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! Season | [[1984 CART World Series Season|1984]]

...ing as championship runner-up that year and the next year He took his sole IndyCar championship in 1991. | [[1993 Formula One season|1993]]

...T-eligible races won Mears his first championship. His worst finish in the season was fifth. In 1980 the [[ground effect]] Chaparral was technologically more ...offer. After 1984 he was slowed by the injuries to his right foot and the 1985, 1986 and 1987 years saw Mears win two races, both scored at the [[tri-oval

The circuit opened on [[8 December]] [[1985]]. During [[1986]] the circuit hosted the first international motorcycle ev ...until the series was cancelled early in the year after merging with the [[IndyCar Series]].[http://www.speedtv.com/articles/auto/champcar/41439/]

...team [[Scuderia Ferrari]]. P3s then won six of the final 11 events of the season including the final 2 major Grands Prix in Italy and Spain. ...g|thumb|right|200px|[[Benetton Group|Benetton]] sponsored F1 Alfa Romeo in 1985]]

In [[1985]], the [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile]] (FIA) created the Fo ...illiams]], [[Minardi]] and RAM), with little success -- the Grand Prix and Indycar-derived entries were too unwieldy - their fuel tanks were about twice the s

...''. The series merged into the [[IndyCar Series]] before its planned 2008 season. ...1996 season and the IRL could not use the name before the end of the 2002 season.

...ampions; [[Danica Patrick]], the first female to win a major race in the [[IndyCar Series]] on a closed-course, finished second in the British Formula Ford Fe For the 2006 season, the Zetec engine is being superseded by the 1600 cc, DOHC 16v [[Ford

|Last win || [[1985 German Grand Prix|1985]] [[German Grand Prix]] ...or finishing runner up to [[Alain Prost]] in the [[1985 Formula One season|1985 Formula One World Championship]], as well as winning the [[1997 24 Hours of

...cing League]] which uses different specifications for its cars. The term [[IndyCar]] is now trademarked to the IRL in the United States, but Champ Car races i ...th the driver and the sanctioning body, as USAC relented at the end of the season and folded its National Championship Trail.

|Debut || [[1985 Brazilian Grand Prix|1985]] [[Brazilian Grand Prix]] |Last season || 2005

...team [[Scuderia Ferrari]]. P3s then won six of the final 11 events of the season including the final 2 major Grands Prix in Italy and Spain. ...shadowing a return by Alfa Romeo as a constructor from {{F1|1979}} to {{F1|1985}}.

...ula One season|1992]], [[1994 Formula One season|1994]]–[[1995 Formula One season|1995]] | Championships || 1 ([[1992 Formula One season|1992]])

...rivers to win races in [[Formula One]], [[American Championship Car Racing|IndyCar]], [[World Sportscar Championship]] and [[NASCAR]] (the other being [[Dan G ...|USAC]]-sanctioning, one under [[Champ car|CART]]), the [[1978 Formula One season|1978]] [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|Formula One World Cha

...the CART championship became the de-facto championship. USAC ran a "rump" season, with few cars and fewer name drivers - the only exception being [[A.J. Foy ...nship cars have variously been called 'Championship (or 'Champ') Cars', '[[IndyCar]]s' (after the Indianapolis 500) or simply 'Big Cars', a term that reflecte

...C Sports]] was permitted to broadcast the race via tape delay from 1965 to 1985, and then with live flag-to-flag coverage beginning in 1986. In May 2006, t ...e.jpg|thumb|left|Hot Rod magazine cover showing a Granatelli Lotus Turbine IndyCar, 1968]]

...e May 16-18 weekend in 2008. But the subsequent merger of Champ Car and [[IndyCar]] resulted in the race being canceled. ! Season

...d previously been tested by [[Jim Hall]]'s [[Chaparral (car)|Chaparral]] [[IndyCar]] team in the 1960s). ...IA]] imposed a ban on [[ground effect]] aerodynamics in [[1983 Formula One season|1983]]. By then, however, [[turbocharger|turbocharged]] engines, which [[Re

...reality the cars were no different to those that had raced earlier in the season. Indeed Varzi's car was built before the war. Championships for drivers or ...[[1956 Formula One season|1956 season]] and [[1957 Formula One season|1957 season]].''