No Champ Car On Tv!

[Beer Baron]

yeah I think I lost a lot of interest in champ car when half the teams broke away to form IRL. shame that they divided such a cool series.

[Lunatikk]

The split was all about Tony George (the owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway) having a tantrum 'cos he couldn't get his own way with CART (now ChampCar) & somehow he managed to lure the sponsors, & in turn the main teams, away from CART & to his own series in an off-season a few yrs ago which almost destroyed what was & in my opinion still is the best open-wheel formula on the planet. Ultimate example of a "poor little rich kid" getting his own way with $$$.......

As much as it pissed me off, I used to get a bit of a chuckle out of the way Ch10 would jump on the band-wagon with the telecast of Indy on the Gold Coast every yr but never considered any of the other races in the series important enough to televise before midnight but now it seems ChampCars at midnight was better than no ChampCars at all. Here's hoping Ch7 (or whoever does own the Aust rights ATM) wake up before Oct & start televising the races at a reasonable time. As for PayTV, Tony George also held ESPN to ransom (they used to televise CART before the split) by stipulating that they would only get the rights to the IRL if they dropped CART & again $$$ talks. Last I knew Speed Channel in the US had the ChampCar rights & of course no-one supplies Speed Channel In Aust....

For anyone after info on ChampCar, take a look at http://www.crapwagon.com/

The Crapwagon part comes from an interview where Paul Tracy was asked if he was going to IRL & his reply was "there's no way I'll go & drive one of those crapwagons!!" & it stuck. PT copped a lot of flack over the yrs but the guy is a champion, in more ways than one

[ctjet]

Once Chip left Champ, so did i

[Beer Baron]

go americans love their stupid names.

chip ganassi?

pat patrick.. lol

danica is not much better.

[FineLine]

The split was all about Tony George (the owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway) having a tantrum 'cos he couldn't get his own way with CART (now ChampCar) & somehow he managed to lure the sponsors, & in turn the main teams, away from CART & to his own series in an off-season a few yrs ago which almost destroyed what was & in my opinion still is the best open-wheel formula on the planet. Ultimate example of a "poor little rich kid" getting his own way with $$$.......

As much as it pissed me off, I used to get a bit of a chuckle out of the way Ch10 would jump on the band-wagon with the telecast of Indy on the Gold Coast every yr but never considered any of the other races in the series important enough to televise before midnight but now it seems ChampCars at midnight was better than no ChampCars at all. Here's hoping Ch7 (or whoever does own the Aust rights ATM) wake up before Oct & start televising the races at a reasonable time. As for PayTV, Tony George also held ESPN to ransom (they used to televise CART before the split) by stipulating that they would only get the rights to the IRL if they dropped CART & again $$$ talks. Last I knew Speed Channel in the US had the ChampCar rights & of course no-one supplies Speed Channel In Aust....

For anyone after info on ChampCar, take a look at http://www.crapwagon.com/

The Crapwagon part comes from an interview where Paul Tracy was asked if he was going to IRL & his reply was "there's no way I'll go & drive one of those crapwagons!!" & it stuck. PT copped a lot of flack over the yrs but the guy is a champion, in more ways than one

Thats excactly what happened. Nascar was the poor cousin prior to the split but now its the premier motorsport event in North America.

I wonder how long it will remain that way now they have allowed toyota to participate. They are so darn parochial it wouldnt surprise me to see them leave in droves as a result of nascar bowing to the huge dollar investment by toyota to be allowed to join the circus.