" Honda exit shocks F1 world "

[Ron61]

Don,

I hate to see that as I really enjoy the LeMans series and other road racing. I wish they would bring back the Trans Am series and use real cars like they did before. But with the economy like it is, the cost of traveling and moving the cars alone is staggering. I saw Richard Petty on a TV show the other day and he said that Petty Enterprises is looking for a partnership with someone or they may have to withdraw soon. He said it is just getting to expensive for them to field the teams and the sponsors are getting harder to find. I wonder if French was referring to what would happen if Ford and GM do go bankrupt.

Ron

[Ron61]

Don,

Just read this on the NASCAR site. I know that last season Richard Petty was talking about the fact that Petty Enterprises couldn't afford to go it alone any more. Also France has written to congress urging them to bailout the Auto Industry. Kind of a back step from his statement of sometime ago that NASCAR could do quite well without Ford, GM, and the others.

http://www.nascar.com/2008/news/head...tty/index.html

Ron

[Tommy]

Originally Posted by Ron61

Don,

I hate to see that as I really enjoy the LeMans series and other road racing. I wish they would bring back the Trans Am series and use real cars like they did before. But with the economy like it is, the cost of traveling and moving the cars alone is staggering. I saw Richard Petty on a TV show the other day and he said that Petty Enterprises is looking for a partnership with someone or they may have to withdraw soon. He said it is just getting to expensive for them to field the teams and the sponsors are getting harder to find. I wonder if French was referring to what would happen if Ford and GM do go bankrupt.

Ron

I saw a TV show last night about a race series that is using factory modified spec Mustangs. They said the cars cost $75K each and they expect it to cost about $200K per car to race the entire eight race series. There appeared to be about 25 cars involved. It's not Trans Am but it's one example of what can be done.

[Ron61]

Tommy.

I saw that on TV also but haven't been able to find anything else about it. Not even the name of the series or if they will be carried on TV. But that sounded good to me and in this day of high priced race cars that price seemed reasonable to me also. That would let a lot of people that don't have millions to pour into a car and team of specialists get into racing and I would like to see it happen a lot more.

Ron