Here's Yet Another merger/unification/oneseries/whatever idea... (and crosspost again to the usual places)
There's no doubt now that Don Panoz is a Player in the Indy/Champ thing. And TG still holds the Indy 500.
How about if the Amigos sell 40% of the ownership of their series to Don Panoz and TG? 20% ownership to each. 5 Amigos. 5 headed monster. Fab 5.
Don Panoz gets 100% of the chassis biz (a single supply spec chassis is IMO the best way to go, but that's another discussion) and more races move to his natural road circuits.
The concessions to TG are:
-the month of May is left open on the schedule.
-the series licenses the "IndyCar" name from IMS.
-some kind of clause to become 50/50 oval-road.
Ownership of the Speedway is not even a consideration here.. that's still all TG's property.. just as Panoz owns his tracks, and Forsythe owns whatever is his seprately. TG gets a nice reliable check every year for the "IndyCar" name... and he gets the month of May to do whatever he thinks is best for the sport. (I would hope that he would make it more like Daytona Speedweeks... but that's another discussion too) He becomes 1/5 of the vote with 4 other guys who are quite reasonable.
There it is. Comments?
There's no doubt now that Don Panoz is a Player in the Indy/Champ thing. And TG still holds the Indy 500.
How about if the Amigos sell 40% of the ownership of their series to Don Panoz and TG? 20% ownership to each. 5 Amigos. 5 headed monster. Fab 5.
Don Panoz gets 100% of the chassis biz (a single supply spec chassis is IMO the best way to go, but that's another discussion) and more races move to his natural road circuits.
The concessions to TG are:
-the month of May is left open on the schedule.
-the series licenses the "IndyCar" name from IMS.
-some kind of clause to become 50/50 oval-road.
Ownership of the Speedway is not even a consideration here.. that's still all TG's property.. just as Panoz owns his tracks, and Forsythe owns whatever is his seprately. TG gets a nice reliable check every year for the "IndyCar" name... and he gets the month of May to do whatever he thinks is best for the sport. (I would hope that he would make it more like Daytona Speedweeks... but that's another discussion too) He becomes 1/5 of the vote with 4 other guys who are quite reasonable.
There it is. Comments?
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