Please discuss here all your remarks and pose your questions about all racing series, except Formula One. Both technical and other questions about GP2, Touring cars, IRL, LMS, ...
If they do allow modification, budgets will spiral way out of the realm this series is hoping to run on.
“To be able to actually make something is awfully nice”
Bruce McLaren on building his first McLaren racecars, 1970
“I've got to be careful what I say, but possibly to probably Juan would have had a bigger go”
Sir Frank Williams after the 2003 Canadian GP, where Ralf hesitated to pass brother M. Schumacher
Referring to a 'marketing speak' ... "quad-cam..." engine unit immediately makes it suspicious, IMO..
Having made that remark..
I, as a kid, recall seeing full-on F5000 racing - & that remains to this day, a motorsports-fan spectator highlight..
The speedy/viscerally thundering machines, & on-the-edge brutish driving required.. was real.. ( & too real - for today?)
"Well, we knocked the bastard off!"
Ed Hilary on being 1st to top Mt Everest,
(& 1st to do a surface traverse across Antarctica,
in good Kiwi style - riding a Massey Ferguson farm
tractor - with a few extemporised mod's to hack the task).
A simple, modern-day F5000 is what racing needs. I think something like that is what Indycar should have made itself into. Then they would have full fields because the cost to run would be low.
One serious question is tires. "Chinese-made Giti tyres" does not inspire confidence. But if the series is going to new sources to get around the traditional high-markup suppliers then much respect for trying. Hope it works.
