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zerO
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 Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 11:24 am Post subject: 2009 ICS Silly Season ?!?! |
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2009 Line-Up Update:
Well, it's time to kick-off next year's "Silly Season" ?! 
Latest tidbits from the Grapevine:
a/ Walker Racing will be back - most likely with Paul Tracy at helm...
b/ Forsythe Racing may be back - most likely with David Martinez as primary driver...
c/ HVM Racing are planning to expand to a two car team...
d/ PCM may expand to a two car team...
e/ Panther Racing may expand to a two car team... 
Full-Time Entries:
1. PENSKE = #3 - Helio Castroneves
2. PENSKE = #6 - Ryan Briscoe
3. NEWMAN/HAAS/LANIGAN = #02 - Justin Wilson
4. NEWMAN/HAAS/LANIGAN = #06 - Graham Rahal
5. WALKER = #35 - Paul Tracy or Alex Tagliani or ???
6. FOYT = #14 - Darren Manning or Jeff Simmons or Pablo Donoso or ???
7. WIGGINS = #33 - Ernesto Viso
8. RAHAL/LETTERMAN = #17 - Ryan Hunter-Reay
9. GANASSI = #9 - Scott Dixon
10. GANASSI = #10 - Dan Wheldon
11. COYNE = #18 - Bruno Junqueira
12. COYNE = #19 - Mario Moraes or ???
13. ANDRETTI/GREEN = #7 - Danica Patrick
14. ANDRETTI/GREEN = #11 - Tony Kanaan or ???
15. ANDRETTI/GREEN = #26 - Marco Andretti
16. ANDRETTI/GREEN = #27 - Hideki Mutoh or Raphael Matos or ???
17. BARNES = #4 - Vitor Meira
18. BACHELART/MOWER = #34 - Jaime Camara or Frank Perera or ???
19. BACHELART/MOWER = #36 - Enrique Bernoldi or Alex Tagliani or ???
20. REINBOLD/BUHL = #15 - Buddy Rice or ???
21. KALKHOVEN/VASSER = #5 - Oriol Servia
22. KALKHOVEN/VASSER = #8 - Will Power
23. GEORGE = #2 - A.J. Foyt IV or Bryan Herta or ???
24. GEORGE = #20 - Ed Carpenter
25. TADEVIC/FIGGE = #96 - Mario Dominguez
26. LUCZO/PENSKE = #12 - Tomas Scheckter
Part-Time Entries:
27. REINBOLD/BUHL = #23 - Milka Duno or Townsend Bell or ???
28. FISHER/O'GARA = #67 - Sarah Fisher
Possible Entries:
29. FORSYTHE = #28 - David Martinez or ???
30. FORSYTHE = #37 - Franck Montagny or James Hinchcliffe or ???
31. WIGGINS = #38 - Nelson Philippe or Alex Tagliani or ???
32. BARNES = #31 - Dillon Battistini or ???
33. TADEVIC/FIGGE = #29 - Alex Figge
34. ROTH = #24 - Jay Howard or ???
btw, for a picturesque line-up click on the "zerO" car in my sig ?!...  
zerO
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Ligier_AL
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Zero, I just finished watching windbag tonight and according to RM there is chaos in AGR and I'm hearing the Tony Kanaan wants out. There are many questions regarding his options, lets suppose Forsythe does comeback to Indy Car which I doubt unless he gets 10 or 15 million, do see him driving for Forsythe next year or some other team like Newman/Haas?  |
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Mospeada
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^^^The major teams already have drivers under contract. Maybe he'll go to Walker and partner up with Tracy. The only other team I can think of would be Rahal's team if he gets a sponsor for another car. That'd be a good fit with RHR and TK, Indy 500 win guaranteed.
Then there is Vision, of course FTG would have to boot either Carpenter or AJIV.
Mos
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zananaRex
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:14 am Post subject: |
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^^^ The way I understand this is that Tony Kanaan has a contract for next year in place... if he wants to get out of it then AGR will be in a world of shit because 7-11's contract stipulates that a big name star will be driving the car or else... so which "big name" could replace TK ??... or lose 7-11 -> and AGR can't afford that... 
