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Seth Smith, Jr.

**Seth Smith, Jr.** (born 26 February 1997) is an American professional racing driver, best known for his time in the GTPlanet Fandom Series. He currently races for Cherokee GP in the Microsoft IndyCar Series, and is the son of former Champ Car driver, Seth Smith, Sr.

## IndyCar Career

### First Race

2022 Telcel Indy Grand Prix of Mexico (Mexico City)

### 2022

Smith was announced as joining the Cherokee GP team for the 2022 IndyCar season, pairing alongside Champ Car veteran, Alicja Kowalkiewicz, and fellow series rookie, Louiza Floros. The 2022 season will be Smith's first season competing against his family's team, who are also fielding three cars for the season.
Yuya Ishii

**Yuya Ishii** (born 15 November 2004) is a Japanese professional racing driver, currently competing in the Champ Car World Series for Yon-Jū Yon Motorsport.

## Champ Car career

### 2023 season

Ishii signed on to drive the #44 Honda for Yon-Jū Yon Motorsport, a brand new team joining the Champ Car World Series for the 2023 season. The team joined alongside several others, which required them to take part in a pre-qualifying session at the start of each race weekend.
Nera Takurasi

**Nera** Petra **Takurasi** (born 28 March 1990) is a Slovenian professional racing driver currently competing for Frostfire Racing in the GT1 World Cup and FICA International Endurance Championship. Prior to her successes in the IEC, where she is four time LMP2 Driver's Champion, Takurasi raced in the Indycar World Championship from 2012 to 2015, and the Formula Two World Championship from 2009 to 2011.

She is the daughter of former Champ Car driver, Victor Takurasi, and the pair are one of only two father/daughter duos to both win races in the series, alongside Miguel and Isabel Espinoza.
Motegi 300

Twin Ring Motegi Speedway, the only host of the event.

The **Motegi 300** was a motor race held as part of the Indycar World Championship from its inception in 2000, until 2023. The entirety of the event was held at the Twin Ring Motegi Speedway, a facility in the Tochigi prefecture just miles away from the town of Motegi.

## Background

American open wheel racing, prior to the Indycar World Championship, was sparce. An exhibition race in 1966 was held at the Fuji Speedway, and was not received well by NAMRA stalwarts, as F1 drivers occupied the entire top 10 finishing places. NAMRA tested the waters again in the 1980s, attempting to place events either at the Suzuka Circuit, or back at the Fuji Speedway, this time as a championship round, but track officials for those venues didn't welcome the idea. Epsilon Promotions, who would later be the promoters of the Indycar World Championship once it began in 2000, then pitched the idea of having an oval event in Japan. It was a principle investor in the Twin Ring Motegi circuit, which broke ground in 1996 initially as a road-course only venue. Plans immediately went ahead to add an oval to the venue, and creating unique features, such as having the road course lap under the oval in two separate places. The new concept also created three different pit lanes, making it possible to host a race on the oval, and a large portion of the road course simulaneously. (This occurred four times, from 2004 to 2008, as the Indycar World Championship visited the oval, while the GP1 Championship used the road course.) With the road course finished in early 1998, the oval was finished in mid-1998. The NAMRA Cup Series ran an exhibition event at the oval, allowing a different series to take the potential investment hit if it went poorly. However, the event sold out, putting forward the motion of including the race into the inaugural world championship calendar in 2000.
Atomic Autosport

Atomic Autosport's current logo

**Atomic Autosport** is an American motor racing team based out of Cincinnati, Ohio. It currently competes full time in the AT&T Champ Car World Series, and the Nissan Atlantic Championship.

## Background

Atomic Autosport was founded in early 2020, initially to serve as a developmental team for Black Rose Racing. It was cofounded by Evangeline Porter, who also owns Black Rose Racing, alongside Warren Crosby and Shelly Wright. In July of 2021, millionaire investor, Isaac Reilly joined the team as a co-owner, and began planning full time programs in the United States for 2022.

On 31 November 2021, Evangeline Porter announced that Black Rose Racing had sold all of its open wheel racing equipment to Atomic Autosport, with the team moving to focus on endurance racing worldwide. Atomic Autosport continued its plans to prepare for the 2022 Nissan Atlantic Championship and Microsoft IndyCar Series campaigns.

## Champ Car history

### 2022 Season

Atomic Autosport filed registration for two entries to participate in the 109th Indianapolis 500. Natalia Vulicevic, the team's headlining driver, would pilot the #13 Chevrolet for the full Firestone Triple Crown, while Evangeline Porter would drive the #81 for only the Indianapolis 500. Porter competes full time in the GTPlanet Fandom Series, preventing her from competing in the full triple crown.

## Atlantic Championship history

### 2022 Season

Atomic Autosport's 2022 Nissan Atlantic Championship squad consisted of former Champ Car race winner, Jace Clarke, and newcoming Slovenian driver, Jasmina Bokan. The team took over from Black Rose Racing, who suffered a relatively lackluster 2021 season where they finished 10th in the Team Standings.

