Another team in IRL for 2009?

[Jimmy Magnusson]

And it's not just anybody.

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.

"It may not happen this year, but it's highly probably that we'll go for 2009 because there needs to be one series."

Quite honestly I think this would mean the end of any real "battle" between the two series. It would also improve the IRL greatly to have really all the "great open wheel teams" in the series, and you never know who might follow them over.