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Originally Posted by kurski

The Italian/Russian CART team never appeared on the grid in 2002 or later. Montermini/Zlobin would have been the drivers.

Andrea Montermini already had prior CART experience anyway and Sergey Zlobin briefly became a Minardi F1 test driver.

Jorg Muller turned down a drive in the 1998 CART Series.

Allan McNish was also present at the 1996 Bettenhausen Sebring test.