is single seater racing *really* in crisis?

[andy97]

Whilst F Ford Zetec may or may not have ever been truly healthy the engine was bomb proof and did not need re-building every 5 mins to extract the last 1 or 2 bhp (unlike the much loved 1600 kent) and as a result represented potentially good VfM. Unfortunately it was a bit top heavy and there was a mistake in going to slicks IMHO. F Ford Duratec had the potential to be a similarly robust engine but Ford wouldn't back it once they wanted the ecoboost thingy.

What, perhaps, we need now is a new "F Junior" with simple chassis and a choice of available engines benchmarked around a "standard" Duratec and an H pattern' box