Champ Car Season Premiere open to fans, and there's no charge source: presstelegram.com Three years of bad press won't be forgotten in three days downtown, but the reformulated Championship Auto Racing Teams the series that has been the centerpiece of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach since 1984 will do its best to reassure fans and the media this week. Headlining CART's Champ Car Season Premiere a multi- day event that in the past has been aimed solely at the press is a fan gala Tuesday night. The free event, scheduled to run from 5-8 p.m. at Long Beach Arena, is expected to draw upward of 3,000 people and should be the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach's No.1 promotional tool for next month's race. "We are going to give fans an opportunity to see what CART has to offer in 2004,' said Jim Michaelian, president and CEO of the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach. "There is going to be a lot of information that will be of interest to fans.'
It wasn't too long ago that it looked as if CART might not survive long enough to run here as scheduled April 16-18. The three team owners who now own CART used a $3.2 million bid in federal bankruptcy court in January to wrest control of the series and keep it viable. With a new president in place and the company now privately owned, CART is primed to make a series of announcements over the next couple of days, including:.
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