Eddie Gossage hammers IndyCar Management

In this blog Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage hammers IndyCar management over their handling of affairs in New Hampshire this weekend. Gossage calls them out for mishandling the final call to go green with a wet track and also for caving into team owners on the body kits for 2012 by postponing their rollout until 2013.

"But Indy Car, with its decision today, has once again yielded it's authority to team owners. How did that work out last time? Crash and burn," said Gossage.

Say what? IndyCar racing was never more successful when it was run by CART (team owners). It was not until Anton George created the IRL, split the sport and took away CART's biggest race, the Indy 500, that CART went downhill. This is well documented. So for Gossage to blame the team owners for CART's demise just shows how out of touch he is with reality.

Should team owners be running IndyCar? No, but should they have a say on rolling out new things they cannot afford? Absolutely.

Gossage needs to stick to promoting races, which he does best.