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Post by Spin on Jul 2, 2019 15:03:55 GMT -8
Interesting documentary on the split(s)
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Post by Buck on Jul 2, 2019 17:53:59 GMT -8
Part of the ugly history of IndyCar management. I pretty much walked away from races until 2011.
Ironically, I got to meet John Cooper about 5 years ago at an Indianapolis bar and talked to him for quite a while. Paul Page introduced me to him. John died about six weeks later...
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Post by Spin on Jul 3, 2019 5:38:09 GMT -8
USAC was a mess and the famous plane wreck only made it worse.
The IndyCar was in turmoil from the road race teams, the Sprint cars were upstaged by World of Outlaws, the stock car division was laid to waste by NASCAR and Winston, and later the ASA shovelled the last dirt on the grave. Wether it was too big and trying to do too much, or too old fashioned, or just poorly managed I don't know.
I worked a USAC Sprint and midget race in Fremont when they tried to get into Ohio back in 2002?, and there were these old men with chalk boards on the back straight lining up the cars. Years after everyone else went to radios. We were more worried about the old farts going down than the drivers.
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Post by mmi16 on Jul 3, 2019 6:14:48 GMT -8
Had totally forgotten about the USAC/CART wars.
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Post by Codfish on Jul 6, 2019 12:36:06 GMT -8
Unless you subscribed to something like Autoweek, it wasn't that easy to follow along back then... I imagine those in the Indianapolis area could keep up though...
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