Tagliani has been shunted aside by Rocketsports Racing, leaving him on the outside looking in just a month before the start of the 2005 Champ Car World Series season source: canoe.ca In an exclusive interview with The Toronto Sun, Tagliani said he was both shocked and hurt to find that team owner Paul Gentilozzi had backed off a handshake deal the pair agreed to after the final 2004 Champ Car race in Mexico City. That deal would have seen Tagliani in the Rocketsports car for three more seasons. "Me and Paul had a conversation in Mexico City," Tagliani told The Sun. "He told me we had a three-year deal. We shook hands on it." Tagliani is coming off his most successful Champ Car season -- where he picked up his first series win at Elkhart Lake -- for a team in just its second year of operation. He said he felt certain during the off-season that 2005 would be the year he could contend for a championship. When he began to hear that Rocketsports would be the new home for American Ryan Hunter Reay -- with his salary being paid by series co-owners Gerry Forsythe and Kevin Kalkhoven -- he sought assurances his position with the team was solid.
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