 oval races, two on road courses and one on a temporary street course. Carpentier, who recorded one of his five series victories on the 2-mile Michigan International Speedway oval in 2001, said the high-speed excitement of the IndyCar Series -- including the Indianapolis 500 -- will play to his strength. www.indycar.com /news/story.php?story_id=3777   (5953 words)

Grand American Road Racing Association DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (February 04, 2005)-- Officials from Champ Car World Series, LLC, the Grand American Road Racing Association and race promoters OCESA jointly announced today that the season-ending Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series event at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City will be held on Saturday, November 5. The race will be run on the same weekend as the 2005 Champ Car World Series season finale scheduled for Sunday, November 6 at the 2.786-mile permanent road course. GRAND AMERICAN ROLEX SPORTS CAR SERIES TO JOIN CHAMP CAR WORLD SERIES FOR SEASON FINALE IN MEXICO CITY www.grand-am.com /Events/Event.asp?ID=92   (5953 words)

MJ Motorsports Michael James, Team Principal for Gardena, California-based MJ Motorsports, announced plans today to expand his teams’ operations beyond the Star Mazda Championship presented by Goodyear with an additional two-car effort in the Champ Car Atlantic Series, having placed deposits for two of the upcoming Swift Atlantic chassis. At the same time the Champ Car Atlantic Series has announced an incentive program that will provide the series champion with a $2 million to be used in assisting that driver into a Champ Car ride. Recently announced by Champ Car, the new Swift 016.a chassis will feature a 300-horsepower, 2.3 liter Cosworth engine, Pi Electronics, and additional regulations aimed at keeping costs reasonable. www.mj-motorsports.com /news.html   (362 words)

The Official Andretti Family Website - Michael Andretti Michael is CEO of Andretti Green Racing, a four-car team competing in the Indy Racing League IndyCar® Series.  As a team owner, he has won two back-to-back IndyCar championships with drivers Tony Kanaan (2004) and Dan Wheldon (2005), as well as an Indy 500 win (2005-Dan Wheldon). Andretti maintained his status as highest ranking active Champ Car driver in the poles won category with 30, while also leading the "Most Laps Led" category with 5219 and a second place finish in the season laps led category with 281 and also being voted second quarter Driver of the Year. Andretti made a significant change for the 2001 season, moving from Newman/Haas, the team he had called home for 10 of the past 11 Champ Car seasons, and joining the newly formed Team Motorola. www.andretti.com /Michael   (1685 words)

AutoWeek - The Auto Enthusiast's Online Resource Both Cosworth and Champ Car World Series officials sound confident the two will continue their relationship at least through 2005; in other words, Cosworth will continue to develop, rebuild and service Champ Car’s spec Cosworth V8s regardless of what becomes of Ford’s plan to sell Cosworth Racing. Cosworth services Champ Car’s engines and provides engineering support under a contract that runs through 2005, but the series actually owns the Cosworth V8s, which in turn are leased to the teams. Ford’s decision to dump Cosworth Racing and the Jaguar F1 team will not affect its continued participation in the Champ Car World Series, according to Ford Racing boss Dan Davis. www.autoweek.com /article.cms?articleId=100919   (881 words)

Sebastien Bourdais News The three most recent Champ Car World Series title winners will likely be heading to Florida this weekend to get a jump on the 2005 racing season as they... While Sebastien Bourdais and Paul Tracy grabbed the headlines for their dominant display in the Champ Car World Series on Sunday, the Toyota Atlantic series also got underway under the sunny Californian skies. Current and former stars of the Champ Car World Series were on track this weekend at Daytona International Speedway as they prepare to try their hand at... www.topix.net /cart/sebastien-bourdais   (881 words)

iLikeRacing.com » Open Wheel Racing News And Information AYTONA, Fla. (February 9, 2005): Reigning Champ Car World Series Champion Sebastien Bourdais completed his first day of testing in preparation for the 2005 Crown Royal International Race of Champions (IROC) Series and is looking forward to the first of four races to be held at Daytona International Speedway on February 16. Newman/Haas Racing, owned by actor/race car driver Paul Newman and racing entrepreneur Carl A. Haas, is the most successful team competing in the Champ Car World Series. Following the season-opener at Daytona (February 18), the series will compete at Texas Motor Speedway (April 15), followed by Richmond International Raceway (September 8) and conclude at the Atlanta Motor Speedway (October 29). ilikeracing.com /2005/02/mcdonalds_drive.html   (977 words)

CART News Molson Sports and Entertainment has produced the world feed for the Champ Car World Series events in Canada in recent seasons, providing the world with all of the turbocharged racing action from Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. The Champ Car World Series announced today in a press conference in Montreal that they have signed a 3-year deal for McDonalds to become the Official Fast Food Company of the Champ Car World Series. “The CCWS is an electrifying schedule of races and we appreciate the opportunity to expose the teams, their sponsors and Champ Car fans to the unique product we build. www.rfmsports.com /CART/News/CARTnews.html   (977 words)

