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Townsend Bell tests BAR
Honda F1 car
by Rod Campbell
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 Just
prior to the final race in the F3000 series Townsend was offered a test in
the B.A.R. Honda F1 car. Christian Horner, owner of the ARDEN
International F3000 team suggested to B.A.R. team principal David Richards
that Townsend would be a good candidate to drive the F1 car in a test at
the Michel Tissier Circuit in central France.
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Toyota F1 drivers
meet the press
Cristiano da Matta and
Olivier Panis in teleconference
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Welcome to the Toyota Formula One Teleconference. Joining us today
is Cristiano da Matta and Olivier Panis of Panasonic Toyota
Racing. Both drivers will be competing later this month in the
United States Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway,
September 26 through the September 28.
Transcript
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Brian Vickers
teleconference excerpts
Winston Cup's youngest
driver
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 Brian
Vickers will become the youngest full-time competitor ever in
NASCAR's top series next season when he takes over the No. 25
Chevrolet now driven by Joe Nemechek. Car owner Rick Hendrick put
Vickers on an advanced schedule Tuesday based on the promise the
19-year-old has shown in just under two seasons in the Busch
Series. Vickers, who turns 20 in October, will be two months
younger than Casey Atwood was when he made his Winston Cup debut
at age 20 two years ago.
Transcript
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Scenes from Southern 500
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Scenes from Denver Sunday
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Bruno Junqueira
dominates in Denver, gains on Tracy
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 Pole
sitter Bruno Junqueira gave a big boost to his title hopes today by
winning the CART Centrix GP of Denver over his Newman/Haas teammate
Sebastien Bourdais. 2nd place starter Oriol Servia finished 3rd
followed by points leader Paul Tracy. Adrian Fernández rounded out
the top five. More....
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Terry Labonte
wins Southern 500
by Pete McCole
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 Terry Labonte helped bring down the
curtain on one of stock car’s oldest traditions, as well as end his own
156-race winless streak, taking the checkered flag in the 54th
running of the Southern 500 Sunday at Darlington Raceway - the final
Southern 500 to be run at Darlington on Labor Day weekend.
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Allmendinger wins
Denver and Toyota Atlantic title
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 Young
American sensation AJ Allmendinger led flag-to-flag to win the Denver CART
Toyota Atlantic Series race and with it the 2003 title. Allmendinger
beat Michael Valiante, Ryan Dalziel, Jon Fogarty and Danica Patrick, who
rounded out the top 5. Driving the #4 RuSPORT entry, Allmendinger had a
dominating years, and is rumored to be moving up to the Champ Car Series
with RuSPORT in 2004.
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Scenes from
Denver Saturday
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Bruno Junqueira
retains pole position in Denver
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 A
damp track in Denver today helped yesterday's provisional pole sitter
Bruno Junqueira to retain the pole position for Sunday's CART Centrix
Denver GP. Despite the wet track, Oriol Servia was the sensation of
the day, turning a phenomenal lap on the damp track with lock-to-lock
steering to move up to the outside front row for Sunday.
More.....
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Scenes from
Denver Friday
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Bruno Junqueira
wins provisional pole with new record
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 Last
year's pole sitter and race winner Bruno Junqueira has won the provisional
pole for Sunday's Centrix Denver GP CART Champ Car race, setting a track
record in the process at 61.438 sec. There were no excuses today.
With single-car qualifying, all the pressure and focus was on the guy on
the track, and Junqueira came through. Adrian Fernández and Darren
Manning were 2nd & 3rd.
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Southern 500:
Ryan Newman wins yet another pole
by Stan Creekmore
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 He's NASCAR's qualifying king. Ryan
Newman put his Dodge on the pole for Sunday's Southern 500 at Darlington.
It was Newman's 6th pole of the year, tops of all drivers. Jimmie
Johnson was 2nd and Terry Labonte 3rd. Jimmy Spencer crashed hard
and will take a provisional.
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Definitely steady, and
anything but slow
by David Yaeck
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 Matt
Kenseth has been a steady rock in his racecar with one victory at Las Vegas and a
finish no lower than 22nd at the Virginia 500 at Martinsville. This weekend he
rolls into Darlington with a seemingly unreachable 351-point lead over Chevrolet
drivers Dale Earnhardt Jr. and 464-point lead over Kevin Harvick. With just 12
races to go, there has never been a driver who has come from this much of a
deficit to win the Winston Cup championship.
