CART interim CEO Bobby Rahal will leave his position in
"a couple of months and resume his duties running a race
team" in Formula One, according to Robin Miller of the
INDIANAPOLIS STAR, who notes that this is the first time
that Rahal will be handling an F1 team. Sources said that
Rahal "will take over the troubled" Jaguar program "for a
minimum" of two years beginning in 2001, but will continue
as a CART team owner. But Rahal "denied he was moving" into
F1: "There's been no discussion at that level. I'd say it's
a non-story. Besides, I've got four children. It would not
be a simple thing to just pick up and go." Miller writes
that "as of now, there is no successor" if Rahal leaves the
series. CART co-Founder Pat Patrick: "We've asked Roger
Bailey (who runs the Dayton Indy Lights series) to take the
job, but he doesn't want to. [Former CART team Owner] Steve
Horne would be an ideal choice but right now we don't have
anybody" (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 9/11).
ISC SHARES BOOSTED BY JIM FRANCE? In Winston-Salem,
Mike Mulhern wrote that ISC stock has "begun a sharp
turnaround and hit" $38 late Friday, following reports that
ISC President & NASCAR Exec VP & Secretary Jim France "was
beginning to exert some muscle" in NASCAR as his brother,
Bill, battles cancer (WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 9/10).
