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Just an interesting discussion piece.
With all the CART teams jumping ship this season to IRL, will CART have no choice but to merge with the IRL and have 1 category of top class open-wheel racing in the US?
Last year saw the defection (for lack of a better word) of Team Penske (the dominant team in CART) and it looks as if both the Target Chip Ganassi and Team Kool Green look set to jump too. This will take out a good 6 cars from CART, plus two of the biggest (if not the 2 biggest) teams in CART.
With the success and TV rating that IRL has, it would seem it is a certainty. But with the IRL being super-speedway oval races, and CART's decision to decrease the number of oval tracks in favour of street circuits (no Texas or German oval races, plus first time races in the streets of Denver and Miami) CART seems to be trying to distance themselves from the IRL. But if CART continues to have teams jumping ship every year, this may be their only alternative.
With all the CART teams jumping ship this season to IRL, will CART have no choice but to merge with the IRL and have 1 category of top class open-wheel racing in the US?
Last year saw the defection (for lack of a better word) of Team Penske (the dominant team in CART) and it looks as if both the Target Chip Ganassi and Team Kool Green look set to jump too. This will take out a good 6 cars from CART, plus two of the biggest (if not the 2 biggest) teams in CART.
With the success and TV rating that IRL has, it would seem it is a certainty. But with the IRL being super-speedway oval races, and CART's decision to decrease the number of oval tracks in favour of street circuits (no Texas or German oval races, plus first time races in the streets of Denver and Miami) CART seems to be trying to distance themselves from the IRL. But if CART continues to have teams jumping ship every year, this may be their only alternative.
