Graham Rahal will be racing a full Champ Car Atlantic season this year, and has been filling his spare time with races in the A1GP series with Team Lebanon, testing a F3000 car in Europe, and a variety of sportscar races in American Le Mans Series and Grand American Road Racing. His plan is to again race A1GP for Team Lebanon for the full 2006-2007 season, which will open in the Netherlands on 30 September 2006. In 2007, Rahal will run GP2, which is the official feeder series for
F1. His GP2 sponsor will be Dasani Designer Water, a new product Coca-Cola plans to launch overseas next year, and the sponsorship will carry over into
Formula One.
Gurney will continue his Grand-Am ride this season with GAINSCO/Blackhawk Racing Team in the #99 Pontiac Riley
Daytona Prototype. The schedule will allow Gurney to also compete in other races, and he will race with A1 Team USA in the 2006-2007 series. That schedule hasn't yet been released, so it's unclear if there will be any conflicts, but it is thought not. Schedules are still being worked, but plans are for Gurney Jr to run selected races in the Atlantic Series and the Formula
Renault World Series in Europe. He too will run GP2 in 2007. Between the races in GP2 and A1GP, it is hoped that the lads will get experience on Formula One circuits. Gurney will be sponsored by Classic Coke in GP2 and F1.
The team's test/Friday/development driver will be COLIN BRAUN, who is currently racing sportscars in Grand-Am and ALMS, as well as selected races in other series.
DOUG FEHAN has been signed as team manager. He presently runs the highly successful factory Corvette American Le Mans team. For the remainder of this season and next, Fehan will continue with his Corvette duties while training his replacement. Fehan, a well-known multi-tasker, is looking forward to the challenge.
