Wow! To think that less then two years ago Bob
was driving an Invader testing MT tires for F500
and now here he is moving up from Pro Atlantics to Champ Car. Very Cool.
At this rat he have an F1 team within five years (hehe.)
http://www.speedtv.com/articles/auto/champcar/29853/
Gelles Racing Confirms Steps Up to Champ Cars in 07
Written by: Champ Car Communications San Jose,
Calif. 7/29/2006 The entry list for the 2007
Champ Car World Series season gets its first new
name today as Champ Car Atlantic Championship
race-winning team Gelles Racing announced its
intentions to move up to Champ Car competition beginning next season.
The announcement was made Friday night at the VIP
launch party for the 2007 Panoz DP01 Champ Car,
where the future of the open-wheel racing was
unveiled to the public for the first time. The
team, which scored its first Champ Car Atlantic
victory earlier this year with Robbie Pecorari at
the wheel, becomes the first Atlantic team to
move up to Champ Car competition since RuSPORT
made the climb after winning the 2003 Atlantic title.
Im very ecstatic to be a part of the CCWS for
2007, its something Ive truly dreamed about and
been working on for five years and its nice to
see it come true, said Gelles. Everyone has had
rave reviews over what Kevin Kalkhoven, Gerry
Forsythe and Paul Gentilozzi have created and
its the best open-wheel racing series in the world.
The Virginia-based team has been involved in the
open-wheel developmental system since 2002 when
former SCCA National Driver of the Year Bob
Gelles formed Gelles Racing. Starting in Fran-Am,
the Gelles team competed in Formula Renault,
Formula BMW and Champ Car Atlantic series in
recent seasons running six cars in the FBMW series in 2006.
We are excited about welcoming Gelles Racing to
Champ Car in 2007, said Champ Car President
Steve Johnson. The team has long demonstrated
its passion for open-wheel racing, and we look
forward to seeing them on the grid for many years to come.
The announcement coincided with the launch of the
new 2007 Panoz DP01 Champ Car Friday night as the
racing community saw the new chassis for the
first time. The new chassis is lighter, quicker
and is specially-designed to provide closer
racing. The DP01 is also more affordable for the
teams, which is part of the strategy to encourage
Atlantic teams as well as teams from throughout
motorsports to the Champ Car World Series.
"We set off on a strategy to rebuild the Champ
Car World Series from the ground up," said series
co-owner Kevin Kalkhoven. "The first step of that
strategy was the rebuilding of the Atlantic
Championship Series. The second step was the
introduction of the 2007 chassis, which will
allow Atlantic teams to move up to Champ Car. We
welcome Gelles Racing as proof of the success of this strategy."
The 2007 Champ Car World Series season will begin
April 8, kicking off with the newly announced
street event in Las Vegas. The race will be
immediately followed by the Toyota Grand Prix of
Long Beach April 15, with the second running of
the Grand Prix of Houston coming April 22.
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