Indy 500

Jose,

It's sort of a fallacy. (like saying if God can do anything, can He make a rock too heavy for Him to lift.) You cannot have the strong series without an anchor race and/or history and tradition. The A1GP is an example, because no matter how great the concept is, you can't buy history and tradition.

This is what drew the CART teams back. Roger Penske, Chip Ganassi et al, they feel the draw. Sponsors too. Show the average person on the street a picture of the DP-01 and he'll say "oh, an Indy Car."

So, I guess the answer would be no for me because I think it's almost impossible to seperate the two.

Off topic- I think the A1GP concept is great, but like I said, they'll have to run a few years and grow an audience. If they can survive their incubancy, it could eventually be great.

Put simply, it's the only race in America I have an ambition to attend one day.

To the Americans on this board, please don't be offended by this, but actually it's the only reason I'll ever cross the Atlantic.

Think Alexamateo said it best, Jarrambide. The idea of building a strong open-wheel series in the U.S. without the Indianapolis 500 really can't happen, IMO. If the "500" was a new race at a new track, that would be different. But it's not, for the reasons I posted earlier.

It's like asking if you could have the PGA Tour without the Masters. You could do it, but it wouldn't BE as strong.

Ok, then.

What about books about why Indy became Indy?, a few have said there are plenty of them but surely noit all of them are good, and better to ask fans about good racing books.
Garyshell for example via email recommended me a book written by Denise McCluggage that turn out to be a great, great book.

jarrambide, there have been a number of books written about Indy and a number of Indy-winning drivers have written autobiographies, plus the yearbooks that go all the way back to the Clymer years of the '30s. Many are sold through the Speedway gift shop. I have one that my late father gave me many years ago written by the late Wilbur Shaw. The Speedway Public Library has quite a collection. The Speedway itself has a library to peruse by appointment only.

Movies go back to Mickey Rooney as "Billy Coy" and I believe Clark Gable made one before that. Then came "Winning" with Paul Newman.

So you recommend the Wilbur Shaw book and the books on the IMS web page(I´m assuming they have the gift shop online also) then?

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Originally Posted by Starter

And that is why the only long term hope for OW in America is for the two series to find some reconcilliation.

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Don´t wanna go there, every year we all get high hopes and then nothing comes out of it, I have decided to think as a fan thet NO reconcilliation wil ever happen, if it does I will be very happy, but if it doesn´t I will not be disappointed.

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Originally Posted by indycool

jarrambide, there have been a number of books written about Indy and a number of Indy-winning drivers have written autobiographies, plus the yearbooks that go all the way back to the Clymer years of the '30s. Many are sold through the Speedway gift shop. I have one that my late father gave me many years ago written by the late Wilbur Shaw. The Speedway Public Library has quite a collection. The Speedway itself has a library to peruse by appointment only.

Movies go back to Mickey Rooney as "Billy Coy" and I believe Clark Gable made one before that. Then came "Winning" with Paul Newman.

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