Used Car - Selected Resources For Used Car Officials from Toyota Motor Sales USA, Inc. and the Toyota Atlantic Championship Presented by Yokohama today announced that the automobile manufacturer has agreed to extend its title sponsorship of the series through the end of the 2005 season. Capitalizing on winning the 2003 Toyota Atlantic Championship in its first attempt, RuSPORT is pleased to announce its entry into the 2004 Champ Car World Series with American driver A.J. Allmendinger. Open Wheel Racing Series, LLC, d/b/a Champ Car today announced that it has finalized the acquisition of the assets formerly held by Championship Auto Racing Teams and will now commence with the operation of the Champ Car World Series. www.nationalsales-services.com /TCMain/Cars/Used-Car.php   (686 words)

Motorsport.com: News channel After completing almost 100 laps in very cold conditions at the Sebring course today, Christijan has a good impression of the Champ Car series and the Walker team "The guys on the team and the engineering were all great, and Mr. Driver Christijan Albers was impressed with his first test in a Champ Car "we had a good day, given the cold weather conditions. The test is in preparation for the 2005 season, which will be the 16th consecutive season for the experienced Walker Racing team. motorsport.com /news/article.asp?ID=174633&FS=CHAMPCAR   (686 words)

TOYOTA ATLANTIC CHAMPIONSHIP TO EXPAND C2 CATEGORY FOR 2005 COMPETITION INDIANAPOLIS (December 21, 2004)— The Toyota Atlantic Championship Presented by Yokohama is expanding its C2 category for the 2005 season to allow more teams and drivers the opportunity to compete in the top open-wheel development series in North America. Points will be earned for each C2 competitor at every event and the point system will be scored in a manner consistent with both the Atlantic championship category and the Champ Car World Series. “We’ve heard from many teams and drivers that are interested in joining the Toyota Atlantic Championship in 2005 but because of limited budgets they aren’t able to purchase new equipment to compete in the full-season championship,” said Vicki O’Connor, Managing Director of the Toyota Atlantic series. www.champcarfanatics.com /newsitem.php?id=84   (655 words)

Motorsport.com: News channel The Toyota Atlantic Championship will once again run the majority of its races in conjunction with the Champ Car World Series next season and the Atlantic cars will join Champ Car at two new venues next year, racing on an airport circuit in Edmonton and at a new street course designed in California's Silicon Valley. The Toyota Atlantic Championship Presented by Yokohama continues to be the premiere open-wheel development series in North America. The Toyota Atlantic Championship will celebrate its 25th race at Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve road course this season at the Molson Indy Montreal on August 28. www.motorsport.com /news/article.asp?ID=172718&FS=Other+series   (800 words)

Untitled Document Major has already shown his ability to be a front-runner in the 2005 Honda/Michelin Challenge Series – his first year of car racing – ending his season 2nd in the Rookie of the Year standings, and 11th overall. Atlantic Racing Team is hiring two crew members for their full-out assault in the 2006/07 Formula BMW USA Series and the new Champ Car Atlantic, on order, and winter testing, now in progress. Atlantic Racing Team, after a hectic 3 weeks of racing at the /Montreal and Indy F1 with Formula BMW USA plus a 3 day test for the soon to be announced 2006 drivers, has now also secured Daniel Abbale for the rest of the remaining 2005 FBMW USA Series. www.atlanticracingteam.com /newstext.htm   (13892 words)

Richie Hearn Motorsports Inc. The Star Mazda Series will be his second formula car premiere of 2005 having debuted in the Champ Car Toyota Atlantic Championship in San Jose earlier this year. In fact, prior to entering the season-opening round of the 2005 Formula BMW USA season at Laguna Seca last April, Duc had only a three-day school at Skip Barber and Derek Daly’s school- based just down from the Hearn Motorsports shop- on his racing resume. The Expert Series is for Star Mazda drivers ages 30-44 and runs for overall and ‘class’ points in each Star Mazda race. www.richiehearnracing.com   (4550 words)

Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach France’s Sebastien Bourdais, the 2004 Champ Car Series king, wasted no time in defense of his crown, holding off defending race champion Paul Tracy to win the 31st Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, the April 10 opening round of the 2005 Champ Car season. The sale of the assets of Grand Prix Association of Long Beach to Aquarium Asset Management, LLC, an affiliate of the Champ Car World Series, was unanimously approved by the Long Beach City Council last night at its weekly meeting. England’s Katherine Legge became the first woman to win an open-wheel race in North America when she captured the April 10 Imperial Capital Bank Challenge for the Toyota Atlantic Championship race, part of the 31st Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. www.longbeachgp.com   (4550 words)

ChampCar-Racing.com Benjamin made his Champ Car debut last year after many years covering a number of different racing series, and returns for a second season in 2005. Benjamin will be joined in the booth by long-time Champ Car announcer Derek Daly, who was a formidable racer in the Champ Car series in the 1980s before picking up the microphone. Rick Benjamin returns as the play-by-play man for this year’s broadcasts, which will see four races carried on CBS, two on NBC and eight on SPEED Channel. www.cart-racing.com /news/index.php?type=news&ID=4260   (4550 words)

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