some strong words from randy

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Originally Posted by slorydn1

ya caught me on the karts...I forgot about them because they are not on TV...

Touring cars are GT cars (in my simplistic view, anyway...thats the T in GT)

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What about rally cars?

How about sprint cars?

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Originally Posted by slorydn1

Touring cars are GT cars (in my simplistic view, anyway...thats the T in GT)

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That aren't the same.

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Originally Posted by SarahFan

http://www.indystar.com/article/2010...ed-from-series

and during the month of may no less....

a couple highlights

"We need to blow up IRL," Bernard said. "It needs to be (known as) IndyCar.

"To the purist, (IRL) is a negative acronym. We need to get away from using it."

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It's funny that this non-racing guy seems to really "get it", when people who have been in the sport their whole lives can't/haven't. Why keep trying to push a string up a hill in a driving wind? If/when they get a new chassis and engine formula, they should try to leave ALL of the negatives of the recent past behind. Once Ford determined that the Edsel was a failure, they didn't use that name again on a car. While the Mustang, Thunderbird and Taurus keep making comebacks. Duh!

The powers that be in Daytona have (very successfully) marketed the NASCAR brand name. The IndyCar name used to mean something positive and was marketable. IMO, they do need to try to recapture that. But best to wait until they have something to market (2012, or is it 2013 now?). Afterall, Ford killed the Edsel. They didn't just slap a Thunderbird badge on an Edsel and try to sell it to suckers.