Champ Car to lose Tagliani

UPDATE A reader writes, Dear AutoRacing1.com, You must be joking the – the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series (CTNS) has 12 races, some of them on Mickey Mouse tracks, and the best track in Ontario (Delaware Speedway) dropped the series this year. They are racing before 2-3,000 fans in most races and the winner's purse is $7500. Even if Tag is not making that much money in Champ Car he is at least racing in the 2nd or 3rd best racing series in the world not the 1st or 2nd best stock car series in Ontario, Canada.

By the way the old CASCAR series used to have 30-40 entries. Depending on the track most of the CTNS races had 20 cars, which is not exactly healthy, and the series had absolutely no media buzz.

Dean McNulty doesn't like Champ Car and never has. He writes any negatives he can about Champ Car but his paper is a big sponsor of the Toronto Steelback Champ Car Grand Prix. Bill Brittain

10/03/07 The bad news just keeps flowing unabated for Champ Car. Another Canadian Champ Car World Series star is being groomed to join the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series next season, Sun Media has been told.

According to several sources, Alex Tagliani is expected to join Dave Jacombs Racing –the team that won the series championship this year with Andrew Ranger.

Ranger jumped to NASCAR from Champ Car this past season and said that it was the best move he's made in his racing career, winning the NCATS title in his first stock car season.

Ranger, who raced for two seasons in Champ Car, is now poised to move up to the Craftsman Truck Series and compete in several Busch Series races next season.

A source close to the Jacombs No. 27 Tide/Wal-Mart Ford squad said after the series finale at Kawartha Speedway that the team was in discussions with another Champ Car driver for the 2008 season. Toronto Sun