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Originally posted by SunDancer
I been wondering about the developmental series of the IRL and the other open-wheel series, and part of the lack of American Drivers is the lack of a quality developmental series. I though CART, reading the series lacks a quality "training" program, had the Dayton Indy Lights and Toyota Atlantic Series. What makes F3000, F1's program, so well, and what does it take for a good developmental series?

Atlantics is good for what it is.... a secondary feeder. CART misses the Indy Lights series. In all honesty, F3000 has become CART's top feeder. In fact the winner of the F3000 is guaranteed a CART test drive. The Atlantic cars are too easy to drive and that causes the jump to CART to be too great (ex. Hunter-Reay this year) . The F3000 guys seem to come in better prepared (ex. Bourdias with Newman/Hass). The IRL's feeder series is a joke and is being dominated by two foreign road-racers. Some vision Mr. George. Kind of funny that Mary Hulman (owner of Indy Speedway) has her grandson in the Atlantic Series and not The Infinity Series.


Also, if a new series was to launch, do you think a CART-like series such with a first-year schedule of perheps 5 ovals, 4 road corses and 3 street circuts. The focus of the series to go to US and get up to 3 Mexican races and 4 Canadian circuits.
CART was successful, just management ran it into the ground.

It was a combination of CART management and Mr. George. Can it be saved? Yes, but will it? No.