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Andretti has said publicly he wants to run in prototypes, he's just finding sponsors.
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Robin Miller has an interesting column out titled “Why IndyCar must make ovals work.” It begins:
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14 Jul 2014, 13:10 (Ref:3433805) | #2180 | ||
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I think the Americans are slightly falling out of love with the ovals at national level, worrying but manageable for NASCAR, serious turbulence for Indycar which is trying to pick itself up from flatlining popularity. There's no clear solutions to that. Maybe dovetail a race with boxing or a concert or something like the DTM has done. I dunno.
One day events make sense. Quali has no potential pull. It's all there on the internet so you might as well stick it all in on the one day. I don't know if that'll 'work' but there isn't much to lose in trying it I don't think. |
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Those seem like reasonable suggestions, I'm not sure it'll fix the problem but it's a step in the right direction. Miller's suggestion during Pocono that the pit lane speed limit should be scrapped was a bit weird though.
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The Pocono race had 342,000 viewers on NBCSN. That's a bit less than for the Houston races.
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15 Jul 2014, 10:08 (Ref:3434063) | #2184 | |
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sad facts for such a great race...
IndyCar racing still has almost no viewers... |
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The Iowa race on NBCSN had 444,000 viewers, the highest since Long Beach 2012.
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17 Jul 2014, 23:57 (Ref:3434996) | #2187 | |||
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What could Nascar say about the Iowa Indy 300? Here's the answer:
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18 Jul 2014, 05:09 (Ref:3435044) | #2189 | |
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Why not Indycar to make compulsory one American driver per car. This series misses some patriot appeal.
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As much as I'd like to see more Americans in Indycar, I definitely don't want to see the likes of Buzz Calkins or any of the other IRL scrubs in the series again. For once, it'd be better to promote the American drivers you already have...okay, only RHR and perhaps Marco are worth being promoted right now.
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Newgarden, KImball, Karam and Brabham are well deserving too, I think.
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20 Jul 2014, 15:02 (Ref:3435884) | #2192 | |
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I never watch this series at all, but happened to be in a restaurant yesterday where the owner had Toronto qualifying on the big TV. Resisting the temptation to poke my eyes out, I watched for a few minutes and pretty much confirmed what I already knew. The cars are boring to watch, with no exceptional skill required to drive them, they don't sound good, don't look fast and attract mediocre talent to drive them.
Since the beginning of the rodeo randy days this series has engaged in turd polishing with one gimmicky thing after another, yet refuses to fix the main issue and that is the cars and the drivers do not bring fans through the gate, nor is it interesting or engaging to watch on TV. Until that is fixed, rubbin miller and the series management can continue to talk gimmicks but this series continues to go nowhere. |
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What do you guys think of this article?
A part of me agrees with the article. But the rest of me just envisions a line up of cars tiptoeing around the track...that doesn't sound fun to watch. Maybe the Firestone rain tire is just that terrible. |
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I turned on my TV a couple of times Sunday morning to see if the rescheduled race was on, but all I saw was golf, tennis, darts, and poker, all of which I never watch. Should have I searched out forums about all of them so that I could adamantly claim to not pay attention to them, while inexplicably having made up juvenile parody names for the people in these sports I don't watch?
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You better hope the good days are coming back because otherwise it's dead series walking. Here is a series with little attendance and pitiful tv numbers. I think I know why and pointed that out. The cars are not impressive to watch and in this day and age of so much competition in sport and entertainment, it's not cutting the mustard. My favorite series is still V8 Supercars. |
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