Showing posts with label champcar auction panoz dallara. Show all posts
Showing posts with label champcar auction panoz dallara. Show all posts

Friday, June 13, 2008

Sad

I received a note the other day that was kind of a downer. It was an auction notice for the assets of Champcar. I wish I had the spare coin around to buy stuff to hang onto, but then again it's not good to live in the past. I was taken by the pace cars that were still around, stored in some warehouse. I hope that some museum or someone who'll take care of them bought 'em.
I did watch some of the race at Texas Motor Speedway last weekend. It's difficult for me to watch too much oval racing. I do like the strategy that goes with it, but watching them buzz around isn't as exciting as a road or street race. PT had some strong opinions on the Indycar package and having watched some I tend to agree. The cars look a decade old and they don't sound exciting. I've never been a big NASCAR fan, but they're moving forward with the car of tomorrow and it's enticing to me. The Panoz DP01's like Katherine Heigl, the Dallara's . . . not.
Oh, and the Champcar website is still up? Who's paying for that?