Why is the U.S. about to lose its leading F1 hopeful?
Because no one in America cares about millionaire south american racers....in another country......
but formula one is all they've got over there........so they have to live with it.
The top racing in America happens to be stock cars, NASCAR on down to the cheapest dirt track jalopy in almost every US county fairgrounds dirt track
Americans like something that looks like a car and uses a street engine, so to speak, instead of something made in another country that a person cannot even get close to buying and for sure will never get into a street driven car.
'Cuz Americans don't give a crap about what foreigners do when we have plenty of driving talent in this country.... and it's American fender to fender stuff.......it's not about qualifiying up front and blocking for the rest of the F1 race.
Why go through the hoops and the BS to "get permission" from foreigners to submit to them and their "rules" and get treated like crap in the process?
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Years ago to get the Daytona 24 "permission" from the FIA, (Federation International de Automobile) Bill France had to pay a lot of money to the FIA buttheads, to take a bunch of crap, and to accept their rules.
I recall hearing a racer say that he had made more changes to his car that weekend then ever, just to get in the race. Then the FIA disqualified him for ADDING ONE QUART OF OIL ONE LAP TOO SOON!. He was making a gas stop anyway and added a precautionary quart of oil. No one lap penalty, No pit road drive through, it was a total disqualification, and the FIA official was not even willing to talk about it.
People have been kicked out also because the three digit numbers were too big to fit on the door
and repainting over was not allowed "because the numbers are so pretty".
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Bill France got tired of taking the crap from the FIA and created the American LeMans Series,
ALMS....and eventually went to an IMSA sanction for the Daytona 24.
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