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SI.com: Brant James: IRL hopes Izod sponsorship will bring it back to glory days

The Indy Racing League looked smart in sassy white pants and cut a stylish businessman's profile in a charcoal suit and hipster glasses. It was uncharacteristically bawdy, a little prance-y on the catwalk, but what the heck, it was fully subsidized for the first time in its 13 years. Time to work it.

SI.com: Brant James: A leap of faith by Tony Stewart has turned out much better than planned

Tony Stewart is used to his big decisions working out: abandoning a championship-winning Indy Racing League career to switch to NASCAR and buying racetracks to name a few.

SI.com: Bruce Martin: A lot on the line as NASCAR returns to Indy

KOONTZ LAKE, Ind. -- There's a lot on the line at Sunday's AllState 400 at the Brickyard -- NASCAR's annual trip to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Simply put, there are three entities that cannot afford to fail -- NASCAR, Goodyear and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway itself.

SI.com: Brant James: Gant says age isn't an issue, Martin can win into his 60s

This would be the moment for Harry Gant to punch up the story, to embellish just how arduous a task it is to win a race at NASCAR's highest level at age 50 and beyond.

SI.com: Brant James: IRL not willing to jump on the bailout bandwagon

The Phoenix Coyotes are having trouble paying the ice bill, so much so the National Hockey League has intervened to steady a bankrupt club that not even Wayne Gretzky could save.

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Dixon has competition as IndyCar revs its engines

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- After the longest offseason in sports, the IndyCar Series is back, beginning with this weekend's Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. That means the return of sleek, high-flying machines and some of racing's most diverse drivers as they begin a 17-race schedule that includes short ovals, intermediate ovals, big tracks, streets and natural terrain road courses.

SI.com: Brant James:Rahal, Patrick bring intrigue, sizzle to new IRL season

After a long offseason, the Indy Racing League is primed for a big return Sunday at the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. With reunification complete and a budding crop of young stars, here are the top 10 things to watch for in the IRL in 2009.

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Jordan-era Bull teaches Johnson, Gordon playoff toughness

MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- As sports fans gear up for college basketball's March Madness, NASCAR fans have their own version as the series heads to Bristol for the first short track race of the season.

SI.com: Brant James: Gil de Ferran went out on top in '03; now he's back for more

Those who are talented and masochistic enough to make motorsports a career begrudgingly accept the vagaries of the profession. It provides the highest highs. But they don't last long. The lowest lows can seem particularly cruel when so much involved with success and failure is beyond the control of the driver at the wheel. And racing doesn't often indulge sentimentality. Few get that ticker tape farewell.

SI.com: Bruce Martin: After a long offseason, Danica is ready to race

HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- While the IndyCar Series has one of the longest offseasons in sports, Danica Patrick doesn't mind because it allows her to be the face of the series in a different way than the steely look of determination that peers through a race visor.

SI.com: Brant James: IRL hopes Izod sponsorship will bring it back to glory days

SI.com: Brant James: A leap of faith by Tony Stewart has turned out much better than planned

Tony Stewart is used to his big decisions working out: abandoning a championship-winning Indy Racing League career to switch to NASCAR and buying racetracks to name a few.

SI.com: Bruce Martin: A lot on the line as NASCAR returns to Indy

SI.com: Brant James: Gant says age isn't an issue, Martin can win into his 60s

This would be the moment for Harry Gant to punch up the story, to embellish just how arduous a task it is to win a race at NASCAR's highest level at age 50 and beyond.

SI.com: Brant James: IRL not willing to jump on the bailout bandwagon

The Phoenix Coyotes are having trouble paying the ice bill, so much so the National Hockey League has intervened to steady a bankrupt club that not even Wayne Gretzky could save.

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Dixon has competition as IndyCar revs its engines

SI.com: Brant James:Rahal, Patrick bring intrigue, sizzle to new IRL season

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Jordan-era Bull teaches Johnson, Gordon playoff toughness

MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- As sports fans gear up for college basketball's March Madness, NASCAR fans have their own version as the series heads to Bristol for the first short track race of the season.

SI.com: Brant James: Gil de Ferran went out on top in '03; now he's back for more

SI.com: Bruce Martin: After a long offseason, Danica is ready to race

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Team Penske takes its future away from the hands of the court

IndyCar racing's most extroverted driver is turning his car over to the series' biggest introvert while he goes to trial over tax evasion charges.

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Hollywood stuntman goes to Indy 500, more news and notes

MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- Stanton Barrett has already made the big screen, now he's hoping to make the big time by competing in the Indianapolis 500.

SI.com: Bruce Martin: NASCAR takes on the Big Apple for the annual awards banquet, more

This is the week when drivers, mechanics, marketing executives and even the traveling slobs known as the "motorsports media" put on fancy clothes and tuxedos for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Awards Banquet.

