Indy/Champ Car

[The Ruptured Duck]

Not that any of you watch or care, but the word on the street is that Tony George of the IRL made an offer to Champ Car to move all the teams to the IRL this year along with the top 5 champ car races.  Chump car turned it down because they didn't want to lose.  Now what?  Small car counts and struggling teams on both sides.  I wouldn't be suprised if Champ Car flops midseason and the frontrunning teams move to the IRL with the remaining races being abandoned.

What jerks.

[Craig.]

Honestly, I'd put the IRL second to F1 on my list of motorsports.
I think the skill these guys show is incredible. To run inches apart at 220mph for 250 laps (i know not always the whole race) is mind boggling. Unlike nascar where it's slower and contact wont result in a driver becoming a pilot.
Couldn't give a rats backside about champ car. The sooner its dead the better. It lost its credibility years ago, and with Sebastian Bourdais leaving this year, it's lost the only truely talented driver in the field.
The IRL will survive long term, it may struggle and even have to lose a few tracks in the future but it'll survive. Plus I think the drivers there are more able to work into household names. Guys like Castroneves, Wheldon and Kannan are easy to like. You have the whole danica patrick fan base which while annoying, helps keep the series going. And you have the big name bosses with Chip and the captain himself Penske. All they need is more exposure.
Roll on March I say, and lets hope for a Wheldon domination this year.  :)

[The Ruptured Duck]

[quote]Honestly, I'd put the IRL second to F1 on my list of motorsports.
I think the skill these guys show is incredible. To run inches apart at 220mph for 250 laps (i know not always the whole race) is mind boggling. Unlike nascar where it's slower and contact wont result in a driver becoming a pilot.
Couldn't give a rats backside about champ car. The sooner its dead the better. It lost its credibility years ago, and with Sebastian Bourdais leaving this year, it's lost the only truely talented driver in the field.
The IRL will survive long term, it may struggle and even have to lose a few tracks in the future but it'll survive. Plus I think the drivers there are more able to work into household names. Guys like Castroneves, Wheldon and Kannan are easy to like. You have the whole danica patrick fan base which while annoying, helps keep the series going. And you have the big name bosses with Chip and the captain himself Penske. All they need is more exposure.
Roll on March I say, and lets hope for a Wheldon domination this year.

[Craig.]

Yes Justin Wilson has talent, so do a couple of others in the series, but when you look at how Bourdais just demolished them the majority of the time you realise how average they are. I think bourdais' run in F1 could either show us he's an exceptional driver or an average driver that was just better than the rest of the average's.