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Champ Car-IndyCar merger beefed up car numbers, series credibility

By John Oreovicz
Special to ESPN.com

Saturday, October 11, 2008

It has been nearly eight months since Indy Racing League founder Tony George and Champ Car World Series leader Kevin Kalkhoven smiled, shook hands and announced the end of the war for control of American open-wheel formula car racing. Champ Car ran one more race for contractual reasons and then quietly disappeared, leaving half its teams to join the former rival IndyCar Series. Despite lucrative financial incentives from George, a few remaining teams could not -- or would not -- make the trans ...

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