Vitor Meira News

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The IndyCar series is taking its season-opening race to one of its best training grounds next season -- Brazil.

The Iowa Speedway was made great strides since it opened in 2006. The Rusty Wallace-designed track has landed NASCAR Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series races for later this summer, and officials expect to draw more than 40,000 fans for the first time on Sunday for the third annual Iowa Corn Indy 250.

Vitor Meira is off his pain medication, walking one mile a day and hoping to return to racing in time for the IndyCar season finale in October.

Raphael Matos' No. 2 car and Vitor Meira's No. 14 car locked wheels in the 174th lap on May 24th's Indianapolis 500, causing Meria's car to slide on its side along the racetrack wall.

Of the 33 race cars in the Indianapolis 500, the editors counted three cars with prominent home channel sponsorships .

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

Paul Tracy, drives the ABC Supply Co. AJ Foyt Racing Dallara Honda, during practice for the IRL IndyCar Series ABC Supply/A.J. Foyt 225 on May 30, 2009 at the Milwaukee Mile in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

A picture of A. J. Foyt says he want to talk with Paul Tracy about running more IndyCar races for his team this year.

Vitor Meira and Raphael Matos have reconciled since crashing together in last week's Indianapolis 500.

During an Indianapolis 500 filled with crashes, Graham Rahal didn't have the biggest one -- that belonged to Vitor Meira and Raphael Matos -- but Rahal did have the most eerily familiar one.

An Indianapolis Star photo told IndyCar Series president Brian Barnhart all he needed to know about Vitor Meira's accident late in Sunday's Indianapolis 500.

Paul Tracy takes a pit stop during the 93rd running of the Indianapolis 500 auto race in Indianapolis, Indiana.

To no-one's great surprise, Vitor Meira is unlikely to return to the cockpit for the remainder of the 2009 IndyCar Series campaign, following his heavy accident he endured in the closing stages of Sunday's Indianapolis 500.

Veteran Vitor Meira has broken two vertebra in his lower back and will spend at least two days in an Indianapolis hospital after a scary crash late in the Indy 500.

Helio Castroneves has won his third Indianapolis 500, beating 2005 winner Dan Wheldon by 1.981 seconds.

The clich isn't 100% accurate. Not everyone forgets who finished second. Vitor Meira remembers.

Vitor Meira, the 2008 Indianapolis 500 runner-up, preaches patience - to himself in the mirror - in preparation for Race Day.

Thursday: Indy Lights qualifying, 3-4 p.m. Friday: Indy 500 practice, 11 a.m.-noon ; Indy Lights Freedom 100 race, 12:30-1:30 p.m.; Indy 500 Pit Stop Challenge, 1:30-3 p.m. Saturday: Public driver's meeting, 10:30 a.m.; Indy 500 Festival Parade downtown, noon Sunday: Indianapolis 500, 1 p.m. Coming Saturday *Special 4-page Indy 500 preview ...

With nearly two hours left in second-day qualifying, the bumping for the 2009 Indianapolis 500 began, as Scott Sharp posted a 221.103 to drop Milka Duno from the top 22.