IRL Stunned to Learn of the Existence of Dreyer & Reinbold Racing

Note: Below is satire. Fiction.

Indy Racing League officials were stunned Sunday to learn that Dreyer & Reinbold Racing has been a racing in the league for years.

"We were having one of our three-a-daily meetings with Andretti Green Racing -- you know, to make sure they had enough sponsorship money and Danica was happy -- and they kept mentioning this 'Dreyer and Reinbold Racing' team," said an IRL official who declined to be named. "At first we thought it was an American LeMans Series team or something."

When news stories surfaced last week that DRR was considering moving to Champ Car in 2007, league officials apparently put two and two together.

"When the media called us for comment about one of 'our' teams moving to Champ Car, at first we were stunned," the IRL official said. "Then we checked into it a little bit and come to find out we do have a team known as Dreyer and Reinbold. Go figure."

Now that the league has discovered DRR, it was unclear how it would react.

"We're not sure, frankly," the official said. "We're not even sure where these DRR people are located. We'll have to get with Ganassi, AGR and Penske to see if DRR going to Champ Car would adversely effect them."

When contacted for comment, DRR officials said the league last talked to team leaders "sometime in mid-2004." As DRR officials recalled it, "it was a good meeting, once we got them to stop calling us Reyer and Deinbold."