+Fates 63 Posted February 21, 2008 Well.....we are about to see Champ and IRL finally get back together after a long time. INDYSTAR.COM: Kalkhoven is expected to arrive from London, where he has spent the past few days attending to family business. George could not be reached for comment, but his spokesman said a news conference to announce unification could come as early as Friday. Being from Indianapolis, and a HUGE fan of open wheel racing, all I can say is...."It's about damn time." Although I understand WHY Tony George did what he did by creating the IRL, I just think it was the wrong way to go about it. So wrong in fact that Open Wheel racing here in the US has had terrible sponsorship, tv time, fan loss, etc...etc...etc... Let's bring the sport back to the good ole days when CART was watched more on TV then Nascar. I'm tired of Nascar's commercialization anyway...and I'm ready to get back to something new, competitive, exciting. Cheers~ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JediMaster 451 Posted February 21, 2008 I was a big NASCAR and IndyCar fan in the 90s. After the split, I watched CART and gave no thought to IRL. After Montoya's brief stint in CART I found I stopped watching it, and I stopped watching NASCAR around 2002/2003 pretty much. Wow, that's 5 years now! Anyway, in the past few years I at least watched the Daytona 500, but the last 2 I didn't even do that. Haven't watched the Indy 500 really in over 10 years. I liked IndyCar because of the track variety and competition. Road courses, short ovals, super speedways, and good battles. The good old days of Zanardi and Vasser in the Target cars while Paul Tracy was always on the brink of being suspended for boneheaded moves... I hope this can come back, but the truth is all the drivers seem to go to NASCAR now. I mean, Montoya? Franchiti? Villeneuve? In NASCAR?!? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Badfrank 5 Posted February 21, 2008 The question is: which engines/cars? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JediMaster 451 Posted February 22, 2008 I'm guessing IRL's will take it because they're cheaper, but it's only a guess. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Fates 63 Posted February 22, 2008 Champ Car World Series co-owner Kevin Kalkhoven left Indianapolis shortly before noon today after failing to strike a deal with Indy Racing League president Tony George to unify open-wheel racing in the U.S. http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti...S0107/802220517 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JediMaster 451 Posted February 25, 2008 Heh, updated since you posted the link. The leaders of U.S. open-wheel racing unified the sport Friday, but left unanswered several details of the landmark agreement in principle. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
