USF2000 Beyond 2016

[Laird]

Copied from another post:

"From Eformulacarnews:

Committed to the use of the current spec Elan chassis utilized by the Championship class in the USF2000 Championship, Anderson Promotions has announced the current car will continue for three more seasons (2014, 2015 and 2016)."

Sorry if it's been discussed before and I missed it, but I'm a little curious what will be happening after 2016

Has there been any information or rumors on what the new car will be?

Will they continue to use the current Mazda from Elite going forward?

What's going to take place with the current cars at the end of 2016?

Laird

[Purple Frog]

You really should contact them with those questions to get the straight scoop.


ANDERSEN PROMOTIONS

10101 U.S. Highway 41 North
Palmetto, FL 34221
(941) 845-2500
(941) 723-3992 fax

email: mkish@andersenpromotions.net
or
info@roadtoindy.net

[Jnovak]

Copied from another post:

"From Eformulacarnews:

Committed to the use of the current spec Elan chassis utilized by the Championship class in the USF2000 Championship, Anderson Promotions has announced the current car will continue for three more seasons (2014, 2015 and 2016)."

Sorry if it's been discussed before and I missed it, but I'm a little curious what will be happening after 2016

Has there been any information or rumors on what the new car will be?

Will they continue to use the current Mazda from Elite going forward?

What's going to take place with the current cars at the end of 2016?

Laird

You will get to buy a brand new next gen car directly from Anderson Promotions. Congrats.

[Laird]

So you'd expect to see a glut of cars flood the market at the end of 2016?

[Jnovak]

So you'd expect to see a glut of cars flood the market at the end of 2016?

Where will they race? Formula S? FA?

[Laird]

Where will they race? Formula S? FA?

They might make a nice start for a P2 car.

[Purple Frog]

With proper ECU tweeking, restrictor, etc. The current USF2000 cars will fit right into FC in SCCA Club. This has already been discussed in the different pro series with Steve Knapp.

[Steve Bamford]

With proper ECU tweeking, restrictor, etc. The current USF2000 cars will fit right into FC in SCCA Club. This has already been discussed in the different pro series with Steve Knapp.

The issue I see with that is the USF cars now have sequential shifters. That would have to be addressed.

[problemchild]

If the engines and trannies work in the new car, then the VDs on the market may be draggers or sliders. That is why the teams started holding on to their LD200s. They figured rollers were more marketable than sliders.

[provamo]

the ladder has too many rungs

[BeerBudgetRacing]

Maybe FE should expand their spec to fold in these cars.
With an ECU adjustment and a fixed set of gears couldn't they be close?

I know - lots of other details: dampers, wheels, aero - but most of that is takeaway.

Aren't the chassis essentially the same?

The big problem is the LD200.....

Unless FC expands to allow the sequential tranny - but that was discussed in an FC thread a couple months ago.....

[Dennis McCarthy]

Maybe FE should expand their spec to fold in these cars.
With an ECU adjustment and a fixed set of gears couldn't they be close?

I know - lots of other details: dampers, wheels, aero - but most of that is takeaway.

Aren't the chassis essentially the same?

Spec is spec and that is why the most of the people who bought into FE did so. Trying to find parity with a spec car is a nonstarter. The shame is lot of the competitive FC cars were somewhat bastardized to run in s small series that is eventually going to dump them back into the market place with nowhere to run unless a lot more money is spent and they were never substantially changed from what they originated as. People wasted a lot of money doing conversions to cars that could have run just fine with Zetecs and LD200's. Of course had they stayed the same then there would have been crossover which is what most pro series don't want to happen. Crash your car in a regional or national and you may not turn out to pay the bigger bucks for the pro event. The only real upside is a lot of money got put back in the racing economy, it certainly didn't change the racing. As long as the late model VD chassis stays competitive there will be a market for the parts. In order for the pro guys to keep selling the dream we'll fall off that bridge soon enough....

[BeerBudgetRacing]

Spec is spec and that is why the most of the people who bought into FE did so. Trying to find parity with a spec car is a nonstarter.

Understand. I guess my perspective is FE is competitively dead.
Out west we have very few cars on the grid.
Midwest and east seem to have much more life in FE...

And the discussion about new gearboxes in FC (which you started)
http://www.apexspeed.com/forums/show...ht=replacement
talks about sequential boxes.....
Everything getting one step closer to an unspec'd FE.....

I'm also trying to figure out how you would repurpose these cars for fewest $$

[Steve Bamford]

We are not really talking about that many cars, perhaps twenty something cars. I can probably find close to that many FC cars already available for sale.

Who even knows if the series will decide to keep running the cars as there is no new chassis designated as of yet. The cost of participating in the series are already high, teams will simply have to pass along any increased costs they have to fork out.

Participation numbers seem to be down this year overall and that is with a new team bringing in three or four cars. Time will tell what the series will do and if these cars will come onto the market and in what form.

[R. Pare]

the ladder has too many rungs

And there are way too many ladders.