Will Versus be the IRL’s undoing?

A reader writes, Dear AR1.com, "Sad" doesn't even begin to describe those amateurish, pathetic pre-season specials VERSUS produced on the IndyCar series. The first one about Danica Patrick was very good. It obviously was done by a different production company than the other two I saw, i.e. "IndyCar Series: Top 10 Closest Finishes" and "IndyCar Series World Tour 200." Those two were the same caliber as those lame kind of immature Thrills and Spills type shows.

That "IndyCar Series: Top 10 Closest Finishes" had absolutely terrible editing. They kept playing the same close finishes over and over again. The one clip they kept showing looked like they were going to a commercial, but the show continued. Both of those shows looked like they were aimed for the idiots who like to watch crashes and fights instead of great racing. Mary White

Dear Mary, TV ratings on Versus will be miniscule so the negative impact of poor quality broadcasts will be low since they won't be seen by many. The dropping of ESPN to make way for Versus could be the IRL's undoing. Mark C.