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Who's the moron that broke up Indy Car racing into two leagues? They should publicly flogg and hang this guy.
Prior to the IRL and Champ Car Series Leagues, CART was the dominant car race in the U.S. How did they believe by leaving CART and starting the IRL that it would would be good for open wheel racing? and with both series struggling in comparison to the past numbers of CART, how come they just dont get back together and form one league again? I know there has been talks, but hello. . . WTF is taking so long? It amazes me that the leaders of these these 2 leagues can just sit there and watch as NASCAR does laps around them in terms of revenue and popularity.
In my honest opinion, if they never f'd up CART, open wheel racing would be just as if not more popular that NASCAR is today.
and for all you hicks that think i'm bashing NASCAR, I'm not! I like NASCAR too, as well as F1 and NHRA so save your flaming remarks and get rid of that mullet
Do a little research and you will see that CART was the author of it's own misfortune.
The CART formula was wrong - owners running the series, hiring people such as Andrew Craig and taking the company public.
The Indianapolis 500, arguably among the world's best-known races, although a points-scoring race for CART, was not organized or run by CART, but by Tony George. Love him or hate him, his race was important to the series, yet he didn't have a voting position on the CART board of directors.
Tony's formation of the IRL didn't kill CART, it was already on shaky ground.
At one time CART fancied itself as equal to, or even better than Formula One and for that, the series needed money which came from a lot of import `pay drivers' and to the exclusion of Americans. It's no secret that the ticket-buying American public prefer to root for their own and, after names like Unser, Mears, Sullivan and Andretti disappeared from the series, so too did interest and TV viewership plummeted.
Yes, Champ Car and the IRL have to amalgamate, otherwise one or both will fold. The Champ Car formula for 2007 is shaky at best and it's hard to have a lot of confidence in that `cheap' Panoz chassis that will be used; it seems to be little more than a beefed up Formula Atlantic car. This isn't going to attract TV audiences or increase race-day attendance. I think more of us would believe in Champ Car if they were honest about attendance, instead of posting those phony crowd numbers.
Down off the soapbox.
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