CHARLOTTE -- The Indiana Pacers will travel to Charlotte on Monday night for an Eastern Conference showdown with the Hornets. Its been a tale of two teams for the Pacers so far this season, as theyve won all three games at home and lost all three games on the road.Indiana is coming off its best effort of the season on Saturday night, defeating the Chicago Bulls 111-94 and dominating from the opening tip.This is the type of game we want to build on, Coach Nate McMillan said. We executed on both the offensive and defensive ends. Now lets see if we can take that execution on the road.Forward C.J. Miles echoed those comments, telling NBA.com: Its easy to play at home when everybody in the building is rooting for you. When you go on the road, its just your 15 guys. Weve got to make sure everybody gets after it.Both teams will see familiar faces on the opposite side of the court. Al Jefferson will be making his first appearance back in Charlotte after spending three seasons there. Hes off to a slow start with his new team, averaging just 4.7 points in the early going. Former Pacer Roy Hibbert is now with Charlotte, but is doubtful to play because of right knee soreness.In other injury notes, Charlottes Marvin Williams missed practice on Sunday with a viral infection and is listed as questionable for Mondays game.The Pacers (3-3) are hoping Saturdays game is the beginning of a nice stretch for point guard Jeff Teague. He scored 21 points to go along with six assists, and looked much more like the player that starred for the Atlanta Hawks the last few seasons compared to previous games.Thats the Jeff Teague we thought we were getting, McMillan said.When the Pacers have struggled this year, it has largely been on the defensive end, especially with guard penetration. Charlottes point guard Kemba Walker will bring a tough challenge for Indiana. Last season, Walker averaged 26.7 points per game against the Pacers, the most he averaged against any Eastern Conference team.Walker led the Hornets in scoring in four of their five games, guiding them to a 4-1 start. Its the first time Charlotte started the season 4-1 since the 2000-2001 season.Despite the good record, the Hornets have only one win against a team over .500, and theyve been getting off to slow starts in games.We dont want to continue to have bad starts because the results wont be like this all the time, Walker said. You dont want, at the end of the game, to talk about our start. It shouldnt be that way.Charlotte coach Steve Clifford has the Hornets playing tough defense this season. The Hornets are ranked third in the NBA in defensive efficiency, allowing 94.1 points per 100 possessions.The Hornets won all three match-ups with the Pacers last season. It was the first time that happened in the history of the Indiana and Charlotte series. 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Every company in Formula One now does business in the Unites States." Scores of Americans have given F1 a try but few have succeeded. Andretti was the last American to win a drivers championship title and before him it was Phil Hill in 1961. More common were the likes of Andrettis son Michael, who raced 13 grand prix races for McLaren in 1993 with a third-place finish as his best result. Speed never scored a point in the two years he raced in F1. There was talk in 2010 of creating an American team dubbed USF1 team with strong backing from YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley and featuring Danica Patrick and possibly Speed as drivers. But USF1 struggled to attract sponsors amid the global recession and ran afoul of F1 when it didnt race in 2010. The dearth of drivers — there are only Americans Alexander Rossi and Conor Daly in all the F1 feeders — is blamed on the a mix of cultural and financial factors. Among the biggest challenges is raising the millions needed to fund a team from American corporations that may have doubts about the benefits of investing in a sport that is not a major attraction in the U.S. "Its extremely difficult for an American mostly because there is no American support from companies," said Speed, who now races in NASCAR and Global Rally Cross. "Why would an American company spend x amount of money in Formula One when they can get 10 times that exposure in America racing NASCAR? It makes zero sense financially." F1 drivers and executives said it also can be difficult for an American to make the transition to F1 since they are raised on tracks and a system that grooms them for IndyCar and NASCAR rather than serpentine circuits of Europe. There also isnt the kind of support system that European drivers can count on to provide mentoring and the occasional break as they attempt to rise through the ranks of the sport. "Formula One has flirted with North American for many years but Formula One hasnt been seen as the pinnacle of the sport in the eyes of youngster in North America. North America has evolved in a slightly different approach with things like NASCAR," said McLarens Martin Whitmarsh, who heads the F1 teams association. "North American doesnt have the karting program. Without exceeption, every single one of these (F1) drivers started at 8 or 9 in karting and went into competitive karting.dddddddddddd Karting became the launch pad for their careers." In the short term, Whitmarsh said prospective American drivers will have to go to Europe early on in their careers. But Andretti said the addition of two American races should help in the long-term — by inspiring more youngsters to take up the sport, providing the facilities needed to develop that talent and convincing American companies to step up their sponsorship. Rossi and Daly have beaten the odds partly because they are not your typical American drivers. Rossi is a reserve driver for Caterham and drives for them in the series GP2 which is a notch below F1. Daly drives in a lesser, GP3 series with ART Grand Prix. Both grew up on F1 — Rossi watching as a 6-year-old with his father — and Daly benefiting from the stories a father, Derek, who raced in F1 from 1978 to 1982. They also raced in Europe at a young age which Whitmarsh and others recommend. Rossi moved to Italy at 16 to pursue his F1 dream while the 21-year-old Daly first raced as a 16-year-old in Europe before moving there in 2011. The duo also have the belief they will make it to F1 — emboldened by the success they have had so far. Daly won a race in Barcelona last year and again this year in Valencia and sits fifth in the GP3 standings. Rossi joined Caterham in 2011 as a test driver and was named a reserve driver this year. He then replaced Chinese reserve driver Ma Qing Hua in GP2 after the opening race in Malaysia and placed third place in Bahrain. "When we were able to come over here and win races and qualify on pole, it justified that we can do it too. That is what has been encouraging," Daly said. "Rossi has been great so far and he has done an awesome job and he has kind of gotten there with Caterham already," he said. "Its not just one American we want in F1. Its as many as we can get. Right now, its just us two that at least have made it into Formula One cars and are kind of getting there." The two also understand the significance of becoming the next American on the grid. They have already witnessed a few flag-waving Americans at European races and the kind of support that comes across Twitter and Facebook when they win races. Doing that in Austin or New Jersey, they said, would be special. "It would mean everything not only to be an American on the grid but to be an American on the grid as Formula One starts to rebuild an audience in America," Rossi said. "The timing would be amazing." Noting the buzz he saw for Brit Lewis Hamilton at the British GP and Spaniard Fernando Alonso at the Spanish GP, Daly said an American race needs a homegrown driver. "In America, we have a race. Any drivers? No. Was there a good crowd? Absolutely, its a great venue Austin and the track is incredible. But in reality, who do Americans have to cheer for?" he said. "Its like the Olympics. When you watch the Olympics, you want to see Americans do well." ' ' '