A growing coalition of Hoosiers are pushing for a move to Central Time. Might be worth a call or letter to your Congressman. I think that we can all agree that since the move to Daylight Savings Time our dirt tracks have been forced to continue the show on a baked out track or move hot laps back to 9:00. The movement is based on the dangers of having small children getting on the bus before dawn. That's a good reason as well.
The confusion was created by the cities that were in the Eastern time zone, but didn't observe DST. When they started observing DST, it then became apparent that they were in the wrong time zone.
The problem isn't as much Daylight Savings Time. The problem is that geographically, Indiana is too far west to be on Eastern Time. Pick up a phone book and look at the Time Zone map in the front and you'll see what I mean.
If you traveled much in the southern part of the state it was very confusing with the old system, because there was so much variation between counties that were in the central time zone, counties that stayed the same all year, and counties that followed eastern time all year. Now unless you're in Haubstadt, Evansville, or by Chicago is pretty easy to know what time it is.
