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Originally Posted by Roninho
Not sure about this but anyway:
Isn't it normal practice when a serie makes an agreement with a chassis manufacturer that allows them to enter a car that this car cannot be used in other series? So if an irl-dallara would be entered in a champcar race dallara would not be allowed to supply spare parts.
Would make sense imo from the standpoint of a serie. Let's say you've created the new gp2-serie, invested in it and it's looking like becoming a succes with great fields, and now A1GP says: gp2-teams take your gp2 car and race in our serie, and we pay $1 million in purses each race (or whatever). That would kill of gp2 quite fast.
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Don't know if any agreement exists.
Dallara is in the business of selling race cars. They also supply the world series by renault car which is a competitor of GP2.
Hypothetically, if such an agreement did exist and teams did want to race some champcar races and the irl blocked it, I think public relations wise the irl would take a hit. Most casual fans want a merger, so if the irl tried to stop it, it would completely out tony george as an obstructionist and there could be backlash.
Still just a rumor, but if true I'm for it, if only to stir the pot rather than another year of the status quo.