Miller keeps the pressure on Champ Car

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Regarding Robin Miller………….

I don't agree with Champ Car's decision to pull his card but neither do I support his petulant behavior since that time. Just because he's pissed off he's going to make it his mission to hurt a really good series, I think it's irresponsible journalism. I don't understand why you would want to constantly provide him with another means to spread his message. I know Champ Car has its issues but Robin Miller would like to see it destroyed because his feelings are hurt. I don't share his sentiment, nor probably do most of your readers.

Brad Goeson
St Albert, Alta, Canada.

10/14/07 Since losing his Champ Car hard card, Robin Miller has kept the pressure on Champ Car, unearthing or highlighting one weakness after another. In his latest SPEEDTV.com article, Miller brings into doubt Champ Car's future by highlighting Kevin Kalkhoven's upcoming JDS Uniphase trial.

On Oct. 23, Champ Car co-owner Kevin Kalkhoven and three other executives from his former company, JDS Uniphase, will begin defending themselves from a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Oakland. Kalkhoven is not facing criminal charges but rather a civil suit for monetary damages.

"He's (Kalkhoven) got a gun pointed at his head, but whether it's loaded or not remains to be seen," said Forrest Bowman Jr., an Indianapolis attorney who has been active in motorsports for four decades. "Sometimes these cases can be very difficult to prove."

The lawsuit claims that JDS and four of its senior officers, Jozef Straus, Anthony R. Muller, Charles J. Abbe and Kalkhoven, misled investors about the value of their business, and that the individual defendants sold their shares at artificially inflated prices.

While we don't expect that Kalkhoven will be found guilty in the trial, it does nevertheless throw doubt into the future of Champ Car, which sends potential sponsors scurrying for the doors. It's no mere coincidence that Champ Car's three staunchest media supporters, Miller, Gordon Kirby and most recently David Phillips, have turned to pointing out all of Champ Car's weaknesses meaning that Champ Car goes into yet another off-season with many doubts surrounding its future.