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2003 Season
•Tracy Is Champion After Action-Packed Afternoon
Bruno Junqueira (#1 PacifiCare Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) and Paul Tracy (#3 Indeck Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) were the lead story in Sundas Lexmark Indy 300 in Surfers Paradise, Australia as the two drivers were the only ones left standing in the title hunt with two races left in the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season.
•Tracy Wins In Mexico, Takes Control Of Title Chase
Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford points leader Paul Tracy has the wordsgood-by printed on the top of the rear wing of his Team Players machine as part of the cigarette manufactures new paint schemes celebrating their final three races in the sport.
•CART Champ Car World Series Confirms 15 Venues For 2004
The 2004 Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season will feature another year of providing one of the most challenging tests in all of motorsports, as its drivers will continue the tradition of having to master every discipline of racing. Challenging street courses, fabled road venues, short ovals and superspeedway slugfests await the drivers of the Champ Car World Series in 2004 as the series today released a list of confirmed venues for the upcoming season.
•Dominguez Wins Action Packed Grand Prix Americas
Going back through many long and lean years as Bettenhausen Motorsports, the newly-rebuilt Herdez Competition team has pushed its team into the spotlight on occasion in the last two years of racing in the Champ Car World Series, but on a sunny Sunday in Miami, the duo of Mario Dominguez (#55 Herdez Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) and Roberto Moreno (#4 Herdez Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) took all the spotlight and most of the hardware home as they swept the top two spots in the Grand Prix Americas Presented by Sportsbook.com.
•Open Wheel Racing Series to Acquire Championship Auto Racing Teams
Championship Auto Racing Teams, Inc. (NYSE:MPH) and Open Wheel Racing Series LLC today announced they have signed a definitive agreement providing for Open Wheel Racing Series to acquire Championship for cash equivalent to $0.56 per share, based on the number of shares of Championship common stock currently outstanding.
•Junqueira Wins In Denver, Tracy Now Leads The Championship By 18pts
Brazilian Bruno Junqueira delivered team owners Paul Newman and Carl Haas top honors in the teas 350th Champ Car start in this afternoos Centrix Financial Grand Prix of Denver, beating Newman/Haas Racing teammate and Rookie of The Year frontrunner Sebastien Bourdais to the stripe by 0.335 seconds to complete the sweep.
•Tracy Wins At Mid-Ohio, And Retakes Series Lead
There aren't many things that Paul Tracy (#3 Player's/Indeck Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) hasn't done in the seat of a CART Champ Car but the Canadian veteran got to cross a couple of lines off what was already a short list by taking a victory Sunday at the Champ Car Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio.
•Tracy Takes Overnight Pole, Closes In On Junquiera!
Paul Tracy (#3 Player's/Indeck Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) had one of his worst days of the 2003 Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season last Sunday at Road America when he failed to finish and saw the points lead that he had worked so hard to build, snatched away by race winner Bruno Junqueira (#1 PacifiCare Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone.
•Junqueira Wins At Road America, Takes Series Lead
Bruno Junqueira won his first race of 2003, and as a result is the new leader of the Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford. With race day dominated by heavy rain, delays, red flags and difficult conditions, Junqueira didn't put a foot wrong, and leaves Elkhart Lake with a maximum 23 point score, and moves three points clear of Paul Tracy in the Championship.
•Junqueira Confirms Pole At Road America, Tracy Sixth
Bruno Junqueira will start Sunday's Mario Andretti Grand Prix of Road America from pole position. The Brazilian has been fastest in every session so far, and even better news for him is that series leader Paul Tracy will be starting in sixth position. The extra point he earned this afternoon reduces the gap to 18 points.
•Tracy Wins Molson Indy Vancouver
Canada has long been one of the strongholds of the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford, with crowds in excess of 160,000 coming out for a three-day weekend every time the turbocharged CART Champ Car World Series turns a wheel.
•Paul Tracy Takes Provisional Pole At Molson Indy Vancouver
Team Playes driver Paul Tracy set the pace in the first qualifying session of the second consecutive Canadian stop of the 2003 Champ Car World Series.
