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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2002 Youngest Foyt gets a. 1 'A an IRL ride in 2003 A J. Foyt IV to drive for grandfather, four-time Indy 500 champjV ---3 AUTO RACING OS ASSOCIATED PRESS jRyan Newman is all smiles after winning the pole for the Pop Secret 400 on Friday at North Carolina Speedway. It was Newman's fifth pole of the season, tying the rookie record. ROUNDUP Purdue's Newman wins record fifth pole By The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS A.

J. Foyt IV will drive for his grandfather's racing team at the Indianapolis 500 and in the Indy Racing League in 2003. The 18-year-old Foyt, who won the IRL Infiniti Pro Series championship this season, will join Airton Dare on a team owned by four-time Indy 500 winner A. J. Foyt.

Foyt, who won four Pro Series races, passed the IRL rookie test Thursday at Texas Motor Speedway with an unofficial top speed of 215 mph. "It is going to be the toughest year in the JUL with all these different teams coming in, plus with all the same teams coming back that are tough," the younger Foyt said. "I am up for the challenge, though." Foyt also was the right-front tire changer on Dare's car this past IRL season. The elder Foyt, who last raced in 1992, believes his grandson is ready for the IRL. "I started young; he's young.

I am sitting on him pretty tight and holding him down," he said. "But we will just go from there. He has a pretty good head on his shoulders. So far, he has done everything we have told him." Three-time Indy winner Johnny Rutherford supervised Foyt's driving. "He has a lot of ability and is very cool," Rutherford said.

"He goes out there and does the job with a great teacher in his granddad." t. rT'L- -j ASSOCIATED A.J. Foyt IV, 18, will drive for his grandfather's racing team at the Indy 500 and in the IRL next season. Foyt's grandfather is A.J. Foyt, a four-time Indy 500 winner.

mi Jeff, a Winston Cup regular and the 2000 Busch series champion, ran a lap at 153.335 mph to edge David, the 1994 series champion. "Hey, he's taken a few from me through the years, too," Jeff said. "It's nice to have an all-Green front row, and I'm glad for David." Mark Green, the middle brother of the trio of racers from Kentucky, qualified 10th. Qualifying third was Jamie McMurray, while Michael Waltrip, Tony Raines, Jack Sprague, Shane Hmiel, Stacy Compton, Bobby Hamilton Jr. and Mark Green rounded out the Top 10.

NASCAR TRUCKS: David Starr, a winner last time out on the NASCAR truck circuit, narrowly beat Coy Gibbs on Friday to win the pole for today's American Racing Wheels 200 at California Speedway in Fontana. Starr drove his Chevrolet around the 2-mile speedway at 175.850 mph to deny Gibbs his first career pole. Gibbs, who also drove a Chevrolet, qualified at 175.824 just four-thousandths of a second slower. Rookie Bill Lester duplicated his career-best qualifying effort and will start third. Lester's Dodge went 175.627.

Series points leader Mike Bliss, a five-time winner in 2002, grabbed the No. 4 starting spot. CART: There will be at least one car on the grid when the CART season begins next March, with Adrian Fernandez behind The announcement Friday by CART'S only owner-driver is a positive step for the embattled open-wheel series that has been losing drivers, teams and engine manufacturers to the rival Indy Racing League at an alarming rate. It was revealed last week that series sponsor FedEx also will be gone when CART races for the first time in 2003, in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Even though this is the first confirmation of plans to race in CART next year, Chris Pook, its first-year president and CEO, insists the field will have between 18 and 22 cars. rained out in his first three Cup events, so he automatically made the field based on car owner points. He was pleased with his qualifying effort, but admitted he was disappointed when Newman knocked him off of the pole. "I'd be lying if I said I wasn't," McMurray said. "Everybody wants to be first.

"But it's a long race and I didn't really expect to beat him he was so much faster than everybody else in practice. So I'm glad to be second, but disappointed." Todd Bodine qualif ied third in a Ford for the Winston Cup event, and was followed by Mike Skinner in a Chevrolet. Fifth in a Ford was Mark Martin, who trails series leader Tony Stewart by 146 points with three races left this "I know this car is going to be awesome in race trim with the way it's driving today," Martin said. Stewart qualified 24th. "Qualifying has never really been our deal here," Stewart said.

"We've never really torn it up, but we always seem to race well, so we'll be all right. We'll get it worked out by Sunday. BUSCH GRAND NATIONAL It will be an all-Green front row at North Carolina Speedway, where Jeff Green won the pole for the Sam's Club 200 and older brother David qualified second. By The Associated Press Ryan Newman continued mastery of qualifying, winding his fifth pole of the season when he took the top spot at North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham, JSTewman turned a lap in his ford at 155.836 mph to earn first starting spot for Sunday's Pop Secret 400. He tied Davey Allison's record for the most poles by a rookie.

Asked how he has made his rookie season seem so easy -Newman has one victory, won the annual all-star race and is fourth in the Winston Cup standings he just laughed. "Easy is kind of a vague word because by all means, it's not easy," he said. "It's definitely difficult to come to a place like this and get your car hooked up for two laps. Some things will come easier and some things will come Jiarder, and that's all just part a rookie season. Jamie McMurray, the fill-in Idriver for injured Sterling Marlin, continued his terrific Ibiirst onto the Winston Cup scene by qualifying second in a Dodge.

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