Did the Roadsters even have power steering back then?

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Most did not, However some had them added later as many cars were chopped and run for years after their Indy days were over.

I think its great for Chip PR wise to put him into a developmental program in NASCAR vs. some kind of Indy Lites deal that he'd have to put together for him, more cost effective as well. Rico will be a marketing machine if he makes it to Cup or Busch or whatever they call it these days or Trucks.

No disrespect to Rico he's a hell of a driver but being the short guy at the track, he will get attention just as Danica did when she was the new thing.

We already have proof of it, go to any racing website and Rico is front page news right now. When have you ever seen a guy getting a K&N East series ride get so much attention? Larson, Bubba Wallace, Chase Elliott got some but nothing compared to this.

I don't disagree with the sentiment being expressed but the point is totally missed. No one gets an Indy Car ride without bringing sponsorship money. Simple as that. Right or wrong, that is the way it works.

As for going back to roadsters, maybe we should bring back horse and buggy and typewriters. It is over, time to move on. That was a cool time but it is not coming back.

That's the case with all major brands of racing these days. Yes, there are some drivers that slip through the cracks and make it on their merits in racing but even in NASCAR, how many drivers are there on someone else's dollar? I can name quite a few off the top of my head. If you don't have cash or bring something to the table in the form of sponsorship you're at a great disadvantage. Not saying it can't be done because many have and many still are but it's a tougher route to make it on talent alone anymore.

There are two sports in the world; auto racing and everything else. There are two races in the world; the Indy 500 and all the rest! as much as it pains me to think this, to save Indy car racing two things need to happen. First, move the Indy race to Saturday, that way more of the open wheel drivers who went to NASCAR can race at Indy and the World 600. When the Indy race was on the 30th of May and the 600 was on the following Sunday, there was lots of crossover. Bobby Johns, Cale & LeeRoy Yarbourgh, Donnie Allison, I think Bobby Allison also ran at Indy. AJ, & JR ran the 600. Just think of the potential NASCAR guys who would at least think about running. Bump day would become important. The second way is to convince Indy Car to have a oval division, true road course division, street division AND MOST OF ALL A DIRT DIVISION. Then they can really talk about a true champion. I know it will never happen, but I can dream can't I

I think that the wine vineyard in California and chip ganassi racing will bring enough $ for rico and Larson to fulfill their dreams.

Churchhill Downs,Saratoga,Dover,Preakness etc.

Seems to me, That they tried to bring a front engined, big open wheel car for 1mi.-2mi. tracks. It was called USAC Gold Crown.

Must not have happened, USAC and some car owners spent a ton of money and almost totally killed the silver crown division doing it.

Charles

Was that thing ugly or what.

They all got together, I think Humpy Wheeler and a few USAC people and designed that stupid thing to look just like an over sized 600 race car that Humpy was pushing at that time. Everybody had to buy the same exact car and paint it however they wanted and every body was supposed to race this one spec car. I don't see anything wrong with that game plan do you? Who needs creativity to get in the way of building a race car. It is a shame that since they were mass produced they couldn't get the cost down some. I think one car manufacture would be a great idea for sprints and midgets too, I could imagine a big reduction in the cost of racing.. Then we could run them things off of Kentucky Bourbon and drink up the fuel left over from the race. A great idea for the start and park teams.

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