Miller on merger attempt

[f1manoz]

Originally Posted by indycool

mountainstar, I could keep arguing with you back and forth, as you didn't even address your inaccurate statement that the IRL was thrown out of Phoenix on Buddy Jobe's watch or that Champ Car doesn't book and isn't responsible for its own TV or Pole Day at Indy years ago had half as many seats, but it's obvious we should agree to disagree. I'm done with the CW mentality. It's not "discussable."

Neither are your completely biased opinions on the IRL. Continuous years bleating anit-ChampCar messages in this forum grates enough forum members as it is.

Back to the subject at hand, neither series are in a strong position so a merger is definetely on the cards. It probably won't happen in time for 2008, as there is simply too much to discuss between the IRL and ChampCar owners, but it seems that there may be one series in 2009.

Even if ChampCar were to fold, it doesn't automatically make the IRL a strong series. They may have 'won' the battle, so to speak, but I don't see the series getting any more popular because of it, I don't suspect sponsors will be flocking to their series just because ChampCar dissolved (if it does) and I don't see a host of teams switching just because of any sort of collapse of one series or another.

What I do forsee is that if one series does collapse, the other will simply continue to struggle while NASCAR continue their conquest of the American motor-racing landscape.