Champ Car Craps Out in Vegas

29th November 2005

Champ Car Craps Out in Vegas

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The Las Vegas Review Journal is reporting the Champ Car World Series will announce a revised schedule during a media teleconference today.

It’s expected Series officials will announce Las Vegas will be replaced on the 2006 schedule with an, as yet, unnamed venue. Speedway general manager Chris Powell said, “I’ve known all along that they might not come back next year.” “We’ve had a good exchange (of ideas) with the people from Champ Car since the first race we had with them.”

Obviously that exchange of ideas didn’t lead to much in the way of consensus and Champ Car will be moving on.

UPDATE: The “venue to be named later” and replacement for Las Vegas is Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.

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1 On November 30th, 2005, George said:#

We can thank (or blame) Steve Johnson for this. His roots from his SCCA days will see him continuing to attempt to rebuild the status of tracks like Elkhart Lake, Laguna Seca and Mid Ohio as Champ Car sites.

The new race in San Jose may be problematic for a return of Laguna Seca, but I am still hopeful for Mid Ohio in ‘07.

posted on November 30th, 2005 at 10:05 am

2 On November 30th, 2005, Marc said:#

Hey if he wants to add to the status of Elkhart Lake, Laguna Seca and Mid Ohio more power to him.

They are three of the finest road circuits in the world. Wonder if we could tempt Johnson into working on the image of Sebring?

posted on November 30th, 2005 at 10:14 am

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