Brock Yates in C&D

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I thought I'd bring up the recent Brock Yates article in C&D since he's so popular here. It's titled "The Indy 500 is broken, so fix it." It's mostly about IRL, but has strong implications for CART. Essentially he mentions that the last Indy 500 had ratings of 4.6 and it's essentially "broken." He lements that a big part of the problem is that it no longer is an american race. American manufacturers and drivers are not involved or not competitive. He admits that while Gil, Helio & Tony are likable and popular they cannot be the core of the IRL. He also lements the absence of cars and drivers from around the world coming to compete @ Indy as sort of an all-star race. He also says about TG: "His intent, which I sympathized with, was to divest himself from the elitist clubbers of CART and their fascination with the European-style road-racing culture and reuturn open-wheel racing to the grass roots from which the 500 had grown."

If we look at the new potential owners of CART, they seem to be of the traditional Anglo-American types and are interested in making the US the home of operations. On the other hand CART seems to be going in the direction of mimicing F1. Do you think both CART and the IRL are doomed if they continue as they're going?