I personally think Pat Sullivan and Mr. Halpert have this nailed down. Great intentions gone wrong because of the influence of sponsorship dollars. To a lesser extent, that has always been the case, I guess. But now in these times, and we are talking millions of dollars, not thousands like it used to be, I am afraid I see no end to this in the near future. I have never agreed totally with TG, but I respect him for his knowledge and think he had a great original idea to start the IRL. Let the bashing begin.........

Patti,

What are you thinking? You go to Oswego and don't even give us an update on the supers. Shame on you. Get that new laptop fired up and give us some results, PLEASE. I realize that you are spoiling that grandson but he has to sleep sometime doesn't he?

To those who chose to tell me I was so wrong to post a hint at what I think has happened to so-called "big time" American open wheel racing, I hope you all enjoy watching Raphael Khadaffi and 19 other household names participating in the next CART Lite, oops -- I meant IRL, race to be held on a street course expertly laid out over the public thoroughfares in beautiful Duparquet, Quebec. Now excuse me while I rush out to the K-Mart or Wal*Mart for one of Raphi's new t-shirts, which I'm sure will be displayed right in front of the ones for ol' what-are-their-names, oh yeah, Earnhardt and Gordon.

Congrats to Raphael Khadaffi for winning at Watkins Glen today...oh yeah...I mean Justin Wilson. But seriously a big thumbs up to Dale Coyne for finally putting one in the win column...it's been a long 25 years! I go to Wal*Mart everyday and I don't see any racing shirts at all...where are you going? You remind me of my dear old dad who can't stop telling the same Vietnam story over and over again...I respect what he did and understand the hell he went through, but at some point you have to leave the past behind. And last time I checked...Indianapolis, Homestead, Mid-Ohio, Kentucky, Iowa, Richmond, Watkins Glen, Sonoma, Motegi, Chicagoland, Texas, and Milwaukee aren't street courses.

You go to Walmart????????

The only thing that can correct this problem is very simple. Put the dirt cars on the miles and let the points count towards the IRL championship. Just like the old days. Of all the cars we built during those days, they were the cheapest we had to run, compared to the oval and road race chassis. I was so lucky to be part of that, because we knew we had a real Champion. We might loose Penske and many drivers because of the change. This is the chance that Darland, Whitt, Windom, Clauson, Hines, Jones and other Americans need. I like the sound of those names.

Lynn

Pete and Mike, I guess the annual 4th of July parade was all I had on my mind this morning. They always hold it on Sunday, anyhow Oswego feature results: Otto Sitterly, Doug Didero, Dave McKnight, Joey Payne, Davey Hamilton, Greg Furlong, Pat Lavery, Keith Gilliam, Keith Shampine and Gene Lee Gibson made up the top ten. Bentley Warren finished 13th. I thought it was one of the better races I had seen at Oswego in awhile, of course I only make a few races a year there for the last eight years so maybe that isn't saying much. I was impressed with the competition and am looking foward to next Saturday, they are running a special race billed the King of Wings, they have 40 plus winged supers pre registered where they only had 22 supers scheduled to start last nights feature. Tim Snyder had trouble on the warm up laps brought his car into the pits and couldn't make it back out to start the feature.

Pete, I wish Coleman luck with his practice session and of course his racing over the next four weeks. I can't wait for the SC race at Oswego.

Patti

No - what I responded to was this - it is too simplistic to lay the lack of short track open wheel drivers in Indy style racing on Tony George's shoulders - and I think it is naive to believe it is going to change for the better this count because he is gone.

Anyway.Back to the Smoke wins thing.I for one am also not by any stretch of the imagination a Kyle Busch fan but I see no reason why Tony tried to appoligize other than Kyle did help push him for most of the night.Although,Tony was up to his RR tire almost when Kyle tried to block him so I dont think it was really anyones fault.Kyle did what he had to do to try and block him but Tony was already there.If Tony lifted he would have been 4th or 5th.And someone mentioned that Kyle got cut off going to "talk" with someone after the race was over.I for one time (especially if its Tony) would like for someone to not cut Kyle off and let him go say his piece.If he thinks the wall was a hard hit than Im sure Tony would change his thought process for him.Just my 2 cents that doesnt mean anything to anyone but me.

I'm not a fan of either guy... (David Reutimann and Mark Martin fan) but wow, did Busch take some big hits. I'm glad he's okay. That could have been really bad. And the only blame I throw at is NASCAR, because it's fun to pile on!