SILLY SEASON pt.7 ?!?!

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OK, "CART is Dead" & "Long Live Champ Cars" ?!?!

According to Kevin Kalkhoven and Paul Gentilozzi there are 18 cars guaranteed to be on the track come April and Long Beach.

Here's how the picture looks like:

1. NEWMAN/HAAS - Sebastien Bourdais
2. NEWMAN/HAAS - Bruno Junqueira or Ryan Hunter-Reay ?
3. FORSYTHE - Paul Tracy
4. FORSYTHE - Patrick Crapentier
5. WALKER - Michael Valiante
6. WALKER - Jonathan Macr or Ryan Dalziel
7. HERDEZ - Mario Dominguez
8. HERDEZ - Roberto Gonzalez or David Martinez ?
9. FERNANDEZ - Adrian Fernandez
10. FERNANDEZ - Luis Diaz
11. RAHAL - Michael Jourdain
12. POLLOCK - Mika Salo
13. FITTIPALDI - Tiago Monteiro
14. FITTIPALDI - Tomas Enge or Rodolfo Lavin ?
15. GENTILOZZI - Alex Tagliani
16. BACHELART - Mario Haberfeld of Giorgio Pantani ?
17. COYNE - Joel Camathias or Tomas Enge ?
18. RuSPORT - A.J.Allmendinger

Those are the 18 promised... now, here are other possibilities:

19. RAHAL - Andre Lotterer or Justin Wilson ?
20. POLLOCK - Jacques Villeneuve or Guy Smith ?
21. GENTILOZZI - Ryan Hunter-Reay or Bjorn Wirdheim ?
22. COYNE - Alex Yoong or Ralph Firman ?
23. NUNN - Felipe Giaffone or Hoover Orsi ?

(for those who wonder - sources: SeventhGear, Jasper Race-By-Race, CART Brickheads, and ChampWeb)

No, my dream of 23 (like I had last year) will not come true, but defintely 18 cars we shall have... there still are a few more interested parties and possibilities, we might see 20 Champ Cars come April, but at this moment we should be happy with just 18... btw, AJ.Allmendinger is testing a RuSPORT Lola already... Alan van der Merwe will test a PK car soon... Justin WIlson is planning a test with Rahal... etc, etc...

We shall have a very fine season next year = 18+ cars, 16 or more races, CBS and Spike TV... MERRY XMAS ?!?!

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