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2010 Rally Colorado status still undecided
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Steamboat Springs — Rally Colorado event director Jim Gill said at this point, the race committee has decided not to decide.
The Steamboat Springs-based event wrapped up its ninth running in September but learned last month that it had been dropped from Rally America’s national circuit.
The local race’s committee met last week to try to decide how or whether to continue with the event, but with a few options on the table and uncertainty throughout the sport, the group opted to wait.
“The decision to make no decision is the decision,” Gill said.
The latest wild card to mix up the “what to do next” debate is uncertainty at the top levels of the Rally America organization. Gill said the circuit could lose several of its most well-known stars to the World Rally Championship.
Ken Block has expressed an interest in racing at that level, and a story in Autosport magazine links him to a Ford-sponsored World Rally Championship team that could race in the 2010 season. Block won at Rally Colorado in 2007 and finished second in the series’ season-long standings in 2006 and 2008.
He is among the sport’s most marketed drivers.
That’s just one more wrench in what Gill said has been a difficult process.
“We haven’t made a decision to continue on, to end it or to just take a year off,” he said. “We don’t want to make a knee-jerk reaction, so we decided to wait a few weeks and see if something changes.”
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