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I was reading that the IRL and Cart will merge pretty soon, which I think is so good, the indy series before the break up was so good to watch when I was young even mansell,senna and villenvue tested and drove for that series, when it split up it just was not the same, lets hope they can put it back together as it was before.
Simon: Nils? You can close in now. Nils?
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Simon: [on the phone] John... in the back of the truck you're driving, there's $13 billon dollars worth in gold bullion. I wonder would a deal be out of the question?
John McClane: [on the phone] Yeah, I got a deal for you. Come out from that rock you're hiding under, and I'll drive this truck up your ass.
It would be nice to see them back together again. Right now, both sides are just in negotiations. To be honest, I have serious doubts. CART and IRL have two completely different business models, and I hate to say, Tony George is holding a very strong poker hand. I just don't know, when they split each side predicted the other would fold, and now, each seem quite independantly successful, even though CART has had some pretty crappy seasons.
I hope they kiss and make up, the fans would be the ones to benefit.
I prefer to see U.S. cars on road courses to be honest. I don't see why they can't continue to operate on their own. Anyone? Champ Car has a new chassis coming in '07 so would the IRL be willing to adopt their chassis config or are Champ Car teams going to be forced to buy a Panoz and run it for one year before it becomes obsolete in '08? I don't think it will happen.
Scuderia_Russ wrote:I prefer to see U.S. cars on road courses to be honest. I don't see why they can't continue to operate on their own. Anyone? Champ Car has a new chassis coming in '07 so would the IRL be willing to adopt their chassis config or are Champ Car teams going to be forced to buy a Panoz and run it for one year before it becomes obsolete in '08? I don't think it will happen.
Sadly, American racing is oval racing. It's not particularly my cup of tea, but everyone else here seems to like it.
But I do think IRL and Champ Car needs to merge. Champ Car offers better racing, but IRL has the money. It's only logical that they finally come back together, perhaps racing 50/50 on ovals and road courses. I think any open-wheeled racing fan could get behind that.
But the thinking, from what I've read, is that if it were to happen, IRL/Champ would run an entirely new chassis altogether.
Scuderia_Russ wrote:I prefer to see U.S. cars on road courses to be honest. I don't see why they can't continue to operate on their own. Anyone? Champ Car has a new chassis coming in '07 so would the IRL be willing to adopt their chassis config or are Champ Car teams going to be forced to buy a Panoz and run it for one year before it becomes obsolete in '08? I don't think it will happen.
Sadly, American racing is oval racing. It's not particularly my cup of tea, but everyone else here seems to like it.
But I do think IRL and Champ Car needs to merge. Champ Car offers better racing, but IRL has the money. It's only logical that they finally come back together, perhaps racing 50/50 on ovals and road courses. I think any open-wheeled racing fan could get behind that.
But the thinking, from what I've read, is that if it were to happen, IRL/Champ would run an entirely new chassis altogether.
From all that I have read and understand, this is going to happen. A merger.
They are trying for as early as next year, but looks like 2008.
The idea is to split it into three differant types of racing like how it was when CART was a real race series second only to F1
1/3 street courses, 1/3 natural road courses, 1/3 ovals.
This would make the most sense and thus again maybe being a good series.
Thanks javier
