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Originally Posted by sc96:
Ok, so you aren't going to tell us how much this car cost. I don't know how to ask a question that is more specific than that, so I'll move on.
This goal of getting drivers to the IRL and to nascar is not very well thought out. nascar has shown that they will hire drivers almost any kind of racing experience. The IRL on the other hand will only "hire" drivers with money in hand, regardless of their experience and talent. Even Tony George does not hire oval track drivers with the exception of his stepson. And as for the original IRL "vision" he has come out on record saying that his goal all along was to have a series that was like
CART. So much for the short track/oval track American driver connection. AJ Foyt, a hero to many of us hires foreign road racing ride buyers almost exlusively now.
The owners of the cars in the IRL are road racers. They aren't interested in oval track drivers. They never have been and never will be. The series is dropping oval tracks and adding road races every year. The IRL already has a feeder system that they don't use to hire drivers. It features rear engined formula cars. If they won't hire the drivers from their own feeder series with similar cars to the Indycars why would anyone think they would be interested in hiring drivers of front engined cars? It should not be the goal of this series or any other series to provide drivers for the IRL or nascar.
Exact cost depends on what you want. You can spend around 50k or as muck as 90k depends on how you want to package a car. But you could be in a GC car ready for your motor at 50k. AS for a feeder series to IRL or NASCAR Bruce is more able to answer that I for one would be happy to see the GC cars as a series that puts sprint and midget guys on larger tracks in front of NASCAR size crowds. Then as time goes see this series be a destination and not so much a feeder to any other series but only time will tell that.