ALMS/Champ Car doubleheader?

UPDATE #3 Look for the 2007 ALMS schedule to be announced at Road Atlanta next Friday during the Petit LeMans race weekend, so we should know by then about the rumored doubleheaders..

09/19/06 We are still hearing that an ALMS/Champ Car doubleheader at Road America will happen in August next year. The trade-off is a Champ Car/ALMS doubleheader at Long Beach. If that happens, we doubt you will see the IRL at Long Beach too. The rumors never made sense to us why Champ Car would allow the IRL into its biggest race (Long Beach) without the IRL allowing Champ Car into its biggest race (Indy)…..unless a merger was already agreed to.

07/26/06 Unless a sudden merger with the Indy Racing League changes everything, Steve Johnson said Champ Car will have 15 or 16 races in 2007. That will include new events in Las Vegas and Phoenix and perhaps Zhuhai, China, and San Antonio.

The ALMS will partner with Champ Car again for events the same weekend at Houston, and a partnership at Road America has been discussed, with no firm date for next year. Portland Oregonian

07/24/06 The rumor mill says that we could see a Champ Car/ALMS doubleheader again in 2007. The venue? We hear it could be Road America in August.