Anyone seen this paragraph from the Champ Car rulebook in your local
internet forum lately...
source:
paddocktalk.com
No Champ Car entrant may use Champ Car chassis, equipment, personnel or team
resources to perform testing of any type for any other racing team in any
series, any manufacturer or other third party. The mandatory penalty for
violation shall be the loss of all series points awarded during the then current
season, exclusion from one Champ Car sanctioned Champ Car World Series event
(the event to be determined by Champ Car) and a fine of fifty thousand dollars
($50,000 U.S.). The decision by Champ Car as to whether any testing provision
has been violated and the assessment of the prescribed penalty is not subject to
protest.
Robin Miller took a break from his busy Wind Tunnel debut to get into the middle
of this little bru-ha-ha...
He asked Champ Car's new VP of Operations what's the deal with the rule...
Tony Cotman responded saying, "It's a testing rule and we have it to prevent
somebody in the IRL from leasing one of our cars to test a driver on a road
course because then that Champ Car team would gain information."
He would go on to say... "But are we going to stop our people from running Indy?
No."
The PaddockTalk Perspective:
Not that there's anything wrong with it.... But a Champ Car team running in the
Indy 500 this year is extremely unlikely.
As for the rule... It was nice to see it clarified for those who were wondering.