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A new chassis for cars in the Indy Racing League continues to be under consideration, and a final decision could have an economic development impact in Indiana. A group that includes team Owner Chip Ganassi is developing an original design, while Italy's Dallara is preparing the next generation of its current model. Motorsportslaw.com Attorney Doug Boles says the benefits of having production in Indiana would go beyond jobs and infrastructure...  

The Indy Racing League has announced it will continue its partnership with Old World Industry’s PEAK Performance Motor Oil brand. The deal includes the the IZOD IndyCar Series’ PEAK Performance Pole Award. PEAK Performance Motor Oil joined the IZOD IndyCar Series prior to the 2008 season.  

Parent company of IRL’s cable partner close to buying NBC Universal For Indy Racing League fans that have been watching the Comcast-NBC Universal saga unfold — with hopes of eventually seeing open-wheel racing and the Indy 500 on the Peacock Network, no doubt — it appears a deal is in sight. The American media landscape appears set [...]  

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Tickets for the IZOD IndyCar Series race weekend at Chicagoland Speedway are on sale beginning Dec. 7. Click HERE for details. It's the first year that the IZOD IndyCar Series-Firestone Indy Lights weekend has been offered in single-event packages (it previously only offered track packs to both of its major racing event weekends). Fans still have that option, but they also can purchase race weekend and single-day tickets. Get your tickets...  

The Indy Racing League, the sanctioning body for the IZOD IndyCar Series and Firestone Indy Lights, announced an extension of its partnership with Old World Industry's PEAK Performance Motor Oil brand. The PEAK Performance Motor Oil partnership includes the IZOD IndyCar Series' PEAK Performance Pole Award in conjunction with the brand's many retail partners, including AutoZone, O'Reilly Auto Parts and Pep Boys, among others. PEAK Performance...  

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Indy Racing League, the sanctioning body for the IZOD IndyCar Series and Firestone Indy Lights, today announced an extension of its partnership with Old World Industry’s PEAK Performance Motor Oil brand. The PEAK Performance Motor Oil partnership includes the IZOD IndyCar Series’ PEAK Performance Pole Award in conjunction with the brand’s many retail partners, including AutoZone, O’Reilly Auto Parts and Pep...  

Danica Patrick's decision to drive in a limited number of NASCAR Nationwide Series races in 2010 could help build the recognition of the IZOD IndyCar Series. That's the assessment of motorsportslaw.com's Doug Boles. In a Studio(I) interview, Boles says some Indy Racing League supporters will believe the deal is horrible for the circuit. But he points to the potential beneficial impact for the IRL as Patrick enters into a partnership with...  

Indy Racing League Vice President of Public Relations John Griffin is resigning, effective Dec. 18. IRL made the announcement in a written news release, dated this past Friday. Griffin's replacement has not been selected. He joined IRL as vice president in 2002 and oversaw all aspects of the IZOD IndyCar Series and Firestone Indy Lights public and media relations program. Before joining the Indy Racing League, Griffin worked for NASCAR...  

Timeline of the IZOD IndyCar Series since North American open-wheel racing unification under Indy Racing League sanctioning: Feb. 22, 2008 Officials of the Indy Racing League and Champ Car World Series complete an agreement that will unify the sport under the IndyCar Series banner. Gerald Forsythe, co-owner of Champ Car, signs an agreement in principle in Chicago, joining his partner, Kevin Kalkhoven, and Indy Racing League founder and CEO...  

Danica Patrick, who became the first woman to win a major open-wheel race last year in Japan, announced Tuesday she would compete in a second-tier US stock car racing series starting in February.The 27-year-old American who signed a three-year IndyCar contract extension with Michael Andretti's team last week will serve as a part-time driver for JR Motorsports in the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR).  

An interview with Ryan Briscoe, Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti Q.  Ryan talk about your afternoon out there today?  RYAN BRISCOE: Not bad. Just Dario was really fast. I thought the car was pretty good and we did a great job getting prepared for qualifying. Speed was about where I was expecting it to be. We did a best lap this morning of 12:06 in the draft. And I've got to tell you, I was out there in pit lane watching Dario and I saw him do...  

