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Reports that IRL champion and Indianapolis 500 winner Sam Hornish Jr. will make his stock car debut next month at Phoenix in a NASCAR Busch Series car are premature, a Team Penske spokesman said Friday night. A story posted Friday on ThatsRacin.com, the racing website for The Charlotte Observer newspaper, cited unidentified sources as saying the Penske team will enter Hornish in the Busch races at Phoenix and Homestead, Fla., in November, as well as running him ...

Sam Hornish Jr. won the Indianapolis 500 by a few feet and took the IRL IndyCar Series championship on a tiebreaker. But that's good enough for the three-time champion after a season he considers the most competitive yet in the IRL. ``Winning a championship in any year is a great accomplishment,'' Hornish said. ``Winning it this year, with the competition the way it was, was really tough. There were times ...

Dan Wheldon won the race. Sam Hornish Jr. claimed his third IRL series championship. Wheldon beat Target Chip Ganassi teammate Scott Dixon by 0.1897 seconds to win the PEAK Antifreeze Indy 300 at Chicagoland Speedway on Sunday, while Hornish was 0.2323 seconds behind. But in the end, Hornish celebrated the championship. Hornish and Wheldon finished the season with 475 points, but Hornish had four victories _ two more than Wheldon. And he did enough Sunday to give Marlboro ...

Sam Hornish Jr. finally got an Indianapolis 500 ring on Sunday, almost three months after the fact. Hornish, who won the IndyCar championship in 2001 and 2002, was joined by Marlboro Team Penske owner Roger Penske, teammate Helio Castroneves and Phillip Morris communications director Denise Ferry for the presentation. Castroneves, who won the 500 the same years Hornish won the championship, held up his 500 ring and said, ``I just ...