I think the biggest "problem" with AM isn't so much the cost of the cars,
but the way the extreme performance levels of the cars tend to magnify
driver differences.
The limits of the car are SO high, and they move SO fast, and they work so
completely differently* from other cars, that there's a massively steep
driver learning curve. Not only do you have to be an Indycar engineer to
build one, you have to be an Indycar driver to drive one.
I wonder how many people built an AM car, only to find they weren't up to
the task of driving it?
* I overheard Jim McKamey talking to his codriver at Nationals...I think it
was '98. Anyway, the gist of it was that "the reason why you're sliding all
over the place in this turn is that you're going to slow - speed up, and
the downforce will keep the car planted"
Yow! Enter the turn faster and it turns _better_? Is this really Kansas?
DG
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