[Stevensville Mike]

Originally Posted by Dave Rudisell The IRL is bringing six cars out today. They will be making laps and practicing their dirt Indy cars, if practice goes well we will have a IRL race in July. Posted via Mobile Device

That's a good one!

I remember a better April Fool's joke from about 17-18 years ago:

Some rich guy was trying to take control of American Open Wheel racing so he started his own series. All oval tracks - to promote American, home grown talent, to get them to the Brickyard.

The cars were all powered by Oldsmobile Aurora engines a few with Infiniti power plants that were crap. They were all slow compared to the other series that had multiple chassis, engines, and tire manufacturers.

To prevent the other series from ruining his big race at the Brickyard, he isolated anyone not running his series from the Top 25 of the grid. This caused the other series to run their own Memorial Day event in protest.

After awhile, it was apparent that no one was going to these oval races, but the other series continually shot themselves in the arse by burning through millions of $$$ they had in their coffers with little in return. Eventually, the high $$$ teams in THAT series came over to the new, all oval series, with the big $$$ backed foreign drivers. Before you knew it, the new series was running road courses. There were multiple foreign drivers with big $$$ backing going to the Brickyard while the guys who ran Kokomo and Gas City every week kept running Kokomo and Gas City.

Then, to top it off, during an interview on Wind Tunnel, with Dave Despain (when it was a good show), the rich guy who started the new series denied that he started it to promote home grown American talent. It was like a bad episode of the Twilight Zone. One caller called in the next show and summed it up: "Dave, I don't know how you sat there while he said that without socking him on the jaw."

In the end, both series got back together, the cars were all the same, they were all butt ugly and slow, and all the fans who used to watch back in the 80s and early 90s are now watching NASCAR.

Man..... THAT was a cruel joke! Whoever pulled THAT one off should be in the April Fool's Hall of Fame!

[Dave Rudisell]

Well the practice went on, and I am sad to report, we won't be having a IRL race anytime soon. The problem was vision, the drivers couldn't reach their tear offs and couldn't see a thing after a couple laps.

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[Gregg]

Dave, you know this wouldn't happen. Indy Cars don't race on race tracks anymore.