The Champ Car World Series today announced a 15-race schedule for the 2006 Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season.
source: f1.racing-live.com / Press release Champ Car World Series Next year's schedule features each of the 14 venues currently on the 2005 slate and adds an exciting return to Houston, Texas. The Houston event will mark a first in the long history of the Champ Car World Series as the race event takes place under the Houston lights on Saturday night, May 13. The announcement marks the return of Champ Car to the state of Texas and to the city of Houston that previously hosted the Champ Cars from 1998-2001. The schedule again features a balance of traditional events at fabled venues along with a number of successful new sites that have shown great promise for the future. Houston is the only addition to the schedule at this time other than a weekend date change moving the second running of the West Edmonton Mall Grand Prix of Edmonton forward a week to July 23, where it will precede the Taylor Woodrow Grand Prix of San Jose weekend. "We feel that we have been able to create a strong schedule that will provide one of the toughest tests in all of motorsports," said Champ Car President Dick Eidswick. "We have seen great new events like those in San Jose and Edmonton providing great excitement while our longer-running venues have been able to create new enthusiasm in their markets. We believe this gives us a great platform for our valued commercial partners and will allow us to attract many new sponsors, teams and drivers." The schedule will again start with the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, marking the 23rd time that the Champ Cars have competed on the Southern California streets. It will be the third consecutive season that Long Beach has served as the season opener, following a 2005 lidlifter that hosted 175,000 fans who cheered Sebastien Bourdais toward that victory.
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