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Nichlia, NF EAGLE ~ C* wlumh Ve A•n iAUrrCry J ioJ,52n O V N PUG le. 1999 IN V Ili I II IIII il II III! i!IiI 14111 IiI i•I' W ~~~© PZ•56 -.__ rxg., rt.trrrvc} FROM A TO Z Indy racing easy to learn, hard to master By Skip Mydenski II Roddr. Abus semire ChampCar (or tndycnr or opemwheep nlcing has an ttlphabet all its own. Without further atn. the ABCa of CART's FedEx Championship Seriea ..• it, for Andretti, btld Murio established this /: as one of the most honored names in •imcing• and hu:kiyti'aruld son, MlahaeL cnrrtes on Ihe IndilWn. lie and J7yearUld AI Lhvser Jr. :u'e, shWi we say, the grand ,Jd nten of the series, and Uaser, saddled wtln a LHmee tflnies5 streak, 6 bIrewnlg Itis age. But Andretti slill floutishes, and this year tuu a victory and is thnd in the ctuunpionehlp points race. ~ for Budget. For $5 nullion, a team can A run one car for a season and scrape by. lis Fm• Sb51u mihiun, tNlt car has a chnnce for n wm. But Ihe ;mnual budget for an elite twmwr telm (Target/Chip [ m ssi, Newrn'In tflas, Teum KOUL Cleale Is nwrc like >.b rnilliun. s• for C7up. !le owns me T,vgetl~up Gannssi y„Rae•Ing LCWn Ilti,l has w'O/t the Lut huce C'ART ch:unldatstaps', uW this year has nnilu Ju.l t ALmu ya In scv'untl plar.r at rDrtnner'e Thehottomof,rearree i senlbles an up>Idedown airplane wing, s,~ wtuUt 'reales this and enables curs to take lums quicM•ly. A car's duwnforcc is so great, in C,rt, you could literally ntp it up- slJe down and it wuWd mn across a ceiling nt 1211 miles per Itour. 5^for Fuemy. T1d+ is the Gldy Rncing §+lrub(le• IIRL), w9uc11 was created by tn- ...alimaynLLV Mot r Speedway R'wdent Inny Gcurge wd now ruu an npemwheel ,erias opl.,>Itn f,r1R'I'b. This sclusm has nul „Idy crtuv.Yl CART1 drit•ers to ntlv the last f„ur Indy SIXI:, it Icu severely damaged the t•ruwdl of oqwn-wheel ntcmg, which tryts far behiud NASCAR's Wuatua Cup senes in uth Irnd;mre,'I1' rqmg; :md overall popularily. rler N11'upnwi. Everythm:; a driver . wc;uv tlurwg a fucr is Ilns - every- Imng. Ih.d u', bul ht.l:ot Ilnc ul detcllsee tlu skwvh•, ore of Ihc everytlaY vm5ely. '~jfor Gddhnger 'Ihe lo rnt rmnevl by t l'ARt due•f dIew;vd Wally UullenbaAl '^_'tlu denrnlx ttjc dlgit 311 ualc driver might flip at a competitor during a race. The cost of a GoklIInger is $5,t100• H tor Haute Cu'sln e.lne. Weq this might be pushing it But about tht'eequarlers of the teams travel with thetr uwn r•hef• And earher this year, Marlboro Tee1n Penske's chef produced a dlnner fhal fea- lured quaa, venison, elk tenderloin and wild boar sausage. I for tncident During the Grand Prix of Detroit on Aug. & Mauricio Gugelndn's car climbed up Patrick Carpentler's and nearly taok eH Carpenaet's head. This was not a wreck, nor a crash, nor a hatrowjng accident tt was merely an incident for Judd. That would be Ashley, who Is the daughter of singer Naottti, the cover Jgn'I of the current F1le and the main squee>e of Team KOOL Green driver Dariu FrancttittL They can sometimes be spotted kisingln the pits for Kevlar. The tub of a CART car is cronstructed of Kevlercarbon fiber, the same material nsed in a bu9et-proof , I vest• L `------_ for LettermaR David Letterman is an. . .. .. .. ... t~.