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Originally Posted by JagtechOhio
Penske was also the only guy smart enough to come out in favor of retrofitting the existing chassis with the new power plants as an interim step to defray the investment cost.
Of course that also would have lead to some real diversity on the grid. I read that somewhere. Two years ago.
What you won't read is that all the other owners...the ones who are whining about the cost of transition to all new gear...they all shot it down to the ICONIC committee.
Now the new cars they demanded will all be nearly identical in performance and appearance, and the only investment that won't be a total waste will be their inventory of dampers and wheels.
Brilliant.
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This should be a lesson to those of what happens when a race car is essentially designed by a committee and other meddling.
It should have been like the old days of CART. Here are the rules for chassis and engines, hand out the rule book to everyone and whoever wants to build something can.
The way the irl did it was designed to scalp revenue off the end result and also opened it up to corruption and raping of taxpayers via the $5 million they scalped off the state.