Jimmy Vasser, the Champ Car team owner, doesn’t know whether his team will have enough cars to allow him to come out of retirement and race in the inaugural Vegas Grand Prix next April.

Jimmy Vasser, the semi-retired driver, said he wants to race around the streets of downtown Las Vegas so bad that he joked he would consider driving for a competing team if he had to.

As he stood in front of the downtown World Market Center recently and surveyed what will be the race course’s first turn, Vasser sounded an awful lot like a man who was planning to be in the cockpit of a 750-horsepower open-wheel car on April 8.

“I would definitely leave that door open,” said Vasser, who has not driven in a Champ Car event since April of this year but has not officially retired.

“It would be nice to run Vegas and Long Beach, but I think the cars are going to be (in short supply) at the front end of the season next year and maybe it’s going to make it more difficult.”

Las Vegas Sun

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