Quote Originally Posted by NaBUru38
I don't understand these threads. I would never find one like this about F1, sports car racing or rallying. Who cares about sponsors other than they pay the bills and some make nice liveries?
Quote Originally Posted by NaBUru38
Sorry! I'm from a different (racing) culture.
I think that is much more a matter of simply not paying attention than anything else; then again, F1 fans in particular rarely take notice of such things, rarely making the connection between sponsorship and what they watch on the track, being entirely clueless as to the significant power that sponsors have on the sport -- and have had for many decades now.

Given the direction that the IRL or IndyCar or whatever they are calling it these days continues to be headed, there are many reasons that the issues related to sponsors sits foremost in the minds of many who follow this series. Of course, that there is a seriously wound series that is but a shadow of what once was makes these sorts of things more akin to a deathwatch than anything else at times. Having burned many a bridge behind it, the future of this series still a big question mark. That the Delta Wing was rejected for what is essentially simply more of the same-ol' -same-ol' (sorry, but the entire "aero kit" deal is something only a dying organization could convince itself as being "new and better) rather than something that could have been forward-thinking is rather typical of this now niche sport.