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I think the resolution can be a "restricted" motor / drive train package. An engine combination should be developed to be toned down equally, yet retain throttle response for competitive passing. By giving more control to the driver rather than the ground effects and down force numbers.
With the latest of safety features to protect drivers, their skills can come to play in getting these cars around the track in one piece. Look at the history of racing in general. The first seventy years of the Indy 500 involved muscle and stamina to finish a race. Those crazy men in leather hats fought tooth and bloody nail for every lap completed. Not to dilute the talents of Indy Racing League, Champ Car, or the F-1 of today, but the "chore" of wrestling a race car over 225 MPH around the 90 degree turns of Indy has been achieved from years of developments to the handle of these machines.
The current racing has been figured out. Stay in line for 90 percent of the race to keep from blending paint at 190 plus until the smoke clears. Pit strategy can make and break the track position that is so tough to make up at the lengths of these super speedways. The talent and equipment is milliseconds apart from team to team and manufacturers so something needs to be done to help this great mass of talent really mix it up on these great tracks.
As long as the "COT" is in development, this should be direction to explore. Just bolt in a "super speedway package" into a receptive chassis and have at it guys!

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