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	<title>Comments on: Indy Car: You Could Learn a Thing or Two from Grand Am</title>
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		<title>By: JMC</title>
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		<description>Sounds like a re-intro of formula 5000. That failed too. 

different answers to your 4 questions at the end:

Will it be easy:  Near impossible. Who has the leverage here to make a change? The teams or Tony G.?  Since he is funding the show, I think he does.

...More burden?...:   Yes, but not only on the rule book, but for the teams. New equipment = more $ for purchasing, testing, etc. and lets face it, the economy is still a piece of crap and sponsor dollars are going to be harder and harder to come by. Where are the dollars going to come from to pay for wholesale changes that require new equipment. Grand Am was well underway when the economy crashed. Indy doesn&#039;t have that luxury of timing right now, not as things currently stand.

...Better competition...?  Well, the trick in DP racing is penalizing success, which I hate, personally. The better you do, the more weight, gear restrictions and rev limits you get placed on your equipment. It isn&#039;t a set rule book, it is a dumbing down or a penalty on the successful.  Add to it the nascar influence of a liberal sprinkling of full course caution flags that bunch the field together when things get too stretched out. Heavily managed competition.

...Bring more attention...?  no way to be accurate yes or no. getting on a TV channel that isn&#039;t obscure (not to mention dropped off the biggest satellite network) would help, but I hope you are not inferring that the GA is well known and broadly followed. The thrill factor just isnt there. 

This is the conundrum: no matter what, a dominant chassis will be locked onto by all teams, as will a dominant power supply.  Look at GA, the Riley, beyond all others, has been the cats ass since that thing turned a wheel. 

On the engine side, while ford has always been a comparative outsider, the GM power has been the dominant one when the Porsche and lexus were deemed too strong. And then the Porsche dominated when the lexus and GM plants were deemed too strong. And then the Lexus dominated when the Porsche and GMs were deemed too strong...see a pattern?

This &quot;solution&quot; is not the answer</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sounds like a re-intro of formula 5000. That failed too. </p>
<p>different answers to your 4 questions at the end:</p>
<p>Will it be easy:  Near impossible. Who has the leverage here to make a change? The teams or Tony G.?  Since he is funding the show, I think he does.</p>
<p>&#8230;More burden?&#8230;:   Yes, but not only on the rule book, but for the teams. New equipment = more $ for purchasing, testing, etc. and lets face it, the economy is still a piece of crap and sponsor dollars are going to be harder and harder to come by. Where are the dollars going to come from to pay for wholesale changes that require new equipment. Grand Am was well underway when the economy crashed. Indy doesn&#8217;t have that luxury of timing right now, not as things currently stand.</p>
<p>&#8230;Better competition&#8230;?  Well, the trick in DP racing is penalizing success, which I hate, personally. The better you do, the more weight, gear restrictions and rev limits you get placed on your equipment. It isn&#8217;t a set rule book, it is a dumbing down or a penalty on the successful.  Add to it the nascar influence of a liberal sprinkling of full course caution flags that bunch the field together when things get too stretched out. Heavily managed competition.</p>
<p>&#8230;Bring more attention&#8230;?  no way to be accurate yes or no. getting on a TV channel that isn&#8217;t obscure (not to mention dropped off the biggest satellite network) would help, but I hope you are not inferring that the GA is well known and broadly followed. The thrill factor just isnt there. </p>
<p>This is the conundrum: no matter what, a dominant chassis will be locked onto by all teams, as will a dominant power supply.  Look at GA, the Riley, beyond all others, has been the cats ass since that thing turned a wheel. </p>
<p>On the engine side, while ford has always been a comparative outsider, the GM power has been the dominant one when the Porsche and lexus were deemed too strong. And then the Porsche dominated when the lexus and GM plants were deemed too strong. And then the Lexus dominated when the Porsche and GMs were deemed too strong&#8230;see a pattern?</p>
<p>This &#8220;solution&#8221; is not the answer</p>
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