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More details here–sounds like it may actually happen, after weeks of rumors and counter-rumors.
http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/report-champ-car-indycar-deal-done//P1/
News broke a couple hours ago…
http://www.indycar.com/news/story.php?story_id=10557
It is done, its official, the open wheel war is over! :woohoo
Guess i gotta start taking all the Champ Car stickers off my kart. 😐 Wonder whats gonna happen to the ‘Champ Car’ Rotax Series now?
Couldn’t happen soon enough.
This “War” should have ended with the bankruptcy hearing in Jan 04. Thanks Kevin, Gerry, and Paul for continuing the split for 4 more years.
Oh well, I am over it now.
This is a great day for open-wheel racing. 😀
@Jon Romenesko wrote:
News broke a couple hours ago…
http://www.indycar.com/news/story.php?story_id=10557
It is done, its official, the open wheel war is over! :woohoo
Guess i gotta start taking all the Champ Car stickers off my kart. 😐 Wonder whats gonna happen to the ‘Champ Car’ Rotax Series now?
Jon,
Stop by my trailer the next time you see us at the track. I will have plenty of Indycar Series stickers to replace your Champcar stickers.
Eric
Yea
King George won.IRL rules
IRL chassis
IRL engine
Limited road racing.Sounds like Nascar without fenders
I will continue to get up at 4:30 AM every other weekend and watch the Bernie show. Sans the American race this year (at a track the royal family owns).
Jon Romenesko wrote:News broke a couple hours ago…
http://www.indycar.com/news/story.php?story_id=10557
It is done, its official, the open wheel war is over! :woohoo
Guess i gotta start taking all the Champ Car stickers off my kart. 😐 Wonder whats gonna happen to the ‘Champ Car’ Rotax Series now?
Jon,
Stop by my trailer the next time you see us at the track. I will have plenty of Indycar Series stickers to replace your Champcar stickers.
Eric
Hopefully Tony isn’t hip to the local karting scene in Indiana. They are pretty hard core Leopard supporters from what I’ve seen. Maybe that will have no bearing on Rotax. It certainly brought some prestige having Champ Car involved in Rmax.
It’s a great thing to see them reunite but I’ll miss some of the road courses.
For me, I wish they would have used the Champ Car new car, push to pass was fun to watch in races, and it looks more like a formula 1 car. Indy Cars to me look like little toys, put some cool looking wings on them please.
Amen, Greg! Push-to-pass added a lot of excitement, and it’s too bad that Road America and other great road courses are off the table. But all that might change next year, if open wheel racing can finally regain a toehold in Nascar-land.
Ditto Greg and Joe.
Maybe moving forward they will adopt some more road circuits and the push to pass button.
I actually believe you have one hidden on your kart somewhere Greg.
Anyone want a great deal on a Panoz used only 1 season? 😐
I suppose somebody had to “win” the open-wheel wars, but it’ll be interesting to see if the winner has the strength left to survive. Long Beach, Edmonton, and Surfer’s Paradise may have strong local followings for their races, but does the world at large care anymore? I cared enough to sit in the SW Vista at Indy from ’87-’93, but a lot has changed since then.
Good luck, Tony… Long live Disney Racing League.
While I can understand how people can prefer road courses over ovals, I cannot understand how anyone who has been going to Indianapolis for many years can say that that the racing today is not better than it has been with the current ICS cars.
In the glory years, you would lucky to have 3 or 4 cars on the lead lap. Today, there are 15 to 20 cars within 4 or 5 seconds of each other. 2004 – 2007 have had better racing action than any of the races I have been to and I have been going to Indy since 1976. 2006 is arguably the greatest Indy 500 in history.
I am not happy that the split happened, however, I don’t think that the split should overshadow some seriously great racing that we have today.
To each their own. While I don’t think Champ Car brings much to the table, it is nice to have the confusion over with.
2010 will bring new cars and new engines.
This is Great! It will be very hard fo former champ car teams to become indy car teams but it will be great. I wish some more of the champ car races would become indy car races such as Road America but American open wheel will benifit from this deal. looking forward to the indy car series opener and all the races especially Indianapolis.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Unified series looks to prospects of stronger future
By Dave Lewandowski
indycar.com
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