[Diva Betsy Ross]

Part of that could be that Michael was never a crowd favorite at Indy. Most see him as a whinny, ego maniac. He never did much for Indy and Indy never did much for him other than make him an 11 time loser. SO his story is not all that great.

Chip Ganassi had a similar story- but more people liked him and he was much more humble to the " track gods at Indy". Michael's didn't really have a "story" that was interesting and it wasn't new so Ho hum.

He didn't brake any records- he isn't that exciting and not many got "chills" from his tale of woe anymore. Beside he made it well known after the race that he considered this to be HIS win. He even rode the victory lap with Weldon and the team. Classless.

[Steve_Seattle]

I never liked the Andretti family sob-story bit. Mario won Indy, several Indy Car championships, sports car races, the F1 championship, etc., and lived to tell about it. Yet all you ever heard from him was whining about his bad luck at Indy. Eddie Sachs, Swede Savage, Mike Spence - THERE'S some guys who had bad luck.