The Series

The Champ Car World Series has long been considered by motorsports fans and aficionados alike to be one of the truest tests of what makes an all around great racing driver. The series, with its diverse challenges that include oval tracks, road courses, and street circuits, is the only championship of its kind. The series is also the fastest racing on earth, with the open-wheel turbocharged race cars delivering over 750 horsepower and speeds over 240 mph. This is not your Sunday drive-THIS is real racing.

The names of Champ Car drivers and participants reads like a roster of who’s who in the auto world. Those who have stepped up to the ultimate driving challenge include legends like Mario Andretti, Rick Mears, Emerson Fittipaldi, Nigel Mansell, Bobby Rahal, Danny Sullivan and up through more recent champions like Alex Zanardi, and current Formula One pilots Juan Montoya, and Jacques Villeneuve, just to name a few. Through the years, manufacturing powerhouses such as Ford, Mercedes Benz, Chevrolet, Toyota, and Honda have also been drawn to excitement and world-class competition and development. They have all been lured by the chance to grasp victory on circuits spanning nearly every corner of the globe in front of spectators totaling in the millions in just one season.

This season promises to be no less exhilarating as the Champ Car World Series again hits the glamorous streets of Long Beach, the lakefront uniqueness of the airstrips in Cleveland, the party-filled streets of Canada, the warm spiciness of Mexico, and the sunny, sexy beaches of Surfers Paradise, Australia. All of these events are added to the foundation of races that span the U.S., totaling into again the most diverse and exciting championship on wheels. The competitors begin in the Spring to qualify and race for those valuable championship points in hopes that, by the Fall, they will be holding the prestigious Vanderbilt Cup and $1million in winnings, putting their name in the open-wheel record books.