WHY - North American races

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Originally Posted by -Helix-

Why would they do it? Why would they get rid of races that are popular and exciting just to be more "rest-of-the-world friendly"? CC and the IRL don't care about the rest of the world, just like the rest of the world doesn't care about them.

They care about the North American market and specific other markets globally where they do well and that's it. Some people, believe it or not, like American Open Wheel racing more than F1. These are the people CC and the IRL care about.

It's two completely different kinds of racing going after two completely different kinds of markets. There's no reason to work together. It would be like F1 and NASCAR working together.

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Whys it the Champ Car World Series then?

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Originally Posted by theugsquirrel

Whys it the Champ Car World Series then?

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Drivers are Multiple Nationalities
Races are in Multiple Countries

That doesn't target an American audience - most people dont know anything about most of the drivers and there isn't a competitive American driver, after AJ went to NASCAR. From that alone, it isn't destined that the series will do well.

Major League all-star play the Japanese all-stars in a series after each season in Japan. The Major Leaguers have pretty much won this series every year. Don't know anything about this Japanese team killing MLB teams. LOL. Never happened.

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Originally Posted by xtlm

Drivers are Multiple Nationalities
Races are in Multiple Countries

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Multiple countries? Three does not make a world championship. Don't be silly.

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Originally Posted by Rantanamo

Major League all-star play the Japanese all-stars in a series after each season in Japan. The Major Leaguers have pretty much won this series every year. Don't know anything about this Japanese team killing MLB teams. LOL. Never happened.

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If you insist. I must have been misinformed.

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Originally Posted by LeonBrooke

Multiple countries? Three does not make a world championship. Don't be silly.

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Check the facts please. More like 7 countries on three continents.

:D O K.... Back on topic !!!

:p : Bernie... Mad Max... and the FIA have done a remarkable job in turning off the American Formula 1 fans !!!

Those idiots made such a FIAsco at Indy in 2005.. that the latest issue in AutoWeek...
showing results of an AutoWeek poll...
gaging the fans interest in F-1.

"Indy-a-no-place:Reader voting on whether to change venues for the U.S. GP from Indy to almost anywhere else in the country is a dead-even race.... "

Poll results:

35.2 percent voted to stay in Indy

35.8 percent voted for a new location

29.0 percent voted for.. NO MORE GRAND PRIX

Remember guys... this is a "Motor-Head" weekly magazine... that reports the latest news from around the World. If approx. one third of these readers really don't care about having a F-1 race in the United States... what does the man in the street think ?

Let's all hope today's race is exciting with lots of lead changes !!!

If not... the average fan is likely to look elsewhere for entertainment.

Regardless it just reflects that F1 has had trouble cutting the mustard in the USA... despite pretty large ticket sales. That's why Bernie is getting peaved and is up to his tricks.

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Originally Posted by Malllen

Check the facts please. More like 7 countries on three continents.

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That's only this year. Before that, was there anywhere else apart from the US, Canada and Mexico?

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Originally Posted by LeonBrooke

That's only this year. Before that, was there anywhere else apart from the US, Canada and Mexico?

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Australia for many years, Japan for some years, Brazil for a couple of years.

A couple of years in England and Germany within the last ten years.