As Jim McGee himself says, his arrival at PKV Racing means the team will have no excuses this year. source: champcarworldseries.com McGee has added some of his own people and technical programs to the mix at PKV and with his leadership Jimmy Vasser and his yet-to-be-announced teammate will be expected to win races and even challenge for the championship. McGee, of course, is the most experienced and successful man in the Champ Car garage area. In more than 45 years in the business his cars have won 89 Championship races and nine championships with teams like Dean Van Lines, Andy Granatelli, Penske, Patrick, Rahal-Hogan and Newman/Haas. McGee spent the best part of the last twenty-five years running Pat Patrick's team with interludes at Rahal and Newman/Haas from 1992-'94. He rejoined Patrick in 1995 and was unhappy to see the demise of Patrick's team at the end of 2003. "I was really disappointed with the way Patrick Racing came to an end," McGee says. "We had a great team in 2003. We had assembled a great bunch of people and we were very competitive. Then it came to an end kind of abruptly. I wasn't interested in the direction that Patrick Racing was going so Mr. Patrick and I parted company." McGee didn't see anything that interested him and he took most of 2004 off. He ran Carl Haas's Indy 500 program for Bruno Junqueira and went to Elkhart Lake to see what was going on in Champ Car. "I did the deal for Carl at Indianapolis because he was in a little bit of a bind after Peter Gibbons left," McGee comments. "After we did the Indy program Carl asked me if I was interested in doing an IRL program for him and I told him I wasn't interested in doing a season there. So I sat back a little bit, kept talking to Vasser, went to a couple of races and looked at what PKV was doing." The complete article by Goddon Kirby at champcarworldseries.com
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