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Dayle Coyne has signed a Swiss F3000 driver named Joel Camathias for 2003- just read it on Champweb and CART.com.
It's good to see Dale Coyne Racing back in action for a full season!!! There going with Lolas, and probably just one car. read here- http://www.cart.com/News/Article.asp?ID=5266 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Dale's been talking about two cars. I'm holding him to that.
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For what I've heard, Camathias, who raced in the Telefonica Series, wasn't too impressive. He's had some good results, but just not like Montoya. But you never know.
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Yeah, he hasn't got a particularly strong record.
BUT, he was half a second faster than Lotterer at the test. And we all saw how impressive Lotterer was. |
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Is he coming along with a bag of cash? does he have some talent to go with it?
we'll see... |
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I hope Joel does a good job. But like all of motorsports these days money talks. I think this is his website check it out looks like he has a lot of sponsors:
http://www.joelcamathias.com/welcome.cfm It also looks like his dad got an F1 superlicence at one time so racing seems to run in the family. |
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Ugh...I have a feeling top-10 will be consider a win for this guy.
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His great uncle is pretty interesting though.. just did a search on Google - big thick glasses, but a very good racer in his day, sadly killed at Brands when his forks broke.
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CART has hinted that there'd be ten different flags represented on the grid next year.
I'm really happy that Coyne's playing the game next year. I never thought I'd miss him as much as I did. Now that I'm seeing more and more owners showing their true colours, it's a breath of fresh air to get a guy like him back into the series. ![]() |
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Hooray! another driver. Never heard of him. Hope Coyne runs 2 cars
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he isn't good at all. He thrashed a couple of F3000 cars, which is pretty hard to achieve
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Yikes....ugh...well Cart has had some pretty bad backmarkers in the past..looks like they'll have another. But, I should really wait and see. Hopefully Coyne can fill the other seat with someone capable of points finishes.
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Dale Coyne, from an interview on CART.com:
"We're happy to have this one done and working very hard on getting a second one done because we definitely plan on running two cars next year." |
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I'm holding onto the fact that he was a good half second faster than Lotterer in testing. And Andre impressed.
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Coyne returning is great for the CART series. Here's to Coyne having two cars on the grid in 2003.
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Ugly man, but great Cart stalwart.
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Camathias is never faster then Lotterer
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I think this'll be a pure backmarker of an entry, but having another car on the grid is good news,a nd it wouldn't be surprising if Dale runs a second car. Joel could prove us wrong, but i don't have high expectations of him.
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This kid is not a very quick driver, but he is not also as slow as Yoong or Zlobin. I rate him as a midfielder in F3000 so he may well be a backmarker in CART ... but we are always learning and the kid is only 21.
By the way, did u know that he is taller than Justin Wilson ?! |
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He may turn out to be very good -- perhaps all he needed was a chance, and he's very young. And we shouldn't expect him to be Senna right out of the box and say either he's Senna or a loser. My friend Josh Beaulieu is a good driver who crashes a lot because he is trying too hard to impress his sponsors -- it is bloody work getting $300,000 a year to race, and if everyone is yelling LOSER at you then your sponsors tend to notice. We should give him a chance to settle in before we dismiss him as a loser. I'd hate to have you guys writing my job evaluation!
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He'll do a good job, as well as one can do in a Coyne. This will be a learning year for sure. BTW, It's tough going from F.Federale to F3000 in a year & a half, so you can't really judge by race results so far....
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He has an interesting helmet design. That has to be worth something.
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