SI.com: Bruce Martin: An era ends as Stewart races his last race for JGR

AVONDALE, Ariz. -- One of the greatest combinations in NASCAR Sprint Cup history will come to an end this weekend when Tony Stewart competes in his final race for Joe Gibbs Racing at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Other drivers monitoring Castroneves case

TALLADEGA, Alabama -- NASCAR and IRL drivers are keeping a close eye on the Helio Castroneves/Alan Miller tax evasion case, some because Miller is also their agent and others because Team Penske could be in need of a new driver as early as late October.

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Dixon taking his place among IndyCar legends and more notes

JOLIET, IL -- Scott Dixon will be the first to admit he is a far different individual than when he won his first IndyCar Series title in 2003.

SI.com: Brant James: Wheldon takes a risk as he returns home to Panther

John Barnes has an eye for talent. There is no denying that. As for a hand for holding on it ... that was in need of a little work.

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Franchitti returning to IndyCar; replacing Wheldon at Ganassi

MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- Dario Franchitti is returning to the IndyCar Series after a fruitless one-year effort in NASCAR. The 2007 Indianapolis 500 winner and '07 IndyCar Series champion will move over to Target/Chip Ganassi Racing, replacing Dan Wheldon, who has been signed by Panther Racing, the team he made his IndyCar Series debut with six years ago.

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Carroll lashes out at NASCAR; IndyCar tells ESPN to take a hike

KOONTZ LAKE, Ind. -- When it comes to speaking his mind, especially when it comes to NASCAR, Jerry Carroll certainly doesn't hold back.

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Earnhardt Jr.'s complaints about Brickyard over the line, more notes

MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- A week that began with NASCAR apologizing for the embarrassing tire situation at the Brickyard, ended in similar fashion as Pocono winner Carl Edwards apologized for fighting with crew chief Bob Osborne over pit strategy in Sunday's Sprint Cup race. In other words, just another week at the races.

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Tire troubles spoil NASCAR's day at Brickyard, IndyCar's Canada debut, more

The crowd at last weekend's AllState 400 at the Brickyard was the smallest in the 15-year history of the race. After Sunday's tire debacle at Indy, imagine how small the crowd could be next year.

SI.com: Brant James: Indy holds hope for Penske, Ganassi

Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a touchstone for Ganassi Racing and cordial rival Penske, the backdrop for much of the glory that has defined the storied open wheel teams.

SI.com: Brant James: For IRL drivers, grass isn't always greener in NASCAR

It once seemed like America in microcosm, a high-banked land of opportunity where a hard-worker with a gleam in his eye and lead in his foot could make something of himself, where money and fame flowed like high-octane gasoline.

SI.com: Lars Anderson: IndyCar looms in NASCAR's rear-view mirror

So which do you prefer, the raw speed of IndyCar or the beatin' and bangin' of NASCAR? Let's compare the two racing series in four different categories.

SI.com: Tim Tuttle: Hunter-Reay finds a home on IndyCar circuit

Ryan Hunter-Reay was discarded by Champ Car in 2005 and a year ago was still trying to find his way back to a full-time job driving race cars. Tuesday night he spoke at the Indianapolis 500 Victory Banquet as the race's Rookie of the Year.

SI.com: Lars Anderson: All Eyes On Indy

For 13 years they had waited for this moment, waited as open-wheel racing lost its luster and receded deeper into the background of America's sports landscape. For 13 years, following the breakup of the open-wheel circuit into competing series (CART and IRL), the top owners and drivers had watched the Indianapolis 500 become less and less relevant. For 13 years the race that was once America's most watched and celebrated had the feel of a party at which only half the guests (IRL drivers) showed up.

SI.com: Lars Anderson: The buzz is back and other lessons learned at Indy

Five things we learned on Sunday in the 92nd running of the Indianapolis 500, one of the most significant days in the race's history.

SI.com: Honda to power IndyCar through '13

With a unified IndyCar Series, Honda Performance Development has agreed to a five-year extension to supply engines to the series.

SI.com: Tim Tuttle: Five-minute guide to the 2008 Indianapolis 500

This year's Indianapolis 500 on Sunday afternoon could be the most intriguing in years. Let's take a look at some of the reasons why.

SI.com: Tim Tuttle: Look for this year's Indy 500 to be competitive, and crash-filled

1. It will be 500 miles, flat out. With chassis, engine and tire reliability at an all-time high, all 33 drivers will have to run as hard as they can on every green-flag lap to have any chance of a top-five finish. Indianapolis is no longer an endurance test, it's a sprint.

SI.com: Tim Tuttle: Foyt IV eyes first career win at Indy 500

Late in the summer of 2006, A.J. Foyt IV's career was at a standstill. Prospects for next season looked bleak. Then, out of the blue, Michael Andretti called.

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Dixon, Danica experience changes of heart

INDIANAPOLIS -- Scott Dixon was asked last Friday if winning the pole for the Indianapolis 500 is as big as winning an IndyCar race anywhere else?