This is the fifth of a six-part series looking at some of the classic championship races in IndyCar Series history. When: 2007 Who: Dario Franchitti, Scott Dixon Where: Chicagoland Speedway (Sept. 9, 2007) The story Dario Franchitti was in control of the IndyCar Series after nine of 17 races in 2007, with three victories, including the Indianapolis 500. Franchitti held a 65-point lead - more than a one-race gap - over Scott Dixon after...  

AN INTERVIEW WITH DARIO FRANCHITTI, SCOTT DIXON AND RYAN BRISCOE MODERATOR: Thank you and welcome to today's IndyCar Series conference call. We're pleased to be joined by the three drivers who will decide the 2009 IndyCar Series Championship this weekend. Our guests are two‑time IndyCar Series champion Scott Dixon and 2007 IndyCar Champion, Dario Franchitt  of Target Chip Ganassi Racing and Ryan Briscoe of Team Penske. Guys, thanks for...  

The city of São Paulo will stage the opening round of the 2010 IZOD IndyCar Series season. Scheduled for March 14, the event represents the return of Indy-style racing to Brazil thanks to the partnership between the São Paulo municipality, the Indy Racing League and TV Bandeirantes and BandSports. "The arrival of the IZOD IndyCar Series confirms São Paulo's nature of staging great worldwide events. It is a gift to the citizens of São Paulo who...  

This is the last of a six-part series looking at classic championship races in IndyCar Series history. When: 2008 Who: Scott Dixon, Helio Castroneves Where: Chicagoland Speedway (Sept. 7) Also see: Watch highlights and hear from the competitors | Final race box score The story With three races remaining in the 2008 season, Scott Dixon appeared to already have his name on the 2008 series championship trophy in a dream year of his life. He was...  

Obligations as the IZOD IndyCar Series champion kept Scott Dixon busy for much of the off-season last year. This year, he's kicking back more - enjoying time with his wife, Emma, and 5-month-old daughter Poppy. "The only time you want the long season to be prolonged is if you've won it, so I'm sure Dario (Franchitti) is soaking in all the good parts of the season," Dixon said of his title-winning Target Chip Ganassi Racing teammate. "It's...  

Story will be updated this afternoon Target Chip Ganassi Racing's Scott Dixon welcomes Will Power to the IZOD IndyCar Series for the full complement of 2010 races. He just doesn't welcome the additional championship competition. "He was very fast and who knows what the guy could do with a full season and starting off the right way with all the pre-season testing," said Dixon, who followed up his 2008 series title with a runner-up finish in the...  

Phillips-Van Heusen chairman and CEO Emanuel Chirico likes the trends he's seeing relating to the company's 26 brands, including IZOD's foray into motorsports. Two weeks ago, IZOD was introduced as the title sponsor of the newly named IZOD IndyCar Series in a multi-year, multi-million dollar deal that will promote the series across multiple platforms. IZOD, the official apparel partner of the Indy Racing League, in spring introduced an IZOD...  

It's a taste of Indy, the beach, fashion, food and fun as IZOD and Apex-Brasil, in partnership with the Indy Racing League, kick off IndyCar Series Championship Week with special events Oct. 2-3 in Miami that are free and open to the public. The IndyCar Series championship and a whole lot more will be decided in the Firestone Indy 300 on Oct. 10 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. On Oct. 2, fans can mingle with IndyCar Series drivers Ryan Hunter...  

This is the first of a series of driver season recaps in their own words, which continues Nov. 1 with championship runner-up Scott Dixon. Winning a second IndyCar Series championship is very sweet, especially after the year I went through in NASCAR in 2008, when we had to park the car because of lack of sponsorship. Luckily, team owner Chip Ganassi gave me the opportunity to do what I do best and that is driving an IndyCar. I have to really...  

Special to indycar.com For the second consecutive year, Firestone Racing is sponsoring prestigious driver awards - one each for the IndyCar Series and Firestone Indy Lights - that perpetuate the memories of two racers taken from us far too soon. The Tony Renna Rising Star Award goes to an up-and-coming IndyCar Series driver, while the Greg Moore Legacy Award is presented to the Firestone Indy Lights driver who best personifies Moore. "Greg and...  

