Gordon goes for two again on Memorial Day Weekend

Robby Gordon can't get the Indianapolis 500 out of his system.

The former open-wheel star, with the blessing of his NASCAR Winston Cup team, announced Friday he will try the Memorial Day Weekend double -- Indy and the Coca-Cola 600 in Concord, N.C. -- for the third time on May 26.

"I'm really pumped up about the chance to run the double again and hopefully win both races," Gordon said. "I've been competitive in the Indy 500 every year and have come within a lap of winning it. We've just let a few slip away from us."

Gordon has four top-six finishes in seven Indianapolis 500 starts and was leading on the next-to-last lap of the 1999 race before running out of fuel and finishing fourth.

CART SUIT: Joseph Heitzler, fired as chairman and chief executive officer of Championship Auto Racing Teams Inc., responded to a lawsuit filed by the organization earlier this week with one of his own.

Heitzler charged in an action filed in Los Angeles that his termination was in response to actions he took to eliminate conflicts of interest by several CART directors.

FORD SPOILER CHANGE: NASCAR will increase the rear spoiler height on the Ford Taurus for the April 21 Talladega 500, the second of four restrictor plate races in 2002.

The increase of one-quarter inch was announced by NASCAR, meaning the rear spoilers on the Fords will be 6 inches tall by 57 inches wide for the race at Talladega Superspeedway.

During the Daytona 500 in February, the rear spoiler for Fords was 53/4 inches tall after NASCAR gave the Tauruses two raises of one-quarter inch in a span of six weeks.

The decision was made in an attempt to even the aerodynamic rules for Talladega and Daytona, where the horsepower-sapping plates are used to keep the cars under 200 mph.

-- From wire reports