OW unification

[johnlemans]

Originally Posted by Hallen

Fixed it

I really doubt they can do even 13 races in the first few years. There are other road courses that would work too.

Part of the problem here is you need two completely different kinds of cars to work on both ovals and road courses. I think it will simply be too expensive in the long term to do both. It forces teams to invest in special cars and causes a lot more build time at the shop. You also almost need road course engineers and oval engineers. I think for this reason OWR in the US is doomed unless either ovals are dropped (and then I would watch it) or road courses are dropped ( in which case I will ignore it).

The month long qualifying for the Indy 500 is also a huge detractor from the season. It takes too long. People want to see races, not boring qualifying sessions that nobody understands anyway.

(BTW, this is one of my complaints about Le Mans too. It shuts down the ALMS for far too long at a point where excitement about the season is really growing. Then you wait over a month to finally see another race. This is especially bad for newer fans who don't know about Le Mans or don't want to watch a 24 hours race. They lose interest and don't watch the rest of the season... it just slips from their attention.

Don't get me wrong, I love the 24 hour and I don't see any way around it in this case, but it still hurts the series. NASCAR understands this. That is why they have very few two week breaks in their season. I am not saying ALMS should go that far, but a consistent two week schedule is important.)

That was an idealised schedule, not something that would be achieveable next year / year after.

Re. Daytona i meant a modified version of the motorbike course. They could have it on the weekend between the Daytona 24 and the first weekend of Nascar.

An antoher thing - i really want ot see some proper oval racing back at Rockingham, i was there in 2001 and i've never seen anything quite like it. Its just a shame we don't have an oval in Europe with high enough banks for Nascar.

[mayk]

If the reports now out are true....Champ Car will be officially dead this week....tomorrow (2/13)?

But as sad as this is, it is the best for OWR here in the States.....I just can not stand the sight of the IRL cars and the support series is even worse,,,,to me, I want to hear the turbos pop of OW's....not V8s! *sigh*

Although seeing where good ole 'danica' will now finish will be interesting.....

[bullitt_60]

Is no news good news? I have been expecting a press release or something, but all I have seen is one story from Robin Miller with mostly speculation. What gives??

[mayk]

Originally Posted by bullitt_60

Is no news good news? I have been expecting a press release or something, but all I have seen is one story from Robin Miller with mostly speculation. What gives??

Here is another.....what a fricken mess and joke is OWR in America.....Bernie must be laughing his arse off.

AUTO-RACING - MILLER: Unfication Frustrations - SPEEDtv.com

[Nick Koske]

Originally Posted by mayk

Here is another.....what a fricken mess and joke is OWR in America.....Bernie must be laughing his arse off.

AUTO-RACING - MILLER: Unfication Frustrations - SPEEDtv.com

What a giant CF...I would hate to be a Champ Car team...two months till race #1 and they have no clue what's going on. I'm surprised some haven't just jumped ship to IRL...because either way it sure doesn't seem Champ Car is going to be around much longer.

[Hallen]

Originally Posted by mayk

Here is another.....what a fricken mess and joke is OWR in America.....Bernie must be laughing his arse off.

AUTO-RACING - MILLER: Unfication Frustrations - SPEEDtv.com

Yep, or, it could just be that Miller jumped the gun, as he has been known to do in the past, and broke something that was either a complete fabrication or misrepresented what is really happening so badly that it has caused a ton of additional problems.

Miller is a fervent "unificationist". It is all he has preached for the last 10 years. He also is not exactly on good relations with the CCWS. Do you think it is possible that he is being played by (or in collusion with) Tony George to bring about an end to the CCWS? Miller's articles are full of information but site no sources and you are expected to believe it because he has "connections".

If there was something in the works, I think Miller just destroyed it.
If there was nothing in the works and CCWS was doing their own thing, then I think Miller is just Tony George's tool.