16 Feb 2003, 13:02
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Lotterer to Rahal?
sorry if this has been posted somewhere before, but german media links lotti to team rahal...
hereīs the link: http://de.sports.yahoo.com/030211/8/3afdh.html
well, i bet not many of you speak german so iīll translate it for you:.
Andre Lotterer (Duisburg) could be the first german racing driver to compete a full season in the US -CART series. That was reported by motorsport magazine "motorsport aktuell". Wire puller of the surprising deal is business man Jakub Andreas Grajewski from Hannover, who got the attention when he talked about a cart race on the former expo-territory in hannover a few weeks ago.
Grajewski flew to final negotiations to the USA: "i made everything perfect to 95 % "
i donīt know whether he means that he had a perfect conversation to the bloke on the other end or whether he wants to express that the deal is 95% sure...
The 22 years old former junior-kart-worldchampion could drive a lola ford in the team of 3 times cart champion bobby rahal. His teammate would be michel jourdain jr....[...] rest is irrelavant and i donīt want to translate it 
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16 Feb 2003, 13:45
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Thats great news *f3*  , he looked real good in Mexico city and he deserves a ride, I hope this is for real.
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16 Feb 2003, 14:13
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Will he race for Team Rahal proper, or will "JAG Racing" operate out of the Rahal shop?
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16 Feb 2003, 14:23
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dunno...was nothing about it in the article
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16 Feb 2003, 16:08
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Rahal knows Lotterer from the Jaguar days.. I hope that helps in securing a seat for the guy, he looks good.
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16 Feb 2003, 16:42
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Finally! It's been absolutely mind boggeling why Lotterer wasn't at the top of everyone's list for a driver. He was with a team that was there for one race (2 in the year), no experience with the car, team, environment, track, series, etc. Had the practice sessions and qualifying to learn it all. In the first half of the race he was posting fastest laps! I don't know where his laps stood at the end of the race, but that's bloody amazing. I would go so far to say that even if you started without a sponsor, after a couple races people would be dying to sponsor this guy.
Rahal needs another car anyway.
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16 Feb 2003, 17:02
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I've heard the rumour BSchneiderFan alludes to... That Lotterer will run with JAG Racing out of Rahal's shop. Similar to how Fittipaldi/Dingman is running out of the Conquest shop.
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16 Feb 2003, 22:09
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Great news if Lotterer can find a seat with Rahal/JAG. He proved his worthiness with a fine driver last year.
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16 Feb 2003, 22:22
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the more cars the better
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16 Feb 2003, 22:33
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Andre was impressive during his year in British F3, I actually thought he showed more promise than James Courtney, especially as it was his first year on British tracks, compared to Courtneys 3rd season in the uk.
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17 Feb 2003, 08:40
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I thought he looked greeat at Mexico, and Ive heard Jag will run from Rahals camp
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8 Mar 2003, 08:29
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lotterer will not drive for rahal, he has signed for f nippon! http://www.f1total.com/news/03030724.shtml well itīs german, no time to translate it now, probably someone finds an english version
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8 Mar 2003, 08:53
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Damn, that's a shame, he would be a great addition to CART...so quick at Mexico City last year.
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8 Mar 2003, 10:13
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He would have gone well in oval racing judging by the way he used to go thru Copse corner FLAT in British F3! At least he has a drive now. Must be weird for Courtney with all these faces from the past following him to Japan, first Robbie Kerr and now Andre Lotterer...
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8 Mar 2003, 11:55
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Europe and Brazil have been producing a surplus of good drivers for years now. Kind of a shame. 
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