~,~~.,r Yr,..,ti uther cekb who can be found at races. Dari° FralMtitd leads teattmate Pad Tracy intu a tum Aug. 8 in Detroit. The He owns part of a racing team, as do CART gerios moves to qdcagu tlds weekend for the Target Grmd R+z. Paul Newman, Walter Payton and Joe Monlana- Billy Corgan of The Smashing for Quick. Here's how qutck In I.MJ7 '! K for United Nations, Drivers from ll dit PuntpAins and Anlhony Edwards of 'ER' Gugelmin turned a lap nl Ihe C:Ihk ml l x fcrcnl unti im nece dnven in the se- are Unser fans, and members of Smash- -Speedr/ay al an average s{x•ut of !.. res tla Yeur f6e nlmt tmhkely' In thu mouth are hiends of Team Rahal driver 240.942 m.p.h. That Irnnslales inm a mile in group nre Gol¢:d„ Rodrgues of Uruguay Bryan Herta. 15 seeonds, or I17 yards a second, or halt u :md Jan Magnussen of Denmurkt q;4tur Methanol. Don't call it gas. This football field in the blink of an eye. 1} fnr Vdnety of winncts tJlne difterent is the fuel that propels CART's Q'Wfor Rubber. For / Iyiutl race like gV dncels h'uu clmmul clcume, m me ~~dears, ~Chicago,tteumulinuledtosevenxetn swsonsfilstlSraccawhiehtieslhe>e for NASA. The only orgaNZalion with 9'Aof tlres for pracdte qu'ilifymg and the nes record ael in 1'.m5 cm t equaled in t`J.15. N - more telemetry than CART, and the evenl itsell Each set cosu $1,{00, whtch :t fur Welght Watchctn, On ttn espe- only organization to produce a ma- puts a weekend's tire costs ut just under ially hot day, n dmnr can lose 8 to chine that can go in circles faster than a $100,000. 12 pounds during :t race. Not that CART car. ConsNer• With a glance at a /'lfor SponsorA Seventy-6ve For2une 500 many need to. Almost ull of them now' screendudngarace,youcanlearnacar's '61Jncomparltes - and approximately SW have either a personal trainer ur a per engine temperature and exhaust temperacompames in all - are involved with sonal training program drawn up by a pro- lure; its oil pressure and tire presslre; its CART in some way, and last year they fea>ionall fuel level; whnt gear n driver u in; and poured $431 mWion Inbi the series. Compa- y.~ lar X t v. 'I hs is CARTSpeak for a whether the driver is chickening out and nies like McDUnalds :md Motomla, who f{{7333 backup -ar, which u lou pedestrian a nding the br.tkes. are pnmary spolsors of different teams, s.ferm for Iha selies. A6o knuwn as the for Ihvnets Led by Carl HaaS and typlcully accomn for 75 percent of Ihelr 'non-pnm„ry car" 0 Roger Penske, they broke away from cw5' annual budget +p, ~fur Yuih,w mrg. Whut flirs when IhertS the United Smtes Auto Club (USAp in "Y"for Trmsporter. Irs more than lusl n ~:m inndenl during a ruee. 7nu year's 1978 and formed Champtonship Autn !i truck. It is a monster Ihet's made ap of . unnfhrlal leuden in incidents are Racing Tearns (CART). Ttlis gave them v n Irnilur und n Imclor and stretches klrhie Ileun mld I/ehu C.ulruNeves. canlcal of their series, which this year cnm about 75 fset, If iy wonh, anply. wntu F4nnrhdn .u„I Shigcukl IL,uon Pr:ulrtulli, sisl9 nf 211 r:IceS SI/NLINNL .,ad n lyplinlly h'.Ivrle pVnt ml'c by Ilm way, i> htsn the luader ut the iIIIIPP ~9fur k§t Stop, It takes 12 to 14 ser:omLv, to race aarrymg two r:m; u Ieam's plon;hrp poml.; r:ice. .`~+"und in that lime a driver getsJ5 gallons telemeuy, eight sets of wheel,~ lit loot ry7tur 'Limhahwe. Une ,d the 185 vnunm : af fnel, four new tlres and a drink of hoxtx; amd, diuounting me necr+aary mld, 71nes thut re•reivu hdrrasts of G1RT wuler. And, fnr the record, he gets all of 2 enough spare pans lo budd twu or Ihree K..mces, wluch nrr Ironsnnlled In IB ludmik•8 per gallon. more cars.'fhey hre Ihun w, mh $4 milliun, guhl;u,s,