Mario Moraes remains sitting in his indy car after crashing in the 2008 nikon INDY 300 race at surfers paradise,gold coast
The Nikon Indy 300 is an open-wheel motor race event that takes place each year on a street circuit at Surfers Paradise, an eastern beach-side suburb of Gold Coast city in south east Queensland, Australia. Known generically as the Gold Coast Indy 300, Japanese camera giant Nikon was announced as new naming rights sponsor in early August, 2008. The challenging kilometre track has several fast sections and four chicanes. This has been an annual event since 1991 originally as part of the CART PPG IndyCar World Series. Then, following the split between CART and the newly formed Indy Racing League (IRL) in 1996 and the subsequent dissolution of CART in 2003, as part of the Champ Car World Series. Following the merger of the Indy Racing League and Champ Car World Series in February 2008 the future of race has been secured until 2013 as an IRL IndyCar Series event, although the race has been omitted from the 2009 IndyCar Series season . In the first sixteen years of the event, there were sixteen different winners. In 2007 Sébastien Bourdais became the first driver to win the race twice, adding to his 2005 victory. The weekend events include a number of Australian racing categories in support of the international Champ Car race. This has often included V8 Supercars and the Carrera Cup. Since 2002, the Gold Coast race has counted for points in the V8 Supercar championship.
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