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    The 2002 Michigan Indy 400 was the eleventh round of the 2002 Indy Racing League season. The race was held on July 28, 2002, at the 2.00 mi Michigan International...
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    the distance was shortened to 400 miles. The final Indy car race (as of 2023) was held in 2007. The races at Michigan gained a reputation for high speeds...
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    2003 Firestone Indy 400 was the tenth round of the 2003 IndyCar Series season. The race was held on July 27, 2003 at the 2.00 mi Michigan International...
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    The 2002 Indy Racing League (IRL) was one of transition, with two reigning CART championship teams, Team Penske and Target Chip Ganassi Racing, joining...
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    Tomas Scheckter (category IndyCar Series drivers)
    obligations, but gave Rice the best equipment and crew. In the 2002 Michigan Indy 400, Scheckter won by 1.7 seconds over Rice for his first IRL win, while...
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    of his record nine Michigan wins, dominating in the Wood Brothers Mercury; the win was the third for the Woods in the Michigan 400's first four runnings...
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    Arie Luyendyk (category IndyCar Series drivers)
    joined ABC Sports as a color commentator. He returned to the Indy 500 in 2001 and 2002. In 2003, he entered at Indianapolis for the final time. He suffered...
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    superspeedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. It has hosted various major auto racing series throughout its existence, including NASCAR, CART, and IndyCar races. The facility...
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  • February 24, 2003. "Michigan Indy 400 Notes - Friday, July 26". Indy Racing League. July 26, 2002. Archived from the original on August 16, 2002. "Hemelgarn announces...
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    Scott Harrington (racing driver) (category Indy Lights drivers)
    second generation American former auto racing driver, formerly active in the Indy Racing League and sportscar racing. He is now a private racing driver coach...
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    Hélio Castroneves in 2001 and 2002. Palou defended his championship, becoming the first three-time and back-to-back IndyCar champion in the Dallara DW12...
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    The 2003 IRL IndyCar Series brought some of the biggest changes in its history. The league adopted the name IndyCar Series, after a settlement with CART...
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    the Indy Legends Charity Pro–Am race. Of those four drivers, Elliott, the 2002 Brickyard 400 winner, is the only one to have never driven in the Indy 500...
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  • This is a list of racetracks which have hosted IndyCar Series racing. Since 1996, INDYCAR events have been held on 45 different tracks – 24 ovals, 10 road...
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    1981 and 1989, the Michigan 500 was part of IndyCar racing's Triple Crown of 500 mile races. It existed as the "middle jewel" of IndyCar's three "crown...
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    won two consecutive Indy 500 poles for Menard, but was killed in a practice crash before the 1996 500. Tony Stewart got his first Indy 500 starts for Menard...
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    Auto Club Speedway (category IndyCar Series tracks)
    Racing Teams sanctioning from 1997 to 2002. The current IndyCar sanctioning body ran a 400-mile race from 2002 to 2005 and a 500-mile race from 2012 to...
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    the CART IndyCar series, joined the Indy-only Menards team in 1994. Their belief in the powerplant paid off when Brayton won his first Indy 500 pole position...
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    Sam Hornish Jr. (category IndyCar Series champions)
    2015. "2002 Yamaha Indy 400". Racing-Reference. Retrieved August 6, 2015. "2002 Indianapolis 500". Racing-Reference. Retrieved August 6, 2015. "2002 SunTrust...
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  • similar Superman one to promote Superman Returns. Panther Racing in the Indy Racing League ran a Pennzoil Platinum paint scheme at selected 2005 IRL events...
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    1996 U.S. 500 (category Michigan Indy 400)
    race held at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan on Sunday May 26, 1996. It was the sixth round of the 1996 CART PPG Indy Car World Series...
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    1980s. The IndyCar Triple Crown was revived in 2013, with the 1971–80 format of the Indianapolis 500 (in May), Pocono 500 (in July - 400 miles the first...
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    Danica Patrick (category Female IndyCar Series drivers)
    American open-wheel car racing—her victory in the 2008 Indy Japan 300 is the only win by a woman in an IndyCar Series race. Born to a working-class family in...
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    Dario Franchitti (category IndyCar Series champions)
    at each of the Pocono IndyCar 400 races, the first Honda Indy Toronto race, the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio and the GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma. Franchitti...
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    Ed Carpenter (racing driver) (category Indy Lights drivers)
    Firestone Indy 400 at Michigan International Speedway, Carpenter started in 4th place and finished in 7th place. At the season-ending Peak Antifreeze Indy 300...
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    Sarah Fisher (category IndyCar Series drivers)
    Michigan Indy 400, Fisher set a Kentucky Speedway track record at 221.390 mph (356.293 km/h) to earn the pole position for the Belterra Casino Indy 300...
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    Indianapolis 500 (redirect from Indy 500)
    formally known as the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, and commonly shortened to Indy 500, is an annual automobile race held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway...
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    Juan Pablo Montoya (category IndyCar Series drivers)
    September 1975), is a Colombian racing driver who has competed in Formula One, Indy cars, NASCAR and sports car racing events. He won the Championship Auto Racing...
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    Buddy Lazier (category IndyCar Series champions)
    Firestone Indy 200 at Nashville, Lazier started and finished in 12th place due to a crash on lap 182 in turn 2. At the next race, the Michigan Indy 400 at Michigan...
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    Tony Kanaan (category Indy Lights champions)
    racing in Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) from 1998 to 2002, and the IndyCar Series from 2002 to 2023. Kanaan began competing in Formula Europa Boxer...
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