Scott Dixon received a hug from wife Emma and a pat on the back from engineer Eric Bretzman - a little consolation after finishing 15thin the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach in mid-April. It wasn't so much the drop of nine spots from the No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing car's starting position that befuddled Dixon, but the uncharacteristic finish outside the top 10 for the second race in a row to begin defense of his IndyCar Series title. "I...  

Danica Patrick, who became the first woman to win an IndyCar race with a victory last year in Japan, said Monday she has signed a three-year contract extension to remain with Andretti Autosport.Patrick completed her third season with the team in 2009, finishing third at the Indianapolis 500. It was the first podium showing by a woman at the signature IndyCar event, improving on her fourth-place effort from 2005.  

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When word came that the Indy Racing League had finally selected Sao Paulo as the Brazilian site for next year’s IZOD IndyCar Series opener, the league’s vice president of competition Tony Cotman also passed along word to SPEED Channel’s Robin Miller that the course layout was “pretty damn good.” Was Cotman talking about a 2.36-mile street course that features grandstand [...]  

• Scotland's Franchitti wins Indy300 to take the title• Scott Dixon overhauled in final race of the seasonDario Franchitti has sealed his second IndyCar series championship in three years after winning the season-ending Indy 300.The 36-year-old Scot entered the race at Homestead-Miami Speedway four points behind the defending champion Scott Dixon, with Ryan Briscoe also in with a chance of the overall title.Briscoe finished second, and his...  

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Scott Dixon has this unshakable feeling, that the three remaining contenders for the IndyCar championship will enter the final turn of the season having decided nothing. An epic, three-car, fight-to-the-finish for the Indy Racing League title and a ...  

Today's IndyCar Series and Firestone Indy Lights headlines 1.      IndyCar Series Q & A - Title Contenders 2.      The Contenders: Dixon seeks another record 1. IndyCar Series Q & A - Title Contenders: The three drivers competing for the IndyCar Series driver championship, Scott Dixon, Dario Franchitti and Ryan Briscoe, participated in this week's Indy Racing League Q & A. Dixon, a two-time series champion who seeks his second consecutive...  

BusinessWire NEW YORK & INDIANAPOLIS, Nov 05, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) - Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation (PVH) announced today a multi-year agreement in principle with the Indy Racing League (IRL), the sanctioning body for the IndyCar Series, for its IZOD brand to become the title sponsor of the newly renamed IZOD IndyCar Series.  

by Holly CainFiled under: IRLIndyCar Series championship contender Ryan Briscoe will join FanHouse for a live chat on Thursday at 11:30 AM ET.Briscoe, 28, who drives the No. 6 car for Team Penske, is one of three drivers who will decide the IndyCar championship Saturday night in the series finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Only eight points separate third place Briscoe from leader Scott Dixon. Dario Franchitti is five points behind Dixon in...  

During IndyCar Series qualifications at the Homestead-Miami Speedway on Friday afternoon, Dario Franchitti ripped off four rapid laps at a speed of 212.696 miles per hour to register his fifth pole of the season and his third on an oval track. Winning the pole gave him one point toward the important championship tally, moving him within four points of teammate Scott Dixon, who qualified second fastest. Dixon leads with 570 points, Franchitti...  

Welcome to Miami, which has replaced Chicagoland as the site of the series finale. With only a few exceptions in the outcome, the IndyCar Series champion will be determined here by whoever finishes first out of the group of Ryan Briscoe, Scott Dixon, and Dario Franchitti. Probably a safe bet to say whoever wins this race will win the whole she-bang, but that remains to be seen.Enough talk. We've waited SIX WEEKS for an IndyCar race in this...  

The Indy Racing League will wind up its season on Sunday at the Homestead-Miami Speedway. Three contenders enter the final race trying to win a $1 million bonus. Ryan Briscoe, Dario Franchitti, and Scott Dixon all are separated by only eight points as the Indy 300 starts on Sunday.  

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indy Racing League will open its 2010 season on the streets of Sao Paulo, the first time the IndyCar Series has held a race in Brazil. The race is scheduled for March 14. Series officials spent much of last summer talking ...  

