| | United States Grand Prix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Ferrari’s victory at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the inaugural SAP United States Grand Prix on Sept. 24, 2000, may have appeared to the uninitiated as beginner’s luck, but in truth, luck had little to do with it. |
 | | As Ferrari’s success as a racing car manufacturer grew, both in sports cars and in Grand Prix racing, it was the profits from the sale of Ferrari road cars being built on the production line in Maranello that became increasingly important to the company as the customer cars financed the racing. |
 | | Ferrari’s Austrian-born designer, Gustav Brunner, (now technical director of the Toyota Formula One team) was assigned to “reverse engineer” the March and combine the redesigned chassis with a V8 turbo to create the Ferrari “Formula Indy” car. |
| www.usgpindy.com /news/story.php?story_id=578 (3300 words) |