no…@nowhere.com wrote:
> Still around 850?

750 without power boost, 800 with power boost.

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There’s a fine line between not listening and not caring.
I like to think that I walk that line every day of my life.

-Forty

for a lot of free sportbloopers and motormovies look on www.kawagpx.nl

http://www.speedtv.com/articles/auto/champcar/22050/

Kalkhoven Convinced, Legge to Move Up
Written by: Robin Miller Indianapolis, IN – 2/13/2006

Katherine Legge is poised to become the fourth female driver in Champ
Car history but, unlike her predecessors, the 25-year-old Brit won’t
have to worry about equal equipment or support.

Legge will be introduced as one of the new drivers of Kevin Kalkhoven’s
PKV Racing team for 2006 Tuesday night in a press conference at the
Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles as Champ Car also unveils its
new Atlantic chassis.

After winning three Toyota Atlantic races as a rookie in 2005 driving
for Kalkhoven, Legge tested his Champ Car twice in the past six weeks
and convinced him she was ready to move up. Her lap times at Sebring
were within a second of Renault Formula One test pilot Franck Montagny
and she was within a half second of Ryan Briscoe and Giorgio Pantano
during her initial run, when she also tied Ryan Dalziel’s best circuit.

During her road racing career in England, Legge became the first woman
to capture a pole position in the British Formula Ford Championship and
earned a pole in the British Formula Renault series. She also became the
first female to ever win the British Racing Driver’s Rising Stars award.

Kalkhoven, who co-owns Champ Car with Gerald Forsythe in addition to
fielding a two-car team with Dan Pettit and Jimmy Vasser, is anxious to
try and capitalize on the popularity of Danica Patrick. Last year, as a
rookie in the Indy Racing League, the former Atlantic driver became a
media sensation by leading the Indianapolis 500, finishing fourth and
winning three pole positions.

Driving for Bobby Rahal and David Letterman, Patrick was the first
female in Indy cars to get a full-time, top-flight ride and that will be
the case with Legge in Champ Car.

She’ll have the same Lola/Cosworth as everyone else and a veteran crew,
plus an owner who will likely give her every opportunity to make it.
When Janet Guthrie, Desire Wilson and Lyn St. James all competed in
Champ Car in the ’80s and ’90s, they ran partial schedules and seldom in
the best equipment.

Wilson’s 10th place at Cleveland in 1983 stands as the best finish for a
female driver in Champ Car.

It’s not known who will partner with Legge in ’06, but Montagny and
Briscoe were thought to be the front runners.

–
There’s a fine line between not listening and not caring.
I like to think that I walk that line every day of my life.

-Forty

http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22750-2034366,00.html

I had a jolly good chuckle when I read this.

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The knowledge: champ cars v Formula One
All you wanted to know about cars but were afraid to ask

The Champ Car World Series is regarded as the American equivalent of
Formula One. It was previously known as CART, or Championship Auto
Racing Teams, before that brand went bankrupt in 2003.

The cars are known as Champ cars — short for Championship cars — and
look similar to those that race in F1. Both types can reach speeds in
excess of 200mph. However, there are some key differences between the
two sports. The most obvious is that while F1 cars race around tracks
featuring left and right-hand bends Champ cars also race around oval
bowls with banked sides. In recent years some street races have been
added to the calendar.

Champ cars regularly reach higher speeds than their F1 counterparts.
Despite being heavier and more sluggish on hairpin bends, average speeds
during a race can reach well over 200mph compared with 150mph in F1.
During a race on oval tracks cars run nose-to-tail and often
side-by-side for the entire distance, and winning margins are often only
fractions of a second. For this reason some argue that it is more
competitive and spectator friendly than F1.

Champ cars are fuelled by methanol rather than petrol and use
turbocharged engines and treadless slick tyres, both of which are banned
on safety grounds in F1. Unlike F1, Champ teams do not build their own
chassis but buy them from independent suppliers.

While F1 is a global circus Champ cars compete predominantly in America,
although races do now take place in Canada, Mexico, Australia and South
Korea. The drivers and teams are dominated by Americans.

