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Old 11 Nov 2006, 03:02 (Ref:1763174)   #26
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IMO, D&R just signed a couple oval-track engineers in preparation for the IRL season. I seriously doubt that it's switching to CC.
My guess is that they can be an engineer for road courses aswell. They were Fernandez guys weren't they who came from CC ?

But I agree D & R are at the longest odds to be purchased by Minardi.

Rocketsports arent a Indy based team so with PS comment in autosport I guess that takes them out of the equation.

He wouldnt be buying KKs share in PKV would he ?

Hopefully DCR and PS do a joint venture and we can have a competitive team for 07.
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Old 11 Nov 2006, 03:27 (Ref:1763178)   #27
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Hopefully we will know something in a few days.
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Old 11 Nov 2006, 10:13 (Ref:1763322)   #28
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Be patient gentlemen...
It can't definitely be RuSPORT, is is based in Colorado.

It's an Indy team but I haven't the feintest on which it can be. So, Mexico City, come now!
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Old 11 Nov 2006, 10:44 (Ref:1763331)   #29
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Walker Racing/Team Australia? they are based at Indy, doubt Gore would want to get out of it though and I'm not sure those two could work together well...

Ideally he would just start his own team, best for everybody, if not, then an underperforming one like Rocketsports.
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Old 11 Nov 2006, 10:59 (Ref:1763337)   #30
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The Autosport speculation is HVM. Seems more likely to me than anything else.
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Old 11 Nov 2006, 19:27 (Ref:1763575)   #31
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Suggest He may be buying out the Mi-Jack PART of Conquest.
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Old 11 Nov 2006, 19:49 (Ref:1763591)   #32
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Could be.
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Old 11 Nov 2006, 20:41 (Ref:1763618)   #33
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Doesn't the Mi-Jack part of Conquest also do the Cleveland and Houston races? It seems odd that they would increase their involvement in CC only to back out a year later.
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Old 12 Nov 2006, 10:01 (Ref:1764046)   #34
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Heard somewhere (apologies for lack of preciseness) that Mi Jack was looking at sponsoring NHR in a bigger way than at Conquest.
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Old 12 Nov 2006, 11:44 (Ref:1764132)   #35
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It would be a shame to lose Conquest, as they've been seriously competitive. We will see.
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Old 12 Nov 2006, 12:00 (Ref:1764146)   #36
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It could make sense...Mi-Jack and Bachelat share ownership, so if Mi-Jack did want to jump ship, Stoddard could come in with sponsors and do a think like Conquest did a few years ago with Fittapaldi-Digman...then we have both...

Yes not as good but still - gets both owners on the grid...
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Old 13 Nov 2006, 02:23 (Ref:1764587)   #37
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So...The Mexico Race is over...

Who did he buy, or what did he announce???

I watched the race, and unless they said something while I was talking a leak, I sure didn't hear anything about Stoddart's plans....

Please share if you know anything...
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Old 13 Nov 2006, 05:22 (Ref:1764622)   #38
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havent heard a thing.

then again maybe he was buying a tequilla factory in Mexico and nothing to do with racing at all ?
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Old 13 Nov 2006, 06:10 (Ref:1764637)   #39
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AR1 and miller are reporting based on comments from keith wiggins and others that stoddart is buying into HVM and they will field a four car superteam. Wiggins wants to keep his 2 drivers from this year plus 2 of stoddarts drivers.
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Old 13 Nov 2006, 09:41 (Ref:1764745)   #40
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mmmm interesting maybe Patrick (can't spell his last name for the life of me)who drove for Minardi in F1.and at a long shot i would hope Briscoe gets the other seat.
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Old 13 Nov 2006, 11:24 (Ref:1764846)   #41
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Old 13 Nov 2006, 12:05 (Ref:1764890)   #42
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Stoddart must've made some money from selling the Minardi F1 team, so he might be able to fund drivers completely for a year or 2.
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Old 13 Nov 2006, 13:47 (Ref:1764985)   #43
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mmmm interesting maybe Patrick (can't spell his last name for the life of me)who drove for Minardi in F1.and at a long shot i would hope Briscoe gets the other seat.
Patrick Friesacher

Stoddart owned the charter airline OzJet and operates a fleet of Boeing 737-200 aircraft.
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Old 13 Nov 2006, 13:57 (Ref:1764990)   #44
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http://www.speedtv.com/articles/auto/champcar/33941/
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Old 13 Nov 2006, 17:39 (Ref:1765167)   #45
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so its 99% they keep Clarke and Phillipe in the team, and as for who Stoddie might come up with they mention Wilson and Dornbos (both incredibbly unlikely, Dornbos has the money to do F1, and Wilson can get into pretty much any champcar team with his record)

therefor I think, its still the ex-Minardi guys who are most likely to compete for that one or two seats, Bruni was never really a Stoddart-guy, in fact, he was the only driver who was introduced by Giancarlo Minardi between 2001 and 2005. Yoong and his father had a noise battle of words with Stoddart over a 200k USD that Paul has allegedly refused to pay them back, so their relationship went bad there. As for Marques, Stodd literally hates him, wanted to get rid of him mid-season, Marques switched off his mobile for weeks and the team had no idea wheather he is to race in Hungaroring, they had to have Yoong there in case Marques wouldnt show up, so we can completely rule him out.

Leinders, Friesacher and Baumgartner are all well founded and out of drive so its between them now I would think. Baumgartner's management did confirm talks with Stoddart last week, that I know.
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Old 13 Nov 2006, 17:42 (Ref:1765174)   #46
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alonso11 has a lot of promise if they can keep it on the circuit!
also, im not quite sure wheather Muermann is still in the picture. do you think he is? Because if he is that would make Heylen an obvious pick too.
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Old 13 Nov 2006, 18:41 (Ref:1765215)   #47
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I can't beleive that Briscoe and James Courtney will be ignored once again by an Australian team manager.
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Old 13 Nov 2006, 20:22 (Ref:1765300)   #48
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well courtney been outta openwheelers for quite a while now eh, did he race at all this season?
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Old 13 Nov 2006, 20:26 (Ref:1765307)   #49
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Well, you have KK, an Australian, who co-owne sthe series and is said to be providing funding to several teams. You have Gore and Walker, both Australians, running a team. If ever there was a chance for hoke cookin' for Australia in the series, it was there long before Stoddart showed up.
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Old 13 Nov 2006, 21:18 (Ref:1765341)   #50
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KK was not "allowed" to run an Australian this year.
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