## Drivers

### Current Drivers

* Natalia Vulicevic (2022-present), Champ Car, IndyCar
* Evangeline Porter (2022-present), Champ Car
* Maria da Matta (2022-present), IndyCar
* Jace Clarke (2022-present), Atlantics
* Jasmina Bokan (2022-present), Atlantics
CRC Network

Cable Racing Channel Network, known colloquially as **CRC Network**, is an American basic cable television channel owned by CRC Media Group that launched on 1 January 1990. CRC Network started out as a single channel, dedicated to airing events such as the Formula One World Championship, the Armor All IndyCar Series, and a multitude of other American based racing series. It's main competitor since the beginning of the network has been Terrestrial Network Television, which has a sports division that has eaten into some of the racing television market both in the U.S. and internationally. It's current focus is on the AT&T Champ Car World Series, the Nissan Atlantic Championship, the International Race of Champions, and the Super GP ladder in Japan, among other series.

As of October 2021, CRC Network has four channels, CRC Network, CRC News, CRC Asia, and CRC Europe. All four channels are available in the U.S, as well as in 147 other countries. It has a broadcast reach of 1.83 billion people worldwide.
B.K. Glover

**B.K. Glover** (born 11 August 1989) is an American professional racing driver, currently competing in the Champ Car World Series, driving the #2 for Team Impulse. Glover is best known for his time in Champ Car, where he has a reputation of a reliable journeyman. Glover has driven for several teams in the course of his Champ Car career, including Highlight Racing, and his own team, Starion Motorsports.

## Early Years

Unlike many peers, Glover did not start racing early in life. Competitive as he was, his family never had the means, contacts, or even time to go racing, instead making sure he knew how to manage his own life once he was of an age to do whatever he wanted. In high school, he took an Auto Tech elective every year until his 2007 graduation, however as the final goal of ASE training marks and tools never materialized, he took what he knew and started building tube-frame chassis on weekends in a storage unit. Working at a Ford dealership, then a steel fabricator shop after school, he picked up welding and basic skills that have served him well since. A brief attempt at college for engineering was abandoned due to, as Glover put it himself, "Not being the right type of smart for it, not having the cash to work around that, and a bad case of classroom burnout."

Retreating back to full-time jobs and weekend building, Glover would make sporadic trips to open areas for testing, and open rules weekends for actual races. Little success in results, but after initial ridicule from locals, his excessively stubborn will and gradual aggression started to get him positive feedback and attention. When asked why he didn't run a kart, he answered, "Karts are fine, but when you're heavy-set from go, on a spec'd machine, you aren't gonna do much if you aren't a driving god...and I'd be lucky to be considered a driving dog. Aside from that, building this hunk-a-junk lets me have fun with it, and until I get paid to race, I'm in it for the fun first, then the competition because you can compete at literally anything...or at least in my mind I can. Winning is another matter entirely."

## Personal Life

Away from racing, Glover is known for being an independent but distant person. During off-seasons, he keeps busy by designing liveries. While age has brought stability to his personality, he's known to be one of the fastest people to anger, even with therapy and practice, and routinely his short fuse is used against himself and as a force against others. For this, and many other reasons, he has a severe distrust of people, paired with a distain of the general population for many reasons. He is single with no intent to socialize, quoted as saying, "I'm an idiot, fat, blunt as a hammer but not as good looking. The world cares not for my type, so why put myself in their firing line when I can stay to myself. Everybody wins."
Obsidian Racing Team

Obsidian Racing Team logo

### Team Principals

Miguel Espinoza (Champ Car), Emelio Gonzalez (Atlantics), Shibata Mitsuhisa (GP1), Ohara Akari (GP2)

### Founded

27 February 1992

**Obsidian Racing Team** is an American motor racing team currently competing in the Champ Car World Series, GP1 Championship, GP2 Championship, and Atlantic Championship. The team is best known for its successes in Champ Car, where it won the 2008 Indycar World Championship for both team and driver, with Emelio Gonzalez winning the driver's title that year.
Asumi Matsuo

**Asumi Matsuo** (born 17 May 1979) is a Japanese team principal, businesswoman, and former professional racing driver, currently managing Team Impulse's racing operations in North America. Matsuo is best known for becoming the 2012 Indycar World Driver's Champion, becoming the third oldest Indycar World Champion, behind Miguel Espinoza, and Andrew Draco.

Since 2010, Matsuo has maintained both Japanese and American citizenship, becoming a naturalized American citizen in 2010 while competing in the country. Matsuo currently splits her time between Indianapolis, Indiana, and Osaka, Japan, where Team Impulse's home bases are located.
2019 Straight Talk IndyCar Series season

2019 Indycar World Championship season

The **2019 Straight Talk IndyCar Series season** was the 20th season of the Indycar World Championship, and the 107th season of American open wheel racing. It would end up being the last season managed by Citadel Promotions, who took over managing the World Championship for the 2016 season. It would also be the first time outside of wartime that the Indianapolis 500 would not be held, due to issues between Citadel Promotions, the North American Motor Racing Association (NAMRA), and the Federation Internationale Course d'Artificielle (FICA). In place of the Indianapolis 500, the series' premier events would be the races at Michigan, Pocono, and Fontana, which made up the 2019 Firestone Triple Crown.

[TBD] would go on to win the Indycar World Championship, but would not return for the 2020 season, instead moving to the GTPlanet Fandom Series. [TBD] took the World Team's Championship, while [TBD] won the Engine Cup for 2019.

