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I'm not really against it being televised. There are a lot of openwheel fans out there that can't make it to Tulsa.
I said back around 2000 that the worst thing that could ever happen to the Chili Bowl would be for TS to hit it big in NAPCAR and then come back to the Chili Bowl. And my prediction has come true. The NAPCAR fans are now there in force in their matching Home Depot get ups, looking like idiots. They have no interest in grass roots racing, they're only there to try to catch a glimps of TS (and now KK & JJ). Them being there will only eventually drive up the ticket costs that will in the long run, force many of the openwheel fans away and make room for the clowns who are already used to paying as much for one race as we do for a week of racing.
The live streaming of Friday's race will only compound the "problem".
All this being said, I really can not blame Emmett and Lanny for exploiting the NAPCAR drivers that run the event. It's free enterprise and they have figured out a way to make a nice profit off of an event that can only hold 10k people. But it still pisses me off...
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