Honda IndyCar Racing - Race Report Homestead-Miami Speedway Miami, FL 10/10/2009 Last Year's Winner: Scott Dixon (Target Chip Ganassi Racing Honda) 171.248 mph average Weather: Clear, hot, humid, 89 degrees F In a fitting finish to the 2009 IndyCar Series...  

by Holly CainFiled under: IRLHOMESTEAD, Fla. -- It was as if Dario Franchitti never left. The 36-year old Scot returned from a don't-look-back 2008 NASCAR experiment to reclaim the IndyCar Series championship trophy he took with him, sealing the deal on his second title Saturday night in nearly identical fashion to how he earned the first in 2007. While Team Penske driver Ryan Briscoe and Franchitti's Target Ganassi teammate Scott Dixon...  

Dario Franchitti's return to IndyCar racing couldn't have gone better. He's the IRL champion once again. Franchitti successfully emerged from one of the closest points races in series history Saturday, winning the season-ending Indy 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway in the first caution-free IRL race ever. The 2007 champion - who skipped 2008 to explore NASCAR - held off Target Chip Ganassi teammate Scott Dixon and Penske Racing's Ryan Briscoe...  

Race:           Firestone Indy 300 (October 10, 4:00 PM ET, Versus) Track:          Homestead-Miami Speedway (1.5-mile tri-oval) Location:       Homestead, Fla.   NOTES/NEWS   Managing Director Mike Hull on Homestead: “Teamwork is defined as team members who unselfishly support each other with a common goal – the amazing thing about that statement is that it defines Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon as they have given to each other...  

Scott Dixon has this unshakable feeling, that the three remaining contenders for the IndyCar championship will enter the final turn of the season having decided nothing. An epic, three-car, fight-to-the-finish for the IRL title and a $1 million bonus? Don't be surprised to see that happen at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Saturday, Dixon says. "With no doubt, I think it's going to be exciting," he said. They're three different guys with three...  

Coach Scott Winslow remembers when it wasn't so fun to be a Dixon High School football player. For three years, the Rams were a sub-.500 team battling a dwindling numbers game on a campus struggling with negative school culture issues. A highly publicized hazing incident and other disciplinary issues left Winslow with a varsity squad of 19 one year. "We had some real low points," Winslow said. "It was horrible that players didn't want...  

Dario Franchitti’s return to IndyCar racing couldn’t have gone better. He’s the IRL champion once again. Franchitti successfully emerged from one of the closest points races in series history Saturday, winning the season-ending Indy 300 at Homestead-Miami (Fla.) Speedway in the first caution-free IRL race.  

Dario Franchitti's return to IndyCar racing couldn't have gone better. He's the IRL champion once again. Franchitti successfully emerged from one of the closest points races in series history, winning the season ending Indy 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway in the first caution-free IRL race ever.  

Scott Dixon won the last race three weeks ago to assume a five-point lead over Target Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Dario Franchitti and leads Team Penske driver Ryan Briscoe by eight points. It is the second-closest race in the series history.  

John Griffin, the Indy Racing League's vice president of public relations, has submitted his resignation, which will become effective on Dec. 18, according to a statement released by the IRL.  

INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indy Racing League will support October's National Breast Cancer Awareness Month during the IndyCar Series' championship event weekend, the Firestone Indy 300, on Oct. 9-10 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. During the event weekend ...  

FORMER boxing champion Scott Dixon was yesterday locked up on drugs charges. The 33-year-old had been flown under a police escort to Malta after an international arrest warrant had been issued on the Mediterranean island. Dixon, from Hamilton, was ...  

The Indy Racing League appears to have finally nailed down the 2010 IZOD IndyCar Series season opener in Brazil. A press release from the league says that the city of Sao Paulo will play host to the event, slated for March 14. IRL commercial division president Terry Angstadt said the IRL’s top priority is building their [...]  

Auckland driver Scott Dixon is relaxed about tomorrow's winner-takes-all IndyCar finale at Miami. The champion leads Target team-mate Dario Franchitti by just 5 points with Australian Ryan Briscoe third, 8 ...  

