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Indycar holds reunification press conference

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It is finally official, the IRL & CCWS are one. The way it should have always been. Sour grapes of the past aside though, as Karl Kalkhoven said: “Now is not the time to look back”

Greg MacPherson from Inside Track live blogged the press conference yesterday and has some great insight.

Full length (really long) press release after the break
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IRL & Champ Car reunite: Great for racing, terrible for Toronto

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Ever since North America’s open wheel racing series was torn apart by Tony George and his American only plan, I, like many fans have dreamed of the day the two series would quit struggling and get back together. At its peak, CART offered some of the best racing in the world. What followed would be years of lackluster racing, sponsorship woes and odd business practices. Little did I dream that when the marriage between the two series, our Toronto race would be a victim of the battle.
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