I'm liking the *huge* jump between Skip Barber and Indy Lights there. Many fatals will occur. Star Mazda please!

Going from a car with less than 150 hp and tiny wings to one with 450 and massive ones? What's the worst that could happen?

If there are enough drivers to fill the spots and enough teams to provide the cars, there isn't too many series. And you can't just condense them down because a lot series don't have interchangeable chassis and telling a team "Well go bin everything you own and buy a new car" is a great way of killing off teams.

In Australia many a driver jumps straight out of a little Formula Ford and into a V8Supercar. Garth Tander being one such example, and he was competitive straight away.

In Australia many a driver jumps straight out of a little Formula Ford and into a V8Supercar. Garth Tander being one such example, and he was competitive straight away.

That is a part of the prblem, too many spec series

What would you suggest, getting teams to make their own cars? Is there any series outside F1 which does this? The need to incorporate effective, modern aerodynamics, in order to make the series a meaningful learning experience, would put this above the financial abilities of most teams/drivers wouldn't it?

But isn't that because there really isn't anything else to go to in Australia? Admittedly I'm fully up to date with the open wheel series in that part of the world, but last time I was, Australian F3 and the Asian Open Wheel series were all pretty weak, with few drivers and a very low level of competiton. For most Aussie drivers, presumably the choice is Europe for open wheel or move into V8Supercar. If anything one might argue Australia and Asia have too few open wheel series.