 |
|
|
|
For the fifth consecutive year, a Honda-powered driver won the CART driver's championship. Marlboro Team Penske's Gil de Ferran won his first CART Vanderbilt Cup, and set a new closed-course speed record of 241.428 mph at California Speedway. Honda also posted its 50th Champ Car race victory last year — recorded by Marlboro Team Penske's Helio Castroneves at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Gil de Ferran records Honda's fifth consecutive CART drivers' championship and sets a new world closed-course speed record of 241.428 mph at California Speedway. Helio Castroneves records Honda's 50th Champ Car race win at Mid-Ohio. Texan Colin Edwards wins the World Superbike Championship aboard a Honda RC-51. |
|
|
|
