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With Laguna Seca returning to an Indy car racing schedule for the first time since Champ Car held a round at the 11-turn, 2.238-mile track in 2004, the NTT IndyCar Series teams were granted an open test there in February, just before heading to Circuit of The Americas for Spring Training.However, with the ambient temperature on the Monterey peninsula barely creeping past the 55degF mark in the ...

The Team Penske-Chevrolet driver, who scored his first U.S. open-wheel victory in Champ Car's 2007 season-opener on the streets of Las Vegas driving for Walker Racing, earned the 37th win of his career on Sunday, lifting him to joint sixth in Indy car racing's all-time winner's list, with Sebastien Bourdais who dominated the last four years of Champ Car racing, 2004-'07.Meanwhile his ...

Title: Castroneves Breaks Track Record En Route to BUBBA burger Sports Car Grand Prix Motul Pole Award in No. 7 Acura Team Penske DPiPhoto Gallery: Date: 2019-04-12 00:00:00Body: The 1.968-mile temporary street circuit in Long Beach is one of the most familiar racetracks on the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship to No. 7 Acura Team Penske ARX-05 DPi driver Helio Castroneves. The Brazilian made 13 Champ Car/IndyCar starts here, winning what now is known as the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach back in 2001, and taking the pole position in each of his last three IndyCar starts from 2015 to 2017. In fact, Castroneves' prowess at Long Beach was so great that he was inducted into the track's Motorsports Walk of Fame last year. ...

Bourdais, who now drives for Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan, won three straight Grands Prix of Long Beach, from 2005 to '07, driving a Newman/Haas Lanigan Racing Champ Car, and started from pole there in '06 and '07.The four-time Champ Car title-winner has also scored two other podium finishes there, including runner-up position just two years ago.The last-ever Champ Car race ...

The 30-year-old, who has been in topline U.S. open-wheel racing since he joined Newman Haas Lanigan Racing for Champ Car's final season in 2007, says he's noticed improvements in Indy car racing's status over the last few years."It's headed down the right path," said Rahal, "[and] it's all of our drivers' jobs to help and try and bring light to that and to continue the ...

After winning the Formula 3000 championship - the equivalent of Formula 2 - with Super Nova Racing in 2002, Bourdais had hopes of a ride in Formula 1 with the Renault team, but when that failed to transpire, he shifted his attention to the U.S. open-wheel scene. Joining the legendary Newman/Haas Racing team in 2003, he finished fourth in the Champ Car World Series with three wins, and then ...

Title: Twelve Years After Last North American Race, Heistand Makes Solid Return in AIM Vasser Sullivan LexusPhoto Gallery: Date: 2019-02-11 00:00:00Body: More than a decade ago, Richard Heistand was on the open-wheel driver development ladder. But after competing in the 2007 Champ Car Atlantic Championship, the racer from Orlando, Florida vanished from the North American motorsport scene. That is, until the 2019 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. ...

The former Champ Car champion is subbing for the injured Boris Said in one of the V8-powered MARC entries, a late deal engineered by NBC commentator Leigh Diffey and Australian race driver Paul Morris.Tracy will share the Invitational-class entry with Morris, car owner Keith Kassulke, and current Supercars young gun Anton De Pasquale. "It was really a lucky break for me to be able to come ...