I'm not familiar with the rules of these leagues. Graham Rahal won the IRL race (St. Pete) a couple weeks ago, but wasn't racing at Twin Rings Motegi last night. I noticed today he's racing in the Champ Car race in Long Beach today.

How does someone go about racing in both leagues in the same season? How do the rules work in these leagues as far as who gets to race in each race? (ie; if i had a few million dollars and some sponsors can I build a car, hire a team, and try to qualify for any IRL race i choose? if I did qualify for let's say next weekends race at Kansas, would i be racing with the big boys [and girl] on tv?)

 

What is chay mp car

 

you know, that new league that's stealing all the good drivers

 

Long Beach was the last Champ Car race. They are merging with IRL and will be one series from here on.

 

Technically, Long Beach is an IRL race. It is only called a Champ Car race for marketing purposes, and to satisfy the race's contract until 2009.

 

Is the combined league using solely Honda's (IRL), or solely Ford's (ChampCar), or both makes of engines ?

 

All the races in 2008 will run with the IRL formula, meaning the Dallara-Honda combination. The only exception was the Long Beach GP, which ran with the Panoz-Cosworth. The reason was because the 'merger' happened at the last minute, and they were not able to reschedule Long Beach or Motegi, forcing the league to run both races on the same weekend. That's the only reason why the Panoz-Cosworth is even being used this year.

 

So what called the "merger" is more likely the ChampCar being absorbed into the IRL.

 

bingo

Instead of two crappy series, we now have one crappy series.