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5th January 2007, 20:42 #21
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True, Starter, but say a team could get a used Dallara roller for $75-100,000 and an engine lease from Honda comparable to Cosworth compared to $300,000 for a NEW car with CC to go racing, when you talk about backups and the like, there's a difference in cost this year to go racing.
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5th January 2007, 21:37 #22
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Agree, but it's probably a half-million dollar item-plus for a couple cars and spares. For a smaller team, that's pretty good-sized dollars.
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6th January 2007, 05:54 #23
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I suspect unless they get a driver who brings a sponsor, they don't have the dough to even start the season in theory. Yet another victim of the open wheeled wars....
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10th January 2007, 11:17 #24
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My guess
Penske: Hornish, Castroneves
Ganassi: Wheldon, Dixon
AGR: Kanaan, Andretti, Franchitti, Patrick
Panther: Matsuura, Meira
Rahal: Sharp, Simmons
Foyt: Manning
Vision: Scheckter, Carpenter, Foyt
Cahill: Mitrisin, Duno
D&R: Fisher? Rice? Camara?
Fernandez: Chesson?The only thing that doesn't lie in racing is the stopwatch. (Derek Daly)
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12th January 2007, 23:50 #25
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Originally Posted by Quetch
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13th January 2007, 00:49 #26Originally Posted by indycool
If that's in the ballpark, the CCWS lease (chassis, engine and tires) for $1 million, would seem to be a pretty cost effective way to go.
My guess is the IRL will begin announcing a lease deal soon. There are already apparently some "lease" deals in in the IRL. But my guess is, they'll make them more formal (and public) fairly soon."Every generation's memory is exactly as long as its own experience." --John Kenneth Galbraith
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13th January 2007, 15:21 #27
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Jag, I think there were lease deals in the IRL at the start back in the '90s with the new cars and I think there are probably lease deals plus "you-break-it-you-fix-it" deals between regular series teams and one-offs for Indy, in addition to whatever the engine lease might be (that was reported to drop dramatically for Indy one-offs last year).
An IRL deal for a used roller being less, the engine lease being a little more and tires probably the same might make the deals pretty comparable. I hadn't heard the $900,000 figure from Honda before. Only thing I'd heard was "less than a million," so I don't know any more about that.
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13th January 2007, 19:06 #28Originally Posted by Starter
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13th January 2007, 21:09 #29
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weefly, they don't knock corners off at concrete canyons?
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14th January 2007, 15:34 #30
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Sounds like they will scrape the 18 together - maybe even 20 overall if Cahill is for real.
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