It appears that Open Wheel Racing Series has won the war for the rotting carcass of CART, fending off a competing bid from the Indy Racing League and Tony George. As a result, there will be some form of the Champ Car World Series in operation this year, starting at Long Beach in April. I've said before in this space that it looked like George was in position to kill CART once and for all. I sort of hoped he would, just so we could start from scratch and build a strong, diverse, unified open wheel series for North America. Since, for the time being at least, the IRL and ChampCar will exist apart from each other, I hope that the OWRS braintrust can pull the remains of CART out of their financial funk and restore it to health. Stability, not profitability, should be the immediate goal. Let's build slowly.
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
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