CDW not interested in IRL, NASCAR

CDW's Bruce Delahorne said that CDW was leaving RuSPORT because 'it is not the same team it was when CDW first signed on', citing an up-and-down year off the track for the team, which Pettit acquired from founder Carl Russo over the close season.

"The merger with Rocketsports was for other reasons than making the car go fast, and that didn't go very well," he reflected, "We made a good decision to go with RuSPORT when we started, but it's not the same team now. The awareness value of CDW is the reason we came to Champ Car."

Delahorne, a self-confessed 'race nut', admitted that he doesn't know what CDW will do after its contract ends with RuSPORT, but revealed that it was considering a range of options, including remaining in motorsports. The 'on track' options include moving to another Champ Car team or into another form of motorsports, but the overall range also has the possibility that the company will not return to motorsports all.

He also said that there were separate investigations into backing Wilson separately from any motorsport decision but, currently, the company wasn't considering a package deal with the Briton, with CDW more interested in a team which would have Wilson as a driver. The Briton has been linked with the vacancy created at Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing following the impending departure of Sebastien Bourdais to F1 – a move made more easy by the demise of RuSPORT.

Among the motorsports options CDW is not considering, however, are the Indy Racing League and NASCAR. CDW has had a conversation with IRL, but things changed during the conversation, according to Delahorne, while the company has NASCAR teams which are customers – including DEI and Hendrick Motorsports – and the relationships are going well, but Delahorne intimated that, despite conversations in NASCAR, 'I don't think it would work for us – it costs too much'. Crash.net