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10 Mar 2008, 09:26 (Ref:2148117)
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sad news for Walker although i read somewhere Gore wasn't paying his bills and i read in eNews (like mac has said) there have been reports of KV chasing Power hopefully he gets that drive he deserves it.
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10 Mar 2008, 09:58 (Ref:2148147)
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It is definitely not a good thing that Walker is going to sit it out this season - they seemed to have been the most forward-thinking team as far as being "ready" for unification.
I wonder if Walker is pursuing anything for Indy for this year. Or perhaps drivers with a budget for Indy might be pursuing him... |
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10 Mar 2008, 13:36 (Ref:2148318)
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This merger is becomming a disaster
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10 Mar 2008, 13:53 (Ref:2148340)
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why?
Once you have 26-28 cars on the grid, the number is sufficiently good. The real success will have to be gaining new entries since 2009; the fact of summing up all or just most of the CC squads is not that relevant IMO. We know infact that the Unified OWR's main goal is to catch up with Nascar, which means make some Nascar driver/team find it interesting to switch to Indycar. So only time will tell, not Walker's current troubles surely. |
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10 Mar 2008, 13:55 (Ref:2148343)
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.. and , by the way, italiaracing reports that Yasukawa has filed an entry for Motegi, with possibilities to extend to Indy
http://italiaracing.net/notizia.asp?id=18248&cat=3 |
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10 Mar 2008, 15:24 (Ref:2148419)
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It is becoming a disaster, still no Robert Doornbos news!!!
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10 Mar 2008, 15:31 (Ref:2148429)
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This grid is anorexic. It has an obsessive fear of gaining weight and is throwing up all the teams that enter.
Still, I expect 2009 will be better. |
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10 Mar 2008, 20:36 (Ref:2148655)
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As much as he usually never is right, it is looking like Bourdais was on the money - it's not a merger, it's just the death of Champcar.
Officially, it's just 'most' of the IRL teams from last year plus Newman-Haas is all that's really been confirmed so far 
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10 Mar 2008, 21:41 (Ref:2148702)
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Walker probably wouldn't've been able to put a ChampCar team either, unless OWRS had funded him. The grid still looks fairly rosy at this stage, and 2009 is the real acid test.
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11 Mar 2008, 02:45 (Ref:2148842)
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in Motorsport eNews the ran a storey and they quote Will as saying to them that he is confident of signing something in the next couple of days, they also said it's likely KV Racing so keep your eye open guys and girls.
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11 Mar 2008, 02:49 (Ref:2148845)
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Usually F1 has around 25 entries per race, I would look for the IRL to have around this number in the future, with the exception of Indianapolis of course. |
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11 Mar 2008, 03:40 (Ref:2148866)
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When was the last time F1 had a 25 car field??? I expect IRL to have a 24 - 26 car feild in 2009 whch is not a bad number at all. |
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11 Mar 2008, 06:15 (Ref:2148891)
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Of course, the grid scenario for 2008 is a bit dubious: it was never going to be anything else. The "unification" has clearly been the IRL dominating, whilst picking up bits and bobs from CC.
The important thing is that there is one series. 2008 was always going to be a bit ropey: 2009/10, and beyond, is when it will matter. Last edited by Dutton; 11 Mar 2008 at 06:18. |
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11 Mar 2008, 07:19 (Ref:2148905)
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But IRL are'nt picking up "bits and bobs", but the few good things that still were in CC, starting from NHL, which are something more that "bits and bobs" I agree with boots that this "merger" has just discovered the problems of Walker team, that already existed but, the amigos used to hide by funding them. Best wishes to Derrick to find a better partner to finance his outfit. About IRL, now we have a 25-26 spots grid, ore even more, much more than F1, at the level of GP2, but, that's the best point with 4 top teams, with at least 9 drivers steadily fighting for the win (plus occasional outsiders); tell me which series can privide fans with such numbers, only Nascar maybe, but none from the world OWR. And in 2009 things are bound to improve, since there will be a rationalisation of schedule, and the potential to attract even more quality entries. |
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11 Mar 2008, 11:49 (Ref:2149068)
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Walker was and is one of the good guys, this news takes the shine of what has been a fruitful month or so. I know seed money isnt a part of the new merged series, however for someone who has ridden the ups and downs of the past decade it would be appropriate. |
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11 Mar 2008, 19:04 (Ref:2149357)
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ChampCar would have funded Walker if they needed to this year though - they would have needed the extra cars. Neither IRL or ChampCar could hope to have as many cars as the IRL will have this year, and it should be a close fought series. Realistically only NHR and perhaps Minardi had the ingredients to match the top IRL teams (once the top ChampCar teams, lest we forget).
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11 Mar 2008, 20:53 (Ref:2149446)
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Conquest to enter a technical partnership with Forsythe Performance Research, and say their second driver to be announced shortly. PT's way in?
http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/artic...with-forsythe/ |
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11 Mar 2008, 21:05 (Ref:2149457)
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11 Mar 2008, 21:14 (Ref:2149469)
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11 Mar 2008, 22:53 (Ref:2149578)
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12 Mar 2008, 00:09 (Ref:2149616)
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Right now NHL is the only team from CC that is on the IRL website so this is not very exciting for me yet. I really would some better news reporting on what the other teams are planning to do that are not officially apart of the IRL.
If this turns out to be just the IRL + NHL I probably won't be watching to many races this season. |
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12 Mar 2008, 00:17 (Ref:2149622)
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12 Mar 2008, 02:16 (Ref:2149670)
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How interesting... many people now are saying what I've said in the past.
2008 is going to be a bumpy ride no matter how you look at it. 2009 or 2010 is going to be the real test to see how well the merger has gone.    
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12 Mar 2008, 08:43 (Ref:2149778)
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A merger done this late in the day was always going to be difficult though and I don't think anyone has had any illusions about it.
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