On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:25:30 -0700 (PDT), sterlingla
<sterlingla@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>If IRL fans who write in here have been accurate, CART must've been
>a pretty horrible operation back when the IRL was born. Those (CART)
>team owners were "liars, crooks and thieves" by one account, and
>their operation was literally endangering the Indy 500.
I don't remember the "liars, rooks and thieves" account, but I bet it
was a lively discussion. Post-split they did hire Joe H-whatever.,
but they ditched him after finally checking his resume. IMHO CART's
only real character flaw was arrogance. That did not start with the
split.
They were endangering the 500. Turning US champion****p racing into an
adjunct of F1. Ambitions to compete toe-to-toe with F1.
[snip]
>How could CART threaten or harm that?
[snip]
By hanging onto a total war for 13 years.
>80's. So now, with Dave DeSpain, Tony slowly articulates the concept
>of the series going overseas, racing on street and road
>courses, and quietly concurs with the
>suggestion that the series is like CART was in 1995.
They beat him down. It was sad to see what happened to his dream. To
a large degree both sides lost. CART became a sad caricature of what
it had been in its glory day. And TG was thwarted in his efforts to
restore the true glory of champion****p racing.
>Nope, Ken, I'm not buying that CART's presence has had
>much of anything to do with where the IRL ended up. Not
[snip]
So what did CART accomplish in those 13 years?
Ken Plotkin
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