[kb2614]

Open Wheel racing has been digging this hole for a long time. The NASCAR juggarnaught will be hard to overcome. The morons running OW racing can still figure out away to hose this up. They haven’t shown to have a whole lot of sense. I’m a sportscar racing fan. I’d rather see those auto manufacturers in the ALMS, IMO.

[af_vet_rr]

The good news is they've got Marco Andretti, Graham Rahal, Wheldon, Castroneves, Kanaan, and Tracy that would be competing against one another. The two leagues really did dig a deep hole, but just those drivers above could help pull them out.

It's very rushed and some Champ teams are not happy that they didn't push it to 2009, but it sounds like the main players are desperate for it to happen and tracks are going all out to try and accomodate it.

Newman or some of the other wealthier team owners needs to pay Tony Stewart and Juan Montoya and a few other former open wheelers to compete in a few races that aren't conflicting with NASCAR (especially say something like the Indy 500). That could help move things along with getting attendance back up.

[Ouderkirk]

NASCAR is a joke. The COT and all the rules changes have made it the most uninteresting of all the racing circuits.

NASCAR needs to open the rules up to breathe new life into this dieing concept.

Dump the push rod, carburetor motors. Lower the displacement limit an create a base template for body shape.

30 years ago, the only limits were displacement volume and weight. everything else was on the table for the teams to tinker with. Back when racing was for real men, not boys.