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Dear Steve, With Grand-Am ALMS is up against the same Voodoo economics that CART was up against with the IRL. 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 for the IRL it was "Voodoo Economics," ticket give-a-ways, empty side pods, empty grandstands, promoters who didn't promote and didn't care because they are guaranteed to make a profit. Tony George may have won his "WAR against the Infidels, the Non Believers". But it was be a Pyrrhic Victory. ..Gettysburg 2003! The fact that his sisters kicked him out for blowing all their money keeping the IRL afloat proves it was Voodoo economics indeed. Likewise Grand-Am sells very few tickets and TV ratings cannot justify all the sponsorship plastered all over the cars. Word is that sponsorship can be had in the Grand-Am for next to nothing because the same Voodoo economics are at work until the ALMS dies away. So far it appears to be working. Mark C.