1999 Champ Car World Series Season
The 1999 FedEx Championship Series season, the twenty-first in the Championship Auto Racing Teams, CART era of U.S. open wheel car, open-wheel racing, consisted of 20 races, beginning in Homestead, Florida, Homestead, Florida on March 21 and concluding in Fontana, California, Fontana, California on October 31. The season was marred by the fatal accidents of Gonzalo Rodríguez (racing driver), Gonzalo Rodríguez during practice for the Laguna Seca round and Greg Moore (racing driver), Greg Moore during the Marlboro 500 in Fontana, in addition to countless injuries that took several drivers out of championship contention. Juan Pablo Montoya, in his first season at CART after two successful seasons in International Formula 3000, Formula 3000, won the championship in his first season, as well as Rookie of the Year honors, the second and final driver to win both awards in the same season, after Nigel Mansell in 1993 PPG Indy Car World Series, 1993. The season ended in a tie, with Mont ...
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FedEx Corporation, formerly Federal Express Corporation and later FDX Corporation, is an American multinational conglomerate holding company focused on transportation, e-commerce and business services based in Memphis, Tennessee. The name "FedEx" is a syllabic abbreviation of the name of the company's original air division, Federal Express, which was used from 1973 until 2000. FedEx today is best known for its air delivery service, FedEx Express, which was one of the first major shipping companies to offer overnight delivery as a flagship service. Since then, FedEx also started FedEx Ground, FedEx Office (originally known as Kinko's), FedEx Supply Chain, FedEx Freight, and various other services across multiple subsidiaries, often meant to respond to its main competitor, UPS. FedEx is also one of the top contractors of the US government and assists in the transport of some United States Postal Service packages through their Air Cargo Network contract. FedEx's prominence in b ...
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