Graham Rahal will be racing at Long Beach, which now has a field of 20 cars for the Champ Car finale.

 

That would certainly make sense, since he was a ChampCar driver. I hope IRL will consider adding/picking up Long Beach next year if at all possible.

Definitely want to see more road/street races. April 19/20 will be a great open wheel (and ALMS) race watching weekend

 

Rumor has it that Long Beach, Cleveland, and Edmonton will make it on next year's schedule.

 

IRL HAS picked up Long Beach. It's an IRL points race. It's split because of the date conflict with Motegi. When CART went bankrupt, Tony George was salivating at the chance to get Long Beach.

 

Do you mean for 2009/10? We already know it's happening this year April 19/20 is the split race with points.

 

Yeah, the Long Beach Grand Prix Association made a joint announcement with IRL last month.

3/19/08: "The Long Beach City Council, in a unanimous vote, has renewed the city

 

Awesome! Thanks! Good news, that was always an interesting race to watch. Hope to see PT on hand

 

He'll be there. Here's the entry list:

Driver Sponsor
Residence Car Color(s)
No Nationality
02 Graham Rahal Hole in the Wall Camps Newman Haas Lanigan Racing
Hilliard, Ohio Black / White Lincolnshire, Illinois
USA Don Hoevel
3 Paul Tracy INDECK Forsythe / Pettit Racing
Las Vegas, Nevada Blue Indianapolis, Indiana
Canada Chris Muir
4 Nelson Philippe Minardi Team USA / HVM Racing Minardi Team USA / HVM Racing
Key Biscayne, Florida Black / Grey / Red Indianapolis, Indiana
France Daryl Fox
5 Oriol Servia KV Racing Technology / Plantronics / HP KV Racing Technology
Miami Beach, Florida Silver / Blue / Orange Indianapolis, Indiana
Spain Greg Senerious
06 Justin Wilson McDonald's Racing Team Newman Haas Lanigan Racing
Dacono, Colorado Red / Yellow Lincolnshire, Illinois
England Tim Coffeen
7 Franck Montagny

 

Awesome! Thanks for posting.

 

....and the winner is



I finally got around to downloading my photos. I have some of the Sportscar pix on the Ohio page, but there are too many to post