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Old 17 Jun 2005, 15:13 (Ref:1331608)   #1
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Valiante to Race for Coyne at Portland
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Longtime Champ Car hopeful Michael Valiante will drive one of Dale Coyne Racing's Lola-Fords at this weekend's Champ Car race at Porland. According to the Toronto Star newspaper, the 24-year-old Canadian, who tested one of DCR's machines on Wednesday, could be confirmed by the team for the remainder of the season at a later date.

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Old 17 Jun 2005, 15:23 (Ref:1331620)   #2
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Very nice. That's FOUR Canadians in the field. Coyne said that Valiente was their first choice. I have a feeling I know who's paying for this seat and it's not Valiente or a sponsor. That's okay though, he deserves it.
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Old 17 Jun 2005, 15:27 (Ref:1331624)   #3
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Awesome, Awesome, AWESOME!!!

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Old 17 Jun 2005, 15:49 (Ref:1331637)   #4
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Finally!! This is great news!

I hope he stays for the whole season!
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Old 17 Jun 2005, 15:58 (Ref:1331647)   #5
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I assume Snrub is implying that OWRS have footed the bill, which is basically fine by me. Michael's chance has been a long time coming - he's proably better-known among the ChampCar faithful than some of the guys who are racing this year, and I'm sure he'll do really well.
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Old 17 Jun 2005, 18:01 (Ref:1331725)   #6
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Way to go MV! Another exciting rookie added to the mix. This will be a test for Michael though, Servia was able to take the Coyne ride and make it fast, something that lesser drivers have not been able to do.
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Old 17 Jun 2005, 19:49 (Ref:1331810)   #8
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This will be a test for Michael though, Servia was able to take the Coyne ride and make it fast, something that lesser drivers have not been able to do.
While definately true, I think it's the setup abilities that make a big part of the differnence. We know that Tag sets up his own car. We know that Servia with his engineering background had at least a substantial impact designing his setups. The technical experience and the fact that the cars haven't changed probably plays to their advantage. I don't know that it's even possible for an inexperienced driver to get a car close to what Servia was able to accomplish. I guess we'll find out.
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That's pretty much the way I see it Snrub. Having experience is much mroe important when you're in an under-fudned team which lacks on the technical side, and they wills truggle even mroe with 2 rookies (as they did for much of 2003).
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While definately true, I think it's the setup abilities that make a big part of the differnence. We know that Tag sets up his own car. We know that Servia with his engineering background had at least a substantial impact designing his setups. The technical experience and the fact that the cars haven't changed probably plays to their advantage. I don't know that it's even possible for an inexperienced driver to get a car close to what Servia was able to accomplish. I guess we'll find out.
But reading in Autosport about Mr Servia's run with Newman-Haas, the driver mentioned that after every single session there is an enginering debrief, a 15 page document is produced on what happened in the session, and possible recommendations for changes, improvements etc etc etc on the engineering/setup/driving style....

.... none of which were said in the article to have happened at DCR...
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For anyone interested, on tomorrow morning's edition of the Auto Racing Zone (9:00am-10:00am ET), they will have a live interview with Coyne, discussing Valiente.

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I hope he sets Portland on fire!

Figuratively, of course...
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I'm assuming that this will make for the most Canadians to ever start an event?
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Nope. In the 1994 Molson Indy Toronto, there were five Canadians: Paul Tracy, Jacques Villeneuve, Scott Goodyear, Ross Bentley, and Claude Bourbonnais.
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He'll do well. The best we can hope for are Servia like results - nothing more. But then maybe other teams will see he is a racer....

Four Canucks is sweet and three of them are competive out of the box.
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