What Happens Next?

If nothing else, it will reduce the confusion to the general public and potential advertisers. We will once again be able to say INDYCARS and there will be no confucion as to what that means. You will simply be able to anwer "YES" to the same ol question we have all bveen asked a thousand times without having to go into a long dissertation about the split. Now all the energy can be focused on promoting 1 series, with one goal, a healthy series. Ugly cars and a few too many ovals aside, everything else CAN be there. The IRL is just as open to fans as CCWS has always been. The close racing will return. There will always be back markers and less well funded teams. Those teams just need some sort of reward or incentive to keep sponsors interested and happy. sure, there will always be those that will cry gimmick or what ever, but everyone has to make a choice. Is this form of racing a pure sport or Entertainment. Pure sports are rarely a commercial success.

Make no bones about it, this year will be a rocky painful ride at best, but it is the right thing to do. Venues will sort themselves out. Even the promotors surely to loose a race this season have made comments that this is apositive thing for th elong term future of the sport. Even the guy in the white hat gets his a$$ kiched once an a while. I'm tired of sour grapes, time to get on with it. If you don't like what we are left with, it's been nice knowing ya. I'm going to try to enjoy some racing this year without all the Bull$#!t.

Meeting is on for tonight:


http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dl...RTS01/80221062

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A meeting that could unify U.S. open-wheel racing is still on schedule for tonight, an Indy Racing League spokesman said this afternoon.

Kevin Kalkhoven, a co-owner of the Indianapolis-based Champ Car World Series and the series' chief negotiator in the dealings with IRL founder Tony George, was due in the city from London late this afternoon.
He will be meeting with George to finalize the last remaining details.

A news conference to announce the unification is expected Friday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. A time for the event has not been announced.

The IRL's reconfigured schedule, which is expected to include three of Champ Car's 2008 events, is not expected to be announced Friday. Those three events are in Long Beach, Calif.; Edmonton, Alberta; and Surfers Paradise, Australia.

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donde esta' Sanguine??? ;)

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”
— Seneca, Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD

So, we finally have peace. What happens next?

Papers have been signed, guys. Press conference forthcoming. OK, now, let's all be careful for what we wished for...

'Cause we'll probably get it...

File the following "what happens next' item from AR1.com under "I told you so". I wonder if Sanguin was one of the CCWS staffers who was layed off? He has suddenly stopped posting. I wonder why? I also wonder if anyone remembers that I posted here that The Amigos cared only about themselves and no one else. The me, the uncaring way in which they treated the CCWS staff speaks volumes about their collective character (or lack there of).

"Champ Car employees hurt most by merger A reader writes, Dear Auto Racing1, While the unification (I won't call it a merger) of open wheel racing is a great step forward for the sport, I'd hope that all involved don't forget about the nearly 50 people at the Champ Car headquarters, as well as the "weekend warriors", Safety Team and Pace Car Team that helped make Champ Car events the successes they were, who are now out of a job.

After weeks of no communication from the owners and the high amount of stress associated with that, the employees at the headquarters were unceremoniously given their walking papers on Friday afternoon. All received a basic compensation package and were shown the door. Even though Kevin Kalkhoven was in town that day, he couldn't be bothered to visit to thank the hard working and dedicated employees who tried to make his company a success. Not even a thank you for your efforts e-mail from him or any of the owners.

And to add insult to injury, the employees were also told that "the IRL has said they have no openings for you." An offer from Tony George to at least ask the former Champ Car employees to forward their resumes to the IRL would have gone a long way towards creating some good will in the situation. Instead we were all summarily left out in the cold. Guess it proves that hard work, dedication and sacrifice just mean very little to some people."

Signed,
An ex-Champ Car employee who hopes the ALMS or the NHRA is hiring"

The response to the employees and especially the Safety Team is despicable but not really a surprise. I won't get into it too much but the way the AMIGOS dealt with the very folk they depended upon was indicative of what was soon to happen. I am referring to 05' dismissal of Dr's Olvey and Trammel. They pioneered many innoviations in the area of racing safety yet were summarily dismissed by the CCWS powers that be. To me it was a warning flag. Indeed it was what was to happen to everything and everyone from Scoring to Media. In the end these guys did not know what they were doing but BY GOD they were going to do it their way.

ONWARD.

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Originally Posted by FORMULA-A

The response to the employees and especially the Safety Team is despicable but not really a surprise. I won't get into it too much but the way the AMIGOS dealt with the very folk they depended upon was indicative of what was soon to happen. I am referring to 05' dismissal of Dr's Olvey and Trammel. They pioneered many innoviations in the area of racing safety yet were summarily dismissed by the CCWS powers that be. To me it was a warning flag. Indeed it was what was to happen to everything and everyone from Scoring to Media. In the end these guys did not know what they were doing but BY GOD they were going to do it their way.

ONWARD.

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I feel really bad for these folks...was friends with John Clagett...wonder what they told Gentilozzi...hopefully, they gave him the same treatment.

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Originally Posted by FORMULA-A

The response to the employees and especially the Safety Team is despicable but not really a surprise. I won't get into it too much but the way the AMIGOS dealt with the very folk they depended upon was indicative of what was soon to happen. I am referring to 05' dismissal of Dr's Olvey and Trammel. They pioneered many innoviations in the area of racing safety yet were summarily dismissed by the CCWS powers that be. To me it was a warning flag. Indeed it was what was to happen to everything and everyone from Scoring to Media. In the end these guys did not know what they were doing but BY GOD they were going to do it their way.

ONWARD.

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I would have to agree. The CART/Champ Car safety team was world reknowned for their skills and were totally responsible for saving Alex Zanardi's life. That was definitely a red flag and a good indication of the incompetent management style of The Amigos.