Denver Hot News recap
Hearing that Saturday attendance is also looking very positive…….Spoke to CDW's Bruce Delahorne who is extremely happy that Champ Car is going to China starting next year. CDW is going to start doing business in China and they recently were approved to use their current branding/logo there…..Spotted Red Bull Motorsports boss Helmut Marko meeting with Kevin Kalkhoven, no doubt talking about Christian Klien coming into Champ Car as well as Red Bull's involvement with the ladder series.
Bobby Rahal and son Graham appear confident of a win this weekend, since Graham had a healthy 1/2 second advantage over the field in provisional Atlantic qualifying and Graham loves the Denver track, having run very well here in the past……Alex Tagliani was quite happy with his 3rd place provisional qualifying result for Walker Racing/Team Australia….. Paul Gentilozzi is looking forward to next year's new Champ Cars for his Rocketsports Team. "We locked everything down so teams cannot spend money redesigning things, which will level the playing field a lot," said Gentilozzi. He also told us he would enter two cars for him and Drissi in the two SCCA Trans-Am races in Topeka, KS later this year. He thinks 30 cars will show up. He also said that Trans-Am is trying to convince Chevy, Ford and Dodge to enter the series with their resurrected Pony Cars (Camaro, Challenger, Mustang and Jaguar), which would bring new life to the famous 40 year old series.