Whether it be steel, concrete or in some cases piles and piles of money, foundations can be constructed from a number of different materials source: champcarworldseries.com But as the HVM-CTE Racing squad prepares for brighter days in the years ahead, the Champ Car team may look back and find that a solid foundation was built on the shards of carbon fiber and pieces of broken race cars that it seemingly collected like baseball cards in 2005. The HVM-CTE (CTE of course, standing for new team co-owner Cedric The Entertainer) Racing squad went through a year that would have scuttled most teams, battling through a season that saw it field six drivers, fail to solidify its driver lineup until the week before the start of the season and accumulate nearly as much crash damage as the rest of the Champ Car field combined. The Indianapolis-based team, which was built from the strong pillars of the former Tony Bettenhausen outfit, never wavered in its commitment, never failed to field two reliable cars for each and every Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford event - and even had a three-car attack slated for the final race of the campaign until Fabrizio Del Monte's weekend ended as the final entry in the team's damage ledger. "We have good engineers and good people and none of them left in the middle of the year to go find faster teams or answered some of the calls from people that were cherry-picking. That's a testament to the organization that Keith has built here," said team manager Vince Kremer. "We had a lot of crash damage but the guys still put together strong reliable cars for every race. We didn't miss a single session due to a mechanical-related failure this season and that was a key to keeping our season going. Any time the cars came back in their various states of damage, everybody did great work, and did it without working until midnight every day." The complete article at champcarworldseries.com
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