SI.com: Danica runs over crewman on pit lane in Indy practice

INDIANAPOLIS -- IndyCar racing's biggest name was emotionally shaken Friday as Danica Patrick was involved in an incident on pit lane during Friday's practice at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway when her car hit a crew member from another team in pit lane.

SI.com: Lars Anderson: Barber Motorsports Park a hidden gem

"You ready?" Cas Whitehead, a driver instructor for the Porsche Driving School at Barber Motorsports Park outside of Birmingham, Ala., asked me on a recent afternoon. "Hold on."

SI.com: Tim Tuttle: Sitting down with IndyCar's Tony George

As Chief Executive Officer of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Tony George is charged with promoting the Indianapolis 500. It's a family heirloom, one which the 48-year-old George was accused of damaging when he founded the Indy Racing League. He had his supporters, too, during the period in open-wheel racing known as "The Split," which began in 1996 with cars and drivers from the IRL making up the vast majority of the field at Indianapolis.

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Drivers welcome return to normalcy after Talladega

MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- Throughout the NASCAR Sprint Cup season, trends that begin at one track often given an indication of what to expect in the following race on the schedule.

SI.com: Brant James: It's not easy for motorsports to go green

The notion would have seemed absurd a decade ago but there, at the end of a national teleconference in June 2006, NASCAR chairman Brian France asserted his desire for his series to develop and race in the future something he called a "green car."

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SI.com: Brant James: IRL hopes Izod sponsorship will bring it back to glory days

SI.com: Brant James: A leap of faith by Tony Stewart has turned out much better than planned

SI.com: Bruce Martin: A lot on the line as NASCAR returns to Indy

SI.com: Brant James: Gant says age isn't an issue, Martin can win into his 60s

SI.com: Brant James: IRL not willing to jump on the bailout bandwagon

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Dixon has competition as IndyCar revs its engines

SI.com: Brant James:Rahal, Patrick bring intrigue, sizzle to new IRL season

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Jordan-era Bull teaches Johnson, Gordon playoff toughness

SI.com: Brant James: Gil de Ferran went out on top in '03; now he's back for more

SI.com: Bruce Martin: After a long offseason, Danica is ready to race

SI.com: Brant James: IRL hopes Izod sponsorship will bring it back to glory days

SI.com: Brant James: A leap of faith by Tony Stewart has turned out much better than planned

SI.com: Bruce Martin: A lot on the line as NASCAR returns to Indy

SI.com: Brant James: Gant says age isn't an issue, Martin can win into his 60s

SI.com: Brant James: IRL not willing to jump on the bailout bandwagon

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Dixon has competition as IndyCar revs its engines

SI.com: Brant James:Rahal, Patrick bring intrigue, sizzle to new IRL season

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Jordan-era Bull teaches Johnson, Gordon playoff toughness

SI.com: Brant James: Gil de Ferran went out on top in '03; now he's back for more

SI.com: Bruce Martin: After a long offseason, Danica is ready to race

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Team Penske takes its future away from the hands of the court

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Hollywood stuntman goes to Indy 500, more news and notes

SI.com: Bruce Martin: NASCAR takes on the Big Apple for the annual awards banquet, more

SI.com: Bruce Martin: An era ends as Stewart races his last race for JGR

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Other drivers monitoring Castroneves case

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Dixon taking his place among IndyCar legends and more notes

SI.com: Brant James: Wheldon takes a risk as he returns home to Panther

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Franchitti returning to IndyCar; replacing Wheldon at Ganassi

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Carroll lashes out at NASCAR; IndyCar tells ESPN to take a hike

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Earnhardt Jr.'s complaints about Brickyard over the line, more notes

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Tire troubles spoil NASCAR's day at Brickyard, IndyCar's Canada debut, more

SI.com: Brant James: Indy holds hope for Penske, Ganassi

SI.com: Brant James: For IRL drivers, grass isn't always greener in NASCAR

SI.com: Lars Anderson: IndyCar looms in NASCAR's rear-view mirror

SI.com: Tim Tuttle: Hunter-Reay finds a home on IndyCar circuit

SI.com: Lars Anderson: All Eyes On Indy

SI.com: Lars Anderson: The buzz is back and other lessons learned at Indy

SI.com: Honda to power IndyCar through '13

SI.com: Tim Tuttle: Five-minute guide to the 2008 Indianapolis 500

SI.com: Tim Tuttle: Look for this year's Indy 500 to be competitive, and crash-filled

SI.com: Tim Tuttle: Foyt IV eyes first career win at Indy 500

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Dixon, Danica experience changes of heart

SI.com: Danica runs over crewman on pit lane in Indy practice

SI.com: Lars Anderson: Barber Motorsports Park a hidden gem

SI.com: Tim Tuttle: Sitting down with IndyCar's Tony George

SI.com: Bruce Martin: Drivers welcome return to normalcy after Talladega

SI.com: Brant James: It's not easy for motorsports to go green