RSPORTS

RSPORTS was an

Champ Car World Series. It was founded officially in 2007 as a technological partnership, but started out originally as two different teams owned by former race car drivers Carl Russo, who owned RuSPORT, and Paul Gentilozzi who founded Rocketsports

.

RuSPORT

Carl Russo drove for the team then known as Performance Development and Racing, or PDR which was owned by Steve Wulff before Russo drove in the

Toyota Atlantic Series before he gave up his seat to young driver Aaron Justus. Justus and A. J. Allmendinger

were drivers in the team's 2003 Atlantic season, and Allmendinger cruised to the championship with seven victories from 11 starts.

Both RuSPORT and Allmendinger moved up to Champ Car in 2004, and added a second car at the 11th hour for Michel Jourdain Jr. to keep car count at the minimum of 18. Most of the team's resources were stretched and Jourdain and the team parted ways following the season. Justin Wilson was signed as a replacement for 2005.

The 2005 season was the team's breakout year with Wilson scoring two victories and finishing third in the championship. Allmendinger came close to victory, with four runner-up finishes during the season. For 2006 they were expected to be the top challengers to Newman/Haas Racing. Midway through the season, the team replaced Allmendinger with 2002 CART champion Cristiano da Matta who moved over to the team from Dale Coyne Racing.

Cristiano da Matta was injured in a collision with a deer during testing at Road America on August 3, 2006.

On September 17, 2006, the team announced that it would hold a "shootout" at

Lexmark Indy 300

.

Rocketsports

Rocketsports Racing is a motor racing team from the United States based in

Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Series in the Daytona Prototype

class.

Rocketsports was founded in 1985 by racing driver

IMSA

sports car racing championship.

Rocketsports joined Champ Car in 2003 and has often fielded cars for pay drivers and frequently changes drivers.

Merge and disassemble

Towards the end of the 2006 season, Russo announced that he would be bringing his company public, a move that required that he divest himself of his sometimes unprofitable motorsports interests. It was unclear what would happen to the team until it was announced on November 28 that

PKV Racing co-owner Dan Pettit

had purchased the team from Russo.

On January 22, 2007, RuSPORT confirmed the return of

Forsythe/Pettit Racing

.

Past Drivers

Alex Tagliani (2007)
Justin Wilson (2007)

Racing results

Complete Champ Car World Series results

(key)

Year	Chassis	Engine	Drivers	No.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
2007					LSV	LBH	HOU	POR	CLE	MTT	TOR	EDM	SJO	ROA	ZOL	ASN	SFR	MXC
	Panoz DP01	Cosworth XFE V8 t	Alex Tagliani	8	4	5	9	5	6	8	8	14	15	5
	Panoz DP01	Cosworth XFE V8 t	Justin Wilson	9	14	4	10	2*	4	5	3	2	13	8

2008 Champ Car season
NHL	Forsythe/Pettit	Minardi	Australia	Rocketsports	Coyne	PKV	PCM	Conquest
1 Wilson 2 Rahal	3 Tracy 7 TBA	4 TBA 14 Doornbos	5 Power 15 TBA	8 Bernoldi	11 TBA 19 TBA	21 TBA 22 Servià	28 TBA 29 Figge	24 Perera 34 TBA
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