Originally Posted by cecil98:
I have to disagree with you on this one. It's not the fans. Until the car owners pull their heads out of their collective @ sses and start recruiting young American circle track talent, Indy car will go nowhere. The fans have already spoken with their feet and their wallets. Look at all of the bare aluminum you see at their events. That includes road/street courses too. The young circle track drivers of the 60's and 70's proved that they could adapt to the rear engined cars and compete with the best road racers in the world. Even Penske and Ganassi have fallen into this mindset. They put our great young American drivers in their taxi-cabs and bring in furriners to drive the Indy cars (even after Sam won the 500!!!!!)...I just don't get it!!! These guys are supposed to be businessmen and they can't figure it out!!!
You proved my point. The ones left in the fanbase don't care about short track drivers and the ones who do care about the short track drivers aren't fans anymore, or very very small % are and get out shouted by the larger % of the fanbase.