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Overseas racing
Will the series ever raceoverseas like australia,europe and maybe canada?,and will they ever race on street and road circuits as well?.
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They have been racing on street and road circuits for a couple of years. They race in Japan. TG tried to grab the Toronto race but they stayed with CC.
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America wishes it is though.
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Maybe that is why they tried to invade us twice and got whupped (with a teeny bit of help to us from some island in the North sea).
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It kinda goes against Tony George's original plan of a oval only, US-centric series, all this racing abroad and on road circuits.
I hope the IRL considers the UK for it's next foray overseas. It'll probably never happen but here's hoping. |
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It will probably depend on wheter or not they think that there is a market for the IRL overseas that there isn't here in America. I think that a street or road circut would be a good idea, if they just had one or two a year.
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Hmmm. Well CC seems to have determined there is not as much market here as they thought, so now the possibility exists of the IRL stalking CC through the underbrush of European venues in search of a market.
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i think it would be a pretty bad idea, in terms of costs for teams, ROI for sponsors, and appeal for its core audience. there's already a lot of competition in europe at that level of product anyway (GP2, CCWS, A1GP), so it'd be pretty hard for them to really make a lot of headway...
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I think Tony will probably push for Canada and Mexico and that's it. CC's Mexico City was another flop this year, so maybe he can get this contract from them. It would mean he can grab one or two Mexicans into his series again with Mexican backing. But... I don't see them going anywhere else.
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I think IRL's prime challenge is to be successful at home.
CC developed their overseas activities only to survive to a lack of interest in the States. Therefore I wish they could keep stars and stripes |
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The lure of overseas $$$ will always be there though.
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Hopefully IRL will not go abroad more than just Motegi. It sends out the wrong message - we are hopeless in our home market.
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I don't think that many international races would work, but maybe they should ship some Indy Lights cars over to Europe in an "IndyCars Europe"...
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If the IRL and TG are smart they wouldn't go to Europe. The series isn't blowing the US away but I don't quite see what Europe can bring the series, especially when the market is one the IRL doesn't need to break into especially when they are trying to make progress in the states. If anything wasn't successsful it would only make the series weaker if they ventured to Europe and it didn't pull off similar to previous CC projects in Europe? Anyway like I said I don't believe Europe is what the IRL needs or what Europe needs.
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can we try and stay focussed on the Indycar series please and not champcar
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