They once had the Indy 500, my favorite sports event in most years. They ruined it with stupid choices and by forcing out the better teams with international credibility - and now they are dead. Surprise. Do you think it is possible that in, oh say 1997, when the Indy had degenerated into a joke, that these geniuses said to each other - "Hey we fucked up the Indy 500, maybe we should reconsider our direction here..." nope - on and on with the same stupid policy until they die.

NASCAR is doing the same thing. They forced out Winston in the name of PC. It's BS racing now, with plates, punk-ass drivers, and vanilla cars.

Will NASCAR learn from CART? Nope.

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Indy was the realest of real racing, that's why all the top drivers wanted to win there. The competition went to shit when the rules about engines were arbitrarily changed to make it "competitive", IOW, so that the idiot AJ Foyt could field a team.

Believe me nothing is racing could ever be as great as a real Indy start. We haven't had one of those since about 1994.