2008 Champ Car season

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The 2008 Champ Car World Series season was to have been the 30th season of the series. It was scheduled to begin on April 20, 2008 and end on November 9. The season, with the sole exception of the Long Beach Grand Prix (won by Will Power), was canceled February 21, 2008 due to the unification of Champ Car into the rival Indy Racing League. However, the Rexall Grand Prix of Edmonton and the Gold Coast Indy 300 were revived and transferred to the Indy Car Series schedule.

Schedule (prior to unification announcement)

Rd Race Name Circuit City/Location TV Date
1 United States Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach Streets of Long Beach Long Beach, California ESPN2 April 20
2 United States Grand Prix of Houston JAGFlo Speedway Houston, Texas ESPN2 April 27
3 United States Champ Car Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Monterey, California ESPN May 18
4 Belgium Champ Car Grand Prix of Belgium at Circuit Zolder Zolder Heusden-Zolder, Belgium ABC June 1
5 Spain Champ Car Grand Prix of Spain at Circuito Permanente de Jerez Circuito Permanente de Jerez Jerez, Spain ABC June 8
6 United States Champ Car Grand Prix of Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport Cleveland, Ohio ABC June 22
7 Canada Champ Car Mont-Tremblant Circuit Mont-Tremblant Mont-Tremblant, Quebec ESPN June 29
8 Canada Grand Prix of Toronto Exhibition Place Toronto, Ontario ESPN July 6
9 Canada Rexall Grand Prix of Edmonton Blatchford Field Airport Edmonton, Alberta ESPN July 20
10 United States Champ Car Grand Prix of Portland Portland International Raceway Portland, Oregon ESPN2 July 27
11 United States Road America Grand Prix Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin ABC August 10
12 Netherlands Champ Car Grand Prix of Holland at TT Circuit Assen TT Circuit Assen Assen, Netherlands ESPN2 September 14
13 Australia Gold Coast Indy 300 Streets of Surfers Paradise Gold Coast, Queensland ESPN2 October 26
14 Mexico Gran Premio Tecate Presentado por Banamex Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Mexico City, Mexico ESPN2 November 9

Team and Driver Lineup (prior to unification announcement)

The following teams and drivers were expected to compete for the 2008 Champ Car season. All teams would have used a Cosworth 2.65-litre turbocharged V8 engine, a Panoz DP01 chassis, and Bridgestone tires.

Team No # Driver(s) Sponsor(s) Test Drivers
United States Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing 1 United Kingdom Justin Wilson [1] McDonald's N/A
2 United States Graham Rahal [1] Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
United States Forsythe/Pettit Racing 3 Mexico David Martínez INDECK/Monster Energy Drink N/A
7 France Franck Montagny INDECK
United Kingdom Minardi Team USA 4 Venezuela Ernesto Viso Muermans Group/PDVSA/OzJet N/A
14 Netherlands Robert Doornbos Muermans Group/Jumbo Supermarkets/OzJet
Australia Team Australia 5 Australia Will Power Aussie Vineyards N/A
15 United Kingdom Dan Clarke Aussie Vineyards/Ticketmaster
United States Rocketsports 8 Brazil Enrique Bernoldi [2] Sangari [3] N/A
United States Dale Coyne Racing 18 Brazil Bruno Junqueira Z-Line Designs N/A
19 Brazil Mario Moraes Sonny's Real Pit Bar-B-Q
United States KV Racing Technology 21 Canada Alex Tagliani CEC Wheels N/A
22 Spain Oriol Servià [4] Plantronics/HP
United States Pacific Coast Motorsports 29 United States Alex Figge Imperial Capital Bank N/A
96 Mexico Mario Dominguez Mexico City Tourism Board
United States Conquest Racing 24 France Franck Perera [5] ARES [5] N/A
34 France Nelson Philippe Juniper Property Development Group
  • The driver line-up represents the entry list for the Sebring Test.

References

  1. ^ a b ""Justin Wilson, Graham Rahal To Make Up Newman/Haas/Lanigan Lineup"". champcarworldseries.com. 2008-01-29. Retrieved 2008-01-29.
  2. ^ ""Rocketsports Signs Former F1 Driver"". champcarworldseries.com. 2008-01-28. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
  3. ^ ""Brazilian Company Sangari To Sponsor Enrique Bernoldi"". champcarworldseries.com. 2008-02-01. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
  4. ^ ""Oriol Servià Signs With PKV"". champcarworldseries.com. 2008-01-05. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
  5. ^ a b ""Conquest Racing Confirms Atlantic's 'Fearless' Franck Perera For 2008 Champ Car World Series Season"". champcarworldseries.com. 2008-02-06. Retrieved 2008-02-06.

See also

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