Full Throttle

Let me start this with The Possibles, in other words I’ll lay out perfectly good examples of not only what’s possible but given the scenario likely. (But don’t quote mr on it)
“One of the directors of the company that organizes the Grand Prix of Cleveland in Ohio, US, has shown an interest in the promotion [...]

Well, it will be the last word. Assuming no one is ahemm,… “willing” to place him in their race car.
If so… more blog fodder to follow.
(H/T No Fenders)
IRL, Paul Tracy, Sports, CCWS, Auto Racing, Motorsports, Full Throttle

The recent merger (a/k/a marriage of convenience at the point of a financial shotgun) of CCWS and IndyCar has seen Forsythe-Pettit Racing fold its tent after 13 years of both CART and Champ Car competition.
The teams one last shot at glory, at least for the foreseeable future, is participation in the Toyota Grand Prix of [...]

Question: when is a dead racing series not dead?
Answer: When the CEO of the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach says so.
In an effort to mimic the best David Copperfield routine Jim Michaelian is Livin’ on a Prayer (sorry John Bon Jovi) and has been led to believe the last ever Champ Car event will [...]

That would be a single King, as opposed to the two “Kings” of CCWS and IndyCar.
They are one, as in single, as in the vows are said and the consummation is complete.
Jeff, BTW, has the best photographic editorial comment on the unification.
R.I.P. Champ Car World Series.

Nice while it lasted wasn’t it? A road well traveled wasn’t it?
Every spring it seems someone floats the merger talk rumor and a marriage is “imminent.”
It’s as if you’ve suffered the teenage indignity of a backseat romance interruption by the local constable all over again.
CCWS and the IndyCar got within a step last week of [...]

The IRL and Champ Car merger that is. For this year allegedly.
24-Hour News 8 racing analyst Derek Daly says the merge between the IRL and Champ Car is imminent and vitally important for American open wheel racing. But he adds, it will take a few years before all teams are competing at the same level.
“It [...]

The proof of the pudding is the eating, if it sounds too good to be true and seeing is believing so I’ll pass this along as rumor ’til more evidence rolls across my desk:
Gerry Forsythe and Kevin Kalkhoven of Champ Car are close to reaching an agreement with Indy Racing League founder Tony George to [...]

Considering Switzerland’s three official languages are German, French and Italian the question is which one Neel Jani used when asked if he were interested in joining a CCWS team in 2008.
If I were a betting man I’d guess “No Dell’Inferno” (Hell No!) but I could be wrong. He could have used that [in]famous hand & [...]

The current health of the CCWS isn’t the best and recent news doesn’t say much for it’s continued existence.
For example, fans, what there are of them, learned this week 4 out of 14 races would be one-hour specials, that ONLY 5 of 14 races would be broadcast LIVE, and that the rest would be tape-delayed.
Not [...]

Champ Car fans may be familiar with Brazilian Rafael Sperafico who contested occasional Champ Car events from 2003 to 2005. Brother Ricardo drove for Dale Coyne Racing in 2005 with his best finish of 8th coming at Denver that year. Brother Rodrigo, and a cousin, Alexandre, also competed in Champ Car on occasion.
Rafael was killed [...]

It’s a trite and over used phrase but it must be said: “Just what to hell are they thinking?”
Mergers are designed to strengthen two or more parties. A merger between the CCWS and IndyCar is what is sorely needed for open wheel racing in the good old US of A to survive, if not prosper.
What’s [...]

I guess when your the boss of a mostly losing proposition, and that losing proposition has lost it’s most visible and only legitimate face in S

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It does.
As if losing three-time champion, soon to be four-time, S

The fiddlers of CCWS, IRL, F1 and finally A1GP keep fiddlin’.
What is it with open wheel racing in America? Has the genre become a carrier of an infectious disease so virulent that everyone is fleeing the isolation ward?
As we are all aware Bernie, surgical mask firmly in place, took his plaything and went home to [...]

Just what NASCAR needs, another driver “fans love to hate.”
Recently ousted F1 driver Scott Speed has been interviewed by the Austrian newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten. According to Speed he’s commencing his job search shortly and will concentrate on North America.
In the next few weeks I will look around in the States for a new job. I [...]

It was inevitable, three-time Champ Car champion S

The arrival of Toyota brought with it and “highlighted” a certain segment of NASCAR Nation that was better left ignored, for the most part they were, and still are except for the occasional bleating sheep heard in the background.
But it makes you wonder what would happen if NASCAR was infiltrated by a Frog.
Carl Haas, a [...]

Australian Will Power won the pole, set a track record, and regained second place in the overall standings in the final qualifying session Saturday for the Rexall Grand Prix of Edmonton.
The 26-year-old has a one point lead over France’s Sebastien Bourdais and will start alongside him on the front row for Sunday’s race.
“The season starts [...]