## 2019 Teams and Drivers

The following teams and drivers entered or participated in at least one race in the 2019 season.

## Calendar

The 2019 Straight Talk IndyCar Series calendar was initially ratified by the North American Motor Racing Association (NAMRA), as well as the Federation International Course d'Artificielle (FICA) on 1 December 2018. Subsequent alterations to the calendar were later approved as needed during emergency meetings. As with the 2018 season, 2019 would see 24 races scheduled.

## See Also

* 2020 AT&T Champ Car World Series, the following year of IndyCar World Championship competition.
Evangeline Porter

**Evangeline Marie Porter** (born 13 August 1995) is a Slovenian-American professional racing driver, and businesswoman currently competing in the GTPlanet Fandom Series for Team Kate Upton, and the AT&T Champ Car World Series for Atomic Autosport. She drives the #81 Chevrolet in both series. She is best known for her time in the latter series, where she has won multiple races and led the Black Rose Racing team to prominence.

Porter, who currently owns Black Rose Racing, is also renowned for her adaptability, being able to proficiently drive stock cars, open wheel cars, and high level sports cars every year.
Shufen Zhang

Zhang circa 2021

**Shufen Zhang** (born 21 May 1996) is a Taiwanese professional racing driver, currently competing in the Champ Car World Series for Dragon Motorsports. Zhang is the first driver from the nation of Taiwan to compete in the Indycar World Championship.

## Champ Car career

### 2022 Season

Zhang was announced as the third driver for the Dragon Motorsports team in September of 2021. Zhang would replace the outgoing Patrick Marcelli, who was being released by the team following two seasons of poor performances. Zhang would team up with the team's co-owner, Camyron Jackson, as well as Esther Hoffson, one of the original team members.
Fender Stratocaster (Daphne Blue)

## Background

The Fender Stratocaster is a classic electric guitar model that was first introduced in 1954. It has since become one of the most popular and recognizable guitars in the world. The Stratocaster is known for its sleek, contoured body shape, rivaling the earlier Telecaster.

## Survival

### Recipe

1x Fender Neck (Fretted), 1x Stratocaster Pickguard, 1x Stratocaster Body (Daphne Blue)

## Trivia

* The Stratocaster was roughly introduced in 1954 (roughly.)
* This model was modelled after a a Fender *Classic Series* '50s Stratocaster assembled in 2013.
2023 Coca-Cola 600

The **2023 Coca-Cola 600** is a 348-mile (600 kilometer) motor race that took place on 26 March 2023 at Texas Motor Speedway. The event was the fourth race of the 2023 AT&T Champ Car World Series season, following the previous event at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.

Nicole Liechti entered the event as the defending race winner, having captured her first career win in the series at the event. Kunimitsu Kinoshita enters as the defending Indycar World Driver's Champion.

## Background

The 600-kilometer event returned to Texas Motor Speedway in 2022 after spending time away from the track due to issues between series promoters and track officials. Coca-Cola returned to sponsoring the event, taking over from Pennzoil, who sponsored the race in 2022.

The race in Texas has been frequently remembered as one of the more violent races of the season. In 2022, Asada Kito, and David Wessel were both injured in a crash that saw them both miss the Indianapolis 500 the following month. In 2021, Nicole Liechti was injured in a significant practice crash after being collided with by Natalia Kirichenko. In 2019, a horrific crash severely injured Mark Santos, forcing him into retirement after being warned about the possibility of permanent paralysis.

## Pre-Qualifying

Pre-qualifying took place on 30 March 2023 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. local time.

## Practice

A 120-minute practice session took place on 31 March 2023 from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. local time.

## Qualifying

Qualifying took place on 1 April 2023, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. local time.
2022 DHL Grand Prix of Valkenburg

The **2022 DHL Grand Prix of Valkenburg** is an upcoming motor race scheduled to take place on 12 June 2022. It will be the eighth race of the 2022 AT&T Champ Car World Series season, and the first of the year to take place on the European continent. The 2022 edition will be the second, after the 2021 race was cancelled due to flooding of the venue. Kunimitsu Kinoshita enters the race as the defending event winner, having won the 2020 edition of the race.

## Background

The Grand Prix of Valkenburg takes place on the decommissioned grounds of the Valkenburg Naval Air Base, located on the coast of the Netherlands near the town of Leiden, which sits between, and within short driving distance, of both the Hague, and the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. With the temporary circuit built within a flat area, the event has always been held under threat of weather intervention. The inaugural 2020 edition went off without a hitch, with 2013 Grand Prix World Champion, Kunimitsu Kinoshita winning the event after holding off Simona Leroux for the final 12 laps. The 2021 edition was rained out after qualifying was held, with two time Indycar World Driver's Champion, Stephanie Porter-Kelley taking pole position for the cancelled race.

### Scheduling

Friday, 10 June, will have two practice sessions take place. The Benelux Porsche Carrera Cup will run as a support event for the race in place of the Nissan Atlantic Championship, which instead is doing a standalone event in Milwaukee. Qualifying will take place on Saturday, 11 June, with the race taking place on Sunday, 12 June. Green flag for the race is scheduled to be waved around 12:07 p.m. local time.

### Tire Compound Selection

For the second race in a row, Firestone will supply teams with the alternate "red-wall" tire compound. The alternate compound provides more grip at the sake of durability, increasing the amount of pit stops required during an event.

