Champ Car sponsor announcements waiting in wings

UPDATE This rumor will soon go to 'fact.' In a press release today Champ Car stated that Thursday March 8th at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca will feature a number of team and driver announcements as well as unveiling of new liveries for the 2007 season as Champ Car kicks off their 2007 Spring Training event.

02/14/07 AutoRacing1.com has learned through its inside sources that there will be many Champ Car and team sponsors announcements made between now and the first race of the season. Announcements are being held back to coincide with the media event/Spring Training to be held at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The reason why all the cars are still testing with blank sidepods is for the reason stated above and the fact that these tests were meant to be focused on ironing the kinks out of the new Panoz chassis, and not meant to make a media impact. There will indeed be a minimum of 18 cars this year and that number still might go up depending how things shake out. We hear Forsythe Racing will, at the end of the day, run a 2nd car this year. Mark C.