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It seems like the IRL has become about as popular in the US as the NASCAR Truck Series, excluding the Indy 500 weekend. Why is it so much less popular than NASCAR and what could it do to improve?
Get a time machine, go back to 1994 or 1995, and abduct Tony George to prevent him from creating the IRL to compete with CART and create an Indy Car split that really hurt the sport. IRL may have won the battle with CART but it sure lost the war within auto racing. While using that time machine, you might want to travel around to find ways to clone young versions of Mario Andretti and A.J. Foyt and then let those clones start their careers around the same time as the original, actual versions of both men are winding down their careers.
Get a time machine, go back to 1994 or 1995, and abduct Tony George to prevent him from creating the IRL to compete with CART and create an Indy Car split that really hurt the sport.
Amazing. When I saw the title of this thread I was going to post "build a time machine and go back to 1995..."
It wasn't always like it is today. Just look at a list of sponsors for the title and for the teams from back then. There were few American drivers in the series back then, but that isn't any different than it is today.
Tony George turned the IRL back into CART, minus the fans, income, teams, sponsor, drivers, financial health and series viability. That's what he accomplished in fifteen years. Too bad the sisters didn't take his checkbook away fifteen years ago.
Baswcially evehn Indy has got away from the ld concept. Use to be that manysmall teams would enetr just Indy. Many would run engines based on production blocks at a resonable price. the rules actaully encouage this as well as innovation in the race.Now is truned into a spec race with the maoney being more important than ever altho designed not to be.The small ovals are flat boring in open wheel racing too.
They need a better tv contract. IRL should, basically, let NBC (who often runs ice skating or rodeo on weekends during race season) air the races for next to nothing. They'll lose the money they get from the current tv contract (although I can't imagine they get a ton of money from Vs. or ABC, outside of the 500), but if every single race is run on broadcast tv, then they might have a fighting chance of pulling in new fans.
It's a good sign. Tony George is gone and the Dallara-Honda stranglehold on the competition is soon going to be over. Even though I don't care for some of the chassis proposals, I am looking forward to some good innovation in IndyCar.
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