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"?????? @squall, I hope you are either kidding, or Canadian, arena football is THAT bad"

"Oh come on.  Arena football isn't THAT bad."

"This year's 500 also turned out to be officially the fourth hottest of all time, after 1937, 1953 (the actual likely hottest of all time), and 1919.  Say what you will about the psycho-diehards (like us?), most 'casuals' will NOT…"

"Quote: oldwrench - I will continue to speak and oppose the current racing platform that is now presented. That is the purpose of forums such as this, to offer different opinion about what is liked and disliked. And considering I am not the only one…"

"Keeping the shine on the old brickyard doesn't exactly make up for driving the sport into the wall...it certainly is the trump card and the only reason that anyone would have to remember who Tony George is, otherwise his name would be filed…"

"This and Milwaukee will be the ASM test.  If they succeed...I would sign them as the organizers of practically any IndyCar event (regardless of what crap the Andrettis might be pulling against Bernard)."

"My dream schedule might not be viable, as I don't know if there are enough non-cookie cutter ovals in existence to include in a 50/50 24-race year.  But I will attempt to compile it."

"Indianapolis Motor Speedway single-handedly won the open-wheel war, DoE.  If CART had had it, there would be no IRL/IndyCar as we currently know it.  And, by that same token...do you think the Hulman-George family doesn't keep that…"

"Do you understand that I LOVE IndyCar, Doug?  I've grown up with it; and growing up, I didn't have a favorite driver, like my father once had Foyt.  I had...Indianapolis Motor Speedway.  Each race, who knew what would…"

"That's a bit disingenuous, DoE.  They were all but flat out in the late 1980s and early 1990s, during the CART era.  The huge problem for me is that anyone can be flat out, now.  Once, it required perfect balance, between speed…"

"No, it is NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ENTERTAINMENT.  IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE A FREAKIN' SPORT, WITH RULE-REGULATED COMPETITION WHEREIN THOSE WITH THE BETTER ENTRIES ACTUALLY DO BETTER, RATHER THAN GET PENALIZED FOR THEIR TALENT.  WHEN THE 1989…"

"If they want to open up the rulebook, that is exactly what should happen.  But replace Bernard, and you kill what business savvy the series possesses.  If Tony is now saying the series should have more advanced cars, new designs, why…"

""...single manufacturer clone cars..." Are you the first person besides me to use the 'clone' term?"

"They might not think it the future.  They might be saying it's the future of what they'll watch, or they're gone. I don't think there exists a fanbase that hates other aspects of itself as much as open-wheel does. …"

"But who is left who remembers that what certain groups *cough*NASCRAP*cough* offer is the antithesis of real automobile racing?  Who is left who doesn't sell out for the P.T. Barnum money?  Remember: "barnstorming", fixed…"