Champ Car teams Rocketsports Racing and RuSPORT announce that they will collaborate on efforts in the 2007 Champ Car World Series season with a technical and operational merge under the umbrella name of RSPORTS. source: rocketsportsracing.com As the 2007 season approached, the two winning teams had decided separately that they would be scaling back their respective operations to one car each. After confirming that Alex Tagliani would return to the Rocketsports team to drive the #8 LXN2 Cosworth/DP01/Bridgestone the team was excited to enter their fifth year in the Champ Car World Series. On the other side of the paddock, fourth-year Champ Car team RuSPORT was pleased to announce the return of Justin Wilson to drive the #9 CDW Cosworth/DP01/Bridgestone. H owever, in the highly competitive arena of Champ Car competition, single car teams are rarely successful because of the lack of information and data at their disposal. Two drivers can develop and exchange much more information, which can be the difference between dominating a race and merely participating. Rocketsports owner Paul Gentilozzi and RuSPORT owner Dan Pettit began talks of sharing hospitality units which ultimately lead to further discussions on how the two sides might be able to benefit by working together for the upcoming season. In the final pre-season test at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca the two teams worked together as technical partners to see how things proceeded. Pleased with the results from both sides, the two forces have come together under the name RSPORTS for the 2007 season and beyond. "The joining of Rocketsports and RuSPORT is both a strategic and economic alliance," said Gentilozzi. "Two single car entries leave themselves without a technical sounding board that is certainly required today. Two drivers working together can expand the performance envelope when one is perhaps still looking for the right combination. Team operations in many areas are made more efficient when we have less multitasking caused by financial restraints. A larger group of people working on the same task allows us to focus those efforts with single expertise. The key ingredient is that both controlling partners are on the same page, it is clear that Dan Pettit and I are on that page. This arrangement will help both of us and our teams."
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