Gregory William Moore (April 22, 1975 – October 31, 1999) was a Canadian professional race car driver who competed in the Indy Lights and Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) series from 1993 to 1999. He began competitive karting at the age of ten and achieved early success, before progressing to open-wheel car racing in the Canadian Formula Ford Championship in 1991. Moore won the 1992 USAC FF2000 Western Division Championship and the 1995 Indy Lights Championship.
Moore began competing in CART with Forsythe Racing in 1996, finishing ninth in the drivers' championship and was second to Alex Zanardi in the Rookie of the Year standings. The following year, Moore claimed the first two victories of his career to finish seventh in the points' standings. He improved on his performance to place fifth overall with a further two wins in 1998. In 1999, he took another win as his form lowered and fell to tenth. At the season-ending Marlboro 500 at California Speedway, Moore was killed in a violent airborne collision with a concrete barrier on the race's tenth lap. He was the second driver to be killed in CART competition in 1999 after Gonzalo Rodríguez three races earlier at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. It was scheduled to be Moore's final race for Forsythe Racing before moving to Team Penske in 2000.
Overall, Moore competed in 72 CART races, winning five and achieving 17 podium finishes. Due to the split between CART and the IRL, Moore never competed in or won the Indianapolis 500. He was a popular figure known as an oval track specialist. Moore's car number 99 was retired from the list of those available to drivers competing in CART and its support series as a mark of respect. Since his death, the Greg Moore Foundation was established in his honour to continue his legacy through charitable causes. Three establishments in British Columbia have been named after the driver. Moore was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame and BC Sports Hall of Fame in 2000.
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Date: 22 April 1975
Fresno Bee managing editor George Gruner and reporters William Patterson and Joseph Rosato receive indefinite jail sentences on Apr 21 for refusing to disclose source of grand jury transcript; Superior Ct Judge Denver Peckinpah orders sentences stayed until May 23 (S)
Date: 23 April 1975
Bklyn Sup Ct Justice M Michael Potoker issues ruling that reporter has right to protect confidentiality of news sources; issues ruling in quashing subpoena for Thomas Raftery, NY Daily News reporter; Raftery had been subpoenaed Feb 27 by attys for Henry Marahan and son Henry, who has been arrested 1 yr ago on charges of illegal possession of weapons; Raftery, in article published in News on Apr 26, '74, had written that police had acted on anonymous phone tip; defendants' attys issued subpoena to get Raftery to disclose who in Police Dept had told him of tip; Potoker held that defendants were not seeking information dealing directly with criminal act (S)
Date: 22 April 1975
Scripps-Howard Foundation on Apr 21 names winners in its 4 annual competitions: Milwaukee Journal, WABC-TV, David Johnston (Detroit Free Press), John R Harrison (Lakeland Ledger) and William D Montalbano (Miami Herald) (S)
Date: 23 April 1975
NY Times repts consolidated net income for qr ended Mar 31 fell to $3.81-million, while consolidated revenues rose to record $97.58-million; repts most of earnings decrease was caused by Times newspaper, which earned 6c a share in 1st qr; Cyrus R Vance is named new dir; shareholder Wilma Soss nominates Sally Reston as dir and Evelyn Y Davis nominates Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; Reed J Irvine, chmn of Accuracy in Media, accuses Times of practicing advocacy journalism; Times pres and publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger acknowledges that Times is studying 6-column format; shareholders vote to ratify apptmt of Haskins & Sells as co's auditors; 1st-qr ad and circulation revenues rose 6% while ad linage declined by about 10%; pre-tax income from magazines fell to $1.63-million; equity in earnings of co's 3 Canadian newsprint associates rose to $1.81-million; Vance por (M)
Date: 23 April 1975
By ALFONSO A. NARVAEZ Special to The New York Times
Alfonso NARVAEZ
Gov Carey warns unless NYS fiscal '75-76 budget deficit is erased state will be unable to help Mayor Beame eliminate $641.5-million deficit in city's fiscal '76 expense budget, special budget message to Legis (S)
Date: 22 April 1975
Date: 23 April 1975
Lord Killanin, Internatl Olympic Com pres, begins, Apr 23, 5-day personal assessment of plans and facilities for '76 Olympic Summer Games (S)