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  • Racing auto be obsolete by now ("SPORTSWRITER" GOES GREEN)

    06/07/2010 4:32:01 AM PDT · by Chi-townChief · 108 replies · 136+ views
    Chicago Sun-Times ^ | June 6, 2010 | NORMAN CHAD
    It's just a wasteful, reckless, unnecessary, ozone-destroying exercise Last Sunday, they ran the Coca-Cola 600 and the Indianapolis 500. That's about 1,100 unnecessary miles of tire treads wearing thin. My friends, auto racing is a road to nowhere. Ten years into a new millennium, it's time to put the exhaust pipes into an antique shop. It's time we engage in a new age of enlightenment, recognize auto racing as obsolete and end the around-the-oval madness. At the risk of being tossed out of the sports fraternity -- Who am I kidding? I was tossed out years ago; why do you...