Originally Posted by D.O.:
BRIGHT FUTURE AWAITS UNIFIED OPEN WHEEL RACING SERIES
Champ Car, Indy Racing League Work Together To Form Unified IndyCar Series
The future of open wheel racing is bright, according to the owners of Champ Car and the Indy Racing League who stood together publicly Wednesday for the first time since signing an historic agreement in principle to unify the sport!
Joining them were several owners and drivers as well as industry representatives who support unifying the sport. Champ Car drivers present included Franck Perera, Bruno Junqueira, Graham Rahal, Alex Tagliani, Oriol Servia, Simon Pagenaud, Nelson Philippe, Robert Doornbos and Will Power.
...And all 27 members of these guys fanclubs (combined), are just super excited too!!!:rolleyes:
Sorry, way to little,way to late.
Someday, someone over there will wake up and realize that average "Joe American Fan" (and for that matter, average "Joe American Marketer"), will never get excited about a series full of guys named Pagenaud, Doornbos, Junqueira, and Franck (with a C) Perera.
Case in point: Tony Kanaan. Great guy, great racer, great personality, great speaker! Ask 100 people at a NASCAR or NHRA race if they have ever heard of him, and see what the result is?.. Ask those same people today, or say even 20 years ago, if they had ever heard of Foyt, Unser, Rutherford, etc... And I bet you get a much different result... And these guys made their names long before every race was on TV, like today.
Much more than just a unification is needed to bring back even a semblance of the glory days in open wheel racing.