Open-Wheel Unification Announcement Postponed
Written by: Robin Miller
02/22/2008 - 09:35 AM
Indianapolis, Ind.
The press conference originally scheduled for Friday at IMS has been
canceled. (LAT Photo) >> More Photos
The official unification announcement of open wheel racing will not be
Friday and might not happen until Monday.
Following six hours of meetings and dinner Thursday between Tony
George and Kevin Kalkhoven at the downtown Hyatt Hotel, word came down
there would be no press conference at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
on Friday morning.
It had tentatively been set for 11:45 a.m.
"I don't think there's any fatal problem, they just didn't quite get
everything done," said Fred Nation, the IMS vice president of
communications.
"They stopped for the evening and they'll resume in the morning."
Kalkhoven flew in from England and arrived in Indianapolis shortly
before 4 o'clock, where his Champ Car attorneys were gathered with the
IRL's legal counsel. They broke for dinner at 7:30 and were joined by
George.
Prior to their meeting, Kalkhoven had been quoted as saying all that
was left to ending the 12-year split was "grinding out the details."
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