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Originally Posted by ptclaus98
Maybe F1 should stop picking from junior categories, and get new teams from sportscars. You know, like Prodrive, Lola, and Epsilon Euskadi? The teams that should have been in had it not been for Maxalomaniac? The cars are dodgy because the teams were.
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Lola have had single seater projects in the past (most notably A1GP), IIRC Prodrive haven't actually built their own carbon cars from scratch for that matter - but I feel sure they could if they wanted to. Epsilon Euskadi run a WSR outfit IIRC, but probably can run their own carbon stuff as they had a LMP1 programme.
The issue with selecting a new F1 entry is that the car building is more important than the actual race team. That's why there needs to be some form of second tier in single seater racing - a microcosm of Formula One - to develop and identify new talent in both construction, race teams and driving. Lola, Dallara and Panoz have or do build single seaters. Instead of a load of spec series, we need a way to have these various manufacturers racing each other.