You've got $100 million to kickstart a new race series. What are the ground rules...

US$100m may not be enough for this, but here it goes anyways.
I would love to see something like wipeout or f-zero but with cars.
Imagine cars going at lemans speeds with several G's of downforce going around a track with loops and turns with vertical walls. Sounds incredibly dangerous, which is what makes it fun.
Put simply, F1 with a hyperbolic track.

Take NASCAR on head first.

>Think Aussie V8 Supercar as a formula template
>Devise a series based on mass production cars with either spec engines or restricted ones
>6 speed manual, clutch
>24 races in USA, 2 in Canada, 1 Mexico
>Grid start
>Rain, night or shine
>Fair points system, points going low into the rankings
>Cash prize every race, advertising money pays off the championship winner
>24 to 32 start the race
>Teams can have two cars maximum
>Regulations on what cars can be used, how they are race modified, weight limits and engine specification
>No ovals, only road courses/infield
>Design new street race tracks on Southwestern desert roads
>>Imagine a lemans type track in Arizona, Nevada or California
>COTA starts the season and ends the season

>Everything, and I mean everything, is streamed
>Main broadcast is streamed on multiple platforms, including youtube, which has in-race ads that are not intrusive, all races are archived to be watched again later
>Have live timing for free on the website, and access tot he same live timing system the teams use
>Subscription and you get every single car's interior footage stream live, race radio transmissions and a "sights-and-sounds" stream with no announcing, just text on screen like F1's broadcasters
>Copy Sky F1's coverage methods
>Old guard tv advertising must pay for trackside logos, race coverage "sponsor ads" and race name sponsorship
>Perhaps a Netflix deal to stream live races with no ads

>B-Race segment formula is an "ultima cup", basically kit cars with one spec engine thats widely produced, maybe LS based, completely spec'd body with no changes allowed, race saturday evenings after qualification
>C-Race segment formula is open wheel V8 cars that are also completely spec, races before main formula, very inexpensive to produce (compared)

>Fans encouraged to camp out and 'tailgate' at races. Entertainment provided,

Basically, you can watch it for free, and hardcore fans get exactly what they want.

20ish street courses around the world focused on countries at the lower end of the economic and automotive scale to get more interest in engineering and high-end motorsport with a couple of crown jewel races probably in the UK, Germany and Japan. Teams may enter one, two or three cars for the season but only 2 cars may qualify for constructors points (nominated prior to qualifying for a weekend). Cars may be no wider than 1500mm, no longer than 3000mm and no lighter than 600kg at any point in the race. Cars must use the same compound and tread pattern tyre for all races in the season wet or dry. There are 3 races a weekend a 50mile and 100mile on Sat with 200miles and a reverse grid on Sunday, and there is a limit of 120kg of road petrol per race. Engines, tyres and aero are free.

Or Formula-E where the rules and race lengths are identical but they can't swap cars so need to recharge as part of the pitstop.

I like the idea of Shell Eco Marathon but on the scale of the Mille Miglia:
>Teams aren't allowed to build from scratch special-purpose cars for the event, they must pick a production vehicle
>Teams have a limited amount of fuel in order to complete the race
>However every possible bit of tech you can squeeze-in in order to max out MPG is legal
>Cars take off Mille Miglia fashion
>The race consists of a full trip around Europe/US/Australia/whatever
>The winner isn't simply the one with the best time or best instant/average MPG, instead point are awarded based on time, avg MPG, avg speed, etc...
>Teams can win the race not individual drivers
>Since it's an endurance race you can have multiple drivers taking turns but at most 4 drivers with a maximum shift of 6 hours
>If your car breaks down during the race and you cannot be fixed in less than 2 hours, it's over
>If you deplete all the fuel you had been assigned, it's over

>5 hour race

Better to be honest.