Champ Car 2007 "Silly Season"

[Thommy]

According to German Motorsport-Magazine "Motorsport aktuell", Kevin Kalkhoven has said in 2007 only 22 would be in the starting grid. Panoz is said not to be able to built 35 cars by begin of the season, and 13 cars are to be t-cars.

So, I think we will see this year's teams

2 cars Newman / Haas
2 cars Walker
2 cars PKV
2 cars Conquest
2 cars HVM
2 cars Forsythe
2 cars Coyne
2 cars Rocketsports
2 cars "The team formally known as Rusport"

+

2 cars Gelles
2 cars Pacific Coast

= 22 cars

Bad luck for Stoddart. If one team failed to find the money for the whole series or for two cars, Paul Stoddart would get a chance to ananme 1 or 2 minardi- Drivers.

So, what would happen to the other teams?

Dreyer & Reinbold could stay in IRL
EuroInternational?
Jensen MotorSport: Only Formula BMW?
Johannson: Has often announcend Plans, a lot of them did not work, would be no suprise should this one also not work
Parrot?
Polestar: Will stay in Formula Atlantic?
Ganassi will stay at IRL for sure...


Hmm: Only 22 cars, new chance for IRL?