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#16 5/29/24 3:01 PM

Originally Posted by Hubie48:
IMO with enough testing Seavey and Grant could run an Indycar. They would need loads more practice than Kyle got this month..... Larson hardly got any track time which proves he is a seat of the pants type of driver to begin with. He also had outstanding engineering and driver support from people with tons of experience.

You have to have a good engineer and communication. I saw Steve Kinser take laps in 1978 and crash the same day. Indy cars are unforgiving. Steve was with a car in which no one involved had much experience. Sammy Swindell's effort with Patrick Racing was a real head scratcher. When Sammy was at IMS it was with John Buttera and ground effects were very new, not to mention they had rocker arm motors (oh how I wish I could hear those things run again, my God what a sound) but keep in mind Larry Rice, Pancho Carter, Bubby Jones, Bobby Olivero, Little Joe, Gary Bettenhausen (I'm going way back with this one) all got with decent to good teams ran a bunch of laps of practice and put a car into the show.

It can and has been done. Look back thru the grids of the past ten years and look at the guys who were one and done, disappeared. Stingray will be one of those along with three to five of the Hobos. Racing is paid for by rich people.

The current Indycar caters to the people who bring money, do the race and move onto something else (making more money!) Hot Rodders and Daredevils it ain't!~

All it takes today to make it happen is CASH!

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