Article Title:They hope the worse for Champcar

Only 5 grandstands will be open to receive the series at the Hermanos Rodriguez.

By Mario Palafox

The next november 11th, Champ Car wil register the worse attendance in Mexico. It's a fact that the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez will open only 5 grandstands for the event, the principals in front of pitline, the one at Peraltada and the one above the paddock, with this they expect around 50k people per day for the season finale of the north american serial.

The grandstand 4 will be the one with the higher price, it will cost 850 pesos (i imagine for the 3 days), this is the one that receive more people along the grandstand 2 located directly in fron of pitline, between this two the avaliable seats are around 14-15k, the tickets for grandstands 2, 1, 3 and 12 will have a cost of 350 pesos and no access to paddock.

Federico Alaman, director of sports event of OCESA/CIE confirm to this diary that they don't have any $$$$ problems or $$$$$ lose in the years that the series has been visiting the Hermanos Rodriguez racetrack, however, he accept that the attendance has been droping since 2003, the principal reason why this was happening is that there is no full time Mexican driver in the series

"We don't have loses, but, we have to reinvent the formula of the model, evidently we don't have the same profit as we use to , the event has been adjusting in size , but it hasn't reduce (in importance is what he tried to say), but there is less attendance maybe because there is no illusion to support a mexican driver" this was said by Alaman in a very acertive and clear way.

then some historic statistics about the past events attendace...

"We haven't lose ($$$) at all and that's why we keep doing it, but when they do, it is not viable, we are here to generate money, we live from sell tickets. The properties that start to sell less tickets they don't get profitable for us, from this depends this race, we will look the way to renegociate with Champ Car, for that they help us with the risks, in someway the promoter has the complete risk of the event", add the directive at the end of the interview.

Mexico City race to downsize Mexico City sports newspaper "The Record" had an interview with Federico Alaman today, who is the person responsible at OCESA/CIE for the sports events promotion and organization activities. He says in the interview that things are looking bad for Champ Car in Mexico and the November 11th race will have its worst attendance in history. The Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez will open only 5 grandstands for the event - the ones in front of pit lane, the miniscule one at the Peraltada and the one above the pits. With this plus general admission they hope to get 50,000 fans per day, which of course won't happen on Friday for sure. He blames the lack of a full-time Mexican driver in the series and the fact the races are not broadcast on TV in Mexico. This event has gone from being the largest Champ Car ever had, with over 200,000 on race day alone, to now a former shadow of itself.

Fusion of Champ Car-IRL is urgent
The Mexican industralist Carlos Slim Domit was urgent to the Champ Car World Series to make specific the fusion with the Indy Racing League.

Fusion of Champ Car-IRL is urgent

Mexico, DF. - The Mexican industralist Carlos Slim Domit was urgent to the Champ Car World Series to make specific the fusion with the Indy Racing League, his staunch rival in cars formula, for strong and competitive a unique category.

After meeting of president Vicente Fox and the world-wide multichampion Joaquin “Jo” Ramirez, the proprietor of the Escuderà a Telmex maintained “I believe that he would be very healthy (the fusion). To be able to unite forces and equipment, would help to have a serial complete and much more hard, much more obvious much more competitive”.

So mentioned alliance between ex- CART and IRL, not only this year but during almost one decade, began nevertheless to take as something surely makes a pair of months, the negotiations, far from taking shape, are had complicated.

The red centers became to ignite with the exit of the Mexican pilot Mario Domà nguez of the Forsythe equipment, which, to say of Slim, will force the Escuderà a Telmex to revalue the convenience of staying in the category.

“Definitively”, it assured the industralist, “Champ Car needs Mexican pilots to maintain itself, mainly in the events in Mexico”. The serial has dates in the Park Fundidora de Monterrey and the Brothers the Rodriguez of the capital, who have gone to the loss in attendance.

“We are going to look for the one of always: to participate in seriales more competed, if Champ Car is fortified, and gotten to be one of the competed seriales more, more likely we evaluate it, but not it it is, because we will be in categories that are it”, emphasized.

The case of David Martinez, that it left the category of support Toyota Atlantic, increased the preoccupation on the viability of the series; “we must evaluate which is going to be the performance of the category in which it reduces of the season”, it insisted.

What is safe is that the telephone one will continue supporting to Mario Domà nguez, or in another equipment of Champ Car or some other series. The inhabitant of the capital, assured, is a great talent and will return to show his capacity behind the steering wheel.