Originally Posted by pgray:
The book written by Jack Fox and published in 1977 , " The Mighty Midget " lists approximately 125 midget engine manufacturers known since 1933. A time was seen that there could be as many different engines in a starting field as there were cars. The competition between the multiple and varied builders was credited with keeping much of the product affordable. "And now we're down to 5 ?"
Maybe Honda could come on board as the sole supplier with a spec sealed engine and with the demise of Indy Car ( beware the bean-counters ) the "500" could become a Midget race !:2:
< Tony George ( as seen leaving a family meeting )
Take out the manufacturer's support and make it mandatory that race teams build their own motors or have an engine builder do the work. Isn't Esslinger backed by that F-word vehicle company? Remove Chevy, Mopar, Toyota, and F-word from backing teams and make engines be team built or outside engine builder.
This is what happened to the Indycar series and look what has happened to it? It's dead.