•Tracy Penalized, And Loses Overnight Pole
Friday's provisional polesitter Paul Tracy (#3 Playes/Forsythe Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) was penalized by CART Stewards for blocking during Fridas first-day qualifying for the Molson Indy Vancouver.
•Tracy Takes Dramatic Pole For Molson Indy Vancouver
Paul Tracy has secured pole position for Sunday's Molson Indy Vancouver, round 11 of the Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford.
•Tracy Wins Home Race And Extends Series Lead
With the rains that plagued the first two days of the Molson Indy Toronto finally yielding to a blue sky on race day, it was only fitting that the blue colors of Playes/Forsythe racing were carried to the top of the podium during todas 10th round of the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford.
•Junqueira Wins Extra Point And Front Row Starting Spot
Fridas first round of qualifying for the Molson Indy Toronto started under huge tufts of dark clouds, providing a skyward layer that threatened to douse the 1.755-mile Exhibition Place street circuit at any moment along with the 43,628 fans that came out to watch the opening day of the event.
•Tracy Takes Pole For Molson Indy Toronto
The 2003 Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford has been a season of firsts for CART Champ Car World Series points leader Paul Tracy (#3 Playes/Indeck Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone), but few were likely as satisfying as Saturdas accomplishments on the streets of Toronto.
•After 42 Years At The Motor-Racing Forefront In Canada, Players To End Sponsorship Following The 2003 Season
Playes Ltd., a staunch supporter of Canadian motor-sport events and racing programs for the last 42 years, announced today that the 2003 season will be its last as a sponsor, a role that includes its co-ownership of Team Playes in the Champ Car World Series.
•Bourdais Provides Fireworks For Last Lap Shootout
His law student looks belie his competitive fire but young Sebastien Bourdais (#2 McDonals/Lilly Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) is serving notice that he will fight as hard as anyone to climb into the upper ranks of the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford.
•Adrian Fernandez Wins Action Packed G.I. Joe's 200
Adrian Fernandez won an incident-filled G.I. Joe's 200, round eight of the Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car Series Powered by Ford. It was his eighth career win, but more importantly the first for him as a team owner.
Bruno Junqueira (#1 PacifiCare Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) and Paul Tracy (#3 Indeck Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) were the lead story in Sundas Lexmark Indy 300 in Surfers Paradise, Australia as the two drivers were the only ones left standing in the title hunt with two races left in the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season.
•Tracy Wins In Mexico, Takes Control Of Title Chase
Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford points leader Paul Tracy has the wordsgood-by printed on the top of the rear wing of his Team Players machine as part of the cigarette manufactures new paint schemes celebrating their final three races in the sport.
•CART Champ Car World Series Confirms 15 Venues For 2004
The 2004 Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season will feature another year of providing one of the most challenging tests in all of motorsports, as its drivers will continue the tradition of having to master every discipline of racing. Challenging street courses, fabled road venues, short ovals and superspeedway slugfests await the drivers of the Champ Car World Series in 2004 as the series today released a list of confirmed venues for the upcoming season.
•Dominguez Wins Action Packed Grand Prix Americas
Going back through many long and lean years as Bettenhausen Motorsports, the newly-rebuilt Herdez Competition team has pushed its team into the spotlight on occasion in the last two years of racing in the Champ Car World Series, but on a sunny Sunday in Miami, the duo of Mario Dominguez (#55 Herdez Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) and Roberto Moreno (#4 Herdez Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) took all the spotlight and most of the hardware home as they swept the top two spots in the Grand Prix Americas Presented by Sportsbook.com.
•Open Wheel Racing Series to Acquire Championship Auto Racing Teams
Championship Auto Racing Teams, Inc. (NYSE:MPH) and Open Wheel Racing Series LLC today announced they have signed a definitive agreement providing for Open Wheel Racing Series to acquire Championship for cash equivalent to $0.56 per share, based on the number of shares of Championship common stock currently outstanding.
•Junqueira Wins In Denver, Tracy Now Leads The Championship By 18pts
Brazilian Bruno Junqueira delivered team owners Paul Newman and Carl Haas top honors in the teas 350th Champ Car start in this afternoos Centrix Financial Grand Prix of Denver, beating Newman/Haas Racing teammate and Rookie of The Year frontrunner Sebastien Bourdais to the stripe by 0.335 seconds to complete the sweep.