## Entry List

27 drivers are scheduled to take part in the event, including a third Cherokee GP entry for Alicja Kowalkiewicz.

## Practice

Two practice sessions are scheduled for Friday, 10 June. Free Practice 1 will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. local time, while Free Practice 2 will take place from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. local time.

## Qualifying

Qualifying for the event will take place on Saturday, 11 June, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. GMT-5. Per Champ Car road course event rules, qualifying was supposed to be a three stage session. Q1 will determine positions 19-27, Q2 will determine positions 11-18, and Q3 will determine positions 1-10.
2023 AT&T 300

The **2023 AT&T 300** is a 300-mile (498 kilometer) motor race that took place on 9 April 2023 at Nashville Superspeedway. The event was the fifth race of the 2023 AT&T Champ Car World Series season, following the previous event at Texas Motor Speedway.

Kunimitsu Kinoshita entered the race as the defending Indycar World Driver's Champion, as well as the current points leader in the 2023 season. Matheus Michelin enters the race as the defending race winner, having scored his very first win in the series as a rookie in the 2015 season.

## Background

The Nashville Superspeedway previously hosted a round of the Indycar World Championship until 2015, after which it fell off the calendar as former series promoters Citadel Promotions attempted to transition to a much larger international calendar.

Horizon Corporation bought the rights to the series, renaming it to the Champ Car World Series for 2020. Horizon Corporation CEO Ben Lewis stated in late 2020 that there were tracks he wanted the series to return to, with Nashville near the top of the list. In late 2022, track officials and Horizon Corporation came to a deal to bring the race back after a seven year absence beginning in 2023.

### Regulation Enforcements

With the track measured at 1.333 miles, the venue is classified by most to be an intermediate oval, the same class as tracks like Texas Motor Speedway, which require the use of the series' low downforce aero kit. Some drivers voiced concerns over the race potentially being dull, as there wasn't any relevant data for the event.

## Pre-Qualifying

Pre-qualifying took place on Thursday, 6 April 2023 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. local time.

## Practice

A 120-minute practice session took place on Friday, 7 April 2023 from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. local time.

## Qualifying

Qualifying took place on Saturday, 8 April 2023, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. local time.
Akira Sato

**Akira Sato** (born 29 April 2001) is a Japanese professional racing driver who currently races for Speed Demon Motorsports in the Champ Car World Series.

## Champ Car career

### 2020

Sato made his Champ Car debut for the 2020 season, racing in the Firestone Triple Crown for Cat Devil Racing. Sato's 2020 campaign would be mired in trouble, as he failed to finish any of the three events he qualified for. His reputation was rapidly deteriorated following high profile collisions with senior Cat Devil Racing driver, Kunimitsu Kinoshita, at both Pocono, and Fontana.

Following his poor performances in his trial season, Sato would be moved down to the Atlantic Championship in 2021, with the team believing he was not ready for top-tier open wheel racing.

### 2022

Sato re-emerged as a Champ Car driver for the 2022 season, being signed by Speed Demon Motorsports after Cat Devil Racing declined to resign him after the 2021 season. Sato would be paired alongside another Atlantic Championship graduate in Shinichi Kamiya.
Velocity Autosport

Velocity Autosport team logo (2021-present)

**Velocity Autosport** is a motor racing team currently competing in the AT&T Champ Car World Series. The team debuted in the 2021 Indianapolis 500, where they scored a 4th place finish with rookie Maria Chavez behind the wheel. The team is owned by Vincent Rojas, and based out of Miami, Florida. The team entered the motorsports landscape with significant financial backing, buying out the Phantom Motors team by the end of 2021 and becoming a full time Champ Car effort for the 2022 season.
2022 DirecTV 225

The **2022 DirecTV 225** is a planned 225 mile (362.10 kilometer) motor race scheduled for 2 April 2022. It will be the third race of the 2022 AT&T Champ Car World Series season, and the first race to take place on American soil, after races at Phillip Island, and Motegi.

Hazel Lacasse enters the race as the defending Indycar World Driver's Champion, while Siri Lundqvist enters as the defending race winner, having won the race in 2021, which was her first win since her return to the series.

## Race Background

For the third year in a row, Richmond International Raceway will host a Champ Car event, with satellite television provider DirecTV sponsoring the event. The race will be 300 laps, for 225 miles, in line with short oval race lengths.

### Rule Changes

For the 2022 race, the series will be using a specialized short oval aero configuration, which will feature a revised rear wing with a reduced downforce level. The change was part of the revised AAI IR-22 chassis, which also includes a 55 pound aero screen to add protection to the drivers. The reduced rear downforce is intended to increase driver's abilities to race beside each other on small ovals such as Richmond.

### Tire Compound Selection

For the second time in the 2022 season, Firestone will supply the primary "black-wall" tire compound. The primary compound is the harder of the two compounds, producing less grip in the exchange of more durability. With the race being a night race, the lower temperatures will assist in keeping the tires from losing grip too quickly.

## Entry List

28 cars are to participate in the event, including the two Velocity Autosport cars initially scheduled to contest the 2022 season before electing to do another year of only oval events.

## Practice

Two practice sessions will be scheduled for Thursday, 31 March. Free Practice 1 will take place from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. local time, while Free Practice 2 will take place from 9:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. local time.

