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Originally Posted by FordCosworthPanoz
In 2007 you had a solid 23-26 car grid in Atlantics in addition to 15-18 in the IPS. Star Mazda had a solid grid and you had plenty of young American drivers throughout these series. In Atlantics you had Indycar and Ferrari driver Raphael Matos, current Indycar driver James Hinchliffe, current Indycar driver J.R. Hildebrand and current Camaro factory driver John Edwards with guys like Wickens, Strous and Perara also in the field. Something is seriously wrong when only 11 cars show up with no young Americans in the field, hopefully Connor De Phillippi and Sage Karam (Sage is with Andretti) could be in Lights next year. But I see many of the other guys going off to Europe.
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2007 was a completely different economic atmosphere, with both series getting great TV time. And both top series were arguably doing better than IndyCar is today.