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IRL-Live reports:

Beck Motorsports could make a driver announcement Thursday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The driver is expected to be Buddy Lazier and the announcement is expected to include sponsorship by Curb Records. Greg Beck said the deal is in place but the car will not go out on the speedway until next week. Beck Motorsports is starting to move into its garage at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway but there was very little equipment in place as of Wednesday.

Great stuff. The 1996 Indy 500 Champ really desrves a ride this year, and hopefully will put his rather unsuccsesful 2003 behind him, if it gets confirmed

IRL-Live also reports:

Penske Team President Tim Cindric is not ruling out the No. 66 Penske G-Force eventually hitting the track, just "not by one of our drivers."

The G-Force chassis has been impressive in the first three days of practice and there has been speculation that Penske might try to send Sam Hornish Jr. out again in the chassis to give it another try. Gil de Ferran won the 2003 Indy 500 in a G-Force and Hornish shook down the G-Force for a few laps in the April open test at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Helio Castroneves did a few laps in a G-Force in 2003 in practice and decided he preferred the Dallara chassis and has said he would not consider switching.

Cindric said the timing just has not been right for the team to put an effort into running two different chassis this year so the Penske primary drivers would continue running Dallara's.

Just a rumor at this point, but if the car goes make the race then who will be the driver?