I was rather pleased last night reading Robin’s Earth Shattering News.
Also was enjoying the fact that Autosport posted the story with the “respected American journalist Robin Miller” getting the credit for the it.

Now, will it happen?

Guess we will be waiting for another installment of Miller Time.

God luck on them

Jp

I will believe it when i see one series racing on the track.

penskeracing - 08 February 2008 10:18 AM

I will believe it when i see one series racing on the track.

I agree. Hope they really are working things out.

It looks like we are soon to be down to one racing series in the states that isn’t tainted by the influence of the France family/Mike Helton or Tony George [DELETED].  I have always enjoyed IMSA and the ALMS and it looks like that’s where my allegiance will lie in the future.  NASCAR was dumbed down with its infamous ‘debris’ yellows so the field would bunch up and give the bubbas another opportunity to see a big wreck and the IRL was created so that A.J. Foyt could be competitive again.  CART was as real as racing could get in this country.  Tony George ruined it because A.J., being Tony’s godfather, thought he could still run a racing team.  Then the doddering old fool found out that cars don’t have carburetors anymore.  Since technology had passed him by it was his logical next choice to get a new series started where his team might be able to win a race or two. You missed again A.J.

Of course Kevin Kalkhoven and Gerald Forsythe aren’t just innocent bystanders in all of this.  The should be applauded for their efforts to bring Champ Car back to its former glory but should now be vilified for letting it dwindle to nothing.  If their running of the CCWS is an indicator of their business accumen then it is a miracle that their respective businesses still exist.

And what about the owners of smaller teams like Eric Bachelart and Dale Coyne?  These guys raced for the ‘love of the game’.  Are they just going to be cast aside?  Bachelart had just spent a ton on a new car that could very shortly become obsolete.  If this all goes through as outlined in Miller’s article Kalkhoven and George should pony up some cash to buy the smaller teams out so that they can afford to go on to the next series.  The ALMS would welcome them with open arms and I would be there cheering them on. 

I have not watched the Indy 500 in several years now and I will continue with that tradition.  Open wheel racing (formula type, not sprint cars) in this country is just about [DELETED]. Sebring is in a few weeks.  Let the real racing begin.
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Clean up your act. Do not post the types of phrases and sentences I deleted. That type of language is not welcome here.

FM

Well, seeing how Toronto’s race was on the same weekend as the Watkins Glen event, it looks like we’ll be watching something else here this summer. My bet is either the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series, Formula Atlantics or Lawnmower racing.

::goes to garage to attach carbon-fibre spoiler to his Craftsman riding mower::

What a bummer the end of Toronto’s Race, and I just got my ticket application yesterday.  :-(

If there are no Champcars in Toronto, it will be the Altantics (2 races?), the Canadian Tire series, and some others.

I wouldn’t go though.

In any event, I do not think there will be a merger until there is one.  Speculation is futile, as it has happened before.  That said, I don’t believe it has ever been this close (with respect to quotes made from the big boys)

They should move the Watkins Glen date, a lot easier to move that date.  With a merger it will be a lot easier to get sponsor.

Please please please let this happen.  Who has Motegi connections?

The race in Toronto has always been a blast and it is one of the few( if not the only one) to have photo passes
It will be a sad summer .
 
Man am I pissed!!!!!!!!!

I think they should have worked out a deal for 2009, then they can better plan the schedule plus I think that’s suppose to be the year that the IRL will deb ut a new formula.  Personally I think Kalkovien’s catch to the merger is that the DP01 would be used as the “base” for a new Indycar formula for 2009.  As for the left out Champ Car races, I think they may exclude some of the IRL races, specifically the ones on tracks owned by the International Speedway Corporation, and include the Canadian races left out in 08.  That’s what I think KK has in mind when he spoke with Tony George and thus the slight hold-up and denial of merger.