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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
The devastating split of Indycar in the mid 90s proves that people will go elsewhere. Indy used to be big. Now it is all about Nascar and Indy is failing despite having entertaining races (their hideous cars don't help but I digress). The sporting landscape is crazy competitive. F1 needs to quickly adapt and modernize their business model. The teams, especially Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull need to stop trying to fix the sport in their favor and actively screw the smaller teams into financial ruin or in 10 years they will be the only 3 teams competing anymore. Winning is great but, to use Game of Thrones terminology, sometimes I wonder if they are like Littlefinger and would be happy to burn the kingdom to the ground, just to be king of the ashes. They need to realize that increased competition and marketability will improve their financial situation. By withholding competition and development they are helping themselves maintain a monopoly on the front of the grid but are jeopardizing the sport as a whole.[/SPOILER]
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Great Points!
I cherished the C.A.R.T. and Champcar days and yeah, I went elsewhere....to F1. It was the ONLY alternative (besides the hideaous, farting, flying, death traps of Tony George) to get my open wheel fix. Not to derail but in Champcar's final season emerged the Panoz DP01 chassis, my gawd what a car that we bnever really got to see perform.
Your first comment is the key though, get rid of Bernie, He's poison.