Say what you want about GWC and change or anything else. Sure the 500 was a great race. It was our 1st time attending live. But I have followed the 500 as long as I was old enough to listen. The only thing that has diminished the race in either interest or attendence has been the clowns in charge of the speedway, the sanctioning bodies, and the car owners. Tradition has nothing to do with it.