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LBGP not head-to-head with Masters next year In what has to be really good news for CCWS' attempts to build up its TV audience, the LBGP is being scheduled a week later for the next five years, and won't be fighting with the Masters for a TV audience. http://www.presstelegram.com/grandprix/news/ci_369 5785

Re: LBGP not head-to-head with Masters next year Good....good for ratings and slightly less of a huge gap between LB and race 2!

Re: LBGP not head-to-head with Masters next year Or maybe a race a few weeks before Long Beach... I can dream can't I??

Re: LBGP not head-to-head with Masters next year I think we just got an extra week of offseason assuming that LBGP remains the "season opener"

Re: LBGP not head-to-head with Masters next year Maybe it won't be the season opener. There was a Press-Telegram special supplement about the GP last week in which Jim Michaelian was quoted: "We don't want to be the first race," he said. "We think we can grow the race and the series if there's a race before Long Beach that creates public interest and then focuses on how important Long Beach is ...

Re: LBGP not head-to-head with Masters next year Japan?

Re: LBGP not head-to-head with Masters next year Las Vegas?

Re: LBGP not head-to-head with Masters next year St. Pete?

Re: LBGP not head-to-head with Masters next year That is great news Champcar needs to be standing alone without some other big name event stealing all the thunder. Maybe they should have it a week before the Masters.

Re: LBGP not head-to-head with Masters next year Japan, China, and Brazil before swingin' back to home base. Get the party started earlier. The off season is WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY too long.