German 500 cancelled

ByReuters

Published 17/07/2002 at 07:47 GMT

The German 500 CART series race due to take place in Lausitz on September 21 has been cancelled. EuroSpeedway Lausitz's insolvency filing earlier this month was the main reason for the race being cancelled, said CART on its official website on Wednesday.

Eurosport

Image credit: Eurosport

The German 500 CART series race due to take place in Lausitz on September 21 has been cancelled. EuroSpeedway Lausitz's insolvency filing earlier this month was the main reason for the race being cancelled, said CART on its official website on Wednesday.

Last week, CART vice president of promoter operations Tim Mayer met EuroSpeedway officials, the receiver and local government officials in Germany but was unable to save the race, CART said.

CART

Zanardi to 'start' this year's German 500

19/03/2002 at 16:33

Last year's inaugural German 500 race was marred when twice former CART champion and former Formula One driver Alex Zanardi of Italy had both his legs amputated after a high-speed crash.

Long Beach

ChampCar says goodbye

00:00:00

21/04/2008 at 07:13

Season 2008

Power and Servia in IRL move

13/03/2008 at 03:00

CART

Forsythe Racing to shut up shop

29/02/2008 at 19:21

Join 3M+ users on app

Stay up to date with the latest news, results and live sports

Download

Scan me