Chrnelich takes Champ Car role.

The Champ Car World Series has announced that Joe Chrnelich has been appointed as its new Executive vice president of development, government affair and planning.

Chrnelich, former CEO of the Wisconsin State Fair Park-Milwaukee Mile, will be responsible for managing Champ Car relationships with race promoters, identifying and investigating prospective race venues and completing the 2005 Champ Car World Series schedule.

He says he is looking forward to taking on his new role.

"I am very excited about the challenges of the new position," he said. "It presents a different variety and scope of responsibilities as compared to my job at the State Fair Park. I think this is a great fit, especially considering my years of experience understanding the promoter's perspective and the requirements for producing a quality event.

"My top priority will be to establish and build long term relationships with our promoter partners while providing world class racing events for the Champ Car organisation.

"We need to prioritise our short-term and long-term target markets, reach out to our local contacts to find out what each needs from us to be successful and then make well informed choices of venues that complement our vision. Once we accomplish that, I suspect we will have built a solid schedule and a series that everyone can be proud of."