[mountainstar]

Originally Posted by climb

As usual your wishful thinking, ms, turns into the opposite!

http://italiaracing.net/notizia.asp?id=21588&cat=3

The problem is, Honda are making, not investing, money in the IRL. This should sound as a sufficient reason to keep in ...

No speake italiano.

I've heard they are considering pulling the plug. And no they don't make money on the irl engine program. What is paid for the lease doesn't cover all the costs of the engines and logistics, not to mention all the free tickets they buy and subsidizing of races they do. All that stuff about 2013, they can pull the plug anytime they want to. They just yanked it on the F1 team and nobody saw that coming.

The irl is in europe this week panhandling to Audi and Alfa and others to try to get an engine program from them. Good luck.