F20 series from the Japanese Motor Racing Industry Association (JMIA)
A few months ago I bought a Racecar Engineering (April 2009 issue) because it had an article about chain drive.
Last night while flipping through it I noticed a half page article about "F20", a technically open, one make series from the Japanese Motor Racing Industry Association (JMIA).
I did a Google search for F20 JMIA and got a few good hits:
http://abajian.livejournal.com/683309.html
http://www.ten-tenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112926
http://www.racecar-engineering.com/n....html#comments
http://originalgaijin.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/f20/
http://originalgaijin.wordpress.com/...nded-coverage/
http://originalgaijin.wordpress.com/...uzuka-testing/
Fast and cost effective formula cars....
This is a great discussion from respected manufacturers. Keep it up!
ALOT of water has been under the bridge since, but back in the day ('02 I think) I was at an open, off season test day at Roebling with JDC. Jon and Primus (pre-FE/SCCA drama) had what they then called a "school car" there which turns out was the first incarnation of the VD bike (600cc?) powered car - maybe someone can clear up the details on this. It was turning times 1-2 sec/lap slower than our FC's (somwhere around FF times, I think). Cool sounding and good looking, and if I recall his target price was $25K.
I always thought if that could be done they'd sell a million of them.