20+ car ChampCar GRID Shaping Up ?!?!

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OK, Long Beach is on !!! with 18 cars as promised, but there is EXPANSION COMING IN !!!... the latest from the Grapevine is that we may see as many as 3 cars added to the CCWS grid at Monterrey next month ?!

Brazilian sources indicate that Emmo's team not only is on a verge of being completed, but it will be a TWO CAR effort for Gaston Mazzacane AND Ricardo Sperafico (who's better than Alex or Gaston, btw ) ?!

Also, Walker's second car #15 for Michael Valiante is on a brink of becoming a reality ?!

Here's how the line-up scenario looks like now:

1. FORSYTHE - #1 - Paul Tracy
2. FORSYTHE - #3 - Rodofo Lavin
3. FORSYTHE - #7 - Patrick Carpentier
4. NEWMAN/HAAS - #2 - Sebastien Bourdais
5. NEWMAN/HAAS - #6 - Bruno Junqueira
6. HERDEZ - #4 - Ryan Hunter-Reay
7. HERDEZ - #55 - Mario Dominguez
8. COYNE - #11 - Oriol Servia
9. COYNE - #19 - Tarso Marques, Tomas Enge, Michael Keohane and/or Jaime Melo
10. KALKHOVEN - #12 - Jimmy Vasser
11. KALKHOVEN - #21 - Roberto Gonzalez
12. GENTILOZZI - #8 - Alex Tagliani
13. GENTILOZZI - #17 - Nelson Philippe
14. RUSSO - #9 - Michel Jourdain
15. RUSSO - #10 - AJ Allmendinger
16. BACHELART - #24 - Alex Sperafico
17. BACHELART - #34 - Justin Wilson
18. WALKER - #5 - Mario Haberfeld

Possibles:

19. FITTIPALDI - #20 - Gaston Mazzacane
20. FITTIPALDI - #23 - Ricardo Sperafico
21. WALKER - #15 - Michael Valiante or Jonathan Macri
22. KALKHOVEN - #22 - Josh Hunt and/or Christian Murchison
23. HEMELGARN - #18 - Townsend Bell or Richie Hearn

btw, for the updated picturesque version go to www.champcarfan.com and click on the "Line-up" thingy ?!

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