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Champ car?

Anyone catch the race today? What did you think of Ling Beach?

Update:

sorry, I know it's Long Beach

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Long Beach isn't whats wrong with the race it's the product CHAMP is putting out. Need to get IRL and CHAMP to race Long Beach together, so this street race gets a race deserving its heritage.

    What INDY 500 is to oval racing Long Beach is to American open wheel road courses. Its a real damn shame it has come to this.

  • 1 decade ago

    I can't say it is Champ Car's fault that Bourdais dominated the race.

    Champ Car developed an entirely new car for this year.

    Yet still the Reigning champion dominated the race.

    Its not the race series' fault that Bourdais is a special driver.

    This guy won the F3000 championship, and then he has won 2 Champ Car Championships, and now he's on his way for a 3rd.

    The competition is not as weak as some other posters have mentioned. Paul Tracy and Justin Wilson for example are 2 great drivers, its just that Bourdais truly is that much better.

  • JJ
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    I didn't actually catch the race. I know Bourdais won again for the 3rd year in a row. It's too bad Tracy wasn't there to make it interesting!! I know a lot a people don't like him, but I'm from T.O. so I have to support my hometown boy. I just hope he is back in time for the Toronto Grand Prix. He brings an extra dimension to the race here. (I love watching him spin out going into turn 1. I have a great vantage point and it happens EVERY year) I've been going for 10 years and love it. I think Long Beach is a nice road course, just like Toronto.

  • 1 decade ago

    Horrible race, it was a joke. The race was never in question and a 20 second lead is pathetic to have on any course. Just goes to show that there are only 2-3 good drivers in Champ and nothing more. Champ is a joke.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Ling Beach is that near Chinatown ??

    I hated it becuase Paul Tracy was not racing. and Seabastian "Borday" Bourdais won. :-(

    Katherine Legg moved up from last to 10th

    and Gommendy should of won. I hope Paul will recover and race in Portland.

  • 5 years ago

    Its an previous sequence it is now area of the IRL. whilst the commentator area authentic , i think of that's F1 that many evaluate the ideal racing sequence contained in the international. the modifications are huge between F1 and the IRL. IRL drivers are literally "international classification" ,they're fairly gifted and in positive condition. They do pass swifter through fact they run on 2mile ovals and race at speeds of over 215mph. they might journey over 4g's on superspeedways. The F1 adult males race on very puzzling street courses and that they have got a much extra complicated situation with their autos. The IRL communities all use the comparable chassis, and engines, there is not any production championship, so that's as much as the communities to "tweak" their Dallara chassis in the specs set down by using league officers. i like all open wheel racing and watch the two F1 and the IRL. i do no longer think of any sequence might desire to ever be whilst in comparison with a distinctive through fact as quickly as you're making a useful sequence of any discipline, you're especially plenty a international classification driving force on your guy or woman authentic. each and each sequence, along with NASCAR and the ALMS and others are very distinctive and to declare one driving force is extra useful is in basic terms opinion and can on no account relatively be shown. I say he grow to be in basic terms pitching a sturdy observe for the champ automobile adult males and probable did no longer mean any disrespect in the direction of F1.

  • 1 decade ago

    I did...loved the race! I love Champ car!

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