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Sullivan will drive at Sebring

Indy 500 winner Danny Sullivan will drive a Ferrari 575 GTC at Sebring, part of a two-car entry by Barron Connor Racing of the Netherlands. The cars, which are the first purpose-built road-race cars from the factory in 30 years, will compete in the GTS class of the American Le Mans Series.

Sullivan was CART champion in 1988 and won 17 races during his career in the open-wheel series. He won the Indy 500 in 1985 in the famous spin-and-win incident, and spent the 1983 season driving on the Formula One circuit, scoring a career-best finish of fifth at the Grand Prix of Monaco. More recently he has been working on developing American open-wheel racing talent with the financial backing of Red Bull energy drink.

McRae deal nearly done

Colin McRae has emerged as the front-runner to join 2003 World Rally champ Petter Solberg on Prodrive's factory Subaru team next season in place of Richard Burns. Burns was signed from Peugeot before being diagnosed with a brain tumor and advised to take a year off. McRae, newly released by Citroen due to the FIA's controversial new two-drivers-only rule and now without a 2004 drive, won the title with Subaru in 1995. Among the other drivers in contention at Subaru are Harri Rovanpera and Mikko Hirvonen.

G Force getting teams

Dallara dominated other chassis manufacturers in the Indy Racing League in 2003, but it lost the drivers' championship and the Indianapolis 500 and as a result, the Italian firm will lose some teams next season. Team Rahal and Super Aguri Fernandez Racing are expected to move to G Force chassis in ...