Despite the hard season Alex Tagliani just lived in the Champcar World Series, he is now actively looking for a ride for next year.
In an interview given to Geneviève Trudeau Senécal, Tagliani stated he's in some serious talks for a seat which could be a major turnover in his career.
Alex said in the interview he is still confident in his talent after the 2007 campaign debut with Justin Wilson as a teammate (which later split when Rocketsports and RuSport unjoined their forces) and that he'd like to keep the same car number, crew and livery for a couple of years, implying that stability is the key to success in such a competitive series.
He also said sponsorship deals in Champcar are somewhat problematic now as the latest move to the Panoz chassis reduced dramatically the costs to run as season, so the teams are asking for a lot less money to become a major sponsor on a car (around 500 000$ instead of a few millions like in the past) but sponsors given such low figures think the series is loosing in value.
If nothing materializes for him in Champcar, Alex still has an ace up his sleeve as he has almost a done deal to run 5 NASCAR Canadian Tire Series races in 2008 (the 3 Champcar races plus Trois-Rivieres and Montreal)
Showing posts with label Champcar World Series. Show all posts
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2007-12-10
2007-11-13
Tagliani finishes season in 10th place
Alex Tagliani had a disappointing 2007 campaign at Rocketsports Racing in the Champcar World Series and the struggle continued in the last race at Mexico City.
Alex fought with the car all week-end long, earning on his way a 14th position on the starting grid. As if the handling problems on this car weren't enough, Alex's car stalled on the start relegating him to the back of the pack. Helped by a quick pit stop from his team and the stalling of two other cars, Tagliani moved back up to 14th on the restart. Alex climbed up to 11th position at some point but an over steering car forced him to wear his tires out too quickly and he crossed the finish line in 13th position, out of 14 running cars at the end (17 took the green flag).
Grabbing some points throughout the season, Tagliani was shown in 10th place of the Champcar World Series standings, a 3rd top 10 in as many years at Rocketsports Racing. It's the sixth time Alex finishes in the top 10 in Champcar in 8 seasons.
From his quotes after the race, Tagliani is already looking forward to next season but is looking at a contract with other teams : "It is definitely not the way that we wanted to end the season. For our last race together, it is definitively something that makes me sad, but we have been struggling with the #8 Rocketsports car all weekend. We have destroyed every set of tires that we put on the car during the race, because we never got the set up. [...] Overall, the team has been trying very hard all season, and I would like to thank them for all their hard work and dedication. Now we just have to look at the future. For me, I am already going to be looking for what I am going to be doing next year and Champ Car is definitely my choice."
Alex fought with the car all week-end long, earning on his way a 14th position on the starting grid. As if the handling problems on this car weren't enough, Alex's car stalled on the start relegating him to the back of the pack. Helped by a quick pit stop from his team and the stalling of two other cars, Tagliani moved back up to 14th on the restart. Alex climbed up to 11th position at some point but an over steering car forced him to wear his tires out too quickly and he crossed the finish line in 13th position, out of 14 running cars at the end (17 took the green flag).
Grabbing some points throughout the season, Tagliani was shown in 10th place of the Champcar World Series standings, a 3rd top 10 in as many years at Rocketsports Racing. It's the sixth time Alex finishes in the top 10 in Champcar in 8 seasons.
From his quotes after the race, Tagliani is already looking forward to next season but is looking at a contract with other teams : "It is definitely not the way that we wanted to end the season. For our last race together, it is definitively something that makes me sad, but we have been struggling with the #8 Rocketsports car all weekend. We have destroyed every set of tires that we put on the car during the race, because we never got the set up. [...] Overall, the team has been trying very hard all season, and I would like to thank them for all their hard work and dedication. Now we just have to look at the future. For me, I am already going to be looking for what I am going to be doing next year and Champ Car is definitely my choice."
2007-09-05
The timing is right
After reading the news in the past couple of days, I realized one thing : The Flying Frenchmen are back into motorsport. Take a good look around around you'll see them everywhere, drivers from Quebec are invading the motorsport scene once again. After Jacques Villeneuve left F1, Patrick Carpentier lost his IRL ride and Andrew Ranger leaving ChampCar, one could easily think the dream was over but now, we've got Bruno Spengler knocking at the door of Formula One (as a test driver for Dave Richard's new ProDrive adventure) for the next year, Jacques Villeneuve and Patrick Carpentier (after a great Busch run in Montreal) signing with NASCAR teams to have preparation rides for a full assault next year. We have also seen Kevin Lacroix winning on his first week-end of Champcar Atlantic racing, Jean-François Dumoulin won the GT class at the Daytona 24 hours and Alex Tagliani is still running as good as he can with what he's giving in Champcar.
Only one conclusion is possible, the Flying Frenchmen are back and you'll get every bit of the stories here!
Only one conclusion is possible, the Flying Frenchmen are back and you'll get every bit of the stories here!
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