IndyCar » Your views: The future for IndyCar

Unfortunately, more recent tests of the DW12 has shown the car to be slower with serious handling imbalances, especially on on high speed ovals... the engines are also proving disappointing as, though they produce the expected power, they are proving VERY docile and very easy to drive... the chassis' are also not as light as expected but with rear weight bias that makes the car less stable.

At the moment the potential positives are possibly outweighed by the real negatives IMO

I am a little sad to see IndyCar falling behind (if the reports and stories are anything to go by) but it has to keep going. Period. IndyCar is my preferred racing, nothing more so than 'The Greatest Spectacle in Racing' (INDY500) and I have never been a NASCAR fan. I have never found myself attracted to it...As for F1, I will not even get started (who wants to see something as boring as Sunday church mass...) So if IndyCar needs to be spruced up, perhaps it needs someone like Bernie Ecclestone (F1 boss) to run it. However (and this is a BIG however)- IndyCar must never, ever loose whatever character it has.

Well, there are a lot of naysayers on various online motorsports forums, but it seems to me that many of them are NASCRAP-loving trolls. They would like Indy Car to fail, so that we would switch our allegiance to the "taxicabs". Yeah, right! All that there is to watch are GP2, F1, Indy Cars, and ALMS. I don't care for Grand-Am, though I will probably watch the Daytona 24,but with less than total attention. The series will survive if fans realize that it is really the "only game in town" (i.e. the USA). Without Indy Car I would probably give up my interest in racing, as there are things that I dislike about F1 and I would certainly find other things to do.

So F1 is boring, yet IndyCar would need someone like Bernie to spice things up. Well, ok.

The jury is still out.

If the owners start thinking about the show fans, maybe.

It looks like the same old stuff, aero kits pushed out, new car problems, no passing, same problems different year.

None of the american drivers are very well known in the USA, sad to say.

One of the big things NASCAR has going for it and overlooked by indy car is you can tell what the car number is & who is driving it. Come on folks two identical cars per team, maybe three and tiny car numbers! Indy car hands out picture books to race track officials (10 feet from the cars) so they can tell the different cars apart and then it is still very hard to do. At times it seems like a private Indy Car party!

The TV folks go nuts if a driver has changed helmets and did not tell them! They don't know who is driving the car!

Racing is about passing, improving your position the strugle to better your position. If the new cars do not promote passing and lots of it then it is just freight train racing with new b

tv commentators do not go nuts when drivers change their helmets in indycar. I have never heard of such. I always recognize who is in which car.

Rather nascar has big numbers because they have so many casual fans.

One point in the article is on point. An american star is needed. Penske should disband Helio (still fast but he has seen his best days) and sign Graham Rahal in his place. I rank him ahead of all the american drivers.

Or Chip should give Graham's car the same performance upgrades as Franchitti and Dixon's car.

Some of the road & street course in 2011 were stunningly dull. Probably the best race was the las Vegas, but ended in the worst possible way. I feel the new car it too odd looking get much following.

Young American drivers need to go to Europe to learn what it takes to compete at the highest level. As it is now the top Americans get their ****s handed to them by international drivers that just didn't make it to or couldn't succeed in F1 (Franchitti, Dixon. Powah, Conway).

Multiple engine manufacturers are a good thing but the engines themselves should probably make more NOIIIISE and the new chassis looks daft.

What is the long term strategy for open wheel racing in the US? We've had Cart, Champcar, IRL. Two series competing in a market only big enough for one. The IRL was created as an oval only series and here we are contemplating going majority road course.

Is open wheel racing in the US a domestic or international series ? Surfers Paradise has gone as has Japan and yet there is Brazil plus possibly China. Is there a market in China?

Agree about comments re US drivers. Marco may be an Andretti but he ain't going to be a champ as he stands. Drivers like Franchitti, Wheldon have come up through the competitive European series, Wheldon was a contemporary of Jensen Button who is an F1 champion. Plus they have adapted to ovals really well. Just like Nigel Mansell.

I look at the organisation of F1, motogp and world Superbikes as well as strategy and the IRL looks amateurish in comparison

I stopped reading the article at the line 'Despite the lack of full live US TV coverage, the Indy 500 still attracts enormous crowds, even if it is not the sell out it once was.'. Clearly this is incorrect or at least misleading. The race is shown live on ABC.