Bye Bye Carl A. Haas

[Jimmy Magnusson]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/64852

Champ Car team co-owner Carl Haas plans to take his multiple title-winning team to the rival IndyCar Series in 2009 if a merger between the two championships cannot be agreed before then.
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"It may not happen this year, but it's highly probably that we'll go for 2009 because there needs to be one series."

Well, what can you say. I understand Haas, because NHL have been a very, very big fish in a small pond the last few years so to say. If a merger is not done for 2009, this surely will end any real struggle between the two series. Champ Car might limp on a while, but it would be nothing compared to the IRL. And as you know, when one goes...