Champ Car. Year 2000. The highest budgets of all the history of the competitions of cars formula of the United States.
Year 2001. The situation no longer is equal. Champ Car initiates a fall in perforated that will generate the disappearance of several equipment and more than ten cars between this year and the 2003. What happened with the Champ Car?

Arrows, next to Prost, is at the moment both last equipment in leaving Formula 1

Formula 1. Year 2001. Eleven equipment runs and the inscription of Toyota for the 2002 is added. It does several years that there are not twelve equipment in F1. Nevertheless, in a period of six or seven months, the number is reduced to ten: Prost and Arrows have disappeared. And by bankruptcy. In addition Jordan and Minardi are whipped by debts. What happened with Formula 1?
We can define this event as the case in that the serpent bites to itself. Lethal poison becomes congested to catch a slippery prey. In this case, the prey is the ambition of the money and the gains.

If Jordan does not secure an alliance with some official motorist, this year could be the last one of escudería

Marks like Ferrari, Toyota and Jaguar (of Ford Motor Company) spend around 400 million dollars to the year in Formula 1 whereas particular equipment as they were Prost and Arrows, only accedes with luck to 30 annual million. This generates a crisis cyclical: the times of the individuals are not competitive, reason why they are not good display cabinet for sponsoring that they will always look for which wins… reason why the “great ones” increase their budget in a pair of million more thanks to these auspices, whereas the one of the “small ones” is reduced almost proportionally. In order to maintain its budget, “the small” equipment must resort on enormous credits or to engage ineffective paid pilots of short experience whose unique value is to have support of a company of its country. When the banks get tired to wait for the payment of the credit, go to the courts and generate the bankruptcy of the equipment. Or, to pay to a credit, the equipment stops paying to a supplier. Arrows lived that situation to the being demanded by Cosworth in the 2002 for want of payment on the motors. It had before lived it to Prost during the 2001.

The Minardi equipment had to resort to million contributed by the Malayan Alex Yoong to be able to survive

On the other hand, when the money of the paid pilot finishes, it does not have more of where removing. It even can be that if the paid pilot obtains bad results, the sponsorship does not pay to the contract, placing to him one more a crisis to the equipment. Everything to stay, not to be to more than three seconds of the pilots leaders, as they have Jordan and Minardi at the moment.
In Champ Car the situation was very similar.
The competition of powerful the Penske, Green, Ganassi and Forsythe lifted the costs to a double every year that happened. This was generating little by little, an exodus of the small equipment to Indy Racing League and finally, the marks suppliers of motors Toyota and Honda either did not support the rise of costs in search of more and more speed. Thus they passed also to IRL, reducing much his costs and without affecting his participation and “merchandizing”. Without great marks, the great equipment left the Champ Car, running now in IRL.

Few cars and few pilots have been confirmed for starting 2004 of the series Champ Car

Also, the Champ Car was with a shortage of cars and of “attractive” pilots what took to that the public will stop visiting the events in mass, which takes to few auspices and this in chain takes to the bankruptcy of the equipment. And of the series also. The Champ Car was hopeless to the best postor in January of this year. The association “Open Wheel Racing Series”, that among others it has like majority owner to Paul Gentilozzi (ex- owner of the equipment Rocketsports de Champ Car), became creditor of the category. But there is nothing surely.

The IndyCar took the year 19 cars just by. More cars for the subsequent dates are expected

IRL also seems now to be in the beginnings of a rise of costs and a loss in the auspices for the small equipment, motivated mainly by the great equipment of the motor sport in the United States as they are Penske, Andretti, Ganassi and the Team Panther reason why has been reduced periodically the amount of permanent cars in this series. Of 25 in the 2002, we have happened to 21 in the 2003 and 19 in the 2004.
Bernie Ecclestone said already it days ago: “If the motor sport does not reduce their costs will finish. The great manufacturers will say a day: “We have already spent the sufficient thing. We go away and that will bring about a great crisis.”
In order to reflect, it is not thus?