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zerO
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:22 am Post subject: Re: 2009 ICS Silly Season ?!?! |
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2009 Line-Up Update:
Latest from the Grapevine is that Gerry Forsythe is currently haggling with three potential sponsors: Oracle, Red Bull, and Tecate - in order to get major sponsorship for a two car team -> hopefully something will come out of this...
Full-Time Entries:
1. PENSKE = #3 - Helio Castroneves
2. PENSKE = #6 - Ryan Briscoe
3. NEWMAN/HAAS/LANIGAN = #02 - Justin Wilson
4. NEWMAN/HAAS/LANIGAN = #06 - Graham Rahal
5. WALKER = #35 - Paul Tracy or Alex Tagliani or ???
6. FOYT = #14 - Darren Manning or Jeff Simmons or Pablo Donoso or ???
7. WIGGINS = #33 - Ernesto Viso
8. RAHAL/LETTERMAN = #17 - Ryan Hunter-Reay
9. GANASSI = #9 - Scott Dixon
10. GANASSI = #10 - Dan Wheldon
11. COYNE = #18 - Bruno Junqueira
12. COYNE = #19 - Mario Moraes or ???
13. ANDRETTI/GREEN = #7 - Danica Patrick
14. ANDRETTI/GREEN = #11 - Tony Kanaan or Franck Montagny or ???
15. ANDRETTI/GREEN = #26 - Marco Andretti
16. ANDRETTI/GREEN = #27 - Hideki Mutoh or Raphael Matos or ???
17. BARNES = #4 - Vitor Meira
18. BACHELART/MOWER = #34 - Jaime Camara or Frank Perera or ???
19. BACHELART/MOWER = #36 - Enrique Bernoldi or Alex Tagliani or ???
20. REINBOLD/BUHL = #15 - Buddy Rice or ???
21. KALKHOVEN/VASSER = #5 - Oriol Servia
22. KALKHOVEN/VASSER = #8 - Will Power
23. GEORGE = #2 - A.J. Foyt IV or Bryan Herta or ???
24. GEORGE = #20 - Ed Carpenter
25. TADEVIC/FIGGE = #96 - Mario Dominguez
26. LUCZO/PENSKE = #12 - Tomas Scheckter
Part-Time Entries:
27. REINBOLD/BUHL = #23 - Milka Duno or Townsend Bell or ???
28. FISHER/O'GARA = #67 - Sarah Fisher
Possible Entries:
29. FORSYTHE = #37 - David Martinez or Franck Montagny or Franck Perera or ???
30. FORSYTHE = #38 - James Hinchcliffe or Robert Wickens or Robert Doornbos or ???
31. WIGGINS = #32 - Nelson Philippe or Alex Tagliani or ???
32. BARNES = #31 - Dillon Battistini or ???
33. TADEVIC/FIGGE = #29 - Alex Figge
34. ROTH = #24 - Jay Howard or ???
btw, for a picturesque line-up click on the "zerO" car in my sig ?!...
zerO
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Ligier_AL
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:11 am Post subject: |
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| Mospeada wrote: | ^^^The major teams already have drivers under contract. Maybe he'll go to Walker and partner up with Tracy. The only other team I can think of would be Rahal's team if he gets a sponsor for another car. That'd be a good fit with RHR and TK, Indy 500 win guaranteed.
Then there is Vision, of course FTG would have to boot either Carpenter or AJIV.
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If I'm Rahal/Letterman I would go after TK, but you know what would be a cool move is to see Graham Rahal drive for his dad and TK drive for NHL.  |
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Mospeada
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^^^Uh no. The smartest move the Rahal's have made was to NOT have Graham driving for his daddy. As we have seen with AGR/Mikey/Marco fiasco, it just doesn't work when the team owner favors the fourth best driver on a four car team.
Graham will continue with NHRL for the forseable future, unless Penske poaches him as RM has been rumoring lately.
