NEXT UP: Long Beach (schedule subject to change) Jan 26: Sebring Testing Sebring International Raceway - Sebring, FL USA Feb 17: Firebird Testing Apr 9: Long Beach Streets of Long Beach - Long Beach, CA USA May 13: Houston Reliant Park - Houston, TX USA May 21: Monterrey Fundidora Park - Monterrey Mexico Jun 4: Milwaukee The Milwaukee Mile - West Allis, WI USA Jun 18: Portland Portland International Raceway - Portland, OR USA Jun 25: Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport - Cleveland, OH USA Jul 9: Toronto Exhibition Place - Toronto, ON Canada Jul 23: Edmonton Finning International Speedway - Edmonton, AB Canada Jul 30: San Jose Streets of San Jose - San Jose, CA USA Aug 13: Denver Streets of Denver - Denver USA Aug 27: Montreal Circuit Gilles Villeneuve - Montreal Canada Sep 24: Road America Road America - Elkhart Lake, WI USA Oct 15: Ansan South Korea Ansan South Korea Race Track - Ansan South Korea Oct 22: Australia Gold Coast - Surfers Paradise, Qld Australia Nov 5: Mexico City Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez - Mexico City Mexico
Is that one oval? I know many people don't like those clone 1.5 mile oval tracks, but surely Champ Car can get one of those? I mean I love road courses, but I'd rather watch F1 if I want that. Champ Car needs to go back to the balance that made them the best racing series on the planet. I really don't understand why the final three races are held outside the US. Add a really bad TV deal and Champ Car still has a uphill battle in the US. That being said, Go Bruno! I wasn't as interested in the series after he was taken out at Indy.
"Tony George confirmed Friday that he is actively pursuing unification between the two American open-wheel racing series, the first public indication from George that the split might come to a peaceful conclusion. Saying "open-wheel racing needs to be unified," George confirmed a report in Wednesday's Los Angeles Times that he is in preliminary stages of negotiations with Champ Car principal Kevin Kalkhoven to merge the two sanctioning bodies into one. " interesting....
That what happens when so many contenders (not for the win today) retire after the first corner. Voila, another SEB² week-end both in WRC and ChampCar. What does Bourdais have to do to earn recognition in F1 ? Win the championship driving backwards with his feet ? I mean, there's no guarantee he would be a World champ but can someone say he wouldn't be a decent driver. He's gonna be difficult to beat this year, he perfectly knows the car, the team, most circuits, the way you have to manage the race... Let's be clear from the start, I have nothing against Ms. Legge, she had a pretty (huh huh) good drive today and finished a tough race. But will the TV broadcast do a Danica again in this series ? It's annoying to be forced down our throats the sympathy we must have for a female driver, yeah I know marketing ; not very discrete, one or two winks wouldn't bother me but I think she had more onboard footage than any other driver...In a way, it feels like : "Hey, look ! the chick can drive ! " Yeah, thanks, she won three races last year. She's a woman not a retard. Or are we, motorsports lovers, still considered as a bunch of caricatural primal machos...
I have to agree about Legge. Great she's in the top eight. Now how many cars did she actually pass and how many cars did she pass because the other idiots crashed out? Of course she was fairly clean (except for her own spin), but a very un-impressive drive otherwise.
Sucks about the first corner, but I can't remember the last time we had a clean first corner or lap at Long Beach. Oh Well. Still enjoyed the race.
How come there's only one US driver on the field ? Even as a foreigner, I think it's quite a pity. Anyway, impressive run by Bourdais so far. At one point in Monterey I thought he really couldn't win this one ; but he succeeded in pulling faster times with hard compound tires than those who were running on soft ones and finished them off with the last stint ! Will dangerous Dan finish the season ?
Here's a picture of your driver, taken by me on Sunday. The race was decent enough, when we weren't cleaning up debris for what seemed like 3-4 too many laps every time that we had a debris caution. That, and the stupid 1 hour and 45 minute time limit thing...
How was the crowd? I was working si I couldn't watch the race. Just some some hilights on SPeed News.
NASCAR and to a lesser extent the IRL just totally eat them up. There's two though. Allemendinger and the old man, my fave, Jimmy Vasser (who used to live in SF, and was actually listed in the phone book!).
28,357 tickets distributed, but many were comps including mine. actual attendance was around 20,000 at a track that holds 45,000.
Shame. Milwaukee used to bring in the crowds (well didn't every other track before the I$L effed everything up) ...........