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Originally Posted by Mak
The F3 association is doing its best to find international drivers with Adds in Autosport the last few weeks> It makes sense as the budgets are a lot lower than the comparable national calss in the UK> The competition level there also has been highter in the past few seasons> I hope that the series stays strong as this is the most professional single seater series in OZ and the Australian Drivers Championship
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In all these junior formula series around the world and the growth there of, was funded by rich dads having made their fortune in property development or finance to let little johnny play racing driver. That is mostly gone now with the crash of the global economy. Most 20 years olds don't have "budgets" of the scale required for F3 lying around.
What is happening is shrinkage in all these formula and the only formula that will survive or do well are ones that have value and/or rewards to justify the outlay. Drivers on the F3 ladder in Europe are in the pursuit of F1 or an international career. Going to Australia really doesn't make much sense unless a career in Australia is desired.
Formula Ford in Australia by the way needs some cost cuts.