Dale Coyne Racing rookie driver Mario Moraes had a top-10 finish going Sunday afternoon until lap 192 when #36 Enrique Bernoldi pushed Moraes’ #19 Sonny’s Bar-B-Q car high in turn two, causing him to make slight contact with the wall breaking the right rear suspension. The 19-year-old ended up finishing 19th in the [...]

For their first time on a high-banked oval track both Dale Coyne Racing drivers Bruno Junqueira and Mario Moraes gave all-star performances Saturday evening under the lights in the IndyCar® Series Bombardier Learjet 550k at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, TX.
Junqueira drove his #18 Z-Line Designs car to a 15th- place finish in [...]

Dale Coyne Racing rookie driver Mario Moraes put together a solid four-lap qualifying average speed of
210.254 mph Friday afternoon and will start 22nd in Saturday’s running of the Bombardier Learjet 550 at the Texas Motor Speedway.
Moraes’s speed increasingly kept getting faster on each of his four laps.
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Despite the official results, both Dale Coyne Racing drivers Bruno Junqueira and Mario Moraes felt good about their performances Sunday afternoon in the ABC Supply A.J. Foyt 225 at the Milwaukee Mile.
The Milwaukee Mile is one of the more unforgiving and difficult tracks to drive on the IndyCar® Series schedule this year. Most teams [...]

Moraes Impressive in Indianapolis 500 Debut
Dale Coyne Racing driver Mario Moraes may have started the race as a rookie, but he finished it like
a veteran. The 19-year old Brazilian drove his #19 Sonny’s Bar-B-Q to
an 18th place finish Sunday afternoon in the 92nd running of the
Indianapolis 500.
Moraes started the day in the 28th position, [...]

Dale Coyne Racing driver Mario Moraes had to wait until Sunday to know if he was in the race for sure, but the wait was worth it as the rookie qualified 28th for his first Indianapolis 500 race.
On Saturday, Moraes put together a four-lap average qualifying speed of 219.716 mph, which put the 19-year old [...]

YEAH!!! - Our best wishes to Chuck and the Team. GET WELL!
Chuck Buckman, the Indy 500 chief mechanic who was injured when Patrick’s IndyCar hit him in pit lane during last Friday’s practice session, was released from Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis on Tuesday.
Buckman suffered a traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage and a skull fracture, but has [...]

Eight rookies have won the Indianapolis 500 - and that includes Ray Harroun, who won the inaugural race back in 1911. This year, 13 rookies, the most since 1997, will attempt to become number nine.
The rookie class for the 92nd Indianapolis 500 completed their two-day Rookie Orientation Program on Monday at the famed [...]

When I was reading all of the articles about the rookie orientation program for the Indianapolis 500 I read that Australia’s Will Power has set the fastest time driving the No. 8 Aussie Vineyards-Team Australia car for KV Racing Technology at a top speed of 253.110km/h. (skynews.com.au)
Dr. Indy saw 253 and did a double take [...]

Vitor Meira OH-FER 79
Ed Carpenter OH-FER 68
A.J. Foyt IV OH-FER 68
Darren Manning OH-FER 44
Ryan Briscoe OH-FER 22
The Rest of the Pack:
Races Without a Win
Marty Roth 11
Ryan Hunter-Reay 9
Milka Duno 8
Bruno Junqueira 7
Hideki Mutoh 4
Oriol Servia 3
Franck Perera 3
Justin Wilson 3
Mario Moraes 3
Ernesto Viso 3
Enrique Bernoldi 3
Jay Howard 3
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There will probably be a 20-car field that will take the green flag for the final Champ Car race April 20 at the 34th Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.

The field includes the newest American racing sensation, 19-year-old Graham Rahal, fresh from a victory in his first Indy Car start at the Honda Grand [...]

Mario Moraes drove the Chicken Pit Special - Sonny’s Bar-B-Q Honda for the last 150 Miles without a fifth and sixth gear. The 19-year-old Brazilian finished 16th.
“We Finished,” said a very exhausted Mario Moraes. “We had a problem with the front wing at the start of the race, but were able to fix [...]

Races Since Last Win - Updated after Homestead

Driver
Races Since Last Win

Buddy Rice
54

Marco Andretti
19

Helio Castroneves
16

Dan Wheldon
14

Tony Kanaan
2

Scott Dixon
0

Career Wins:

Driver
Career Wins

Dan Wheldon
13

Helio Castroneves
12

Tony Kanaan
12

Scott Dixon
11

Buddy Rice
3

Marco Andretti
1

Zero For ____

Vitor Meira
0
77

Ed Carpenter
0
66

A.J. Foyt IV
0
66

Danica Patrick
0
48

Darren Manning
0
42

Ryan Briscoe
0
20

Marty Roth
0
10

Milka Duno
0
8

Ryan Hunter-Reay
0
7

Bruno Junqueira
0
5

Hideki Mutoh
0
2

Oriol Servia
0
1

Franck Perera
0
1

Justin Wilson
0
1

Mario Moraes
0
1

Ernesto Viso
0
1

Enrique Bernoldi
0
1

Jay Howard
0
1

Will Power
0
1

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Jay Howard (No. 24 Roth Racing) and Hideki Mutoh (No. 27 Andretti Green Racing) as well as six drivers transitioning into the IndyCar Series: Enrique Bernoldi (No. 36 Conquest Racing), Mario Moraes (No. 19 Dale Coyne Racing), Franck Perera (No. 34 Conquest Racing) are designated as Rookies for the 2008 season.
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April 20th:
Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing
Justin Wilson and Graham Rahal
KV Racing Technology
Will Power and Oriol Servia - and Jimmy Vassar
Dale Coyne Racing
Bruno Junqueira and Mario Moraes
Conquest Racing
Franck Perera and Enrique Bernoldi
HVM Racing
Ernesto Viso
Paul Tracy
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