The Champ cars were running 1:05.9 (hand timed but consistent) and that was the team that placed 7th in the championship the previous year and they were evaluating two drivers that had never even driven a Champ car! I don't think they hired either driver, I don't recognize the names in the Rookie of the Year standings, anyway. Also, their chief safety steward said that to race there safely they'd need catch fence on both sides of all four sections that closely parallel each other (to and from the hairpin and the front and back straights on either side). I can't see that getting by the Mr. Barber that hid guardrails with bushes. When open-wheelers touch wheels one of them goes skyward and those sections of track are too close together. IRL obviously doesn't give a ^&*% about peoples' lives or they wouldn't have based a series around open-wheel oval racing, anyway....

I seriously hope they don't run at Barber, every track that runs those winged, over-tired monsters has horrible buckling in the asphalt, especially in the braking zones.

As an aside, the series is the brainchild of that idiot T. George who has done everything in his power to destroy every bit of hope for road racing in the United States, using that over-sized box-shaped toilet bowl his grandaddy gave him as a weapon. Because of him I never went to see F1 there, and I won't go there for MotoGP. I don't even like the Colts because of him. I've never seen an IRL race and I won't. Greed is a poor excuse for a race series.

 

yeah it's kinda sad that champcar isn't what it used to be though. i used to never miss a race and i went to quite a number of them, especially at Nazareth PA. It's not as much fun without all the different manufacturers.

I wish they would just merge the two series together like they always talk about. it would be better for everyone involved. just get it over with and get back to good racing.

i don't like tony g either but i'm still gonna go to the motogp race though