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Jim Russell Championship Series, FIA F2, musings on the future of F3
Autosport are reporting that a US series by the name of Jim Russell Championship Series is going to offer a prize of a seat in the 2011 FIAF2 series. Having heard absolutely nothing about it, I then had a look at it. From a search it appears that it's also been under radar of this forum.
Interesting that 2011 FIAF2 is the prize series - will 2011 be the last year of it, bearing in mind that's how long the tender is for? And the final point - the car for this series is an old Lola F3 car (B06-30). Obviously as the trend is now FPA style single team racing, this may skew the costs. But perhaps there needs to be some new ideas in F3? This series will be running 300hp 2000cc turbos ripped out of Evos - perhaps that is the direction F3 could go in, more power less grip meaning that aero rules could be made extremely tight? A final thought - one crazy idea is running all the races at one track - Sears Point. Is that good for drivers having to learn different circuits? Or will just varying whether they run little lumpy bits used for bikes et al make the difference? Ramblings over - discuss. |
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The Jim Russell Championship Series has been running for two seasons now with the F3-based Lola. The series doesn't seem to be terribly well supported though - biggest grids this year were 8 cars.
http://www.jimrussellusa.com/program...s/race-results 2008 champ was Brett Smrz, who competes with an artificial lower left leg. He finished 4th in the FF Kent Festival final this year. Oh and if anyone has the final 2008 JRCS point standings please post them! |
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And in addition, like in Europe now, there is a lot of competition on the lower rungs of the single seater ladder. There are no shortage of series to compete in. |
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It would be interesting to compare lap times of this car with F3 and GP3 Series machinery, perhaps they are aiming this at the wrong market, maybe it ought to be a somewhat higher up series with a 2006-spec F3 car with a more powerful engine. F3 itself needs some fresh ideas in the rules to stop the aero brains getting them.
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28 Oct 2009, 16:32 (Ref:2571545) | #5 | ||
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I think the JR car was on display at this years Autosport show IIRC
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Could anyone who was there say if it was impressive or not?
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i think the series in like $86,000 US
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Sounds like a low budget ($103,000 USD is the cost of an FPA season using current rate VAT and dollar rate) - less than FPA! Then again this series doesn't move and there may be significant differences about what is included.
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However they can adjust the power settings for the school and series. I think for the first days of the school they turn the power down to 160 hp, but again don't quote me on it. I think with this school they were going the whole hog to have all the bells and whistles, however there is only a small market that can afford that, especially in this era. Skip Barber has run racing series for a long time, but at a way lower price point. They have a mix of customers though, young guns, old timers, middle aged professionals and gen x gen y semi pro drivers that make up the business mix of revenue to keep all that going. |
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Last I checked FPA ran on a mix of tracks with some tv time and other goodies.
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FPA has had it's fair share of pay drivers IIRC, at one point including none other than Paul Drayson himself. |
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