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	<title>The Speed Blog &#187; ChampCar</title>
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		<title>RIP &#8211; Teddy Mayer (1935-2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teddy Mayer, long time manager of the McLaren F1 tea, and later the Penske CART team, passed away at his home yesterday (January 30) aged 73.
American born Mayer  moved to Europe in 1962 and became part of the team that helped Bruce McLaren form his eponymous Formula One team, taking over as team principal after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From The Couch &#8211; IRL Season Opener</title>
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		<comments>http://thespeedblog.com/from-the-couch-irl-season-opener/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The opening IRL race of the 2008 season was meant to be the start of the new era of US  open-wheel racing. Sure enough there were a few ex-Champ Car teams on the grid, but given the short amount of time they have had to prepare they weren&#8217;t really a factor. In short the start [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birthday Driver &#8211; Willy T. Ribbs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Willy T. Ribbs -  3rd January 1956
Perhaps the best known African-American driver who over the years competed in many forms of racing. After retiring, he became a sport shooter in the National Sporting Clays Association.
Willy was born in San Jose, California,  and  after his graduating high school in 1975,  he moved to Europe to compete [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wilson Wins In Assen</title>
		<link>http://thespeedblog.com/wilson-wins-in-assen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Justin Wilson took his first ChampCar win of the season during the series second European race at Assen in Holland. Wilson beat Sebastian Bourdais away from the line and was never really headed for the rest of the race.

Bourdais, and others, seemed to suffer from problems with a mal-functioning &#8220;power-to-pass&#8221; button and the race director [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Seabass&#8221; Dominates Road America</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After confirmimg his long rumoured move to F1 in 2008, three-time ChampCar champion Sebastian Bourdais drove to his first victory on the challenging Road Amercia circuit, in perhaps the most dominant style of his five year ChampCar career.

The only threat to the Frenchman came from Team Minardi&#8217;s Robert Doornbos in the early stages. Any possibility of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power Through Chaos in Toronto</title>
		<link>http://thespeedblog.com/power-through-chaos-in-toronto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Porter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ChampCar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Toronto leg of ChampCars swing through Canada proved to be a chaotic and incident packed race with only 8 cars left running at the end.  Team Australia&#8217;s Will Power emerged victorious through the crashes, rain and spins.
It all started on the opening lap with an incident invloving Paul Tracy, Tristan Gommendy, Jan Heylen and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bourdais Back in Front at the Beach</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Triple ChampCar Champion Sebastian Bourdais put the bad experiences of the last race in Las Vegas behind him and returned to his usual dominant form at the Long Beach Grand Prix, registering his third consecutive victory at the California street race. Bourdais was never really challenged from the flag, and only headed when other drivers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power Rolls to Win in Vegas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The opening event of the 2007 ChampCar World Series in Las Vegas, was, in all honestly a farcical affair. With so many &#8220;firsts&#8221; something was bound to not work right and unfortunately is was the one thing that hadn&#8217;t been really tested &#8211; how well the new ChampCar would perform in a race. The strange [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ChampCar Driver Line Ups Confirmed</title>
		<link>http://thespeedblog.com/champcar-driver-line-ups-confirmed/</link>
		<comments>http://thespeedblog.com/champcar-driver-line-ups-confirmed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Porter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ChampCar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we get closer to the start of the 2007 ChampCar season various driver and team line-ups are being confirmed. As expected second-generation American star Graham Rahal (below) has been confirmed as the second driver at the championship winning Newman-Haas team.

MinardiUSA have announced that their second driver will be &#8220;Speedy&#8221; Dan Clarke where the Englishman will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Racing Birthdays &#8211; January 29th.</title>
		<link>http://thespeedblog.com/racing-birthdays-january-29th/</link>
		<comments>http://thespeedblog.com/racing-birthdays-january-29th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Porter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Birthday today to former F1 World Champion Jody Scheckter (born 1/29/50),

and to former Atlantics and new ChampCar driver Alex Figge (born 1/29/82)

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