Mos
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Mospeada
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| zananaRex wrote: | | ^^^ The way I understand this is that Tony Kanaan has a contract for next year in place... if he wants to get out of it then AGR will be in a world of shit because 7-11's contract stipulates that a big name star will be driving the car or else... so which "big name" could replace TK ??... or lose 7-11 -> and AGR can't afford that... |
I thought his contract was up this year. Anyway, Marco would take over the 7-11 car (Andretti qualifies for a big name even if we know better about Marco). I'd say Danica would take the seat, but she's got Motorola. Perhaps they could entice one of the OWR guys who went tin-topping to come back?
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I'd have to think Franck Montagny is in the mix for a ride.
I'm also surprised that Max Papis isn't under any consideration, I figured he would be. |
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zerO
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:32 pm Post subject: Re: 2009 ICS Silly Season ?!?! |
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2009 Line-Up Update:
Latest tidbits from the Grapevine:
a/ Luczo Dragon Racing most likely will continue on as a part-time entry - no sign of new funds coming in for a full-time effort...
b/ Paul Tracy and Tony Kanaan have started "shopping" for a ride next year...
c/ Roth Racing is not expected to show up next year...
d/ Kevin Kalkhoven has uttered (yesterday) that should the Surfers Paradise race not be included in ICS schedule next year then he will pull KVRT team out of the series ?!... 
Full-Time Entries:
1. PENSKE = #3 - Helio Castroneves
2. PENSKE = #6 - Ryan Briscoe
3. NEWMAN/HAAS/LANIGAN = #02 - Justin Wilson
4. NEWMAN/HAAS/LANIGAN = #06 - Graham Rahal
5. WALKER = #35 - Paul Tracy or Alex Tagliani or ???
6. FOYT = #14 - Darren Manning or Jeff Simmons or Pablo Donoso or ???
7. WIGGINS = #33 - Ernesto Viso
8. RAHAL/LETTERMAN = #17 - Ryan Hunter-Reay
9. GANASSI = #9 - Scott Dixon
10. GANASSI = #10 - Dan Wheldon or Tony Kanaan or Alex Lloyd or ???
11. COYNE = #18 - Bruno Junqueira
12. COYNE = #19 - Mario Moraes or ???
13. ANDRETTI/GREEN = #7 - Danica Patrick
14. ANDRETTI/GREEN = #11 - Tony Kanaan or Franck Montagny or Paul Tracy or ???
15. ANDRETTI/GREEN = #26 - Marco Andretti
16. ANDRETTI/GREEN = #27 - Hideki Mutoh or Raphael Matos or ???
17. BARNES = #4 - Vitor Meira
18. BACHELART/MOWER = #34 - Jaime Camara or Frank Perera or ???
19. BACHELART/MOWER = #36 - Enrique Bernoldi or Alex Tagliani or ???
20. REINBOLD/BUHL = #15 - Buddy Rice or ???
21. KALKHOVEN/VASSER = #5 - Oriol Servia
22. KALKHOVEN/VASSER = #8 - Will Power
23. GEORGE = #2 - A.J. Foyt IV or Paul Tracy or Dan Wheldon or Bryan Herta or ???
24. GEORGE = #20 - Ed Carpenter
25. TADEVIC/FIGGE = #96 - Mario Dominguez
Part-Time Entries:
26. REINBOLD/BUHL = #23 - Milka Duno or Townsend Bell or ???
27. LUCZO/PENSKE = #12 - Tomas Scheckter or Paul Tracy or ???
28. FISHER/O'GARA = #67 - Sarah Fisher
Possible Entries:
29. FORSYTHE = #37 - David Martinez or Franck Montagny or Franck Perera or ???
30. FORSYTHE = #38 - James Hinchcliffe or Robert Wickens or Robert Doornbos or ???
31. WIGGINS = #32 - Nelson Philippe or Alex Tagliani or Dan Wheldon or ???
32. RAHAL/LETTERMAN = #16 - Alex Lloyd or Dan Wheldon or ???
33. BARNES = #31 - Dillon Battistini or ???
34. TADEVIC/FIGGE = #29 - Alex Figge
35. ROTH = #24 - Jay Howard or ???
btw, for a picturesque line-up click on the "zerO" car in my sig ?!...
zerO
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