Well it's now jsut a two owner club. Penske and Ganassi are the only two teams able to contend for a championship and the majority of the race wins. AA/AGR has fallen fromthe ranks of the "Big Three" teams.

Indycar is not going to change back to the days of what made it so popular. Everyone wants to say it was the 80's and 90's that made it popular and was at it's heights. It was also then that people had kids who were from parents of when drivers like Foyt, Unser, and Andretti were kids and raced the national championship trial on dirt, they still made a few USAC races throughout the country. They made diehard fans and those fans grew up, had kids and passed the love of racing onto them. Now, there are no Foyts, Andretti's, or Unsers to cheer for. We don;t have drivers that short track American fans can relate to. The drivers people see in USAC and WoO don't get the rides in Indycar. They get them in NASCAR. People will follow their favorite drivers wherever they go. Until Indycar realizes that and can caputer that it will linger on as a Page 6 item in the sports section next to FIFA and Wolrd series of Poker.

Do we need costs to be brought down? Absolutely. All forms of racing need to be enacting cost cutting measures. Racing started out as a hobby and as a "mans" domain to see who was better in the drivers seat. It has now become a battle of who has the most money. If a budget cap could be placed into it so that everyone has the same amount of money to spend it would be a good start. In terms of Indycar, limit in season car redevelopement/testing. The inseason testing (on track) is what F1 did and it did produce better racing in 2009. Still a bore at some tracks, but overall better racing. Indycar, does need a new chassis. Is the DP01 the answer where teams are restricted to what they can do for and to it? Perhaps, but we don't know that for sure as the DP01 was never tested on ovals and that is where the Indycar "great divide" is shown. If the cars are limited in refinement and testing special "trick" pieces, the sompetition becomes mor level but the innovation wide goes away even more and that has been a complaint for years that innovation needs to come back into Indycar racing.

If it was possible, get rid of expensive carbon fiber with the exception of the tub as it would stay carbon fiber. Replace the carbon fiber body panels with aluminum or fiberglass where energy disapation is still possible in the event of a wreck, open the engines up to stock block engines with stock heads, replace the small narrow wings of today with the larger wings ala 1970's, enlages the nose for better driver protection and to ensure a larger hole is punched in the air creating more drag and slowing the cars down. Speed in racing is great, but we have seen what those high speeds have done and that is more important.