Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
Maybe you can feel that way, but you are a fan. If I am a sponsor, I am looking at the way Phoenix fell apart and Iam not getting warm and fuzzy feelings. You cannot set a schedule out and write it down in Crayon the way CCWS has.
The revised Atlantics, the use of Star Mazda as a support series as well, the addition of Tremblant, Assen and Zolder, not to mention the street course in Vegas, and the securing of LB, Toronto and Cleveland are all fine things. As is the control of Cosworth by KK. That said, if no one is selling the series, or giving it the appearence of stability, then you have just wasted your money.
I don't want to see them fold or give up the ship entirely, but I think this is where KK is going. I think he is hoping to cut a deal for he and his partners, and they have to devalue their product while not losing any more money on it. Lets face it, the pluses he will bring to the DP-01 ( it will be a good car in time, and the Dallaras the IRL uses are long in the tooth) and the Cosworth connection to build motors if Honda ever bails. KK, purely on business reasons along might be angling to sell to TG, if he gets his price. THAT would be a betrayal, a tragic end to all of this, but I wonder if that isn't the scenario coming, and we just haven't seen it. It would explain why the Amigo's have quit promoting this series to the level they promised they would, and it would explain why no one seems to be saying definitively what their direction is. I think they are just hoping to cut a deal, and they are not going to care what we think if they get the money they want....