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American Indycar Series

Index American Indycar Series

The American Indycar Series (AIS) was an American open wheel racing series founded in 1988 by Bill Tempero. [1]

69 relations: Albuquerque, New Mexico, All American Racers, American open-wheel car racing, Auto Club Speedway, Avondale, Arizona, Bill Tempero, Birmingham International Raceway, Birmingham, Alabama, Buddy Lazier, Buick, Calgary, Can-Am, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Champ Car, Chandler, Arizona, Chevrolet, Dallara, Dodge City, Kansas, Engine displacement, Exposition Park (Los Angeles), Fontana, California, Formula 5000, Fountain, Colorado, G-Force Technologies, Gateway Motorsports Park, Greg Gorden, Hallett Motor Racing Circuit, Hallett, Oklahoma, IndyCar Series, International Motor Sports Association, ISM Raceway, Jaques Lazier, Johnny Unser, Juan Carlos Carbonell, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas Valley, Lola Cars, Los Angeles, Madison, Illinois, March Engineering, Mead, Colorado, Milwaukee Mile, Naturally aspirated engine, Oldsmobile, Overhead valve engine, Owego (village), New York, Pikes Peak International Raceway, Pueblo, Colorado, Reynard Motorsport, Robby Unser, ..., Rosamond, California, Saint-Pie, Quebec, San Antonio, Sanair Super Speedway, Shangri-La Speedway, Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, California, Sports Car Club of America, St. Johns, Arizona, Team Menard, Team Penske, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Turbocharger, Twin Falls, Idaho, West Allis, Wisconsin, West Salem, Wisconsin, Western United States, Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park, Willow Springs International Motorsports Park. Expand index (19 more) »

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque (Beeʼeldííl Dahsinil; Arawageeki; Vakêêke; Gołgéeki) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

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All American Racers

All American Racers is an American auto racing team and constructor based in Santa Ana, California.

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American open-wheel car racing

American open-wheel car racing, also known as Indy Car racing, is a category of professional-level automobile racing in the United States and North America.

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Auto Club Speedway

Auto Club Speedway, formerly California Speedway, is a two-mile (3 km), low-banked, D-shaped oval superspeedway in Fontana, California which has hosted NASCAR racing annually since 1997.

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Avondale, Arizona

Avondale is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, adjacent to Phoenix.

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Bill Tempero

Bill Tempero (born January 16, 1944) is an American former racing driver from Milwaukee.

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Birmingham International Raceway

Birmingham International Raceway, (BIR) (formerly Fairgrounds Raceway, Birmingham Super Speedway, Birmingham Super Raceway and Birmingham International Speedway) was a 5/8-mile oval paved racetrack located at the Alabama State Fairgrounds in the Five Points West neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama.

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Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama and the seat of Jefferson County.

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Buddy Lazier

Buddy Lazier (born October 31, 1967) is an American auto racing driver, best known for winning the 1996 Indianapolis 500 and the 2000 Indy Racing League season championship.

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Buick

Buick, formally the Buick Motor Division, is an upscale automobile brand of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM).

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Calgary

Calgary is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Can-Am

The Canadian-American Challenge Cup, or Can-Am, was an SCCA/CASC sports car racing series from 1966 to 1987.

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Cedar Rapids is the second-largest city in Iowa and is the county seat of Linn County.

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Champ Car

Champ Car is the general name for a class and specification of American professional top-level open wheel cars used in American open-wheel car racing for many decades, associated primarily with the Indianapolis 500.

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Chandler, Arizona

Chandler is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, and a prominent suburb of the Phoenix, Arizona, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).

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Chevrolet

Chevrolet, colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM).

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Dallara

Dallara Automobili is an Italian chassis manufacturer for various motor racing series, being most notable for its near-monopoly in Formula Three since 1993.

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Dodge City, Kansas

Dodge City is the county seat of Ford County, Kansas, United States, named after nearby Fort Dodge.

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Engine displacement

Engine displacement is the swept volume of all the pistons inside the cylinders of a reciprocating engine in a single movement from top dead centre (TDC) to bottom dead centre (BDC).

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Exposition Park (Los Angeles)

Exposition Park is situated in the south region of Los Angeles, California.

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Fontana, California

Fontana is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.

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Formula 5000

Formula 5000 (or F5000) was an open wheel, single seater auto-racing formula that ran in different series in various regions around the world from 1968 to 1982.

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Fountain, Colorado

The City of Fountain is a Home Rule Municipality located in El Paso County, Colorado, United States.

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G-Force Technologies

G-Force Technologies (formerly Chip Ganassi Racing Ltd.) was an American racing car manufacturer originally formed by Americans Chip Ganassi and Ken Anderson in 1991.

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Gateway Motorsports Park

Gateway Motorsports Park (formerly Gateway International Raceway) is a motorsport race track in Madison, Illinois, just east of St. Louis, Missouri, United States, close to the Gateway Arch.

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Greg Gorden

Greg Gorden is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

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Hallett Motor Racing Circuit

Hallett Motor Racing Circuit is a road course about west of Tulsa in the Green Country of Oklahoma.

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Hallett, Oklahoma

Hallett is a town in Pawnee County, Oklahoma, United States.

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IndyCar Series

The IndyCar Series, currently known as the Verizon IndyCar Series for title sponsorship reasons, is the premier level of open-wheel racing in North America.

