Carl Haas - 1930 - 2016

[TJ]

Probably a massive number of people here who won't even know the name, but truly one of the legends of motor sport outside of F1.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/125182/legendary-team-owner-carl-haas-dies

As a youngster, I used to sneak up to watch replays of the CART/Champcar/Indycar series on channel 10 after like 1am, and it was my favourite team at the time.

Have been rewatching those recently, just got onto 2002 where the team hits its purple patch.

His history with the Andretti's is what made me the biggest fan however.

https://motorsportstalk.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/1992sldnewmanmariomichealhass-507.jpg?w=610&h=343&crop=1

RIP Carl.

[The_Senator]

If you're into any sort of Motorsport, then you would of heard of Newman / Haas race team..

RIP Carl.

[TJ]

I'd truly like to hope so.

But I know many people know F1 and not much more.

[The_Senator]

They had some stars in their cars, that's for sure.. Michael and Mario Andretti.. Nigel Mansel.. and they went full purple patch with Sebastien Bourdais if memory serves me correctly.

[TJ]

Yup - 4 in a row with Seb. Then he landed at TR next to Vettel, never got the support he deserved and that was his F1 career done