...[/QUOTE]All of this road racing on the schedule is a complete turn off for me. I watch the ovals only. They've absolutely ruined the sport. Until they started adding the road courses (again) you couldn't pry me away from and Indy car race....[/QUOTE]

Although I've come to embrace the mixture of circle track and road courses on the IRL slate, I can't stand these idiotic street courses. Nothing like watching drivers in cars capable of 200+ mph "racing" single-file at less than 50 mph under green flag conditions thru some of these narrow corners.

Now, I could care-less which foreigner or rich-kid/female wins one of those parades.[/QUOTE]

This is where we're just going to have to agree to disagree. If folks are going to call drivers like Dario Franchitti or Tony Kanaan (who also have homes in Tennessee and Florida, respectively) "foreigners", then don't go trying to claim Mario Andretti as an Italian-American just because he ran sprint cars.

And why do you feel the need to take a shot at female drivers? I'd be willing to bet you didn't have a problem with Sarah Fisher running at Indy, so why do you have issues with someone like Simona De Silvestro? Because she left what happens to be her home in Switzerland, where racing isn't even legal?

Like pretty much everyone on here, I'd love to see more dirt track racers get a shot at Indy. But I'd also like to see them get that shot along with racers from other disciplines and series, say Formula 1, Australian V8 Supercars, etc.