The 1979 SCCA/CART Indy Car Series was the inaugural Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) American open wheel racing championship series. The season...
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Championship Auto Racing Teams (redirect from CART IndyCar World Series)
promoting their own series collectively instead of relying on a neutral body to do so. Through the 1980s, CART's Indy Car World Series became the pre-eminent...
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Indy NXT (pronounced "Indy Next"), previously Indy Lights, is an American developmental automobile racing series sanctioned by IndyCar, currently known...
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September 2, 1979. The event was race number 11 of 14 in the 1979 SCCA/CART Indy Car Series. The race was won by Bobby Unser, his third California 500 victory...
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part in the inaugural 1979 SCCA/CART Indy Car Series. It was the beginning of the first open-wheel "split". The month of May 1979 was filled with controversy...
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official developmental series of CART successor Champ Car World Series until the merger of Champ Car with IndyCar in 2008. The series ran independently on...
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American open-wheel car racing, generally known as Indy car racing, or more formally Indianapolis car racing, is a category of professional automobile...
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The 1979 Champ Car season may refer to: the 1979 USAC Championship Car season the 1979 SCCA/CART Indy Car Series, sanctioned by CART, who would later become...
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Michael Andretti (category IndyCar Series drivers)
in CART. It became Andretti Green Racing and for 2003, the team moved to the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series. The team claimed consecutive IndyCar Series...
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Salt Walther (category Indy Lights drivers)
driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series. He also drove NASCAR stock cars and unlimited hydroplane boats, and was a car owner in USAC. Walther...
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Scott Sharp (category IndyCar Series champions)
United SportsCar Championship. He is the son of six-time SCCA champion Bob Sharp. Sharp is best known for his years as a competitor in the Indy Racing League...
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racing series such as IndyCar, IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship, and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, along with other club events such has SCCA and...
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Bobby Rahal (category IndyCar Series team owners)
Le Mans and the IMSA GT Championship. In 1982, Rahal entered the CART Indy car series with the Truesports team, winning two races and finishing second...
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supplementary Indy-car series to the established Indy Car World Series sanctioned by Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) since 1979. It consisted of...
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in 1980, they left motor racing in 1982. Chaparral cars also featured in the SCCA/CASC Can-Am series and Endurance racing.[citation needed] Jim Hall was...
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sports car race traditionally held in the spring. The revived Can-Am series returned from 1978 to 1982, after which time the event became a CART Indy car race...
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of the 1979 USAC National Championship. Many of the top teams in open-wheel racing were part of the inaugural 1979 SCCA/CART Indy Car Series. The Pocono...
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United States Auto Club (redirect from USAC National Midget Car Series)
Championship car races, and CART including the race in its schedule between other CART-sanctioned races. USAC continued to sanction the Indy 500 until 1997...
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Al Unser Jr. (category IndyCar Series drivers)
the Indy 500 a record nine times. By the age of 11, Al Junior was racing sprint cars. After high school, he was already in the World of Outlaws series of...
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Jimmy Bryan Memorial (redirect from Phoenix Grand Prix (IndyCar))
Phoenix International Raceway in 1964. The race became a CART event in 1979, and joined the Indy Racing League in 1996. It was held continuously through...
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SCCA Pro Racing is the pro racing division of the Sports Car Club of America. SCCA Pro Racing was formed in 1963; the company is a fully owned subsidiary...
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mid-season to a CART series race. The CART drivers were not eligible for points. 1979 Indianapolis 500 1979 SCCA/CART Indy Car Series Raced as #44 at...
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Stan Fox (category SCCA Formula Super Vee drivers)
driver statistics at Racing-Reference [1] 1995 Indy 500 Crash Photos [2] 1995 Indy 500 Crash Photos [3] 1995 Indy 500 Crash Photos [4] Picture of Stan Fox...
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Jim Hall (racing driver) (redirect from Jim Hall (race car driver))
contributions to race car design through his series of Chaparral sports racing and Indy cars. Hall's cars won in every series in which they competed:...
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Jimmy Vasser (category IndyCar Series drivers)
driver who competed primarily in the CART series and Champ Car. Vasser won ten CART series races and won the 1996 CART championship with Chip Ganassi Racing...
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Greg Ray (category IndyCar Series champions)
race car driver. After winning the SCCA national Formula Atlantic championship in 1993, he moved up to the CART-sanctioned Toyota Atlantic series in 1994...
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Road America (category IndyCar Series tracks)
MotoAmerica (AMA FIM) series, 3 vintage car events, Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) events, the United Sports Car Racing Series, the Pirelli World Challenge...
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Gordon Smiley (category SCCA Formula Super Vee drivers)
racer. He raced SCCA Formula Ford, Formula Atlantic, Formula 1000, Can-Am, Formula 5000 and Formula Super Vee, winning in each series while setting 25...
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Alex Barron (racing driver) (category IndyCar Series drivers)
car driver. He began racing CART FedEx World Series Championship cars in 1998 and made his first Indy Racing League Northern Lights Series (now IndyCar...
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Grand Prix of Road America (redirect from Champ car grand prix of road america)
America was a USAC/SCCA Formula 5000 (SCCA Continental Championship) held from 1974 to 1976. The CART Indy Car Series first visited Road America in 1982...
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