Wednesday, December 5, 2007

RUMOURS: Paul Tracy, Champ Car and the IRL

A few days ago, TSN thought it was "curious" that Paul Tracy wasn't mentioned in a team press release announcing the merger of his team with another.

"Canadian Paul Tracy has a contract with Forsythe through 2011, and while he was curiously left off this week's announcement concerning the merger with Pettit, Tracy is expected to be one of two or possibly three drivers with the team next season."

Fast forward a few days and the Champ Car forums are full of talk that PT may be done racing for Forsythe and possibly in Champ Car.

Today, a poster purporting to be Tracy's mother wrote the following on Champ Car Fanatics:

"Here's the heart of the matter from a real "insider". PT has a binding four year contract with Forsythe Racing, with no "out" clauses and no "performance" clauses on either side, and with both parties committed to the contract until the end of the four years. As far as PT is concerned, he is prepared to honour his commitment to this contract. He is not sure FCR has the same aspirations. Where this will end up no one knows, but if PT gets released from Champ Car, he will continue to race somewhere, be it IRL, ALMS, NASCAR wherever, as this is what he does ."

IRL???? Wow.

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