Mark Miles, what took so long?

A reader writes, Dear AR1.com, I have been a reader of AutoRacing1.com for the past 15 years. You guys are the best and tell it like it is. You guys have been saying for 15 years that the IndyCar season should start the weekend before Super Bowl (not the week after) and end on Labor Day. IndyCar Racing has had their head stuck in the sand for 15 years and are just now starting to say, per Mark Miles, that he wants the season to start in early February and end by Labor Day. Is that how long it takes the gomers on 16th and Georgetown to digest and understand your recommendations? George Pillet

Dear George, Yup that long. They are slow on the uptake, preferring to be a small blemish on NASCAR's posterior and never growing. Miles is still trying to figure a place to race on Labor Day weekend as their season finale. It will likely take them 15 years, after failing at another 5 venues on Labor Day weekend, before they just have to look out the window and the answer is 100 yards away – a 400 miler under the lights on the oval at Indy to end the season. It would be spectacular. They are worried about college students being back to school by then. Well that is an issue in any market. Instead of figuring out that having all the kids back in college by then can be turned around and used to your advantage to bring them to the Speedway for a big party, they will test the waters in other markets and come out with egg on their face. 15 years later (2030) they will finally figure it out. Mark C.