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International Motor Sports Association

The International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) is a North American various auto racing sanctioning body based in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States of America.

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ISM Raceway

ISM Raceway is a 1-mile, low-banked tri-oval race track located in Avondale, Arizona, near Phoenix.

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Jaques Lazier

Jaques Lazier (born January 25, 1971) is an American racing driver and is the younger brother of 1996 Indianapolis 500 champion Buddy Lazier and son of former Indy racer Bob Lazier.

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Johnny Unser

Johnny Unser (born October 22, 1958) is a former race car driver.

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Juan Carlos Carbonell

Juan Carlos Carbonell (born May 16, 1970), is a Chilean open wheel race-car driver.

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Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Las Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada in Las Vegas, Nevada about 15 miles northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, is a complex of multiple tracks for motorsports racing.

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Las Vegas Valley

The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada.

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Lola Cars

Lola Cars International Ltd. was a racing car engineering company founded in 1958 by Eric Broadley and based in Huntingdon, England.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Madison, Illinois

Madison is a city in Madison and St. Clair counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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March Engineering

March Engineering was a Formula One constructor and manufacturer of customer racing cars from the United Kingdom.

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Mead, Colorado

The Town of Mead is a Statutory Town in Weld County, Colorado, United States.

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Milwaukee Mile

The Milwaukee Mile is an approximately one mile-long (1.6 km) oval race track in the central United States, located on the grounds of the Wisconsin State Fair Park in West Allis, Wisconsin, a suburb west of Milwaukee.

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Naturally aspirated engine

A naturally aspirated engine is an internal combustion engine in which oxygen intake depends solely on atmospheric pressure and does not rely on forced induction through a turbocharger or a supercharger.

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Oldsmobile

Oldsmobile was a brand of American automobiles produced for most of its existence by General Motors.

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Overhead valve engine

An overhead valve engine (OHV engine), or "pushrod engine", is a reciprocating piston engine whose poppet valves are sited in the cylinder head.

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Owego (village), New York

Owego is a village in and the county seat of Tioga County, New York, United States.

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Pikes Peak International Raceway

Pikes Peak International Raceway (PPIR) is a racetrack in a Colorado Springs annexed area of the Fountain, Colorado, postal zone that by October 12, 1997, was "the fastest 1-mile paved oval anywhere".

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Pueblo, Colorado

Pueblo is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Pueblo County, Colorado, United States.

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Reynard Motorsport

Reynard Motorsport was at one time the world's largest racing car manufacturer.

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Robby Unser

Robby Unser (born January 12, 1968) is an American former Indy Racing League driver and nine-time winner of the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb.

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Rosamond, California

Rosamond is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, USA, near the Los Angeles county line.

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Saint-Pie, Quebec

Saint-Pie is a city in the Montérégie region of southwest Quebec.

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San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh most populous city in the United States and the second most populous city in both Texas and the Southern United States.

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Sanair Super Speedway

Sanair Super Speedway is a motorsports park with a 0.826-mile (1.33 km) paved triangular oval race track, a quarter-mile dragstrip, a 1 1/4-mile road course, a 1/3-mile oval, as well as a 0.12-mile mini-oval and 0.15-mile karting course.

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Shangri-La Speedway

Shangri-La Speedway was a speedway in Owego, New York.

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Sonoma Raceway

Sonoma Raceway, formerly Sears Point Raceway and Infineon Raceway is a road course and drag strip located on the landform known as Sears Point in the southern Sonoma Mountains in Sonoma, California, USA.

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Sonoma, California

Sonoma is a city in Sonoma Valley, Sonoma County, California, United States, surrounding its historic town plaza, a remnant of the town's Mexican colonial past.

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Sports Car Club of America

The Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) is an American automobile club and sanctioning body supporting road racing, rallying, and autocross in the United States.

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St. Johns, Arizona

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Team Menard

Team Menard was an auto racing team in the NASCAR Cup Series, Indianapolis 500 and Indy Racing League owned by John Menard, Jr. From 1991 to 1996 they modified their own Buick V6 engines for racing.

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Team Penske

Team Penske (formerly Penske Racing) is an American professional stock car, open wheel and sports car racing team that currently competes in the IndyCar Series, the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, the NASCAR Xfinity Series and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Debuting at the 1966 24 Hours of Daytona, the team has also competed in various other types of professional racing such as Can Am, Trans Am and Formula One. Team Penske is a division of Penske Corporation, and is owned and chaired by Roger Penske. The team president is Tim Cindric.

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Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 47th-most populous city in the United States.

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Turbocharger

A turbocharger, or colloquially turbo, is a turbine-driven forced induction device that increases an internal combustion engine's efficiency and power output by forcing extra air into the combustion chamber.

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Twin Falls, Idaho

Twin Falls is the county seat and largest city of Twin Falls County, Idaho, United States.

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West Allis, Wisconsin

West Allis is a city in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States.

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West Salem, Wisconsin

West Salem is a village in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States, along the La Crosse River.

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Western United States

The Western United States, commonly referred to as the American West, the Far West, or simply the West, traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States.

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Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park

Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park is a motorsports venue in Chandler, Arizona, near Phoenix.

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Willow Springs International Motorsports Park

Willow Springs International Motorsports Park (commonly referred to as Willow Springs) is located in Willow Springs near Rosamond, California, about an hour north of Los Angeles.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indycar_Series

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