Sisters cut off George’s money supply

According to SPEEDTV.com, word is that Tony George wanted in the neighborhood of $750,000 from the IRL/IMS coffers to run Ryan Hunter-Reay the rest of 2009 and was, ostensibly, denied by his sisters who comprise three of the six votes on the IMS board.

And that would support the assumption that while Mari Hulman George's son still retains the title of IMS president, he no longer controls the checkbook, as SPEED reported late last month.

Now Tony admittedly helped support many IRL teams financially during the past 13 years and still does with the TEAM money, so the irony of this RHR deal should not be lost.

The IRL founder, who spent millions on teams, drivers, purses, promotions, and marketing since 1996, went to the well one more time and came up dry. So he had no choice but to shut down his second car.

This of course also supports the statement made by Tony George that if the IRL isn't profitable by 2013, there will no longer be an IRL. Of course the highly successful CART could then take back over and return IndyCar racing to its rightful place in the racing world. Oops, no they can't, someone worked hard to destroy CART. So what now open wheel fans?