Loss of Long Beach a major blow to IRL
"I understand Tony (George) told a lot of potential sponsors they'd be running at Long Beach in 2006 and the reality is that we march quietly, steadily along minding our own business," said Kevin Kalkhoven. "I've got a great group of people who are very smart and very thorough." Champ Car [Editor's Note: Based on comments we heard from the IRL paddock, apparently a lot of IRL teams thought they were going to be in Long Beach in 2006 too.]