No Champ Car teams at Indy 500

If the rumored Zhuhai, China race happens in 2007, don't look for any Champ Car teams at next year's Indy 500. According to our sources, the inaugural Zhuhai race will be May 20, 2007 because that is the date the promoter wants. With the first weekend of Indy 500 qualifying the weekend before, and the 20th being the 2nd weekend of Indy qualifying, it makes it logistically impossible for any Champ Car teams to run at Indy next year. And with Champ Car teams having to buy new Panoz DP01 Champ Cars for 2007, we do not see any having the money needed to also field an Indy 500 effort. The official schedule won't be announced until sometime in September and we hear it can contain some other surprises as well.