I can hear you, Flyn.
What's wrong with Champ Cars? Champs are cool. F1 can be 5% faster, but they seem as fun to drive as a Panoz...
Besides, it's amazing how many times F1 fans ask for the things Champ Cars already have, from slicks to less aero and more driver control, from less powerful team managers to maybe teams that doesn't live with so much interference from automakers. And that's is a hidden blessing of the spec cars: NO more executives on the pit lane (or at least, a few less, which is good).
Finally,
emphatically, I say the matter of equality is settled when you consider they have had Paul Tracy for many years,
the Chuck Norris of Racing, if there have ever been one.
"Pinnacling" about F1 only make it more patent... Tracy is so cool and he is cool in such a way, that drivers in F1 stare in awe, like defeated Ninjas... Hamilton is a kid, Tracy is a man.
That's natural: on a spec series, there are less excuses left for the drivers. That makes you grow, if I'm allowed to say it so.
For a taste of Champ Car drivers, check our own JPM, the mightiest colombian under the sun. Remember his zest in the beginning, before being waterboiled in F1? Some of it came from CART: I bet he went to NASCAR for "that feeling" he lost whe he went to "all-english" teams like the phlegmatic Williams and the cool and technical McLaren...
The similarities in "development" toward a spec series are not surprising, as CART and FOCA share its "birth environment": rebellion from automakers and promotors towards its original AAA national association, old and quaint automobile clubs, overcomed by natural growing of the sport and the almighty and juicy TV rights.
You could say this is the kind of cars everybody would have if racing entrepreneurs ruled the world.
About the engine freeze, here is a Manchild fakery:
