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I'll try to truncate my Facebook post on this subject:
Track prep STARTED at about 2 am the early morning of the event. They had to wait for the NBA game, and from what I saw, an additional local High School game that didn't end until well after midnight. So, give or take, bare concrete to racetrack in 14 hours. HUGE win in and of itself. Most doubted that alone in the events conception. I'm pretty sure the time crunch led to a FLAT surface. They just plain didnt have time to get it to any kind of banking. Sucks, but fair.
Air quality: Not really in anyones control. They had 80 racecars inside a building that was never designed to hold anything more than a ball game. Maybe a better way to allow vent time would be some tshirt shooting, beachball tosses, kiss cams, raffles.. ENDLESS time killers between races to prevent stoppages during green flag action.
Cautions were only a fault in the hands of the drivers. The kart guys took a long time to learn that nobody was going to win it in turn 1. Once they learned that they had to be patient, and not ride the berm, the frequency of cautions slowed down a LITTLE bit. The cautions in the midgets looked like more so of a stalling issue. They had to check up so much to stay off they guy in front of em, it would kill the motor and just shut off. Lotta drivers must've been frustrated by that.
I'd be excited to see what they could do with more track prep time next year. Id also be open to seeing micros and karts instead of the midgets IF the track size would remain the same.
Overall, the promotor said he was gonna invite 40 of the best midget drivers (A different arguement for a different time) to a race inside a basketball staduim on a dirt track in downtown Indy during PRI and pay the winner 10K. May not have been a slidefest humdinger, but I enjoyed seeing cars racing in the 'offseason'. Looking forward to next year!
As for the whining.. I'd totally be open to gripes from the fans in the future attendance of a Pacer game getting dust on themselves. Or whining from folks who had to deal with the traffic added by the event. Or someone who generally didnt care for the event complain just to complain about those noisy racecars.. But to see RACERS jump all over someone who stuck their neck out to put on an event for us racers and fans alike.. Just disappointing to say the least.
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