Official EFCN Atlantic Pool #1 - Long Beach

[Rob Howden]

Hi folks,

Please use this official thread to post your submissions for the EFCN Champ Car Atlantic Championship Pool, which will be brought to you by UPRacing.com.

Players are asked to post their projected top-10 finishing order for the Long Beach round. You can adjust your submission as desired up until Friday, April 7, 2006 at 9:00 am Eastern. At that point, we'll lock the thread and get our calculation spread sheet in order.

Prizes will be coming from FormulaCar Magazine and UPR and we'll have then finalized and posted here by the end of the week. This is going to be a cool deal so please inform you biddies so that we can get a good rivalry going here.
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[Dave Hopple]

Rob, this is not going to be easy....20+ guys can win in this series. People talk about the "hey day" of Atlantic being back in the 70's. I think that is going to change after this Atlantic season. -Dave

[Rob Howden]

Dave,

I couldn't agree more. I spoke with Jeremy Shaw last week about the series as he was at the test. When I asked him who he thought the lead contenders were, he had trouble stopping the list at 10. The Forsythe crew is going to be strong, that's for certain, but you can never count out Bobby Oergel's crew or Polestar with Sciuto and Barron. Also, I have a hunch that the Gelles team is going to surprise some people this year with Simpson and Pecorari. Add in Matos, fresh off his IPS whooping at St. Petes, and Rahal, the reigning SCCA Atlantic Champion, and you've got yourself a great program. And the thing is, I missed another couple guys who could probably win as well.

I think the really cool part is that there is a lot of 'character' in the field. This is not a cookie cutter field filled with foreign drivers that will not generate excitement. There's Americans and Canadians, all with personalities, A1GP stars and big second-generation names who will fuel international coverage, and the foreign drivers have pretty good pedigrees to keep the fans interested. This is going to be fun.
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[Allan Craighead]

Hi gang,

Being as a bunch of new drivers and teams have joined the series I'm sure a list of drivers and teams would be helpful, so here you go


Chris Souliotis (Bite Racing)
Duncan Ende (Bite Racing)
Luis Schiavo (Brooks Associates Racing)
Norbert Siedler (Brooks Associates Racing)
Danilo Dirani (Condor Motorsports)
James Hinchcliffe (Forsythe Championship Racing)
Leonardo Maia (Forsythe Championship Racing)
Andreas Wirth (Forsythe Championship Racing)
Richard Philippe (Forsythe Championship Racing)
Robbie Pecorari (Gelles Racing)
Steve Simpson (Gelles Racing)
Tim Bridgeman (Jensen Motorsport)
Justin Sofio (Mathiasen Motorsports)
Kyle Kelley (McAtee Motorsports)
Brian McAtee (McAtee Motorsports)
Graham Rahal (Mi-Jack Conquest Racing)
Al Unser III (Mi-Jack Conquest Racing)
Ryan Spencer-Smith (NCDL Tech)
Joe D'Agostino (Newman/Wachs Racing)
Daniel Gaunt (Newman/Wachs Racing)
Alan Sciuto (Polestar Racing Group)
Alex Barron (Polestar Racing Group)
Jonathan Bomarito (PR1 Motorsports)
Mike Forest (PR1 Motorsports)
Raphael Matos (Sierra Sierra Enterprises)
James Davison (Team Australia)
Simon Pagenaud (Team Australia)
Dan Selznick (The Room Store)
Charles Hall (Transnet Racing)
CR Crews (Unico Racing Team USA)
David Martinez (US RaceTronics)

Cheers,
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[Chris Wehrheim]

I guess I will start it off, but I really dont know where to begin lol.


1: Jonathan Bomarito (PR1 Motorsports)
2: Raphael Matos (Sierra Sierra Enterprises)
3: Simon Pagenaud (Team Australia)
4: Alex Barron (Polestar Racing Group)
5: Robbie Pecorari (Gelles Racing)
6: James Hinchcliffe (Forsythe Championship Racing)
7: Graham Rahal (Mi-Jack Conquest Racing)
8: Richard Philippe (Forsythe Championship Racing)
9: Leonardo Maia (Forsythe Championship Racing)
10: Steve Simpson (Gelles Racing)

[gord lowe]

James Hinchcliffe (Forsythe Championship Racing)
Raphael Matos (Sierra Sierra Enterprises)
Leonardo Maia (Forsythe Championship Racing)
Andreas Wirth (Forsythe Championship Racing)
Graham Rahal (Mi-Jack Conquest Racing)
Alex Barron (Polestar Racing Group)
Luis Schiavo (Brooks Associates Racing)
Robbie Pecorari (Gelles Racing)
James Davison (Team Australia)
Joe D'Agostino (Newman/Wachs Racing)
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I'm really too excited to be here!

