'Sad State Of IndyCar'

If indycar can hold on for a couple more years, I may come back as a fan:
Three veterans with impressive resumes in open wheel racing have joined the scrum to design and build the next Indy car.

Bruce Ashmore, Alan Mertens and Tim Wardrop will unveil their car and plans Friday to join Dallara, Lola, Swift and the Delta Wing in the bid for the new chassis of 2012.

“We’ve all had success at Indianapolis, we all lived through the whole development program of the Indy car and we believe we’ve got the technical and business savvy to come up with the best car,” said Ashmore, whose company is known as BAT.

“We’re going to have a go and, hopefully, they (IndyCar) will listen.”

Ashmore, the chief designer at Lola for four consecutive CART championships (1990-93) as well as the ’90 Indy 500, then moved on to Reynard, where his cars captured back-to-back Indy 500s in 1995 and 1996 and dominated CART with seven straight titles from 1996-2001
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...Being top-heavy with road courses and a possible Dallara replacement chassis has my interest peaked.
 
IMHO,
The CART/Panoz chassis was much better - they should've used/acquired that chassis during the merger...
 
Agree the Panoz was a far superior design Ed, IIRC it didn't meet the 'M1 style' build specifications required by IRL.
I've given up on IRL, it is almost as bad as NASCAR these days.
 
Hmm, when I think of late era CART I think 'Penske'. If they could only get something more than A Honda powering them... Mercedes (Give me back my Million dollar race car)

:)
 
Wombat, I shall not say NASCAR has done a 180° turn-around, they'd have to go back to pure stockers for that and get rid of the cookie-cutter tracks. But damned if racin' hasn't been real good this year, even at Daytona and Talledega, two tracks I usually loathe watching. And I have to say that the late cautions have not been NASCAR oriented this year, but due to the aggressive driving NASCAR is now allowing. It is a pity live coverage for you antipodeans comes at such a bad hour, because the races have been fun this year, including the two I have attended at Martinsville and Richmond. I shall be back at Martinsville for the Fall race too.

Indy car, that has been a sad state of affairs ever since the split up of USAC into CART and IRL. And the ovals use to be interesting, but if Kansas was any indication, ovals are no better than the road courses, follow the leader. I wish someone could get the open-wheel series together in the US, we need it. But we need competition within the series netween chassis and engine designers. The current set-up is a cruel joke.

Caz
 
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