## Qualifying

Qualifying will take place on the evening of Friday, 1 April, from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. local time. All entries will have a single 4-lap time trial, with the qualifying order determined by the results of Free Practice 1.

## Box Score

### Race Statistics

* Cautions: 3 for 15 laps
* Lead Changes: 7 between 5 drivers
* Weather Report: Clear skies, 72-74 degrees Fahrenheit, winds East 4-9 mph.
Arrowhead Racing

**Arrowhead Racing** is an American professional motor racing team currently competing in the AT&T Champ Car World Series, and NAMRA Cup Series. The team is based out of Indianapolis, Indiana, with satellite buildings operating in Charlotte, North Carolina, and in Las Vegas, Nevada.

## History

Arrowhead Racing was founded in late 2018 when Carmen Sienna bought out the Hot Shots Racing team and acquired its NAMRA Cup Series operations. Sienna already owned a race team competing in the Champ Car World Series, and elected to not merge the two entities together. The team officially debuted in the 2019 NAMRA Cup Series season as a two car effort utilizing Toyota Camry cars.

## Champ Car history

### 2024 season

Arrowhead Racing officially began its tenure as a Champ Car team in 2024, assuming the assets of the former Cherokee GP team following the planned merger that was announced early in 2023. As part of the merger, the team signed a three-year deal to utilize twin-turbocharged inline-4 engines supplied by Toyota, the same manufacturer they represented in the NAMRA Cup Series. Alicja Kowalkiewicz and Julia Takani would fill the team's two cars for the season.
Team Kate Upton

**Team Kate Upton** is an American motor racing team based out of the state of New York. The team currently competes in the GTPlanet Fandom Series as a factory Chevrolet team, and has previously competed in the Champ Car World Series, from 2015 to 2017. Despite the team name, the team has no affiliation with the American supermodel.
Cearra Christensen

**Cearra** Abigaile **Christensen** (born 4 June 1999) is an English professional racing driver currently competing in the GTPlanet Fandom Series for Swift Autosport, where she is the defending Driver's Champion.

## GTPFS career

### 2022

Christensen moved to the Swift Autosport team for the 2022 season, replacing the outgoing Seth Smith, Jr in the #50 Ford.
North American Motor Racing Association

The **North American Motor Racing Association**, commonly abbreviated as **NAMRA**, is a continental governing body concerning motorsports and motoring interests across the continent of North America and the Caribbean islands. It's primary roles are as a governing and oversight body for auto racing events, as well as promoting civilian road safety in its jurisdiction.

Headquartered Chicago, Illinois, with offices in Indianapolis, Toronto, Mexico City, and Nassau, NAMRA oversees 23 national motoring associations, and assists with an additional 10, by means of cooperation with other continental motorsport bodies. Its current president is Christina Nguyen, who has been in power since 2009.

It's most prominent role is in the overseeing of the NAMRA Cup Series, which it operates in-house as a competitive entity, as well as the NAMRA Sports Car Championship. While it serves underneath the Federation Internationale Course d'Artificielle (FICA), it has not always cooperated with its international counterpart, which has contributed to several political conflicts over the years.
Louiza Floros

**Louiza Floros** (born 3 February 2002) is a Greek professional racing driver currently signed to Cherokee GP as part of the team's open-wheel driver development program. Prior to that, she was a part of the Phaesphoria Driver Academy, which also produced Aspasia Megalos, Korina Amara, and others.

## Champ Car career

### 2022

Floros made her Indycar World Championship debut for Panasonic Team Impulse for the races at Rockingham, and New Hampshire, upon the permission of Cherokee GP. Floros would drive the #3 car as part of a rotating team of drivers after the events of Magny-Cours.
2023 Santander Grand Prix of Monza

The **2023 Santander Grand Prix of Monza** was a motor racing event held on 18 June 2023 at the Autodromo di Monza in Monza, Lombardy, Italy. The race was the 11th round of the 2023 AT&T Champ Car World Series season, and the only race of the season to take place in Europe.

Kunimitsu Kinoshita entered the race as the defending Indycar World Champion, and current championship leader.

## Background

Champ Car racing visited the Monza circuit for the first time ever as a championship event. In 1961 and 1963, the circuit played host to the "Race Between Worlds" which pitted American open wheel machinery against European grand prix machinery. At that time, the circuit was 10 kilometers long, and featured a long oval complex as part of the lap. American machines won both contests, which remain the last to pit the two types of open wheel cars against each other.

The race in Italy was meant to be the third race of the season in Europe, behind the doubleheader events at the Valkenburg Naval Air Base in the Netherlands. However, those races were rained out entirely, leaving Italy as the sole round in Europe for 2023.

## Entry list

Thirty-five entries attempted to take part in the event. With a race field capacity of 30 cars, five entries were guaranteed to fail to qualify at the end of qualifying. Several rookies took part to contend for 2023 Rookie of the Year honors during the season, denoted by **(R)**.

## Pre-Qualifying

Pre-qualifying took place on 8 June 2023 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET.
2024 NAMRA Sports Car Championship season

The **2024 NAMRA Sports Car Championship** is the 64th season of structured multi-class sports car racing in the United States, featuring state of the art racing prototypes and Grand Touring cars. The season is headlined by the 2024 24 Hours of Daytona that will open the season.

