New Feature at cart.com
source: cart.com ~ David Phillips
This article marks the first in an
irregular and, we hope, irreverent series of stories detailing the nightmares
people in the Champ Car community have experienced during their racing careers.
Because for every dream season where driver, team and machine function like the
proverbial Swiss watch, there are those where everything goes wrong.
Often as not, a hopelessly uncompetitive car is at the root of
the problem. Who better to start off the series than Champ Car chief steward
Chris Kneifel? Certainly among the tallest race drivers of any era, Kneifel
enjoyed a successful career racing formula cars, Champ Cars and sedans in which
he finished runner up in the 1990 Trans-Am series and scored an overall win in
the 24 Hours of Daytona last year shortly before retiring from active
competition to join the Champ Car staff.
Kneifel's experiences with good and bad cars gives him a keen appreciation of
what Champ Car drivers - at both ends of the grid - are experiencing. Happily,
he had to ponder a spell before coming up with his list of wretched race cars .
. .
"The good news is it's a not a long list. I actually had to think about it
for a moment to remember some of those long days - and weekends - at the race
track. Three cars come to mind.
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