The sad saga of Sarah fisher
 

Search the web her team is done,,,,

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Well, Indy owners took racing from being a businessman's hobby to being a businessman's second business.......in the end we all get what we go looking for. Over the years, the owners grew and grew their teams and went from pick up teams to full time paid teams, from mechanics to engineers, from a pit crewman to a car specialists, from a shop behind the house to a 40,000 sq. ft. bulding.......from affordable owned engines to expensive leased engines, from hiring the truly talented drivers to hiring the truly well financed drivers or a driver with a gimmick that could produce $$$$. 95% of the Indy car teams are operating on other people's money and derive their racing budget, payroll, and personal income from others......so, my opinion is that if you do not your own personal wealth to race with, being a Indy car owner is a very unsecure profession...........its hard to feel sorry for them because they new the rules and the risks when they decided to do it. ........somewhere there is a guy who invested his life savings to open a business and he worked very hard but failed and lost everythnig. Indy owners are just American businessmen taking the same risks as non-racers. Sometimes, we have to put our dreams to bed and go face the real world. They should feel blessed that they got to work at a job they loved for as long as they did......some people never enjoy the jobs they are forced to do.

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Re: The sad saga of Sarah fisher
 

I neither have the time nor the inclination to understand the workings of an Indy Car team business so we won't get into that.

What I do know is that racing as a whole, and more specifically, Indy Car racing will be diminished to some degree if Sarah Fisher is no longer involved. I have followed Sarah's career since her days of driving sprint cars and midgets and she has been a credit to her profession and a pretty good race car driver, too. I've admired Sarah's sticktoitiveness and driving ability for many years and hopefully many years to come.

There will be a twinge of sadness when watching every race if Sarah doesn't field a race team in 2016.

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I will go one step further I watched her and my little brother racing go karts in Circleville, Ohio they were just kids I remember them chasing each other in the pits spitting on each other.....Yes spitting and seeing the gleam in her eye and having fun..... I hope she keeps her chin up and keeps going apart from all the promoters and expensive sponsorships I hope she remembers "why" she loves racing and powers through.....

I hate to see any team to out of business. Especially one that was a full time deal for a young American driver.

Anybody ever ask the question why corporations will spend 25 to 30 mil a year to sponsor a Sprint Cup team but won't spend 5 to 7 mil to do a full time Indy Car deal? Easier to get funding for a truck or Xfinity team.

Some companies will spend more money on Super Bowl commercials then it takes to do a full Indy Car season.

What is it they don't trust about Indycar? It's not engine leases, the country the driver comes from or that the Indy Mile isn't on the schedule. It goes deeper than that.

Originally Posted by LEADERS EDGE:
Anybody ever ask the question why corporations will spend 25 to 30 mil a year to sponsor a Sprint Cup team but won't spend 5 to 7 mil to do a full time Indy Car deal?

Some companies will spend more money on Super Bowl commercials then it takes to do a full IRL season.

What is it they don't trust the IRL? It's not engine leases, the country the driver comes from or that the Indy Mile isn't on the schedule. It goes deeper than that.

Too many foreign drivers in Indy Car. They sold out their roots "American Dirt Trackers" for foreign drivers who bought bags of cash. IRL was never better racing than when there was 75% open wheel guys. Bring back sprint car drivers to Indy. As to the other there aren't very many 30 million dollar sponsors left in Cup either. The rest of the money will dry up soon. NASCAR will be done in 10 years.

I can say one thing in my dealings with SFH Development and the whole O'Gara/Fisher families, They are first class people and always put 110% into everything they do! Hopefully one day we will see a Sarah Fisher owned IndyCar again! But im the meantime support Speedway Indoor Karting after ot opens on April 1st

I think that is a simplistic answer that rings hollow when analyzed.

The worst days of the IRL were dominated with American drivers. Many of them dirt drivers and one of them is by all accounts one of the top 5 favorite dirt guys ever.

The 1997 race had Stewart,Boat,Hamilton,Mike Groff,Steve Kinser and Tyce Carlson. About 23 American drivers in all. Crowd wasn't great an TV ratings down. Today the crowd is much bigger and ratings are up.

NASCAR will be around for a long time. I personally don't care for whatever it is they call racing ....but millions of others do.

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I remember 1967 to 1974 with 95% AMERICAN DRIVERS, there were 200,000 there for qualifying. Just to see 4 laps for each car and AMERICAN DRIVERS. The crowd standing up for the 4 laps and cheering the AMERICAN DRIVERS. The greatest era of the Indy 500. Oh ya, the dirt cars counted for the points to be the real Indy car Champion.

Lynn