## 2024 Teams and Drivers

The following teams and drivers are scheduled to contest at least a portion of the 2024 season.
Korina Amara

**Korina Amara** (born 6 September 1999) is a Greek professional racing driver currently competing in the Nissan Atlantic Championship for Team Impulse. Amara is known for being a part of a "Mediterranean influx" of drivers into North American motorsports, joining Aspasia Megalos, Katarina Milenkovic, Natalia Vulicevic, Felicia Zappa, and Jasmina Bokan as drivers from Mediterranean countries joining from 2021 into various series.

## Early Years

Korina Amara was born in Amarynthos, Greece to her parents Babis and Zinovia Amara. With her parents working in education in the town, Aspasia would often spend time over at friend's houses in order to keep the house quieter. During one of these times at a friend's house, the children were brought to the local go-kart track. Korina enjoyed the rush of the wind from the very beginning. Despite this she didn't enter the racing world until 2006 at 7 years old.

## Junior Categories

### Balkans Karting Championship (2006-2012)

Korina begin in the Balkans Karting Championship in the 100cc class, with the first 2 seasons spent more just racing to enjoy herself. Despite this relatively free-spirited approach, she took the top step of the podium 2 times, and had another 5 podiums. The 2009 season, Korina was challeneged by her parents to do as well as she could and responded by winning the 10 race championship with 5 wins and 3 more podiums. She was so dominant that season the series organizers asked her to move up to the 150cc class for the 2010 season. 2010 was another very successful year for the rising talent as she won 4 races in a row to secure the title at the end of the season and allowed sponsors to begin to approch her. 2011 and 2012 were the same as 2010 with dominant title wins, taking the win in 12 of the 20 total races competed in.

### Balkans Formula Four (2012-2015)

Starting in 2012 Korina began competing in the Balkans Formula Four Championship

## Atlantic Championship Career

### 2022 Season

Amara was announced as one of Team Impulse's two drivers for the 2022 Nissan Atlantic Championship season. She would pair up with fellow series newcomer, Saori Tokui, with both making their American racing debuts during the pre-season tests.

## Personal Life

Korina Amara shared that she was dating fellow racing driver Aspasia Megalos on social media. The pair live together in Buffalo, New York near the Atlantics base for Team Impulse. In addition, the pair have also shared that they're dating fellow driver Louiza Floros on social media.

Amara also uses She/They pronouns similar to Aspasia and also considers herself as a Lesbian.

She considers herself as a Hellenic Pagan, and has posted pictures of their altar on social media.
Shinichi Kamiya

**Shinichi Kamiya** (born 1 December 2003) is a Japanese professional racing driver, best known for his time in the GP2 Championship as part of Obsidian Racing Team. He currently races for Speed Demon Motorsports, making his debut in the Champ Car World Series in 2022.

## Champ Car career

### 2022

Kamiya will make his Champ Car World Series debut in 2022 for Speed Demon Motorsports, who will pair him alongside Akira Sato. Kamiya will drive the #8 Honda for the team.
2023 Champ Car Academy season

The **2023 Champ Car Academy** season is the first season of the Champ Car Academy series, which took over the role as the primary development series for the Champ Car World Series. Using the officially recognized FICA Formula Four platform, the season will be contested across 14 rounds. Team entries have been expanded from the past, with teams now responsible for three cars, as is the case in other Formula Four-level series globally.

Bianca Lucero enters the season as the last Atlantic Driver's Champion, having won back to back crowns in 2021, and 2022 before the 2022 H1N1 pandemic.

## Background

The Champ Car Academy series was initially pitched as a rebrand of the former Atlantic Championship, which had begun to make appearances across the Pacific Ocean, rather than the Atlantic. As the 2022 season proceeded, Horizon Corporation, the promoters behind Champ Car, and the Atlantic Championship, elected to make wholesale changes to the series, with the supply of older Dallara IR-10 chassis beginning to dwindle do to several catastrophic accidents that ruined entire chassis in the first three seasons of the Atlantic Championship.

During the 2022 H1N1 global pandemic, Horizon Corporation decided on a new outline for its developmental series. Moving the FICA Formula Four platform, the series will see teams provide three cars. Differing from both the old Atlantic Championship, and other Formula Four series, however, is the use of single race events. Internationally, Formula Four events contain two or three races in a single weekend, while Champ Car Academy will follow more closely to the Champ Car World Series weekend format, with practice, qualifying, and a sole race.

## 2023 Teams and Drivers

The following teams and drivers participated in at least one event of the 2023 Champ Car Academy season. Drivers that did not participate in the 2022 Atlantic Championship season are denoted as rookies **(R)** as they have not been in the Champ Car ladder system previously.

### Team Changes

* After encountering financial difficulties prior to the 2022 H1N1 global pandemic, Apex Racing Team entered administration in October, 2022. Some of the assets sold off included its open wheel resources, excluding them from the 2023 season.

