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INDIANAPOLIS — The IZOD IndyCar Series is hoping to debut a new race car chassis for the 2012 season.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Two-time Daytona 500 winner Michael Waltrip will have to race his way into the field through Thursday’s Daytona Duel qualifying races because he is not protected with a top-35 position from last season

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Lotus technical chief Mike Gascoyne says his team is on course to prove its credentials as a serious Formula 1 outfit this year, ahead of a return to the track for the famous marque on Tuesday. With Lotus scheduled to shakedown its 2010 car tomorrow, ahead of its official launch on Friday, the team fired up the Cosworth engine on its new chassis at its Hingham base on Saturday - six days ahead of when originally planned.

VALENCIA, Spain — Mercedes debuted its 2010 car at the Valencia test last week. Last year, the new Brawn blew the competition away when it made its first appearance just a few weeks before the first race. The MGP W01 is based on last year’s championship winning Brawn, but the new cars debut was a little less spectacular

VALENCIA, Spain — “Get out of there, that is the only thing I can tell him. He needs to drive fast and don’t crash: Ross (Brawn) will always tell you that before the race.” That was the advice Michael Schumacher’s former Ferrari teammate Rubens Barrichello gave to Schumacher’s new Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg.

VALENCIA, Spain — Ferrari teammates Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso topped all three days in Valencia where seven teams ran their new 2010 cars in the first of four preseason test sessions. While the new Ferrari F10 is quick, comparing test lap times is trickier than ever.

Force India’s design director Mark Smith is confident the team will not be at a disadvantage despite having missed the first test of 2010. The Silverstone-based squad decided to skip the Valencia test last week in order to have extra days of development before it kicks off its testing programme on Wednesday at Jerez

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Nelson Piquet Jr will make his NASCAR Racing debut next Friday in the Camping World Truck Series, Red Horse Racing announced on Monday. As reported last month by AUTOSPORT, Piquet had been working on a deal to compete in the Truck series’ season-opener for a while, having tested already twice, first at the Motor Mile last October and then almost a month ago at New Smyrna

Jenson Button will kick off McLaren’s testing programme at Jerez in Spain this week, his team has confirmed. Button had his first try out of the new MP4-25 on the final day of the Valencia test last week, and will get two days running from this Wednesday to get himself better acquainted with his new surroundings. Team-mate Lewis Hamilton will drive on the final two days of the test, taking over the car from Friday onwards.

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Danica Patrick will anticipate her NASCAR Nationwide debut, entering the series’ season-opener at Daytona next Saturday. The IndyCar star had initially set her first outing in the second-tier series for California in two week’s time, but following a successful stock car debut last weekend in the ARCA RE/MAX Series at Daytona, JR Motorsports has now confirmed that she will enter the Nationwide event at the same venue. “Racing in the Nationwide Series race was my goal during this entire two-month preparation process, but we wanted to make sure it was the right thing to do,” said Patrick.

Australian Grand Prix organisers have announced that popular local band Powderfinger and Scottish rockers Simple Minds will play concerts at this year’s Albert Park event. Powderfinger, whose later album Golden Rule went multi-platinum, will play on the evening after qualifying in Melbourne, while Simple Minds will entertain race fans after the actual grand prix on March 28

Prema Powerteam has announced Frenchman Nicolas Marroc will join the team for the Formula 3 Euro Series this year. Twenty-three year-old Marrow joins Spaniard Daniel Juncadella, who also confirmed at the team earlier today. Marrow competed in the German F3 Cup last season, finishing in 12th position

Nico Hulkenberg is under no illusions that he must deliver from the very start of 2010, after claiming he is not expecting a grace period to get up to speed.

Andreas Mikkelsen will tackle a seven-round Intercontinental Rally Challenge programme in a Ford Fiesta S2000 this season. The Norwegian, who became the youngest driver ever to score a World Rally Championship point when he finished fifth on the 2008 Swedish Rally, will start his IRC campaign on Rally d’Italia Sardinia in June.

Pierre Kaffer will contest the first two rounds of the Le Mans Series in the CRS team’s GT2 Ferrari. Former Audi LMP1 driver Kaffer - who won the Sebring 12 Hours during his stint in Champion’s R8 in 2004 - raced for Ferrari’s leading American Le Mans Series squad Risi Competizione last season and took a class win at Le Mans.

Former Champ Car constructor Lola says it has made its pitch for the new generation Indycar to the Indy Racing League board and reckons it satisfies the board’s list of requirements for the IndyCar Series’ future. Lola is up against existing IndyCar supplier Dallara, fellow ex-Champ Car builder Swift, and the new Delta Wing group in the race to produce the 2012 Indycar chassis. A statement from the Huntingdon company said its car would offer a choice of two body styles.