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Originally Posted by cecil98
the dedicated road courses struggled to draw crowds.
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The Alabama Grand Prix race at Barber Motorsports Park seemed to draw pretty well this year.
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In light of all the griping we're engaging in about Indy Car, I thought I'd share this:
http://www.trackforum.com/forums/sho...-been-to!-quot
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Originally Posted by Gregg
IIn 1996 the IRL had a clean sheet of paper to design the next generation of Indy Car. They chose to stick closely with a variation of the CART style Indy Car instead of a more radical departure, maybe moving away from the ground-effects, maybe a modern day 60-70 rules Indy Car or maybe even a modern day roadster for that matter.
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Was this really a viable option? Indy Cars had been a rear-engine series for 30 years even at that point. Would the public have supported going backwards an entire generation with the car design? How much slower would the cars have been?