The Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford will race on the Brands Hatch Indy circuit on Monday, May 5 (a holiday in Britain), contrary to rumors suggesting that the event might be run on the facility's extended Grand Prix course instead. Champ Car President and CEO Chris Pook has left the door open for a move to the full circuit for next year, however.
"There are a couple of things that are challenging for us at Brands," Pook admitted. "The local planning council controls the number of events that are held on the long [GP] course; and there are some safety issues on the long course, including at least one place where the cars would be airborne.
"There is a great temptation, because everybody wants us to run the long course, but let's just be sensible about how we approach it. Let's do our race this year on the short course and see what comes out. I don't want to pre-judge the short course until we've completed one race."
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O.K. the part I like the most is the possibility of running the long GP course in 2004. I would very much like to see that.
8 Feb 2003, 05:41 (Ref:500293)
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