Why Bernie may eventually buy Champ Car
UPDATE #4 See Hot News item on Bernie's loss in court today. What's Bernie's next move? 12/05/04 This Times of London article says, Bernie Ecclestone will learn today if he … Read More
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UPDATE #4 See Hot News item on Bernie's loss in court today. What's Bernie's next move? 12/05/04 This Times of London article says, Bernie Ecclestone will learn today if he … Read More
UPDATE #2 We are bumping this rumor from 'false' up to 'speculation' today. Rumor on the street is that Rick Murphy has put a Request for Proposal out to several … Read More
Rumor has it that Champ Car now owns Betelgeuse Productions. According to our sources Champ Car had to lend(or give) Betelgeuse a couple of million dollars to pay the workers … Read More
Who hired this San Jose journalist to write this negative article about Champ Car's new San Jose race in the Monterey Herald newspaper? Was it the oval track cartel which … Read More
Word on the street is that Rocketsports has had talks with Ryan Hunter-Reay about teaming with Alex Tagliani in 2005. The 2nd car at Rocketsports struggled this year (all drivers) … Read More
Back in April of 2003 our Mark Cipolloni penned one of his many forward looking articles and wrote "War of the Worlds." While everyone was focused on NASCAR as a … Read More
UPDATE This rumor is downgraded to 'false' today. According to a Rahal Letterman spokesperson, Bobby Rahal was not at the Baja race. 11/25/04 Paul Newman was seen talking to Bobby … Read More
As the new owners of Champ Car bring the series slowly back to prominence as a top international racing organization, racing circuits around the world are keeping an eye on … Read More
UPDATE AutoRacing1.com has learned that Tomas Enge will not be testing next week with Forsythe Racing, but instead another Czech, Jarek Janis will test instead. Janis drove one Champ Car … Read More
Rumor here in Mexico is that Adrian Fernandez has had talks with Gigante and Michel Jourdain Jr. for the last 6 months trying to get Jourdain to his team, promising … Read More
UPDATE This rumor is upgraded to 'fact' with today's RuSPORT announcement that Justin Wilson will join AJ Allmendinger at RuSPORT. We have updated our 2005 Champ Car Silly Season page. … Read More
With each passing day it appears there is no place for F1 star and former McLaren driver David Coulthard. It's not that he is slow, it's just that all the … Read More
UPDATE #2 Our Ganassi Racing moles tell us the team will probably test four drivers to fill the third team entry. 11/12/04 AutoRacing1.com has learned through its Ganassi Racing moles … Read More
Word on the street is that RuSport has acquired Todd Malloy from Forsythe Racing. Malloy was PT's engineer. Rumor also has it that Patrick Carpentier's engineer may move over to … Read More
UPDATE #2 Correction: We erroneously reported incorrect information with regard to NII Holdings. NII holdings owns the cellular franchise for Nextel in Mexico NOT Nextel in the states. Nextel USA … Read More
UPDATE In doing some investigation into why the taxpayers association objects to tax dollars being spent for the San Jose Champ Car race AutoRacing1.com has learned the following – They … Read More
Laguna Seca was not on the 2005 Champ Car schedule and we never expected it to return despite some saying it would because reportedly last year's race only drew a … Read More
Word on the street is that Patrick Carpentier's race engineer, Eric Zeto, at Forsythe has chosen not to follow him to Cheever Racing and the IRL. Carpentier has already announced … Read More
Every year we hear the same rumors, but this F1 wanna-bee has not even tested a Champ Car and at this point we doubt he has what it takes anymore. … Read More
We are hearing that the Herdez (now HVM Racing) team has lined up new sponsors for next year to replace Herdez and "everything is looking good" according to our sources … Read More
British F3 runner up Adam Carroll visited the Champ Car paddock at Mexico City recently and hopes to test a car soon. He said: “Champ Car is going to get … Read More
AutoRacing1.com spotted at the posh Indian Cinnamon Club restaurant in the Westminster section of London Monday night the new owner of Cosworth, Kevin Kalkhoven (along with Gerald Forsythe), dining with … Read More
UPDATE To explain what Kalkhoven meant below when he said "I'm good at dodging bullets, especially when they are not well aimed," he was referring to the fact that Tony … Read More