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20 Jan 2003, 00:53 (Ref:479572) | #1 | |
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"CART is dead." Chip Ganassi
Outlook better than last summer
By Robin Miller ESPN.com Last summer, at the height of the daily doom and gloom reports that had enveloped the once-mighty series known as Championship Auto Racing Teams, one of its prominent car owners looked around the paddock at Elkhart Lake, Wisc., shook his head and said with a smirk: "CART is dead. It's over and the sooner people realize it the quicker we can get open wheel racing back under one roof." The speaker, whose team dominated CART in the glory days of the late '90s, had already decided he was taking his racers and resources to the Indy Racing League in 2003. But, considering the defections of the previous 12 months and the bare numbers, it was tough to dispute Chip Ganassi's declaration |
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