2013 or Bust

[Flyin Ryan]

Originally Posted by johntt

Yeeaahhh! Lets go back to the USAC years! .

Well, the USAC years were responsible for making Indycars #1 in this country and the "great CART period" that everyone thinks they remembered was largely a result of the USAC framework, with some help from some owners that left Can-Am and IMSA in the early '80s.

If you want to crash an open wheel car thats not made out of carbon fibre into a safer barrier be my guest.

I'd be more than happy too and I'm willing to bet money on it. I've co-designed a racecar capable of reaching high speeds with the right engine that has a functioning version sitting in a garage in Florida that is currently offered for sale with no carbonfiber and it's safe for a driver when he or she crashes.

Standard engine formula? No thanks. Indy was about innovation, technology and technical diversity not about big basic engines.

If you watch the current USAC any, which is what my statement was partially based on if you read the point and knew one of the engine builders I listed, you'd know that their current engine lineup has more technical diversity than NASCAR, Indycar, the old ChampCar, and F1.

Flyaway races can be good if done right.

"Done right" for say Australia would be covering all teams' costs to fly out there. That's what? About $200k purse per car just to break even? So for a 24-car field that's a purse minimum of $4.8 million, about 40% of the purse at Indianapolis. Everyone said "what a great event Surfers Paradise was", the only person in the entire series that Surfers Paradise the event benefited last year was Craig Gore. It didn't benefit Power any, no Aussie company gave him any money to run this year.

mountainstar: I know what Porsche's motorsport philosophy is and that doesn't apply to indycar.

Ah, you work for Porsche then?

"Winnie the Pooh's cousin", that has more inside knowledge to the sport than yourself, disagrees.