Q & A with Mr. Eidswick
source: champcarworldseries.com Champcar.ws: Champ Car has had 2 extremely successful events in Monterrey and Long Beach, both generating more than 100,000 customers on race day. What are you able to take away from those events to make other events as successful? Dick Eidswick: The Champ Car World Series is about fans. The fans like what we do and enjoy our three-day festivals of speed. In Long Beach, the days were packed with exciting events leading up to a spectacular race on Sunday. There were street parties, concerts, a huge expo center with something for everyone. The Celebrity race brought the fans in contact with many exciting stars from all areas of entertainment. The Drifting exhibition in streets of Long Beach provided a new and interesting form of competition to the drivers and fans alike. The fans saw Katherine Legge take the checkered flag in the Toyota Atlantic race, the first woman to win a major open wheel race in North America. The Trans Am race continued to entertain the many fans they have in Southern California. But the Champ Car race was the exciting finale. The race was a fantastic competition between the best drivers in the world. It looked good in Long Beach and it looked good on NBC. What a great weekend for the fans. In Monterrey we started a week early with a Champ Car parade on Sunday that was a mile of vehicles decked out in racing finery. The race weekend was full of excitement and fun. We had 111,000 on race day. The stands were packed in spite of the 106-degree weather. These are real race fans. The track was hot and the yellow flags were flying but it was an exciting race for the fans on the track and on TV.
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