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16 Jul 2004, 16:47 (Ref:1038336)
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I split this thread Tailwind, since it doesn't pertain to the 2005 season, but rather this season, and I thought it would be more noticed in its own thread.
This posted on Champweb.com: Speculation at this point in time, but Puerto Rico has been mentioned as the fill in for the last TBA on the Champ Car schedule. This would be an event also ran with the Trans Am series so it makes sense. St. Petersburg is also being mentioned as a replacement for the now defunct Seoul, Korea race. Last edited by jjspierx; 16 Jul 2004 at 17:22. |
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16 Jul 2004, 17:15 (Ref:1038365)
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That's been posted a lot of places. Time will tell.
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16 Jul 2004, 18:38 (Ref:1038450)
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has the promoter in Puerto Rico (or Gentilozzi, if he had a piece of that race for payouts on contracts or obligations as the head of Trans-Am) paid off all of the obligations owed from last October, or settled the litigation brought against that event last October????? At one time, Trans-Am teams had not been paid winnings or transport costs that were promised, and someone was being sued by a singer who was under contract to sing the national Anthem and to wear a "MotorRock" T-Shirt as part of her involvement.... The flak that came about over the winter following the Trans Am race down there last fall tells me that if this is a Deal with a Promoter" event, then OWRS should "Run...Not Walk" away from this optionas fast as they can.... Especially if it is the guy who was involved with the Trans-Am event last year....he is bad news.... |
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16 Jul 2004, 18:45 (Ref:1038457)
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Thanx Tim... I forgot about that little fiasco
 ops: guess Sklenka's fantasy won't happen... hihihaha...  btw, St.Pete is all but announced as being the November TBA ?!... and should Seoul not materialize this year it won't be any big loss and racing week-to-week is not something that OWRS is looking forward to...  zerO |
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16 Jul 2004, 18:50 (Ref:1038461)
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Interesting thing is that now I can't find the statement on ChampWeb. I wonder if someone put that little piece of news up too soon and then realized that it was unsupported.
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16 Jul 2004, 18:51 (Ref:1038462)
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I hope so...I'd love to have an excuse to make a trip down to the Tampa Bay area (my father-in-law lives in Tampa) in November to catch a race at St.Pete!!!! |
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16 Jul 2004, 19:06 (Ref:1038475)
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Don does that all the time - especially after he gets a bunch of e-mails telling him he goofed... hihihaha... zerO |
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16 Jul 2004, 19:10 (Ref:1038476)
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16 Jul 2004, 19:20 (Ref:1038485)
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Thanks, zer0.....
St. Pete and Surfers are the only two street tracks I like... |
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16 Jul 2004, 22:05 (Ref:1038629)
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The Puerto Rico Trans Am race seemed wildy popular at least from what I saw on the TV coverage. The stands looked packed, the track was great for racing. I think it might be a bit small for Champcars, but its still loads better than Denver or Miami were, and its wide since its on an airport.
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but not much run off like cleveland, plus weren't the trans am cars chewing up the corners pretty bad last year?
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 From a purely racing standpoint, both St Pete and Puerto Rico (from what little I saw of last years Trans-Am race) are great track, especially St Pete, such a great track, so typical that after dangling it in front of us, it was taken away! (As I said in another thread, apoligies for repeating myself!) Autosport over here in the U.K. have already announced A) Korea cancelled and B) St Pete is TBA two (definate on both), so I'm desperate to find out if they're 1)Know something we don't, or 2)Just blindly publishing rumours as facts! :confused: |
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17 Jul 2004, 07:29 (Ref:1038841)
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ZerO,
Sorry that I posted the same rumor on another thread. I can be a real idiot at times 
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17 Jul 2004, 07:35 (Ref:1038846)
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eyyyyy... don't take it too hard on yourself - it happens to the best of us - even I goofed a few times...
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That's right...I thought the Toronto race stunk.... But that MHO.... BTW.... Puerto Rico's layout is fairly similar to Cleveland's, isn't it???? The Trans-Am action was good there, and they did draw a good crowd... I'm worried about whether this possible race would be with the same promoter as the Trans-Am race.....there were lots of problems with payments, etc., following that event... OWRS doesn't need to get into possible litigation issues because of a promoter with a less than stellar reputation for paying bills on time, or honoring contracts.... |
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