Will anyone in Indycar ever make it to F1 now???

[jimispeed]

Not until the cars are built way more for performance, and quickness!!

And that won't make Indycar look very good in those worldly road racing enthusiasts eyes.....

The cars need to be a handful to drive.......

Are they really going to have power assisted steering?? If so.....Hideous!!

My opinion of course.....

I still have hope that everything turns out the way open wheel was meant to be!!

[BenRoethig]

I honestly don't care. F1 isn't the aim of american open wheel racing. If someone wants to go on the F1 track, there are plenty of feeder series for that. The days being hijacked by foreign road racers and fans are over.

[dlbernie]

Why should anyone care whether the guys and gals of the IRL make it to F1. Only two or three teams per year even matter in Formula One. The racing except for maybe a couple of cars - is not even competitive. And let's not even get into the issue of "team orders". I'm tired of all the IRL bashing. Let's see what happens with the IRL now with unification. No one cares whether NASCAR drivers cross the pond. Let's see whether IndyCar can reestablish its own image. Let F1 do what they do.

[ChicagocrewIRL]

I honestly don't care. F1 isn't the aim of american open wheel racing. If someone wants to go on the F1 track, there are plenty of feeder series for that. The days being hijacked by foreign road racers and fans are over.

Agreed..... the real question is... will anyone in F1 ever make it to IndyCar now that they have to be proficient oval racers as well? Mansell, Fittipaldi and Piquet ? We will never see drivers in F1 with the prowess to tackle AOWR again.

[F1boat]

I honestly don't care. F1 isn't the aim of american open wheel racing. If someone wants to go on the F1 track, there are plenty of feeder series for that. The days being hijacked by foreign road racers and fans are over.

I second that. If you want F1 feeder series, watch GP 2. IndyCar is different and should be different.

[BenRoethig]

I don't know. The breed of F1 has changed in the last 20 years and not for the better. What you basically have now is nobility on four wheels. They won't touch a car unless everything is perfectly to their liking.

[F1boat]

With the exception of JPM and Kimi. Kimi, I think, drove even snowmobiles.

[ShiftingGears]

With the exception of JPM and Kimi. Kimi, I think, drove even snowmobiles.

And he won

[ShiftingGears]

Not until the cars are built way more for performance, and quickness!!

And that won't make Indycar look very good in those worldly road racing enthusiasts eyes.....

The cars need to be a handful to drive.......

Are they really going to have power assisted steering?? If so.....Hideous!!

My opinion of course.....

I still have hope that everything turns out the way open wheel was meant to be!!

Maybe?!

F1 isn't the aim. The aim of AOWR is to make ITSELF the aim for aspiring drivers from around the world.

[indycool]

I think everyone has properly dismissed the post of the thread starter. And with many good reasons. I agree with all of them. The idea that everyone in motorsports wants to be an F1 driver is a pre-supposed fact not in evidence. Just isn't true to start with and I don't know why I'm supposed to care to end with.