The following is a statement from Walker Racing owner Derrick Walker in
response to Robin Miller's most recent article regarding Champ Car's
decision to change responsibilities held by Champ Car management.


"Included in an article written by Robin Miller regarding Champ Car's
decision to change the responsibilities held by front office management,
namely Steve Johnson and Tony Cotman, I was quoted by Robin Miller, in a
manner which I felt did not fairly represent all that I had said and the
context in which I said it. The informal conversation we had on the
subject was included in his writings. On reading the quotes attributed
to me, I felt I needed to clarify what I had said in the way that I said
it. However, I reconsidered and instead decided it would be more
productive for me to make some remarks for the record regarding Steve
Johnson and more importantly Champ Car.

Steve Johnson has a tiger by the tail. Anybody who is the CEO of Champ
Car has had a difficult job, just ask those who came before him.
Recovery of the series will take some time and Steve, with a small
staff, limited resources, and more things to do with not enough hours in
the day to do them, has done his best to be all things to all people.
To me, as CEO he has always gone out of his way to help, used his
influence when needed enabling us to continue in Champ Car. Let's face
it it's a big challenge for anybody. The reallocation of his time to
concentrate on sales and securing the need for sponsorship dollars is a
more important use for him than chairing meetings and micro managing the
price of car parts as we tend to do, quite frankly.

Moving Champ Car up the ladder is going to take three to five years.
Times have changed since the glory days of CART. We need new ideas that
work in the very different market place of today. The owners of Champ
Car (who I jokingly referred to as 'The Brothers'), have made a huge
commitment to open wheel racing, which we all tend to take for granted
sometimes, need to provide the leadership to make it happen. In the
winter of 2006 valuable momentum was lost, but now there are positive
signs of change and a new direction emerging.

Thank you for allowing me to make my comments known."

For further information please contact Contact Elizabeth Cannon at (317) 332-7260.