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The 2010 IZOD IndyCar Series television schedule has been released, with Versus carrying 12 events and ABC carrying the remaining five. Two of ABC’s races will be before their annual telecast of the Indianapolis 500 – the March 28th event in St. Petersburg, Florida and the May 1 event at Kansas Speedway that leads in to the Greatest Spectacle [...]  

Auckland driver Scott Dixon's closest challenger for back-to-back IndyCar titles is in his own camp with fellow Target driver Dario Franchitti right on his rear wheel for the championship. With ...  

Dario Franchitti moved one point closer to Scott Dixon in the IndyCar championship by beating his Ganassi team-mate to pole position at Homestead. Ryan Briscoe, who is third in the standings and eight points behind series leader Dixon coming into ...  

Scott Dixon remained the man to beat in final practice for the IndyCar Series title decider at Homestead. Ryan Briscoe was second again, ahead of the third championship contender Dario Franchitti. The session was halted two minutes early after a big ...  

Dario Franchitti has been here. Scott Dixon, too. Ryan Briscoe is new to the championship picture, but the Penske driver won't give any ground to his more experienced foes as the IRL title race comes down to the very end, Pete Pistone says.  

After seven years of serving as the site of IndyCar's season-opening race, Homestead-Miami Speedway is hosting IRL's championship weekend, highlighted by Saturday's Indy 300. The IRL championship is a super-tight battle, with Scott Dixon, Dario ...  

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This weekend's Indy Racing League finale at Homestead, Fla., has roots in Fontana, where the ill-fated CART held the season's last race at then-California Speedway. Those days are nothing but memories as the open-wheel set either can't sell enough ...  

IZOD Brings IndyCar Series a Strong Brand, Bright Future, And Vision For Growth NEW YORK, NY and INDIANAPOLIS, IN (Nov. 5, 2009) -- Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation (NYSE: PVH) announced today a multi-year agreement in principle with the Indy Racing ...  

NEW YORK, NY and INDIANAPOLIS, IN (Nov. 5, 2009) – Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation announced today a multi-year agreement in principle with the Indy Racing League (IRL), the sanctioning body for the IndyCar Series, for its IZOD brand to become the ...  

The New Zealand motor racing driver Scott Dixon has been pipped for the Indy Car Series Championship after finishing third in the season finale in Miami. His Chip Gannasi team-mate ...  

Danica Patrick unveiled a new neon green look Monday morning for her No. 7 Dallara-Honda. But as the Indy Racing League's most ...  

LOVES PARK, Ill. -- Scott Dixon should race more often, as the father of three regulars at the Rockford Speedway outlasted a massive field of 130 cars to collect the final event of the year at the historic facility, the Goblin 250 enduro. Dixon hadn ...  

Filed under: Motorsports, Marketing/Advertising New beginnings demand new threads, and that's just what the reunited IndyCar Series has gained with the announcement that clothing label Izod has become the league's new title sponsor. The deal, which runs through 2015, is reportedly worth in the neighborhood of $10 million per year. Renaming the racing league as the Izod IndyCar Series, it forms part of a broad sports sponsorship initiative by...  

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indy Racing League will have Izod as a title sponsor next season, an agreement the IRL hopes will expand its fan base and take the series to a “new level.”  

HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) -- In two rounds of practice and then in qualifying, three names stayed atop the leaderboard all day on the eve of Saturday's Indy 300. Fitting, because the same three names - Scott Dixon, Dario Franchitti and Ryan Briscoe - are ...  

The Indy Racing League will open its 2010 season on the streets of Sao Paulo, the first time the IndyCar series has held a race ...  

IndyCar Boss Looks Down The RoadRacinToday.comAs all good open-wheel fans know, the crushing 12-year conflict between the Indy Racing League and the now-defunct CART and Champ Car series ended just ...and more »  

The New Zealand motor racing driver Scott Dixon has been pipped for the Indy Car Series Championship by his team-mate Dario Franchitti in the season finale in Miami. Franchitti took ...  

Penske Racing hired Will Power of Australia to drive full-time next year after giving the Indy Racing League driver a part-time ...