Will the new car mean new teams?

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Originally Posted by garyshell

Oh so as well as be the self proclaimed racing and marketing expert here, you are now the state an local government expert as well. I may have a lot to learn, but it sure isn't going to be from you. So enticing a manufacturing facility to an economy in dire need of jobs had little to do with this huh? And it was all about the lobbying efforts of the folks at 16th and Georgetown? Uh huh, sure, if you say so.

Gary

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I think a little whisper or two in the ears of a few politicians from the Hulman clan might have had an influence.

Tony doesn't like it, it isn't his idea of pure capitalism, where the state never interferes in business. The real world however is full of lobbyists, so I am not naive enough to think a few people didn't whisper, and Tony is right to make that assertion.

However, that is for the people of Indiana to decide next election time on whether this politcal support in terms of tax dollars is worth it or not. I don't live there, so I wont judge. Getting jobs back in the rust belt of America has taken some bribery on occasion, and Indiana is a more business friendly state than some of its neighbours so I suppose that helps as well.

I think the move will center the industry for OW racing in American in Indy once and for all, and I think in time, it will do for OW what the Charlotte/Mooresville/Concord axis has done for NASCAR.

I also think in time, more new teams will be possible because it does sound like the cost of cars is going to drop through all of this....and no one can argue that is a bad thing.

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Originally Posted by garyshell

Oh so as well as be the self proclaimed racing and marketing expert here, you are now the state an local government expert as well. I may have a lot to learn, but it sure isn't going to be from you. So enticing a manufacturing facility to an economy in dire need of jobs had little to do with this huh? And it was all about the lobbying efforts of the folks at 16th and Georgetown? Uh huh, sure, if you say so.

Gary

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So you really believe the Indiana Government came up with the idea for these subsidies all by themselves? Nobody from Indy met with them?

Hahahahahaha........... Drop me a line. I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale cheap.

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Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa

I think a little whisper or two in the ears of a few politicians from the Hulman clan might have had an influence.

Tony doesn't like it, it isn't his idea of pure capitalism, where the state never interferes in business. The real world however is full of lobbyists, so I am not naive enough to think a few people didn't whisper, and Tony is right to make that assertion.

However, that is for the people of Indiana to decide next election time on whether this politcal support in terms of tax dollars is worth it or not. I don't live there, so I wont judge. Getting jobs back in the rust belt of America has taken some bribery on occasion, and Indiana is a more business friendly state than some of its neighbours so I suppose that helps as well.

I think the move will center the industry for OW racing in American in Indy once and for all, and I think in time, it will do for OW what the Charlotte/Mooresville/Concord axis has done for NASCAR.

I also think in time, more new teams will be possible because it does sound like the cost of cars is going to drop through all of this....and no one can argue that is a bad thing.

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I don't want to change this thread into one about government approved thread as it would surely get it locked.

If indiana wants to do it it is their problem...so be it.

My issue here is the way they are trying to make the series more Indy-Centric.

It marginalizes the other races on the calendar and creates the perception of it being a regional series. Both are not good.