Bumper Cars

[aportinga]

Yeah - what is it with Indiana and Ohio?

Dirty croch of the midwest.

[Brian Brainfart]

I wish I could find the quote. 6 or 7 years ago, in an interview, TG talked about an IRL road course series and said the cars would have "bumpers." Then when Toyota bolted, they also mentioned "bumpers."

Now we see that they made a design request per the concepts submitted.

It confirms that these fuckers are so gung-ho on creating WWF of open wheel racing.

They'll need bumper guards.

[Brassfield]

Mr Blades!!!

I'm gonna have to say that CanAm 2 wasn't the original CanAm by any stretch...but as a race series, and being used in comparison to what shit there is today...it was 10x better than the current irl product. The cars were a handful, there was a ton of variety and technical ideas that did and didn;t work, decent drivers and teams...

...and let's not forget that a good half of the CART teams came from it.

And hell, look at the picture you posted...I like that better than any ol' irl crap just from looking at the photo.

Sorry, but I was a fan of CanAm2, I knew CanAm2...

and irl...sorry, you are no CanAm2.

That's all...off my soapbox and back to hatin'!

Good post!
For a screwed up sanctioning body that messed up both the Can Am and F5000 it was the best that could have come out of the leftovers. It was a great training ground for drivers and teams, was very competitive and was not a suck assed spec series.
We had Jim Crawford just down the road preparing his Ensign F1 based car at a nearby Ford dealer.
Spent some good times there with him and his crew.
I have got to go with BB on the Can Am 3 designation though as Can Am 2 was what the SCCA turned the orginal into when trying to put the genie back in the bottle.
Having seen all three series in action nothing beats the Can Am and sadly will ever beat what the Can Am was in it's glory.
But what Mo states and remembers was without doubt better than 99.9% of anything seen on the continent this century.

[Ripped]

Yeah - what is it with Indiana and Ohio?

Dirty croch of the midwest.

What the fuck is a croch?

[Ripped]

Mr Blades!!!

I'm gonna have to say that CanAm 2 wasn't the original CanAm by any stretch...but as a race series, and being used in comparison to what shit there is today...it was 10x better than the current irl product. The cars were a handful, there was a ton of variety and technical ideas that did and didn;t work, decent drivers and teams...

...and let's not forget that a good half of the CART teams came from it.

And hell, look at the picture you posted...I like that better than any ol' irl crap just from looking at the photo.

Sorry, but I was a fan of CanAm2, I knew CanAm2...

and irl...sorry, you are no CanAm2.

That's all...off my soapbox and back to hatin'!

A very sad thought occured to me on my drive home from work the other day. I was thinking just how sad it is that damn near every form of big league racing in this country has become shitty spec racing. I was remembering the Atlantics of the mid '90's with multiple chassis and what CART was back then. I was remembering engine, chassis, and tire wars. Then I started thinking that there must be somewhere that allows for innovation and development. I came to the conclusion that the highest level of openwheel road racing in this country that still allows for free thinking and innovation is...

http://www.f2000championshipseries.com/