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For 2001, CART uncovered their most eager timetable yet, with 22 races in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil, and Australia. The loss of Homestead-Miami and Gateway to the IRL was to be balanced by the expansion of Texas Motor Speedway, which had seen an energizing IRL race the year earlier. Rahal resigned to head Jaguar Racing in Formula 1, prompting showcasing master Joseph Heitzler taking the helm.[13]

Brazil was dropped after conflicts with track advertisers. The 2001 Firestone Firehawk 600 must be dropped on race day, because of worries of drivers passing out at the high G powers made by Champ Cars on the intensely kept money course amid qualifying. While cheered for putting driver wellbeing first, the wiping out was an attention debacle, and CART was scrutinized for not testing autos on the track prior as asked. A subsequent claim, while settled, delivered a quarterly misfortune for CART's stock and perpetually hurt its association with Speedway Motorsports.[14][15][14][16]

Notwithstanding CART groups clearing the main 6 positions in the 2001 Indianapolis 500 and an exceptionally focused four-way focuses fight among Gil de Ferran, Kenny Brack, Hélio Castroneves, and Michael Andretti, features fixated on an innovative debate with respect to a turbo fly off valve that Honda and Ford had created, inciting protestations by Toyota. [17] When CART ordered changes in the valve to help even out the opposition, Honda effectively acquired a directive notwithstanding the change, prompting every one of the three makers being vexed. Toyota would report it would move to the IRL for 2003 toward the finish of the season.[18]

The arrangement's first raid into Europe, the German 500, was dominated by the 9/11 assaults multi week earlier. Truck, not having any desire to drop another race, chose to pursue as planned some debate. The race would see prevalent previous hero Alex Zanardi lose the two legs in an emotional mischance. The arrangement debut occasion in the United Kingdom would verge on being dropped because of track concerns.[19]

To keep inclusion of the Indianapolis 500, ABC/ESPN marked a restrictive TV bargain for 2002 onwards with the IRL, driving CART to swing to Speed Channel for link inclusion and purchase time on CBS to keep up a communicate presence.[20] Team Penske reported after the season that they would wound up perpetual participants in the IRL for 2002 because of weight from support Marlboro coming about because of the American tobacco settlements that avoided cigarette promoting in numerous arrangement.

The loss of ESPN/ABC's presentation and motor maker supporting started a descending winding for the arrangement, as race advertisers started requesting decreased endorsing charges for 2002.[21] Heitzler was terminated by the CART board in the offseason, being supplanted by Chris Pook, the very much respected CEO of the Long Beach Grand Prix.[22]

Amid the 2002 season, Honda reported that it would move to the IRL the next year, causing an extreme decrease in the CART's stock and leaving Ford as the sole motor producer for 2003.[23] Attempts to sponsor groups to have a full field prompted a further decrease in stock, inciting group proprietor Gerald Forsythe to buy enough stock to control 22.5% of the casting a ballot partakes working together with the board.[24] Star driver Michael Andretti bought the noticeable Team Green and moved them to the IRL, refering to contracting fields.

Starting in 2003, after the withdrawal of FedEx as arrangement support, CART re-marked itself as Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford.[25]

Insolvency and rebranding to OWRS

Sébastien Bourdais auto in 2007.

With the arrangement coming up short on money holds, CART defaulted on some loans after the 2003 season and its benefits were exchanged. The IRL made a vital offer to keep the arrangement torpid, while a trio of CART proprietors (Forsythe, Paul Gentilozzi, and Kevin Kalkhoven) alongside Dan Pettit made an offer as the Open Wheel Racing Series (OWRS). The chapter 11 court decided that the OWRS offer, while littler, was more helpful to leasers than the IRL offer, and decided that the OWRS gathering ought to be the buyer of CART's benefits, which in the end ended up known as Champ Car World Series (CCWS) LLC.

While some conspicuous groups, for example, Team Rahal and Fernández Racing moved to the IRL for 2004, the CCWS pushed more toward road circuits and would see a pitched multi-season fight between Newman/Haas Racing and Forsythe Racing, including a warmed individual competition between three-time champion Sébastien Bourdais and veteran Canadian Paul Tracy. The IRL started to race on street and road circuits in 2005, making rivalry for the arrangement customary street dashing tracks.

In 2007, with the withdrawal of Bridgestone and Ford Motor Company as showing supports, the official name of the best level arrangement advanced by Champ Car turned out to be just the Champ Car World Series. A few races in the 2007 season were dropped before they were held. Toward the beginning of February 2008, the CCWS Board of Managers approved insolvency, to be recorded on February 14, 2008. On February 22, 2008, an assention on a basic level was come to and marked that consolidated the Champ Car Series with the IRL[26]. The reminder sold the CCWS's endorsing gets, the Champ Car Mobile Medical Unit, the arrangement history, and generosity to the IRL for $6 million. The archive likewise incorporated a non-contend assention for Forsythe and Kalkhoven in return for $2 million each. [5] The main "blended" occasion of the rechristened "IndyCar Series" was the GAINSCO Auto Insurance Indy 300 from Homestead-Miami Speedway on March 29, 2008. Because of a booking strife with the IndyCar Series' Motegi occasion, the CCWS Long Beach race was hung on April 20, 2008 as an IRL focuses paying occasion utilizing the CCWS-spec Panoz DP01 autos, and was challenged totally by CCWS groups, with the occasion portrayed as a last festival of CART/CCWS.