source: grandprix.com
Craig Pollock's CART
team PK Racing will be running Bryan Herta at Laguna Seca this weekend. Herta
replaces France's Patrick Lemarie who is moving on. It is not yet clear whether
Herta will keep the drive for the rest of the season but as a replacement for
Laguna Seca he is a useful joker in the CART pack as he has won at the Monterey
circuit several times in the past. The ranks of Americans in CART has also been
swelled by the news that Dale Coyne Racing is to run Geoff Boss rather than
Brazilian Gualter Salles. Boss will race for the team for the rest of the year.
Rumours of F1-CART talks continue with the latest suggestion being that there
could be a merger between CART and F1 in order to create a two-tier system of
events. This would give F1 access to several premium events in North America and
would allow CART to expand into Europe. If the rules and regulations are
carefully organised it would also allow for Max Molsey's idea of promotion and
relegation between two championships and give US teams the chance to break into
F1. In order for this to be achieved however Formula 1 costs need to be reduced
considerably to bring them into line with the level of spending in the United
States.
Pollock has missed the last two CART events, preferring to attend Grands
Prix, looking after Jacques Villeneuve and "maybe doing other things".