Search results

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

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

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

...ent record-holder for [[pole position]]s in the race with six (1979, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991). Mears is also a three-time [[CART]] national champion ( ...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

|Championships || 3 (1986, 1987, 1992) ...second car until they chose to focus solely on [[James Hunt]] for the next season. He also had success in [[sports car racing|sports car races]], winning the

...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 ...t race them (rather than allowing two drivers to share a drive through the season on a race-by-race basis, teams could only change the driver of any entry tw

...''. 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.

Footage exists of classic races like the 1986 [[Los Angeles Times Grand Prix]] in which the [[Chevy Corvette]] of [[Doc B ...[[United States Automobile Club|USAC]] Championship Trail also held their season ending race from 1967 to 1969.

...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.

...amous for finishing runner up to [[Alain Prost]] in the [[1985 Formula One season|1985 Formula One World Championship]], as well as winning the [[1997 24 Hou ...p, eventually losing out by 20 points. Following a poor [[1988 Formula One season|1988 campaign]], the Italian left Ferrari and re-signed with his former emp

...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. For the 1987 season, Alfa Romeo made a deal to supply engines to [[Ligier]], but the deal was c

|Last season || 2005 ...est in the [[Faenza]] outfit, becoming co-owner and chairman. For the 2000 season the team were forced to use 1998-spec [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] Zetec-R V

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

...y from 1965 to 1985, and then with live flag-to-flag coverage beginning in 1986. In May 2006, the race celebrated its 90^th running and 61<sup>st ...e.jpg|thumb|left|Hot Rod magazine cover showing a Granatelli Lotus Turbine IndyCar, 1968]]

...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

...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

'''[[Indy Racing League|IRL]] [[IndyCar Series]]''' |Record class || [[Indy Racing League|IRL]] [[IndyCar Series]]

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

...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]].''

...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