•Tracy Wins At Mid-Ohio, And Retakes Series Lead
There aren't many things that Paul Tracy (#3 Player's/Indeck Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) hasn't done in the seat of a CART Champ Car but the Canadian veteran got to cross a couple of lines off what was already a short list by taking a victory Sunday at the Champ Car Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio.
•Tracy Takes Overnight Pole, Closes In On Junquiera!
Paul Tracy (#3 Player's/Indeck Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) had one of his worst days of the 2003 Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season last Sunday at Road America when he failed to finish and saw the points lead that he had worked so hard to build, snatched away by race winner Bruno Junqueira (#1 PacifiCare Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone.
•Junqueira Wins At Road America, Takes Series Lead
Bruno Junqueira won his first race of 2003, and as a result is the new leader of the Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford. With race day dominated by heavy rain, delays, red flags and difficult conditions, Junqueira didn't put a foot wrong, and leaves Elkhart Lake with a maximum 23 point score, and moves three points clear of Paul Tracy in the Championship.
•Junqueira Confirms Pole At Road America, Tracy Sixth
Bruno Junqueira will start Sunday's Mario Andretti Grand Prix of Road America from pole position. The Brazilian has been fastest in every session so far, and even better news for him is that series leader Paul Tracy will be starting in sixth position. The extra point he earned this afternoon reduces the gap to 18 points.
•Tracy Wins Molson Indy Vancouver
Canada has long been one of the strongholds of the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford, with crowds in excess of 160,000 coming out for a three-day weekend every time the turbocharged CART Champ Car World Series turns a wheel.
•Paul Tracy Takes Provisional Pole At Molson Indy Vancouver
Team Playes driver Paul Tracy set the pace in the first qualifying session of the second consecutive Canadian stop of the 2003 Champ Car World Series.
•Tracy Penalized, And Loses Overnight Pole
Friday's provisional polesitter Paul Tracy (#3 Playes/Forsythe Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) was penalized by CART Stewards for blocking during Fridas first-day qualifying for the Molson Indy Vancouver.
•Tracy Takes Dramatic Pole For Molson Indy Vancouver
Paul Tracy has secured pole position for Sunday's Molson Indy Vancouver, round 11 of the Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford.
•Tracy Wins Home Race And Extends Series Lead
With the rains that plagued the first two days of the Molson Indy Toronto finally yielding to a blue sky on race day, it was only fitting that the blue colors of Playes/Forsythe racing were carried to the top of the podium during todas 10th round of the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford.
•Junqueira Wins Extra Point And Front Row Starting Spot
Fridas first round of qualifying for the Molson Indy Toronto started under huge tufts of dark clouds, providing a skyward layer that threatened to douse the 1.755-mile Exhibition Place street circuit at any moment along with the 43,628 fans that came out to watch the opening day of the event.
•Tracy Takes Pole For Molson Indy Toronto
The 2003 Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford has been a season of firsts for CART Champ Car World Series points leader Paul Tracy (#3 Playes/Indeck Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone), but few were likely as satisfying as Saturdas accomplishments on the streets of Toronto.
•After 42 Years At The Motor-Racing Forefront In Canada, Players To End Sponsorship Following The 2003 Season
Playes Ltd., a staunch supporter of Canadian motor-sport events and racing programs for the last 42 years, announced today that the 2003 season will be its last as a sponsor, a role that includes its co-ownership of Team Playes in the Champ Car World Series.
•Bourdais Provides Fireworks For Last Lap Shootout
His law student looks belie his competitive fire but young Sebastien Bourdais (#2 McDonals/Lilly Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) is serving notice that he will fight as hard as anyone to climb into the upper ranks of the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford.
•Adrian Fernandez Wins Action Packed G.I. Joe's 200
Adrian Fernandez won an incident-filled G.I. Joe's 200, round eight of the Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car Series Powered by Ford. It was his eighth career win, but more importantly the first for him as a team owner.
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