Since it is an FIA sanctioned series, I seriously doubt ovals will be involved. And from the pictures I saw, they don't look like they have near as many safety features as a NASCAR stock car.
I picture something with rockets and wings, and breaks the sound barrier :doh: NOT a Nascar-look-a-like. I sure hope Billy Bob Montana didn't move to Europe and join the FIA.
They are cool cars on road-courses though... but nothing different from the cooler V8 Supercars imo .
It looks to me like someone has obviously come across a large pile of unused stock cars from a failed series and decided to try and make a one make series to accompany the Grand Prix circus (so road courses) with them. My guess is they'll be ASCARS, a large number of stock cars that are lying around in Europe from a failed series. Anyway my guess is in a couple of years time you'll find these all lying around again in Europe where they'll either be shipped back to the states or sold off for extremely low sums of money and end up club racing (V8 Star anyone?).
I'll quote a opinion from another forum in which I kinda agree
Right now Mike Bliss (NASCAR driver) the probably the only well established driver (mabey aside from alesi and herbert) planning on participating and that's not saying much.
I think anyone who seriously considers Jean Alesi as an "average F1 driver at best" can immediately have their opinions discounted on the grounds of absolute stupidity. Anyone who has any knowledge of F1 would agree that Alesi is at the very least an above average driver and many (including myself) would say he was an exceptional talent. Finishing 4th in your first GP and then 2nd in your fourth GP (and leading Senna around a street circuit in an inferior car) doesn't sound like the actions of an average driver at best to me. Alesi spent his best years at Ferrari at a time when their cars were terrible, his teammate was an even more exceptional talent or there was incredibly strong opposition (and more often than not a combination of at least 2 of those 3). He wasn't given the chance to show his true potential by any stretch.
On the original topic, I agree with ajp71...can't see this lasting long.
But is it a trick to make unsuspecting hillbillies watch cars turn right or a trick to make race enthusiasts watch oval racing? (if I could rephrase that more inflamatory I would
But we probably wont. Bliss is not official yet (he's not on the main site) and I dont think he'll leave NASCAR CTS or NBS anytime soon.
Keep in mind that Bliss has also been known to do very well (even among the road course wringers such as Said, Fellows, Gooseens and Pruett) on road courses
FYI I never thought Alesi was a bad driver. I said i partially agree with that statement. Of course I cant comment too much on past F1 drivers due to the fact that I've only started following F1 since 2005
