2008 Champ Car season

2008 Champ Car season
Champ Car World Series
Season
Races	14
Start date	April 20
End date	November 9
Awards
Drivers' champion
Chronology
Previous season	Next season
2007	2009 (ICS)

The 2008 Champ Car season was to have been the 30th season of the series. It was scheduled to begin on April 20, 2008 and end on November 9. The season, with the sole exception of the Long Beach Grand Prix (won by Will Power), was canceled February 21, 2008 because of the buyout of Champ Car by the rival Indy Racing League.^[1] However, the Rexall Grand Prix of Edmonton and the Gold Coast Indy 300 were retained and transferred to the Indy Car Series schedule.^[1]

Grands Prix (prior to unification announcement)

Rnd	Race Name	Circuit	City/Location	TV	Date
1	Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach	Streets of Long Beach	Long Beach, California	ESPN2	April 20
2	Grand Prix of Houston	JAGFlo Speedway at Reliant Park	Houston, Texas	ESPN2	April 27
3	Champ Car Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca	Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca	Monterey, California	ESPN	May 18
4	Champ Car Grand Prix of Belgium at Circuit Zolder	Circuit Zolder	Heusden-Zolder, Belgium	ABC	June 1
5	Champ Car Grand Prix of Spain at Circuito Permanente de Jerez	Circuito de Jerez	Jerez de la Frontera, Spain	ABC	June 8
6	Champ Car Grand Prix of Cleveland	Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport	Cleveland, Ohio	ABC	June 22
7	Champ Car Mont-Tremblant	Circuit Mont-Tremblant	Mont-Tremblant, Quebec	ESPN	June 29
8	Steelback Grand Prix of Toronto	Exhibition Place	Toronto, Ontario	ESPN	July 6
9	Rexall Grand Prix of Edmonton	Edmonton City Centre Airport	Edmonton, Alberta	ESPN	July 20
10	Champ Car Grand Prix of Portland	Portland International Raceway	Portland, Oregon	ESPN2	July 27
11	Road America Grand Prix	Road America	Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin	ABC	August 10
12	Champ Car Grand Prix of Holland at TT Circuit Assen	TT Circuit Assen	Assen, Netherlands	ESPN2	September 14
13	Gold Coast Indy 300	Surfers Paradise Street Circuit	Surfers Paradise, Australia	ESPN2	October 26
14	Gran Premio Tecate Presentado por Banamex	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez	Mexico City, Mexico	ESPN2	November 9

Team and Driver Lineup (prior to unification announcement)

The following teams and drivers were expected to compete for the 2008 Champ Car season. All teams would have used a Cosworth 2.65-litre turbocharged V8 engine, a Panoz DP01 chassis, and Bridgestone tires.

Team	No #	Driver(s)	Sponsor(s)	Test Drivers
Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing	1	Justin Wilson [2]	McDonald's	N/A
	2	Graham Rahal [2]	McDonald's
Forsythe/Pettit Racing	3	Paul Tracy	INDECK	N/A
	7	Franck Montagny	INDECK
Minardi Team USA	4	E. J. Viso	PDVSA	N/A
	14	Robert Doornbos	Muermans Group/Jumbo Supermarkets/OzJet
Team Australia	5	Will Power	Aussie Vineyards	N/A
	15	Matt Halliday	Aussie Vineyards
Rocketsports Racing	8	Enrique Bernoldi [3]	Sangari [4]	N/A
Dale Coyne Racing	11	Bruno Junqueira	TBA	N/A
	19	Mario Moraes	Sonny's Real Pit Bar-B-Q
KV Racing Technology	21	Alex Tagliani	TBA	N/A
	22	Oriol Servià [5]	TBA
Pacific Coast Motorsports	29	Alex Figge	Imperial Capital Bank	David Martínez
	96	Mario Domínguez	Mexico City Tourism Board
Conquest Racing	24	Franck Perera [6]	ARES [6]	N/A
	34	Nelson Philippe	Juniper Property Development Group

• The driver line-up represents the entry list for the Sebring Test.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "2008 IRL IndyCar Series". Champ Car Stats. Archived from the original on 2009-05-28. http://www.champcarstats.com/year/2008.htm. Retrieved 2009-05-19. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Justin Wilson, Graham Rahal To Make Up Newman/Haas/Lanigan Lineup". champcarworldseries.com. 2008-01-29. http://www.champcarworldseries.com/News/Article.asp?ID=12494. Retrieved 2008-01-29. 
3. ^ "Rocketsports Signs Former F1 Driver". champcarworldseries.com. 2008-01-28. http://www.champcarworldseries.com/News/Article.asp?ID=12491. Retrieved 2008-01-28. 
4. ^ "Brazilian Company Sangari To Sponsor Enrique Bernoldi". champcarworldseries.com. 2008-02-01. http://www.champcarworldseries.com/News/Article.asp?ID=12503. Retrieved 2008-02-03. 
5. ^ "Oriol Servià Signs With PKV". champcarworldseries.com. 2008-01-05. http://www.champcarworldseries.com/News/Article.asp?ID=12462. Retrieved 2008-01-10. 
6. ^ ^{a b} "Conquest Racing Confirms Atlantic's 'Fearless' Franck Perera For 2008 Champ Car World Series Season". champcarworldseries.com. 2008-02-06. http://www.champcarworldseries.com/News/Article.asp?ID=12520. Retrieved 2008-02-06. 

See also

• 2008 Atlantic Championship season
• 2008 Indianapolis 500
• 2008 IndyCar Series season
• 2008 Indy Lights season