Quote Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa

1. The decline of the Indycars is a symptom of the last 15 years of stupidity.

2. You cannot tell me that Dario or Helio are poor drivers or incapable. I suspect given time, they could race anything....

1. No, this is a symptom that has plagued this sport for FAR longer then that. Indy Car thumbed their nose at Jeff Gordon long before "the split". They started losing many of the best American talent LONG before "the split". They started catering their sport to F1 dropouts long before "the split".

"The Split" was hurtful but it was also a convenient excuse for the failings of this sport. And until we have a sport that young Americans and young Canadians aspire to race in again, then we are going nowhere.

2. Dario looked out-of-his-league in his NASCAR adventure. Others from the Indy Car world also looked overwhelmed and undertalented for the top rung of American motorsport.

Not saying Dario and Helio aren't good drivers. They are and have proven that. But they have also done it, in a time when Indy Cars talent level has been mediocre (at best) and done it when very few teams could compete with the teams they drove for.

Its not like Dario and Helio are battling it out with Mario, AJ, JR, Mears, the Unser's, Mosley, Johncock, Sneva and Donahue every weekend.