Overheard at Road America

Hearing that Atlantic Series rookie Franck Perera, who has shown he can beat the best of them is trying hard to put together a Champ Car deal for next year. It will come down to money and if he cannot get it done he will remain in Atlantics another year…….Still hearing that Atlantic Champion Matos will run for PKV next year………Robert Doornbos is talking to a couple of F1 teams but will likely stay in Champ Car in 2008…..Mexico's David Garza will return to the Atlantic series in 2008, but is eyeing Champ Car for 2009…….Mario Dominguez still does not have any sponsorship to run the Mexico City race and Carlos Slim, the richest man in the world, has not stepped up to help. He is said to still be mad at Jerry Forsythe (his son is as he runs all the sport activities). With no Mexicans in the series and no races on TV in Mexico, this should ensure the Mexico City Champ Car race will eventually die…..Hearing that Katherine Legge is getting very frustrated this weekend. After running competitively at Road America last year she is over 4 seconds off the pace this year and the team and her cannot figure out what is wrong with the car. Meanwhile her teammate Junqueira is 6th fastest. When nothing works setup wise on the car that typically indicates the car is flexing under load somewhere…….Look for the 2008 ALMS schedule to be very much the same as their 2007 schedule. No new races are anticipated in 2008.