Champ cars were also called Indy cars after the Indianapolis 500. But
since 1996 that race has been part of the separate Indy Racing League,
which uses slightly different cars.
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<snigger>
—
There’s a fine line between not listening and not caring.
I like to think that I walk that line every day of my life.

-Forty

looking to trade for some Indycar/Champcar races on DVD…i have over 150 F1
races on DVD to deal with…I live in Germany but all my DVD`s are region
code free

I’m going to donate most of the amount to President Bush’s retirement fund and
leave a little to pay the fuel tab for Air Force 1 and the air conditioning
bill at Crawford.

Then I’m going to buy me a 6 pack of Coors Lite and a gun, then go quail
hunting from my limousine and scream
"Git some!  Yeah!" just like Dick Cheney does.

It’s gonna be great being rich!

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Not bad at all… for an old guy

He stayed out of trouble and didn’t get punted, as predicted here. Has
anyone heard anymore about his race?

Agreement to merge the IRL and Champ Car may finally be at hand

AutoWeek | Published 02/21/06, 10:45 am et

This is almost certainly the one. More than a decade after Tony George
cut ties with CART and launched the Indy Racing League, after years of
declining popularity and failed efforts to end the rift in Indy-style
racing, all indicators suggest there is essential agreement to merge
the IRL and Champ Car World Series for the 2007 season.

Indeed, George and Champ Car co-owner (and front man) Kevin Kalkhoven
may be ready to sign a letter of intent.

Kalkhoven downplays any pending deal, but concedes that he and George
have met several times in the last month.

"There is no letter of intent, and absolutely, completely no deal,”
Kalkhoven told AutoWeek. "We met in Paris at the Race of Champions and
on a couple of occasions since, socially. Certainly I expect there will
be more meetings in the future. I quite enjoy (George’s) company."

Just fast friends? This is the same wary Kalkhoven who said he had no
plan to buy Cosworth Racing a week before the deal closed. Third
parties say he and George have agreed on the principal issues and
informed key team owners and partners such as engine supplier Honda and
tire supplier Bridgestone/Firestone. Those partners remain tight-lipped
beyond general endorsement of the unification process.

"If it happens it will be fantastic," said Bridgestone racing chief Al
Speyer.

What reason is there to believe this is any different than several
previous attempts to get the IRL and Champ Car back under one tent?

Clearly, George and Kalkhoven have established some personal
rapprochement, perhaps friendship. This process is the initiative of
the principals, man to man, with no aides, intermediaries or lawyers to
get in the way, and the meetings have been frequent over a short time
span.

Points of agreement include 50/50 ownership of the merged series, which
will be independent of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with George and
Kalkhoven acting as co-chairmen. Both Honda (IRL) and Cosworth (Champ
Car), with or without Ford badging, are in. Bridgestone is in as tire
supplier, though it’s not certain whether that would be with the
Bridgestone or Firestone brand. There may already be agreement on more
specific points, but those who know are unwilling to share that
information for fear of scuttling the process or enflaming the
sensitivities of self-interested parties in both camps before the deal
is done.

Based on the current state of affairs, several other things are
apparent. The more traditional 2.65-liter turbo V8 currently used in
Champ Car seems the more likely choice, as opposed to the IRL’s
normally aspirated 3.5. Champ Car has a new chassis well into
development with Panoz (one of the IRL’s current suppliers), scheduled
to debut in 2007.

Champ Car’s Atlantic feeder series has a brand new chassis, Mazda power
and some 20 teams committed for 2006, while the IRL’s Pro Series is on
life support (if not already deceased). The schedule will center on the
Indy 500, and be filled with upwards of 15 of the most successful race
dates from both series, more of which still belong to Champ Car. Based
on current rosters for both series, a merger could deliver 25 funded,
viable full-season entries–perhaps more–and real bumping at the Indy
500.

Stay tuned. The big question at this point is whether peace (and
rationality) have prevailed too late to salvage what remains of Indy
car racing.  <<<<<

Did they leave out the part about TG having to be buried alive
underneath the yard o’ bricks for the deal to go through?

Dave

http://speedtv.com/commentary/21354/

Happy New Year to all RASC participants.  May it bring prosperity and
good health to each of us.  May it also bring renewed interest in open
wheel racing in North America.