Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford
Season
Races
19 18
Start date
February 23
End date
October 26
Awards
Drivers' champion
Paul Tracy
Constructors' Cup
Lola
Nations' Cup
Canada
Rookie of the Year
Sébastien Bourdais
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The 2003 Champ Car World Series, the twenty-fifth and final in the Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) era of American open-wheel car racing, consisted of 18 races, beginning in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States on February 23 and concluding in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia on October 26. For sponsorship purposes, it was branded as Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford.
The intended final event, scheduled to be held in Fontana, California on November 9 was canceled due to wildfires, one of which was known as the "Grand Prix Fire", burning in and around San Bernardino County.
The Drivers' Champion was Paul Tracy. Rookie of the Year was Sébastien Bourdais. At the end of the season, the operations of a now bankrupt CART were assumed by Open-Wheel Racing Series, who continued to brand its top series as the Champ Car World Series.
The season was the first since 1993 not to feature Michael Andretti.
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is an American racing driver best known for his appearance in the 2003CARTseason for Dale Coyne Racing. Boss also competed across 5 years in Indy Lights...
moved to the CART series, albeit only for a brief stint, in 2003. He was replaced at Minardi by Jos Verstappen, who had spent a season on the sidelines...
victory, both Goodyear and Valvoline left CART as major sponsors and suppliers. Toward the end of that season, de Ferran and Greg Moore were signed to...
Ryan Hunter-Reay as drivers. This was one of many new teams for the 2003CARTseason; ironically, Bachelart's Mi-Jack Conquest Racing team was another....
by brothers Wilson Júnior and Emerson Fittipaldi-Dingman Racing, a 2003CARTseason team, owned by Emerson and James Dingman Fittipaldi Motors LLC, a car...
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title with nine wins from fourteen races in 1990. Tracy's CART career began in the 1991 season with Dale Coyne Racing. However, following one race, he drove three...
sponsored Newman/Haas Racing for the 2003CARTseason, the 2004 Champ Car season, and the 2005 Champ Car season and donated to support The Painted Turtle...
for the 2003 racing season. CART, beset by team departures and other financial issues, filed for bankruptcy that year; a trio of former CART team owners...
problems in CART surfaced, Andretti, who had purchased a majority interest in the team, switched the newly renamed Andretti Green Racing in 2003 to the rival...
This list of 2003 motorsport champions is a list of national or international auto racing series with a Championship decided by the points or positions...
1966) is an Italian professional racing driver and paracyclist. He won the CART championship in 1997 and 1998, and took 15 wins in the series. He also raced...
sanctioned by CART held at EuroSpeedway Lausitz in Germany in 2001 and 2003. The German 500 was put on the schedule for the 2001 CARTseason and it was the...
is an open wheel race car driver. He raced in the 1997-2000 and 2003CARTseasons, as well as one Indy Racing League event, totalling 49 IndyCar starts...
Formula One World Championship and the Indianapolis 500 twice each and the CART championship once. Moving up from Formula Two, Fittipaldi made his race debut...
Minardi and Footwork between 1992 and 1994. Fittipaldi was fifth in the CART series in both 1996 and 2002, earning two wins and a second place in the...
Global Information
Paul Tracy
Lola
Sébastien Bourdais