Saw this earlier this morning. Didn't know if anyone saw this and thought I'd share this bit of news with the rest of the Indy 500 fans on the IOW forum. Seen on racer.com via Robin Miller on Facebook this morning.
Seems McLaren will have a car entered for the 2017 Indy 500 with help from Andretti Autosport with driver and 2x Formula One World Champion Fernando Alonso and skip the F1 race at Monaco right in the middle of the F1 season.
By far, the best thing that has happened for the 500 since Tony George destroyed it two decades ago. Shades of Emmo and Nigel are coming back to bring it back from the depths.
Well you're wrong. Pretty sure not even the great Tony Stewart would have had a chance at the speedway without it. CART ruined indy car. I'll take any fallout from changes that allowed, Jack Hewitt, Steve Kinser, Billy Boat and even Jeff Ward to compete at the speedway. Even if indy car's had vanished from the planet, I'll accept it as sacrifice for the opportunity for real race drivers to get a chance at the greatest race of all, just like it was intended when greats like Foyt, Unser, Rutherford, Jones, Sneva, and more ran there. Don't get me wrong, I'm not the guy that says let's keep it all American, it's always been international. But the best indy car driver's of all time have come from American open wheel racing, and cart discounted them as no more than street stock racers.
