Tony George Resigned from the Board of Hulman & Co. so there is to be no conflict with his attempt to buy Indy Racing keep your eyes out for something under hand here.
Originally Posted by agar:
Tony George Resigned from the Board of Hulman & Co. so there is to be no conflict with his attempt to buy Indy Racing keep your eyes out for something under hand here.
Good, I hope he buys it. I've always liked Tony George, he is a super nice guy. He can't be any worse than the clown in charge now. I also don't see anything underhanded going on. He makes an offer and they either accept or they don't. Seems pretty cut and dried.
He resigned a position on the board that is controlled by his mother and sisters who booted him out of power. He really didn't have any power or authority once they cut him out anyway.
I guess some of the people who says the series is already dead didn't attend any of the races or watch any of the races. Their was some excellent racing this year! and to nonwingsjeff, stay in PA
yeah what a clown thats in charge now. I mean nobody wants to see a open wheel driver get a chance to run indy right? Didnt the clown in charge now also do a race that consisted of heat races this season? Still pretty exciting to watch those cars wheel to wheel under the lights at tracks like kentucky. Just need more American blood in the series.
Originally Posted by Russ:
Good, I hope he buys it. I've always liked Tony George, he is a super nice guy. He can't be any worse than the clown in charge now.
BC wouldn't have made it to Indy without a bag of cash without RB. He is the one who put the USAC champ money in place. He saw the importance of it when others didn't. He saw that by going to a race at Kokomo and seeing the fan base being largely ignored. I'd hardly call that a clown. He can't force owners to hire more drivers from that background. The owners are the stupid ones in a lot of cases...wasting their time taking a check from a driver that has no shot of winning and doesn't belong.
The series was seeing more and more road racing coming when TG was still in charge. He had 15 years and couldn't make it work...so the board said it was time for a new direction.
Originally Posted by openwheelKT:
BC wouldn't have made it to Indy without a bag of cash without RB. He is the one who put the USAC champ money in place. He saw the importance of it when others didn't. He saw that by going to a race at Kokomo and seeing the fan base being largely ignored. I'd hardly call that a clown. He can't force owners to hire more drivers from that background. The owners are the stupid ones in a lot of cases...wasting their time taking a check from a driver that has no shot of winning and doesn't belong.
The series was seeing more and more road racing coming when TG was still in charge. He had 15 years and couldn't make it work...so the board said it was time for a new direction.
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Hey you are missing the opportunity of a lifetime. You keep talking about the excitement of open wheel bathtub racing at the big tracks right. How they hit the pass button just at the right time to execute a perfect pass in their million dollar racing machines.
Why not get the people at one end of 16th street to go down to the people at the other end of 16th street and try to rent that big old 2.5 mile track for a weekend. Get some good high speed tires and have a Silver Crown 100 mile race weekend at Indy.
The last time I went to a 500 mile open wheel race there Gordon Johncock won on the seems to me like the third or forth day. Every day my seats kept getting better. I would love to go back there and watch the silver crown cars tackle that big old beast (no pun intended) that would be a very special race and it would be neat to see both ends of the street get along again. Could they top the 150 mph mark?
In the economic conditions that exist, even NASCAR has seen a drop in attendance. So, it's not an easy time to be running a racing series, right now. One that you have to open up a super speedway to run, especially. And even though the racing is FAR superior in Indy Car, NASCAR has two built-in advantages. One, the size of the cars allows sponsor signage to be a lot more visible (winged sprint racing has a similar advantage) and they are smart enough to know that having a series with drivers that their American fan base can identify with makes it a lot more likely that sponsors are going to want to be involved with their series. At least Randy Bernard has shown that he recognizes that fact. And he should have been validated by the roar that went through the crowd on Pole Day any time they were talking about Bryan Clauson. Here's a rookie that was causing more stir than any other driver. Why is that? Because he came up the same way many of the heroes of this place had. Beating the best on dirt tracks and paved tracks in this state and across this country. Similar to the way many of the current NASCAR top dogs did. And that organization has a business model that will survive tough economic times. Indy Car is trying to do so while it's still working it's way out of the failed business model that Tony Hulman George helped create. The "Road to Indy" through USAC given enough time, will prove to be a winning formula. The one that goes through Sao Paulo didn't work then and it's not going to work now.
Jerry
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
