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The Champ Car 2006 Season Preview

Will Sebastien Bourdais defend the title successfully? Can his nemesis Paul Tracy take it away in what may be his last year in open-wheel racing? How will Bruno Junqueira cope with his return to racing? And would Justin Wilson be the championship's dark horse this season? The Champ Car season begins this weekend, and Alex Sabine has a look at the expectations and prospects

A little over two years after CART filed for bankruptcy, the Champ Car World Series that emerged from its carcass is alive and, if not exactly thriving, at least showing some green shoots of recovery.

Granted, it remains a pale shadow of what it was in its mid-1990s heyday, but the seemingly inexorable implosion of the series has been decisively reversed.

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