Gary B and Leffler in how many years as an Indy car owner??????????? As far as needing road course experience if they didn't run those sad races on streets and in parking lots that draw nothing ratings then you wouldn't need road course experience. Of course they miss the fact Gordon, Stewart and a couple other USACers tear up the raod courses in NASCAR and once upon a time a former USAC sprint car driver won a F1 championship. You hear it time and again from those people that short track drivers can't drive indycars and nothing you're going to do is going to change that unless you find a couple billion dollars, buy IMS and start over with the orginal concept of the IRL. As far as giving this new deal a chance, go for it, again since you have short memories almost NONE of your USAC/dirt champ fan base supported this mess the first time around. When they ran with NASCAR the NASCAR fans would leave the grandstands like the place was on fire as soon as the NASCAR stuff was over. IRL tracks might give it a chance but then again their fanbase for the most part likes road racers and road courses and cars that are higher tech. In fact the road course ideal is kind of a joke for these cars because most road course fans consider the IRL cars to be a horse drawn cart and prefer the high tech ALMS cars. I'm all for advancing our drivers we love to the next level however we WERE doing that before this mess came along, now the flow has slowed some. Good luck to MR. Ashmore and all who run this car but you will probally be in the same place in a year or 2 with this deal as you were last time.