Ed, After last year and this year.

[wombat666]

"Wow Wombat 3 in a row! We are not really arguing here at all."

I hope not.
This is the sort of 'bench racing' that would take place if we were sitting around just shooting the breeze and having a few frosty 'Redbacks'.
:friday:
Easier for me to put my thoughts down over a few posts than lose the plot in one go!
CRAFT Syndrome .....:wave:

 

[Ferry_vO]

Panther How many moonshiners ran liquor in Ferrari's or Mclarens? NASCAR didn't grow from the same roots as F1. Where is the Ferrari factory in the USA? Isn't one is there so of course the average NASCAR fan has virtually no background in F1 - and so no appreciation.

Replace 'F1' with 'Nascar' and vice versa...

My ideal would be something like if there were 25 NASCAR teams I'd like to see about 10 different national and international car makers - American roots, Oriental roots and European roots. Why not? What if there were a global V6 based NASCAR type series on a variety of tracks - equally balanced in style - D (oval), Short, Superspeedway and Road. What a great show that would be - I think.

The 'old' German Touring Car championship (DTM) was a great series back in 1993/94 but in '95 they made the critcal mistake of renaming it the 'International Touringcar Championship' (ITC) and they went to far away places. Too bad no one there cared for the cars no matter how impressive those Opel Calibra's, Alfa 155's and Mercs were, and the mostly German drivers weren't very famous either outside of western Europe. The series died at the end of that season.
Do you think anybody here knows who Kyle Busch, Jimmie Johnson or AJ Allmendinger even are?

Champcars did make a succesful appearance in Holland and Belgium two years ago, but only because of Robert Doornbos and Jan Heylen, two local favourites.

 

[Cazzie]

Ferry, if Kyle Busch got a quality ride, I guarantee you Europeans would soon know him. :ernae:

Caz

 

[smoores]

Ferry, if Kyle Busch got a quality ride, I guarantee you Europeans would soon know him. :ernae:

Caz

And thats when both F1 fans and Nascar fans can come together and hate him.

The sports have been vastly different for a long time, but have gotten closer and closer. A Charlotte based team has the technology and resources to have a good F1 team, but I don't know if it would have the support of most American racing fans. But it sure would be funny to see a team from the south running F1.

The reason Nascar runs a 40 week schedule and a 43 car field is again because of tradition. Now lately its seemed like the roots of Nascar are a little unsteady, and are moving towards the cheapest buck, but it still clings onto the deepest tradition, like running Carburetors. But at least its 43, and not 63 like in the early days!