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ASCAR at Rockingham - Vergers & Collins take
wins
by Gary Parravani
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1 saw Michael Vergers run a dramatic one-lap dash to win an action-packed
LEGO 200 Days of Thunder round at Rockingham on Sunday, ahead of Roland
Rehfeld and Colin White.
In race 2, Ben Collins cruised to an emphatic victory. Collins won the second 60-lap event by
4.8 seconds
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Scenes from Hungary
Sunday
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Gil de Ferran
talks about his retirement
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 2003
Indy 500 Winner, two-time CART champion and Marlboro Team Penske driver,
Gil de Ferran, announced yesterday that he will retire at the end of the
current IRL Season. De Ferran, a nine-year veteran of CART and the IRL, made the announcement yesterday
morning at Penske Racing.
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De Ferran &
Hornish Teleconference
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CART can still race in Europe, but will they?
by Mark
Cipolloni
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 A
lot of our readers have contacted us wanting to know if there is any
truth to the rumors that CART may not go back to Europe in 2004
because the races lost so much money.
While that decision has yet to be made we suspect, we can share with
you what we know and what we think should happen. However, in
the end it may be The Big Little Man that determines CART's future in
Europe.
Story
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Pit Pass - news, rumors and opinions from the track
by John
Hammer
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John Hammer brings you this week's
Pit Pass show, brought to you by the Derek Daly Performance
Driving Academy. In this week's show John reviews this past
weekend's highlights from the racing world.
Audio Page
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De Ferran to
retire, Hornish to replace him
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 Penske
Racing, Inc. announced today that 2003 Indianapolis 500-Mile race
winner and two-time National Champion Gil de Ferran will retire at
season’s end. Two-time IRL Series Champion Sam Hornish, Jr. has
signed a multi-year deal to drive for the team beginning in 2004.
More......
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Michel Jourdain wins in
Montreal
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 Michel Jourdain, running a clean race,
brought home the win in Montreal today. Local favorites Paul Tracy
and Alex Tagliani were unable to get the job done, with Tracy
running low on fuel on the last lap, and Tagliani suffering from
poor race strategy. Servia, Carpentier, Tagliani, Dominquez and
Tracy rounded out the top six.
Story
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Press Conf.
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Castroneves beats
Hornish to win Nazareth
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 Marlboro
Team Penske driver Helio Castroneves from Brazil won today's IRL
race at Nazareth Speedway over Americans Sam Hornish Jr. and Bryan
Herta. Gil de Ferran and Kenny Brack rounded out the top-5.
Tony Kanaan and Tomas Scheckter tangled in the day's worse wreck.
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Top-3 press
conference
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Lehto & Herbert
win Road America 500
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 JJ Lehto and Johnny Herbert scored their
second American Le Mans Series win of the season Sunday by
driving the ADT Champion Racing Audi R8 to a one-lap win in
the Road America 500 presented by the Chicago Tribune.
Their car led 51 of the 79 laps run in the two-hour, 45-minute
timed sports car race on the 4.048-mile track. Herbert took
the lead on lap 29 by passing the polesitting Infineon Team
Joest Audi R8 of Marco Werner and the car never lost the lead
again.
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Alonso wins
Hungarian GP
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 Fernando
Alonso won today's Hungarian GP, 16.768 seconds ahead of Kimi
Raikkonen. Juan Montoya finished third, 34.537 seconds behind.
The 22-year-old Spanish driver became the youngest driver in
history to win a grand prix.. Rubens Barrichello survived a
major shut when his left wheel flew off along the main straight
during the race. He emerged unhurt from the car. Michael
Schumacher finished eighth and is now only 1 point ahead of
Montoya who in turn is 1 point ahead of Raikkonen..
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For CART, time is of the essence
by Mark Cipolloni
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Of
late, my e-mail inbox has been bombarded from CART fans and many in
the CART paddock concerned about the series very existence. Many
wonder what the
$0.50 per share offer made (and subsequently rejected by CART) by Open Wheel Racing
Series LLC, comprised of
Messrs. Kevin Kalkhoven, Paul Gentilozzi, Gerald Forsythe, Carl Russo,
and Motorock (run by Jamie Rose) really means. This is a
very delicate subject and a lot of people's jobs depend on the future
of the Champ Car Series.
Story
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