Martinez has been announced as the replacement for Servia for the last two races. “Gee thanks for picking up the slack and filling in Oriol, now hit the road…”
The funniest part is I’ve known about this since Cleveland. Confirmed it again in both T.O and RA.
It broke David’s heart that this opportunity was heading his way as he felt awful about displacing Oriol for the end of the season.
What a bullshit year this has been.
Makes my stomach churn…
EDIT: Just wait until they announce Dominguez for Tags… or better yet, when the rest of that story comes out…
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Tagged: Champ Car
spin, spin and more spin…
The diehard CC fans are defending the dropping of the San Jose race to the gomers and jumping on their fellow CC fans for questioning or being upset over the decision.
Dropping a race is never a good thing. EVER.
Dropping an apparently successful race only to replace it with one that was originally dropped because it was no longer successful and doesn’t fit in with the direction of the series mandate seems off no?
Fans are spinning
CCWS is spinning
The media doesn’t give a shit because we are taking a six week break, the IRL is over and Nascar is getting ready for the chase and the “real sports” are all starting up and pushing us further and further off the main page.
Nobody really cares. And those of us that do are labeled and banned and pushed aside as not seeing the big picture and being chicken littles, and a variety of other head in the sand excuses.
Time will tell…
Categories: general racing
Instead of adding a race to our schedule, thereby diversifying and enhancing the season and giving off a show of success and growth, Champ Car in it’s infinite wisdom replaces one of the, in their words, most successful races on the schedule (you know the one that breaks attendance records and rewards the 1 millionth fan every year?) with a track that although historical is oft criticized for it’s small size and lack of passing… hmmm.
Combine that with Phoenix disappearing from the schedule and likely Portland going by by, and 2008 is already off to a banner start.
oh, and teams found out via Autoracing1, not via an internal memo from the series.
That merge with ALMS is seeming more and more likely to me… anyone else’s spidey senses tingling?
Last night I came home to find my Inner Circle card for 2007 in my mailbox. First of all, I signed up for it 2 yrs ago. Secondly, it was wrapped in a letter from Steve Johnson waxing poetic about all the great things to look forward to in 2007 and all the great deals and privileges I could take advantage of at the tracks (last time I looked, we only had 2 more races left, and neither of them were in North America. And to top it all off, it gave a great plug for the Phoenix race. Considering it was in my mailbox yesterday, it was likely sent last week. Perhaps someone in MARKETING could see about updating the information being sent out to “potential fans”. I guess I will think of it as a collectors item as I’m sure come November that will be the last thing that Steve Johnson’s signature will be on with regards to Champ Car.
Categories: general racing
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