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Sunday, 5th February 2006

Mike Lanigan, president of Illinois based firm Mi-Jack and a committed Champ Car sponsor and supporter, has bought the rights to run the Grand Prix of Cleveland on the runways of the Burke Lakefront Airport according to a Cleveland based business newspaper.

Mike Lanigan, president of Illinois based firm Mi-Jack and a committed Champ Car sponsor and supporter, has bought the rights to run the Grand Prix of Cleveland on the runways of the Burke Lakefront Airport according to a Cleveland based business newspaper.

The report, on Crain's Cleveland Business website, www.crainscleveland.com, says that Lanigan's Mi-Jack Promotions firm will run the event for the next five years, with the first task being finding a primary sponsor.

After losing its sponsor in 2002 and parting company with former owners IMG, Champ Car itself has run the event for the past two years. Now Mi-Jack, which is the main backer of Eric Bachelart's Conquest Racing Champ Car team, and Lanigan, who also owns the rights to run the returning Grand Prix of Houston in 2006, have the opportunity to return the event to its glory period in the late 1980's and mid 1990's.

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According to the report, Lanigan will be officially introduced as the Cleveland race's new owner at a local reception next week.

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