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I’ll help you out, Mike. Here is the original article And Here is the Speedtv analysis of same
Very good reads. I grew up watching and following Indy Car racing. I’m still am a devoted fan. It pains me to see where open wheel racing has gone. From what it was in the 60’s 70’s and to a lesser extent in the 80’s to what it is today… Your lucky to find a paragraph in the Monday paper talking about the race the previous day. I hate to say it, but NASCAR did it right. As an open wheel fan, I can’t seem to find what is so exciting about watching cars that, for the most part, use 30 year old technology (push rod engines, carburators, 4 speed transmissions) to race each other. Most Indy Car races have closer finishes then the NASCAR races. BUT, while USAC, CART, IRL, Champ Car etc. where all fighting each other for a “bigger piece of pie” NASCAR took the whole damn pie from under them. NASCAR did the exposure right too. Everyone knows what Tony Stewart looks like. Could the average person pick out Dan Weldon in a crowd? Or even know who Dan Weldon is?
Cudos to NASCAR…. The open wheel guys need to follow NASCAR’s lead before they become extinct.
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