Originally Posted by jjones752:
Actually, it was John Cooper (at the suggestion of Roger Ward).
The next year, Dan Gurney invited Chapman over for a look-see but the handwriting was already on the proverbial wall.
That wasn't so much the demise of oval racing but it was the death knell of the front-engine package; the first Loti had considerable offset and even Brabham's little Cooper-Climax had a tad bit of left bias if I recall.
What? You mean it wasn't the evil twin entities of Penske and CART? Well, I do declare, you might want to be careful with those "selective facts" you pulled from Google.
Hell, before you know it, you'll be one of those evil businessmen with clean fingernails and shirts sipping on a glass of fine red wine while penning your racing manifesto.