Champ Car race in China Cancelled : FIA's Max Mosley won't allow it. What do you think ??

Question

http://www.speedtv.com/articles/auto/champcar/37751/

the race was suppose to take place in Zuhai, China 3 weeks after Formula 1's Shanghai GP. Why does the FIA and F1 care about what Champ Car does ??

How much longer will Champ Car be around ?

China is NOT a huge Market for racing !

The goverment buys 90% of tickets for the event. And only 10 % of Chinese have disposible income to buy F1 tickets, merchandise and travel to Shanghai

. of these 10% only 5 to 10% are interested in racing. As the Chinese prefer simple sports such as table tennis and badmitton.

Answer 1

Fair's fair. If a circuit operator signs a contract for a GP it has a non-competition clause that the FIA can evoke to protect its commercial interests. Shouldn't have signed the contract if it didn't like the terms.
Indianapolis has a different contract due to its position in US motorsport.

Answer 2

I think it's crap. I am a huge F1 fan and I still think its crap. Its all a matter of money. If they had a champ car race so close to an F1 race it would detract revenue from F1. It's actually the Chinese promoter who messed up and couldn't finalize the deal for May, so the race had to be held at the end of the season again. It's obvious that the preference goes to F1, again for money. China is a huge market, and they want to secure F1 in China for the future. Champ Car has no definite future, and it doesn't have the fan base of F1 either. Open wheeled racing in America needs a lot of work to return it to its former glory. However I don't think Champcar is gonna go anywhere soon. Hopefully racing fans will wake up and realize how exciting champ car is. Even more so since F1 is getting more and more boring.

Answer 3

What Champcar can do next is either reschedule the China round to Season 2008, or as they did to the round in Korea, be eliminated altogether. Max Mosley and Berine Ecclestone will refuse anyone's request to race at a location like Zhuhai International Circuit or Shanghai International Circuit, unless it's a Le Mans-based, or an FIA-based or even an FIM-based series, such as the American Le Mans Series, and MotoGP. V8 Supercars in 2005 raced in Shanghai and have yet to return due to the promoter abandoning the round the forthcoming year (2006). Champcar will, however, survive at least three to five years, maybe seven years before that series will cease to exist.

Answer 4

I didn't even know the FIA was the boss of Champ Car. I always thought Champ Car ran under the auspices of the SCCA or something.