## 2023 Calendar

The following races were scheduled to take place during the 2023 season.
List: Nations Recognized By FICA

*Editor's note: This article is an informational list and applies outside of CRC Offline Canon.*

The Federation Internationale Course d'Artificielle (FICA) oversees the global motorsports efforts, which are broken down from international scale events, such as Formula One, Formula Zero, and the International Endurance Championship, to continental scale events, such as the Champ Car World Series, GTPlanet Fandom Series, and European Formula Three Championship, down to national level events, such as the GP1 Championship, Brazilian Stock Car Series, and Australian Touring Cars. All drivers that compete in events Grade 5 (pro karting) or higher must use either a FICA-issued license, or a license issued by a FICA recognized authority. Racing licenses are sorted by grade, age, and nationality, with FICA placing a broad definition of what a nation may or may not be. As such, FICA is able to, and does, recognize nations not necessarily recognized by authorities such as the United Nations, or International Olympic Committee. This article lists out all of the countries FICA recognizes by their FICA national code, their official name, and sorted by continental motorsport authority.

## Nations of North America

All of the nations represented in the following table fall under the continental jurisdiction of the North American Motor Racing Association (NAMRA). Some nations included in this table do not have a national motorsports authority, and are unable to host top level national championships.

## See Also

* List of canonical racing venues.
* List of canonical racing championships.
Escuderia Aguila

Escuderia Aguila team logo

**Escuderia Aguila** is an Argentinian motor racing team currently competing in the AT&T Champ Car World Series. The team is best known for its presence at the Indianapolis 500, where it has the record for the most wins as a team. The team is family owned, having been within the Espinoza family since its creation in 1909.

## Formation

Escuderia Aguila is one of the earliest racing teams founded in South America, and the oldest remaining in operation as of 2022.
NAMRA Driver Database

The **NAMRA Driver Database** keeps track of all drivers that are either currently competing in one of the top three North American open wheel series, (Champ Car World Series, IndyCar Series, or Atlantic Championship), have competed in the top two series of American stock car racing, (GTPlanet Fandom Series, and Grand National Series), or have previously competed in any of the five series. All the drivers included in the database have been registered as an active competitor by the North American Motor Racing Association at some point in their careers. The following table is sorted by birth date, then birth year.

## License Definitions

The following tables of drivers are classified as either active or inactive. Drivers classified as active are currently participating in a competition in North America, whether as a full time competitor or as a one-off entrant. Active denotes that their NAMRA Competition License is currently in use. Inactive means that the driver is either retired from competition, or is competing outside of North America. A license is considered inactive after a year of no activity within the North American continent.
2021 NAMRA Cup Series season

The **2021 NAMRA Cup Series season** was the 73rd season of professional stock car auto racing, and the 50th season for the modern NAMRA Cup Series. The season started on February 6th with an exhibition race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, with Daytona Speedweeks beginning after that, culminating in the 63rd Daytona 500 on February 20th. The regular season ended on August 27th, which also occurred at Daytona. The NAMRA Cup Series Playoffs began on September 4th, and ended on November 6th.

## Championship Standings

NAMRA Cup Series Driver's Championship

NAMRA Cup Series Manufacturer's Championship
Michael Alexander

**Michael** David **Alexander** (19 March 1981 - 19 July 2007) was an American former professional racing driver, most known for his time competing for the Indycar World Championship, where he took the Driver's Championship in the 2006 season. Alexander was considered to be the shoo-in candidate to join the Formula One World Championship at some point in his career at the time of his passing at the age of 26.

On 20 July 2007, flying from his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, his private jet crashed outside of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, killing Alexander and all eight other passengers on board. Alexander was making his way to the Indycar World Championship event in Kentucky Speedway, an hour northeast of Louisville, Kentucky, his flight's destination.

His only daughter, Elise, would go on to follow in his footsteps, becoming a driver in the Champ Car World Series in 2022.
Alicja Kowalkiewicz

**Alicja** Emelia **Kowalkiewicz** (born 6 February 1990) is a Polish professional racing driver, currently competing in the Champ Car World Series for Cherokee GP. She is best known for her time in the Champ Car World Series, where she won in her rookie season in 2017, as well as her infamous crash at the EuroSpeedway Lausitzring in 2020, where she was critically injured after her car flipped 38 times, an achievement recognized as a world record by Guiness.

Kowalkiewicz was the first, and is currently the only Polish driver to make an Indycar World Championship start, win an Indycar World Championship race, and start in the Indianapolis 500.

## Early Years

Kowalkiewicz was born in Katowice, in southern Poland, to Czeslaw and Martyna Kowalkiewicz. Czeslaw played football for the GKS Katowice team, while Martyna worked as a financier with a local banking institution. Kowalkiewicz became interested in auto racing at an early age after her parents brought her along for the F1 Hungarian Grand Prix. Her parents supported her interests to begin racing, and from the age of five began racing one off events in and around the Polish province of Silesian.

## Champ Car career

### 2017 Season

Kowalkiewicz was picked by Cherokee GP's team owner, Carmen Sienna, to share the #96 car with hER for the 2017 Straight Talk IndyCar Series season. Sienna was scheduled to make five starts in the season as she began stepping away from the car to focus on managing the team and enter broadcasting. Kowalkiewicz took over for the other fifteen races, beginning with the Nikon Grand Prix of Australia at the legendary Surfer's Paradise street circuit. With Kowalkiewicz's start at Surfer's Paradise, she became the first Polish driver to make an Indycar World Championship start.

