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25 Mar 2004, 19:28 (Ref:919377)
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Two More For Our Side!
Today's Toronto Sun announces the following:
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25 Mar 2004, 19:43 (Ref:919384)
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According to champ car's site it is Wilson. Autosport is reporting that Firman has signed with Nissan.
Looks like the Toronto Sun and EB wanted Firman to be the "second" car at Conquest. That would be super if it can happen. Possibly the Firman deal with Nissan isn't a "done deal":confused: :confused: |
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25 Mar 2004, 20:12 (Ref:919421)
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Seems like the Toronto Sun is talking out of it's backside with regards to Ralph
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25 Mar 2004, 20:25 (Ref:919440)
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Well it says "will announce" so maybe so. I'm just reporting what I read.
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25 Mar 2004, 20:26 (Ref:919441)
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I think they heard a rumour that a British F1 driver had signed and then jumped to their own conclusions without finding out the truth
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25 Mar 2004, 20:54 (Ref:919466)
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Justin Wilson is the man.
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25 Mar 2004, 20:56 (Ref:919471)
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what's great is that conquest is going to have 2 cars. i believe the car count for the CHAMP CAR WORLD SERIES is 17 with more to come. long beach is gonna rock.
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26 Mar 2004, 13:26 (Ref:920090)
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Firman identifies himself as Irish in any case, as his mother Angela is Irish.
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26 Mar 2004, 15:59 (Ref:920209)
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Firman is headed to the Superfund World Series, racing with Gabord Competition. First race is this weekend if I'm not mistaken, at Jarama.
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26 Mar 2004, 16:08 (Ref:920215)
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Yes, I think Tiago Monteiro is going to be in that one too.
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26 Mar 2004, 23:52 (Ref:920723)
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Looks like Firman may need some time to come to grips with the Nissan. See practice results below:
Combined practice times - Jarama, Spain: 1. Enrique Bernoldi GD Racing 1m 22.615s 2. Juan Cruz Alvarez Gabord Reyco 1m 22.874s 3. Jean-Christophe Ravier Epsilon Euskadi 1m 23.054s 4. Heikki Kovalainen Pons Racing 1m 23.108s 5. Didier Andre KTR 1m 23.127s 6. Tristan Gommendy Saulnier Racing 1m 23.139s 7. Bruce Jouanny KTR 1m 23.192s 8. Felix Porteiro Porfesa Competicion 1m 23.212s 9. Narain Karthikeyan RC Motorsport 1m 23.236s 10. Tiago Monteiro Carlin Motorsport 1m 23.287s 11. Olivier Pla RC Motorsport 1m 23.421s 12. Boris Derichebourg Paul Belmondo Racing 1m 23.434s 13. Pablo Donoso GD Racing 1m 23.481s 14. Ander Vilarino Epsilon Euskadi 1m 23.508s 15. Rodrigo Sperafico Vergani Racing 1m 23.868s 16. Ryo Fukuda Paul Belmondo Racing 1m 23.8861s 17. Adrian Valles Pons Racing 1m 24.361s 18. Roldan Rodriguez Porfesa Competicion 1m 24.474s 19. Ralph Firman Gabord Reyco 1m 24.588s In fairness, he probably just got off a plane and jumped right into the car. |
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27 Mar 2004, 00:46 (Ref:920741)
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Good luck to Ralph, would've been nice to see him in CC, but that series did wonders for Ricardo Zonta's career after he was dumped on the F1 scrapheap (offered a testing deal after he blizted the competitton!)
Even new Champ Car signing Justin Wilson spent a year over there after winning the F3000 title, but before his F1 ride last year, so I hope it works out well for him!! And yeah, lets give him some time to adapt first eh? So....as to where the Toronto sun got their "scoop" Interesting!.... :confused: |
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27 Mar 2004, 01:37 (Ref:920781)
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They're NA$CAR people. They get a lot of things wrong. (They listed the drivers for Forsythe as Paul Tracy and Roberto Lavin, for one thing.
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27 Mar 2004, 02:37 (Ref:920825)
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ESPN covered Mi-Jack's announcement that Justin Wilson signed with them and that he will run a Lola. They are considering a second driver, but he will be in a Reynard for now due to lack of Lola chassis availability if they can secure the financing.
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27 Mar 2004, 02:51 (Ref:920833)
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Technically, what good would it do any team from running two cars, two chassis? It's a shame that they have to do this, it essentially takes away much of the benefit gained from running a two-car team. It won't do the team, or either driver, very much good.
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27 Mar 2004, 03:33 (Ref:920871)
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They said that since they ran the Reynard last year, and worked on it over the winter, that they could at least temporarily run it until Uncle Carl has a few more Lolas to sell.
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28 Mar 2004, 02:33 (Ref:921701)
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