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OT: Open Wheel Racing - CART - I am calling shenanigans.

btgos

OT: Open Wheel Racing - CART - I am calling shenanigans.

by btgos » Fri, 06 Feb 2004 01:06:32

I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this, but I thought it was
interesting.

The new owners of the corpse of CART are going to call their series the
open Wheel Racing Series, or the American Open Wheel Racing Series, or
something along those lines. Isn't this the name that had to be used for
the mod to NASCAR Heat that sought to replicate CART racing? Now I can't
recall who sent a legal letter to that mod team to get them to make the
name change, if it was the CART guys, then someone should send them a
letter back saying they can't use that name. If it was the IRL guys,
well send them a letter as well, it seems the legal systems hates Tony
George as much as some posters in this group.

btgoss

jason moy

OT: Open Wheel Racing - CART - I am calling shenanigans.

by jason moy » Fri, 06 Feb 2004 01:27:01


>The new owners of the corpse of CART are going to call their series the
>open Wheel Racing Series, or the American Open Wheel Racing Series, or
>something along those lines. Isn't this the name that had to be used for
>the mod to NASCAR Heat that sought to replicate CART racing? Now I can't
>recall who sent a legal letter to that mod team to get them to make the
>name change, if it was the CART guys, then someone should send them a
>letter back saying they can't use that name.

In that case, it was the IRL.  CART, to the best of my knowledge, has
been fairly generous with letting people release mods and such as no
one has developed anything for the PC market in years using an
official license.  To be fair to the IRL, they were trying to protect
the rights that they had sold to Codemasters.

Jason


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