[Matt McDonough]

That is....... If they don't pile up in T1.....I'll take 12 issues from last year.....

Alex Barron (Polestar Racing Group)
Raphael Matos (Sierra Sierra Enterprises)
Jonathan Bomarito (PR1 Motorsports)
James Hinchcliffe (Forsythe Championship Racing)
Robbie Pecorari (Gelles Racing)
Joe D'Agostino (Newman/Wachs Racing)
Andreas Wirth (Forsythe Championship Racing)
Luis Schiavo (Brooks Associates Racing)
Graham Rahal (Mi-Jack Conquest Racing)
Leonardo Maia (Forsythe Championship Racing)

[Dave Hopple]

1.Jonathan Bomarito (PR1 Motorsports)
2.Raphael Matos (Sierra Sierra Enterprises)
3.Graham Rahal (Mi-Jack Conquest Racing)
4.Alan Sciuto (Polestar Racing Group)
5.James Hinchcliffe (Forsythe Championship Racing)
6.Steve Simpson (Gelles Racing)
7.Norbert Siedler (Brooks Associates Racing)
8.Robbie Pecorari (Gelles Racing)
9.Leonardo Maia (Forsythe Championship Racing)
10.Andreas Wirth (Forsythe Championship Racing)

*I reserve the right to add Tonis if he puts together a deal* -Dave

[Monty Mathisen]

1. Andreas Wirth (Forsythe Championship Racing)
2. James Hinchcliffe (Forsythe Championship Racing)
3. Alex Barron (Polestar Racing Group)
4. Raphael Matos (Sierra Sierra Enterprises)
5. Jonathan Bomarito (PR1 Motorsports)
6. Leonardo Maia (Forsythe Championship Racing)
7. Alan Sciuto (Polestar Racing Group)
8. Luis Schiavo (Brooks Associates Racing)
9. Joe D'Agostino (Newman/Wachs Racing)
10. Graham Rahal (Mi-Jack Conquest Racing)

[Douglas Kniffin]

1) Raphael Matos
2) Alex Barron
3) Jonathan Bmarito
4) James Hinchcliffe
5) Andreas Wirth
6) Graham Rahal
7) Mike Forest
8) Louis Schiavo
9) Leonard Maia
10) Robbie Pecorari

[Patrick Barrett]

1. Raphael Matos (Sierra Sierra Enterprises)
2. Richard Philippe (Forsythe Championship Racing)
3. James Hinchcliffe (Forsythe Championship Racing)
4. Jonathan Bomarito (PR1 Motorsports)
5. Alan Sciuto (Polestar Racing Group)
6. Leonardo Maia (Forsythe Championship Racing)
7. Graham Rahal (Mi-Jack Conquest Racing)
8. David Martinez (US RaceTronics)
9. Mike Forest (PR1 Motorsports)
10. Duncan Ende (Bite Racing)
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[Chad Steider]

1. Raphael Matos (Sierra Sierra Enterprises)
2. Jonathan Bomarito (PR1 Motorsports)
3. James Hinchcliffe (Forsythe Championship Racing)
4. Richard Philippe (Forsythe Championship Racing)
5. Alex Barron (Polestar Racing Group)
6. Leonardo Maia (Forsythe Championship Racing)
7. Graham Rahal (Mi-Jack Conquest Racing)
8. David Martinez (US RaceTronics)
9. Charles Hall (Transnet Racing)
10. Duncan Ende (Bite Racing)

[Michael Maroney]

1) Bomarito
2) Sciuto
3) Matos
4) Hinchcliffe
5) Wirth
6) Barron
7) Pagenaud
8) Rahal
9) Simpson
10) Maia

[Jesse Mason]

1. Matos
2. Wirth
3. Bomarito
4. Sciuto
5. Hinchcliffe
6. Barron
7. Simpson
8. Pecorari
9. Rahal
10. Pagenaud

[CHRIS NEUER]

1. MATOS
2. BOMARITO
3. BARRON
4. HINCHCLIFFE
5.SCIUTO
6.MAIA
7. RAHAL
8. DURANI
9.SIMPSON
10.D' AGOSTINO

Anybody else wish Bobby Wilson was in this series?
It's going to be good!