3 new races in 2004?

[Snrub]

The popular rumour is that South Koreans will flock to a CART race like Mexicans. (fingers crossed) It will hopefully spread the travel costs to Austraila.

As for Hyundai, seriously what's wrong with them? They're quiet good cars for the money. You can't exactly say Ford builds quality automobiles. The best Ford branded vehicle is the Focus and it's the most recalled vehicle in history. (saving the 3rd generation RX-7 the destinction, but atleast it had the excuse of being able to roast $100k cars @ 1/3 the cost!) Nor can you claim that Ford had the better of Honda and Toyota in CART.

[MLM]

Originally posted by Tim Northcutt
Oh Great...

Now Bernie "Darth Vader" Eccelstone is somehow snaking his way back into this soap opera.....

I think going to South Africa is just about as nuts as it was to go to Europe last year when CART was bleeding red ink....

Korea sounds almost as stupid...unless Hyundai is going to jump aboard for the "OWRS powered by Hyundai's blender motors on steroids"

come to think of it, if Hyundai is to become involved, it is MORE stupid than South Africa....

Sorry to all for the sarcasm...but PG and Co. have really lost it if they are planning overseas races next season....that's no way to build long-term stability...you have to crawl before you can walk....and overseas races with the current financial state in your first year is like going from lying flat on your back to trying to run a marathon....

It mases no business sense...build on what you've go going that is already good, then look at new places and new venues down the road...especially overseas....

Here, here...and buy that man a beer!

[corkholio]

Originally posted by Snrub
As for Hyundai, seriously what's wrong with them? They're quiet good cars for the money. You can't exactly say Ford builds quality automobiles. The best Ford branded vehicle is the Focus and it's the most recalled vehicle in history. (saving the 3rd generation RX-7 the destinction, but atleast it had the excuse of being able to roast $100k cars @ 1/3 the cost!) Nor can you claim that Ford had the better of Honda and Toyota in CART.

Maybe they can ask Motor Sport Developments to build the engines too!

[Dov]

From Cart-Racing.com: http://www.cart-racing.com/news/inde...e=news&ID=3371

Rumors emanating from South Africa suggest that sometime F1 Arrows straight-line tester (and occasional pilot of the bankrupt team's aborted AX3 triple-seater) Steven Watson is seeking local state backing to contest the Champ Car World Series - possibly with PK Racing alongside Mika Salo.

Zimbabwe-born Watson, who last raced two years ago, is further linked to a venture planning to bring a Champ Car street race to the coastal city of Durban, where permission is being sought for a circuit. Plans released to the local media show an angular circuit fronted by the local casino, with the city's military base providing pits and paddock.

The city, located on the Indian Ocean, controversially sanctioned a similar circuit for national (saloon and sports car) racing in 1988, but withdrew permission a year later after a raft of accidents which were blamed on an absence of run-off areas and lack of safety standards.

Watson's father John (no relation to the 80s grand prix driver) co-promoted a non-championship F3000 race at Kyalami in the mid-nineties which, too, was dogged by controversy.

[Omega99]

Wow, so the South Africa rumor was pretty serious, huh? I'd say it would be 2005 at the earliest before there's an event there, and only on the conditions similar to the deal CART has with Surfer's for subsidised transport there and back. Otherwise, it just doesn't make sense.

[Dov]

Are we being sarcastic, Omega!?

[Tim Northcutt]

"The city, located on the Indian Ocean, controversially sanctioned a similar circuit for national (saloon and sports car) racing in 1988, but withdrew permission a year later after a raft of accidents which were blamed on an absence of run-off areas and lack of safety standards."


These words should be waving "Red Flags" at this place as a possible venue....

The last thing OWRS would need would be an expensive overseas trip to a race that would possibly have a host (no pun intended) a series of problems.....