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wallythacker - 2006-03-24 5:03 PM
The Glen is a great circuit. I walked it one evening on a Can-Am weekend. (pre-porche 917-30 days so McLaren won handily.)
There was talk of a 2nd US race at Seca. Last year I read about it and thought it would be great. F1 needs more exposure in the US to attract more fans. Indy is a yawn. I always thought it was a stopgap track until they decided on a better location.
No wing penalties. I'm not surprised. Ferrari probably had a free pass in their pocket from the x-wing debacle a few years back and cashed it in.
Sporting rules dictated by one person really hurt the sport. Nascar suffered the same crap at Frances hand for decades.
Good riddance to petty sport tyrants. Get rid of them all I say.
edit: Check this out. Plymouth had a dual-overhead cam hemi in the works before that idiot France saw it and banned it on the spot.
I can only drool and dream about a DOHC 'cuda or charger that never was.
Give the fiasco of last years USGP, I've got no doub the Indy contract won't be renewed. Where a USGP will be in 2007 is anyone's guess.
Of the tracks in the US that could handle such an event and are at or close to FIA standards:
Laguna Seca
(close to standards
)
Las Vegas street course
(oh please no
)
Sebring
(would be tough to get up to standards
)
Road America
(same as Sebring
)
Road Atlanta
(not long enough and virtually no stands
)
Mid-Ohio
(no seats and probably no where near standards
)
Infineon
(ditto
)
Can you think of any others?
