Fortunately, there hasn't been a concerted effort to ban auto racing in the US since 1955, the year of the LeMans disaster and Vukie's fatal crash in the 500; before that, william Randolph Hearst waged a smear campaign in the 30's, mainly focused on LA's Legion Ascot but targeted at outlawing all racing as the ultimate goal. Similar warnings predicting racing's imminent demise were bandied about last year when Jason Leffler died, but (just as fortunately) news outlets are quick to abandon a "cause" and jump on the newest morsel of scandal faster than you can say "Low-Speed Chase". Hopefully the vultures will have something else to circle around soon, and racers can go about the business of caring for their own...