### 2020 Season

Kowalkiewicz entered the 2020 Champ Car season as the lead driver for the first time, with Behrris Windross moving to Formula One. Keisha Fox would replace him, making her debut for the series at the Grand Prix of Australia.

## Active Records

Kowalkiewicz holds several records, some pertaining to her groundbreaking status as a Polish open wheel racing driver.

* First Polish driver to start an Indycar World Championship event.
* First Polish driver to win an Indycar World Championship event.
* Holds the record for most flips in an open wheel crash at 38.

## Trivia

* Kowalkiewicz shares a birthday with fellow Cherokee GP driver, Siri Lundqvist. Kowalkiewicz is three years older than Lundqvist, with Kowalkiewicz born in 1990, while Lundqvist was born in 1993.
* Many drivers from Eastern Europe have made appearances in the Indycar World Championship. However, Kowalkiewicz is the only one from Poland to do so. Most Polish racing drivers lean more towards rally racing or touring cars, which never played a role in Kowalkiewicz's upbringing.
Cat Devil Racing

Current Cat Devil Racing logo

**Cat Devil Racing** is a Japanese motor racing team based out of Kyoto, Japan. It currently competes in the AT&T Champ Car World Series, and the Nissan Atlantic Championship in North America, as well as the Asian Formula 3 Championship. The team is best known for its successes in the Indycar World Championship, where it has won the Indianapolis 500 on multiple occasions, and has housed Formula One World Champions such as Oliver Germain, Kunimitsu Kinoshita, and Camyron Jackson.
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2023 Arasaka 300

Layout of Twin Ring Motegi, with the oval highlighted.

The **2023 Arasaka 300** is a 300 mile (498.57 kilometer) motor race that took place on 12 March 2023 at Twin Ring Motegi. It will be the second race of the 2023 AT&T Champ Car World Series season, following the previous race at Phillip Island in Australia.

For the second year in a row, the defending race winner is also the reigning Indycar World Driver's Champion. Kunimitsu Kinoshita won the race in 2022, her first en-route to the 2022 crown.

## Race Background

After the 2022 race, Horizon Corporation, the organizer of the AT&T Champ Car World Series, and track officials began negotiating a new event agreement, which was then placed on pause due to the onset of the 2022 H1N1 global pandemic. Negotiations broke down, with the 2023 event becoming set to be the last to take place at the oval, ending a 24-year consecutive run for the race.

## Entry List

Thirty-four entries attempted to take part in the event, all but one as a full-time entry for the 2023 season. With a field capacity of 30 cars, five entries were guaranteed to fail to qualify at the end of qualifying. Seven rookies will contend for 2023 Rookie of the Year honors during the season, denoted by **(R)**.

## Practice

New for 2023, a singular, 120-minute session replaces two 90-minute session. The practice session took place on 10 March 2023, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. local time.

## Qualifying

Qualifying for the race followed the traditional American open wheel format for ovals, with each driver having the track to themselves for four laps, with the best lap counting. Qualifying was run from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. local time on 11 March 2023.

## Box score

### Race Statistics

* Cautions | TBD
* Lead Changes | TBD
* Weather Report | TBD

## See Also

* 2023 AT&T Champ Car World Series season
* 2023 Telcel Grand Prix of Mexico City, the third race of the season.
* 2022 Arasaka 300, the previous year's event.
2022 Pennzoil 600

The **2022 Pennzoil 600** is a scheduled 372 mile (600 kilometer) motor race expected to take place on 16 April 2022. It will be the fourth race of the 2022 AT&T Champ Car World Series season.

## Race Background

Texas Motor Speedway will host a premier-level American open wheel event for the 25th consecutive year, dating back to 1998. However, it was announced that the race would be moved from the top-level Champ Car series to the second-level IndyCar series in 2023, ending that streak after 2022.

### Scheduling

Texas will be the second of three races in April, with all three races occurring on a Saturday. Texas will take place on a Saturday due to Easter occurring a day later.

### Tire Compound Selection

Firestone will supply teams with the primary "black-wall" tire compound, as it did with the race at Motegi. The primary compound will also be used at the two races following Texas, the Coca-Cola 300 at Kansas, and the 109th Indianapolis 500.

## Entry List

31 cars are entered for the event, including several entries slated to appear at the 109th Indianapolis 500 in May.

## Practice

Two practice sessions are scheduled to take place on Thursday, 14 April. Both sessions will be in the early afternoon.

## Qualifying

Qualifying will take place on Friday, 15 April, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. local time. As with all oval events, qualifying order is determined by the results of Free Practice 1.

## Box Score

### Race Statistics

* Cautions: 1 for 4 laps
* Lead Changes: 18 between 7 drivers
* Weather Report: Clear skies, 75-79 degrees Fahrenheit, winds North-Northeast 11-18 mph.
Swift Autosport

Logo for Swift Autosport

**Swift Autosport** is an American motor racing team based out of Detroit, Michigan. It currently competes in the AT&T Champ Car World Series, GTPlanet Fandom Series, Microsoft IndyCar Series, and Nissan Atlantic Championship in North America, as of the 2022 racing season. The team is best known for its tumultuous time in the Indycar World Championship, where it has repeatedly gone from front running team to the brink of collapse, most recently downsizing from 3 cars to 2 cars for the 2022 season due to budget constraints.