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.
An expanded calendar of 15 races, the runaway success of new venues in Edmonton and San Jose, and an improved domestic television package with almost half the races broadcast on major U.S. networks all signal that the ship has been steadied.