Quote of the week

"Tony George's legacy is not a very good one from my standpoint. His grandfather, Tony Hulman, did more for open-wheel racing than any other individual. Tony George did more to destroy it than any other individual. — Mario Andretti commenting on the complete departure of Anton George from open wheel racing after starting the IRL, taking the crown Jewel, the Indy 500, from the hugely successful CART, which led to its downfall and with it IndyCar Racing forever.

CART was a stranger in a VERY strange land. They were trying to conduct "business" on the normal principles taught in business school. You remember……."Profit and Loss", "debit and credit"; "expenditures and revenues"; but when the IRL was born it was "Voodoo Economics," ticket give-a-ways, empty side pods, empty grandstands, promoters who don't promote and don't care because they are guaranteed to make a profit. Tony may have won his "WAR against the Infidels, the Non Believers of CART and Champ Car". But it was be a Pyrrhic Victory. ..Gettysburg 2003, where essentially no one was left standing and everyone was a loser! —Steve Levinson/AutoRacing1.com