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Originally Posted by wnut
Once you give a supplier a monopoly on a component, expect monopoly pricing and profiteering! That is why the chassis should be manufactured to a standard blueprint by anybody that wants to make it.
P.S. If the chassis was manufactured to a common blue print it would provide greater access to reasonably priced chassis and components which would hopefully lead to a world wide resurgence of single seat racing cars. F1 at last doing a service to the wider racing community!
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Just to round off the IndyCar take, when the various manufacturers put their bids for the new IndyCar chassis to the "ICONIC" committee, only Lola came up with the idea of a universal tub. It could be used by both IndyCar and Indy Lights teams, saving Lights teams money if they wished to progress from Lights to IndyCar, or indeed to race teams in both and obviously saving Lola money as a constructor.