Jaques Lazier News

For more than three months covering 11 IndyCar Series races, Stanton Barrett's seat for the No.

The Children's Miracle Network will be featured on the No. 98 Team 3G car driven by Jaques Lazier in the PEAK Antifreeze & Motor Oil Indy 300 this weekend at Chicagoland Speedway.

Richard Antinucci has been confirmed to drive the #98 Novicomm Team 3G entry in both the Honda Indy Toronto this week and the Rexall Edmonton Indy on 26 July following a solid debut at Watkins Glen on Sunday.

Team 3G announced that eco-friendly lighting technology manufacturer Novicomm will become a marketing partner for the remainder of the 2009 IndyCar Season.

Lap 8 -- BACK TO GREEN. Lap 16 -- Ryan Briscoe now in the top three. Dario Franchitti, Scott Dixon and Briscoe are opening up a gap over fourth-place Helio Castroneves.

He is Alex The Great -- again. Washington Capitals star forward Alex Ovechkin pulled off the kind of repeat the Detroit Red Wings dreamed about by snagging the Hart Trophy as NHL MVP for the second straight year Thursday night.

Jaques Lazier has found a home with Team 3G after a two-year absence from IRL racing.

When news started leaking out yesterday that Jaques Lazier would be taking over for Stanton Barret in the #98 Team 3G IndyCar, the question most people asked was "Why Jaques?". There are plenty of other drivers available, many of who raced a couple weeks ago in Indianapolis, but for whatever reason Lazier was picked as the guy.

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Jaques Lazier's IndyCar Series career has been punctuated by starts and stops. So it's really not outlandish for the Colorado resident to climb into the No.

Question: Why would 3G use Jaques Lazier as their replacement driver who hasn't been in a car for so long? Why not use Townsend Bell or Oriol Servia who had/were having great runs going at Indy? Answer: That's a fair question and one I don't have an answer to.

The Lone Star State will have its own team at Saturday night's IndyCar race at Texas Motor Speedway.