Newsgroup: it.sport.formula1.moderato
Titolo: [ENG] Champ Car gets underway

Source: 
grandprix.com
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns12746.html
It has not been an easy offseason for the Champ Car World Series but
this weekend the champonship kicks off at Long Beach, having managed to
scrape together the 18 cars needed to meet its contractual obligations.
The final names in the jigsaw puzzle are Oriol Servia and Tarso Marques,
who are expected to line up for Dale Coyne Racing. The pair will join
Forsythe Racing (Patrick Carpentier, Rodolfo Lavin and Paul Tracy),
Herdez Competition (Ryan Hunter-Reay and Mario Dominguez), Mi-Jack
Conquest Racing (Alex Sperafico and Justin Wilson), Newman-Haas Racing
(Sebastien Bourdais and Bruno Junqueira), PKV Racing (Roberto Gonzalez
and Jimmy Vasser), Rocketsports (Nelson Philippe and Alex Tagliani),
RuSport (AJ Allmendinger and Michel Jourdain Jr) and Walker Racing (Mario
Haberfeld). Although not a particularly glittering cast, it does include
two former CART champions and eight drivers who have won CART races.
The next mountain to climb is to convince the sponsors involved that CART
is worth continuing with. The series is well-placed in that it has a
strong Mexican involvement and thus appeals to the Latinos in the United
States but beyond the big Mexican names the sponsorship is patchy and
often linked to the personalities involved. In order for Champ Car to
survive in the longer term it needs more blue chip sponsors. Most of
these have now moved across to the Indy Racing League.
In an effort to spice up the show Champ Car is introducing some new ideas
to make the racing more interesting with buttons which drivers can use
for one minute during a race which give the driver an extra 50
horsepower. In addition drivers will have to use at least one set of soft
tyres during a race. The aim is to create a varriety of different
strategies which will mean that cars are travelling at different speeds
at different points during a race. This will create overtaking
opportunities. Fiddling with the rules gave CART the opportunity to have
a series of different wnners last year but some had little credibility.
The major aim will be to get more TV coverage. Champ Car has done a deal
for the races to be shown by Spike TV. This was formerly known as The
National Network and is a cable network owned by MTV Networks. It is
aimed at a male audience and is available in 86m homes across the US.
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Meglio non far sentire queste "idee" a Max&Bernie.
La cara vecchia CART mi sembra alla frutta...
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 Ommioddio...
Ci manca solo un pulsante per spruzzare olio o fumo sulla pista.... va
bene voler "catturare" il pubblico dei videogiochi, ma IMHO si esagera...
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 La cara vecchia CART mi sembra alla frutta...
Purtroppo hanno lasciato il ristorante da un pezzo, altro che frutta.
Ciao,
Luca

 Ommioddio...
In F1, nell'epoca turbo (e non solo) tutto questo era "routine".
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 In F1, nell'epoca turbo (e non solo) tutto questo era "routine".
comunque hanno fatto di tutto per affossare la CART e ci sono ben
riusciti. Chi ha oggi in mano la serie ha dato il definitivo colpo di
grazia. È sicuro che questa sarà l'ultima stagione di questa un tempo
rispettabile serie.
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