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Old 9 May 2012, 14:25 (Ref:3071767)   #57
Morris Dancer
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Morris Dancer should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
Instead of just being contrary, like Monty Python's Argument Clinic sketch, explain why a 'big banger' openwheel category like F5000 couldn't work again.

It's time to think big, like the first proponents of F5000 'stock block' engines did in the late 1960s. Back then the alternate proposition was 2-litre racing engines, which would have been even less viable than the fading 2.5-litre Formula Tasman that preceded it.

It was amazing that F5000 lasted as long as it did, considering the two most expensive components - engines and tyres - which were unrestricted, eventually devoured even the big teams' budgets.

F3, like FPacific/Atlantic/Mondial and FHolden before it, has demonstrably failed to capture the public imagination.

The current disastrous situation will only improve when the people involved - especially the existing F3 teams - start thinking about what type of openwheelers can be marketed to Australian motorsport fans, instead of waiting for the next youngster with rich parents to walk through their door.
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