Originally Posted by cecil98:
by 1995, the car count for Indy sucked. It was below 50 and if I recall correctly less than 40 car/driver combinations made attempts to qualify....the crowd was still there but the writing was on the wall. The road racing set, with it's foreign drivers, had pretty much taken over and our young american talent (i.e. Jeff Gordon types) couldn't get a sniff in gasoline alley.......thus, the IRL was born and I supported it until Tony sold his vision out to Honda & Toyota.....that brought back engine leases (with "favored" teams), road races and street races. The result? The instant death of many of the smaller teams such as, Knapp, Curb-Agajanian, Mo Nunn, Kelly, Dreyer Reinbold, Cheever, Hemelgarn, Treadway, Cahill, Bradley Motorsports, Galles, Beck and many others I can't think of. These teams disappeared very quickly and so did any hope that young american talent would be given a chance in Indy cars........
Dreyer and Reinbold is still very much alive and competing in the Indycar series.
Kelly became Vision which is now Ed Carpenter Racing