PKV Racing general manager Jim McGee has quit the team following an internal dispute over the way he was being asked to run the operation. source: crash.net According to veteran columnist Robin Miller, the two parties went their separate ways because McGee refused to fire team manager Steve Krisiloff, instead falling on the sword himself just one race into the new season. Although PKV failed to record a top three result in Long Beach, where Oriol Servia and co-owner Jimmy Vasser both failed to finish, rookie Katherine Legge brought the third car home in the points, but the selection of the British driver appears to have been a catalyst to the problems within the team. According to Miller, only team owner Kevin Kalkhoven really wanted Legge on board this season, with the others presumably thinking she would benefit from another year in Atlantics, but there also appears to be some dissent in the ranks over the hiring of Servia, despite the Spaniard doing a solid job as Bruno Junqueira's replacement at Newman/Haas last season. It is the departure of Cristiano da Matta - the only driver to have won a race for PKV - that appears to have brought matters to the surface, with both McGee and Krisiloff apparently favouring the retention of the Brazilian. McGee hired both da Matta and Krisiloff as part of his remit to transform PKV into a front-running team, and guided the former series champion to victory at Portland last year with a typical piece of strategic thinking, but is now seemingly saddled with two drivers that he had no direct hand in hiring.
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