IndyCar » Motegi sticking point to '08 merger?

Exactly, Jaymat. Run the Champ Car series as scheduled -- since many teams have bought new Panoz chassis for this year -- and also (for the CC teams) run as many Indy events as the schedule can accommodate. All in all, however, it's about time.

F1 » Todt: New electronics give McLaren advantage.

Everyone (including, dare I say, Jean Todt) seems to be missing the fact that this ECU contract was commissioned, approved and (I'm very sure) heavily scrutinised by the FIA. If there's a line of code in there that says 'if $team="mclaren" then #hp=#hp+100,' the entire contract would have been tossed out and awarded to someone else. Yes, the contract probably should have been awarded to a neutral third party. But it wasn't. McLarensoft got it fair and square. The upshot of all this is every team will have the same ECU with the same programming.

F1 » Todt: New electronics give McLaren advantage.

....and what about the other teams that had started testing the new ECU before last season ended? Clearly those teams have an advantage as well. I'm still wondering why Ferrari hasn't been penalised at all for allowing their data to be leaked in the first place. Oh, that's right -- how many members of the WMSC are from Ferrari?