FedEx Championship Series
From Frikipedia
Saleable, thrilling, "whoever-pays-us-the-most-gets-to-be-the-name-of-our-series" racing formula in America. Since Juan Pablo Montoya won the series crown back in 1999, the series has gone from strength to strength, undergoing a bankrupcy, sixteen name changes and allowing Giorgio Pantano to borrow one of their cars for a bit.
The series offers failed Formula 3000 drivers (and successful ones, like Montoya) the chance to do something for a bit until they either get a Midland F1 testing contract, or give up on racing altogether, and currently boasts the longest name of any international event ever.
The Champ Car World Series is unique in North America in being a "World Series" where people from other countries are actually allowed to play in and win.
Speccy French oik Sebastien Bourdais currently dominates the series, although with the likes of Dan Clarke, Nicky Pastorelli and Charles Zwolsman waiting in the wings, his time at the top may soon be over.
2007 should ensure that Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered By Ford gets good again. They have a new car, for the first time since 1987, and they may well stop the bitchslappery that has existed between the BPTCCWSPBF and the Indy Racing League, to reunite and form Bridgestone Presents The Champ Indy Car League World Series Racing Teams Powered By Ford And Honda.
Friki Update - Sad News
The inevitible happened at the start of 2008, as the terminally mis-managed deadened husk of Champ Car "merged" with witless gomer-fest IndyCar, to end the Americal open wheeled racing split forever (for a bit).
The newly merged series promises to combine a number of Champ Car teams and circuits with a plethora of Indycar circuits and teams under a unified vision of fundamentally unsafe racing cars, propaganda-led rookies and general shash.
