CART training sessions dates and tracks announced...
source: racinglines.com
- Jack Payne
Serving as the symbolic start of the CART racing season for a seventh
consecutive year, Championship Auto Racing Teams has announced the dates for its
annual Spring Training event which will kick off the 2003 Bridgestone Presents
The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford.
CART will incorporate its newest race venue into this year's Spring Training
festivities with media and promotional activities kicking off the event in St.
Petersburg, Florida February 2-3.
The St. Pete off-track activities will then be followed by three days of Spring
Training testing at Florida's Sebring International Raceway from February 4-6.
Spring Training will feature the first chance for the media to meet and greet
the drivers and teams of the Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series
Powered by Ford, and will get under way Sunday night in St. Petersburg with a
welcome celebration featuring the drivers of the 2003 CART Champ Car season open
to the media and the CART community.
St. Petersburg will be the site of the 2003 lid lifter just two weeks later,
February 21-23, as the Champ Car World Series will kick off its race schedule
with a new street race in the Florida city.
Monday will be full of press and promotional opportunities, including a CART
transporter parade, a pit-stop demonstration, a press conference featuring all
2003 Champ Car drivers and a chance to see a 775-hp Champ Car running exhibition
laps on part of the St. Petersburg street course.