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Champ Car team closing down
17th October 2007
The American RuSport team has announced that it will withdraw from the US based Champ Car World Series at the end of the 2007 season and will cease operations.
Based in Loveland, Colorado, RuSport was founded in 1999 by Carl Russo and Steve Wulff. Initially the team competed in the junior Toyota Atlantic series before moving up to the Champ Car World Series in 2004.
Russo and Wulff left the organisation at the end of 2006 when the team was acquired by new owner Dan Pettit. In 2007 the team has co-operated in a technical partnership with the rival Rocketsports CCWS organisation.
In its four seasons in the CCWS RuSport won four races and one of its drivers finished second in the championship in 2006.
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