Newman/Haas Racing Is Selling 42 Indy Cars at One Big Auction Oct. 29

• Newman/Haas Racing, one of the winningest teams in Indycar history, is selling 42 of its race cars at team headquarters in Illinois Oct 29. RM Sotheby's will handle the sale.

• The number of cars offered is unprecedented. If you ever thought you might want a modern Indycar, now is the time to bid.

• What can you do with one of these? You could race it at the Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational, in any of the five Vintage Indy Registry events.
  

Over the course of its 28 years in CART and Indycar competition, Newman/Haas won 105 races and eight championships, among the best records in racing. The team featured such luminaries as Mario and Michael Andretti, Nigel Mansell, Sebastien Bourdais, and many others. Mario and Michael each brought the team one title, Nigel Mansell and Cristiano da Matta one each, and Sebastien Bourdais a remarkable four championships, all but one of the above in the Lolas Carl Haas used to sell.

But the team hasn’t run a car in 11 years, since 2011 when Oriel Servia got a third at Milwaukee and two seconds—in New Hampshire and Baltimore—on the way to a fourth-place finish for the season. Teammate James Hinchcliffe ended the year in 12^th position in a season dominated by Ganassi and Penske. The next year Carl Haas said the team would not run due to the economy and its effect on sponsorships. "The economic climate no longer enables Newman/Haas to participate in open-wheel racing at this time," team co-founder Carl Haas said in a brief statement at the time, and the once-dominant Newman/Haas Racing team never came back.

Team co-founder Paul Newman passed away in 2008, Carl Haas himself died in 2016, and the cars have been in storage ever since.