Champ Car Grand Prix of Road America

Champ Car Grand Prix of Road America

Champ Car World Series
Venue	Road America
First race	1982
Last race	2007
Previous names	Road America 200 (1982, 1987, 1989) Provimi Veal 200 (1983-1985) Race for Life 200 (1986) Briggs & Stratton 200 (1988) Texaco/Havoline 200 (1990-1999) Motorola 220 (2000-2002) Mario Andretti Grand Prix at Road America (2003) Champ Car Grand Prix of Road America (2004) Grand Prix of Road America (2006) Generac Grand Prix (2007)
Most wins (driver)	Mario Andretti (3) Emerson Fittipaldi (3)
Most wins (team)	Newman/Haas Racing (10)
Most wins (manufacturer)	Lola (12)

The Champ Car Grand Prix of Road America was an open wheel car race held on the Road America circuit in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. It was a round of the PPG Indy Car World Series for most of CART's existence, the first race being held in 1982. Prior to its cancellation in 2008 with the absorption of the Champ Car circuit into the rival Indy Racing League, the race at Road America had been held annually every year since with the exception of 2005.

2003 event

The 2003 event almost didn't take place. Mario Andretti was instrumental in keeping Champ Car racing at Road America. CART had severed its ties with the track as a legal resolution of payment issues from the prior year's race and for the upcoming 2003 event. Andretti acted as an intermediary between CART President Chris Pook and Road America President George Bruggenthies. After six weeks of negotiations both sides came to terms and signed a two year contract in April 2003. The 2003 event was named the "Mario Andretti Grand Prix of Road America" in honor of Andretti's efforts.^[1] It was not the end of troubles, though. Champ Car and Road America were unable to arrange a race in 2005,^[2] but the track returned to the schedule in 2006.^[3]

Race results

Season	Date	Driver	Team	Chassis	Engine	Race Distance		Race Time	Average Speed (mph)	Report
						Laps	Miles (km)
1982	Sept 19	Héctor Rebaque	Forsythe Racing	March	Cosworth	50	200 (321.868)	1:49:56	109.156	Report
1983	July 31	Mario Andretti	Newman/Haas Racing	Lola	Cosworth	50	200 (321.868)	2:00:42	99.41	Report
1984	Aug 5	Mario Andretti	Newman/Haas Racing	Lola	Cosworth	50	200 (321.868)	1:43:08	116.347	Report
1985	Aug 4	Jacques Villeneuve	Canadian Tire Racing	March	Cosworth	50	200 (321.868)	1:45:12	114.066	Report
1986	Oct 4	Emerson Fittipaldi	Patrick Racing	March	Cosworth	50	200 (321.868)	2:26:42	81.8	Report
1987	Aug 30	Mario Andretti	Newman/Haas Racing	Lola	Chevrolet	50	200 (321.868)	1:39:52	120.155	Report
1988	Sept 11	Emerson Fittipaldi	Patrick Racing	Lola	Chevrolet	50	200 (321.868)	1:38:11	122.215	Report
1989	Sept 10	Danny Sullivan	Penske Racing	Penske	Chevrolet	50	200 (321.868)	1:37:43	123.05	Report
1990	Sept 23	Michael Andretti	Newman/Haas Racing	Lola	Chevrolet	50	200 (321.868)	1:53:00	106.192	Report
1991	Sept 22	Michael Andretti	Newman/Haas Racing	Lola	Chevrolet	50	200 (321.868)	1:35:05	126.205	Report
1992	Aug 23	Emerson Fittipaldi	Penske Racing	Penske	Chevrolet-Ilmor	50	200 (321.868)	1:48:26	110.656	Report
1993	Aug 22	Paul Tracy	Penske Racing	Penske	Chevrolet-Ilmor	50	200 (321.868)	1:41:20	118.408	Report
1994	Sept 11	Jacques Villeneuve	Forsythe/Green Racing	Reynard	Ford-Cosworth	50	200 (321.868)	1:42:37	116.922	Report
1995	July 9	Jacques Villeneuve	Team Green	Reynard	Ford-Cosworth	50	200 (321.868)	1:55:29	103.901	Report
1996	Aug 18	Michael Andretti	Newman/Haas Racing	Lola	Ford-Cosworth	50	200 (321.868)	1:56:33	102.947	Report
1997	Aug 17	Alex Zanardi	Chip Ganassi Racing	Reynard	Honda	50	202.4 (325.731)	1:57:54	102.995	Report
1998	Aug 16	Dario Franchitti	Team KOOL Green	Reynard	Honda	50	202.4 (325.731)	1:35:30	127.145	Report
1999	July 11	Christian Fittipaldi	Newman/Haas Racing	Swift	Ford-Cosworth	55	222.64 (358.304)	1:37:00	137.697	Report
2000	Aug 20	Paul Tracy	Team Green	Reynard	Honda	55	222.64 (358.304)	1:37:53	136.457	Report
2001	Aug 19	Bruno Junqueira	Chip Ganassi Racing	Lola	Toyota	45*	182.16 (293.158)	2:00:28	90.721	Report
2002	Aug 18	Cristiano da Matta	Newman/Haas Racing	Lola	Toyota	60	242.88 (390.877)	1:56:43	124.856	Report
2003	Aug 3	Bruno Junqueira	Newman/Haas Racing	Lola	Ford-Cosworth	34*	137.632 (221.497)	1:35:28	86.493	Report
2004	Aug 8	Alex Tagliani	Rocketsports	Lola	Ford-Cosworth	48*	194.304 (312.701)	1:45:07	110.903	Report
2005	Not held
2006	Sept 23	A. J. Allmendinger	Forsythe Racing	Lola	Ford-Cosworth	51	206.448 (332.245)	1:54:43	107.967	Report
2007	Aug 12	Sébastien Bourdais	Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing	Panoz	Cosworth	53	214.544 (345.275)	1:40:58	127.481	Report

• 2001 & 2004: Race shortened due to time limit.
• 2003: Race shortened due to darkness after 2 rain delays.

Support race winners

American Racing Series Season Date Winning Driver 1986 September 20 Mike Groff 1987 Not held 1988 September 11 Juan Manuel Fangio II 1989 September 10 Tommy Byrne 1990 September 23 Paul Tracy

Atlantic Championship Season Date Winning Driver 1978 July 23 Howdy Holmes 1979 July 22 Bob Earl 1980 July 19 Bob Earl 1981 July 26 Whitney Ganz 1982 July 24 John David Briggs 1983 July 16 Roberto Moreno 1984–1985: Not held 1986 July 26 Scott Goodyear 1987 August 29 Ted Prappas 1988 July 17 Colin Trueman 1989 September 10 Claude Bourbonnais 1990 September 23 Jimmy Vasser 1991–1995: Not held 1996 August 17 Patrick Carpentier 1997 August 17 Alex Barron 1998 August 16 Anthony Lazzaro 1999 July 11 Andrew Bordin 2000 August 20 Buddy Rice 2001 August 19 Hoover Orsi 2002 August 18 Luis Díaz 2003: Not held 2004 August 8 Ryan Dalziel 2005 August 21 Tõnis Kasemets 2006 September 24 Jonathan Bomarito 2007 August 12 Franck Perera 2008 August 9 Jonathan Bomarito August 10 Jonathan Summerton

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