I follow a Canadian racing blog, and this title caught my eye:$9.2M loss for Edmonton Indy race is mind-boggling, the full story is below. If you don't have time to read it, it says that the city of Edmonton lost 9.2 million over two years.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/sport...958/story.html

I only live 5 hours from Indy, and have only been to the Speedway for F1. I would like to make a round trip and do the 500 one day, it just seems so boring to me. And I call my self a hardcore race fan. Have Stewart and Montoya run it, and I think it could bring back some excitement. I haven't been around long enough to remember USAC guys going to Indy. Although it would be nice to have such a strong racing lineage in the midwest.

Edmonton is 31 hours from me. Has a population of 760,000 and is 8 hours from the Montana border. Obviously the Belle Isle Grand Prix is in a much more populous area. So the idea of racing in some far off city without a lot of support from fans, and only suppport from a city dumb enough to pay them to come race there is only going to last for so long.