You cannot deny this schedule release was their chance to carry any momentum from the merger and they wiffed. I don't think anyone outside of the fans of this message board and two others care. It's dull, its repetative, it is in a bunch of tiny markets with two major events and then a whole lotta nothing.

As far as Newman's race in Brooklyn its something he's been working on for three years now. If Tony George got behind it they could have gotten it done. The legwork has been done, there is a promoter in place, it could be done at a lower cost because its an abandoned airport. Had it been made a priority it could have happened.

There is a lack of inspiration and vision in Indy. They've got there one used-to-be-big event and a NASCAR race and as long as those two things are cash cows they're not really inspired to get off their ass and do anything else. Had Michael Andretti not taken the inatitive, lobbied and put his own money into Toronto the only thing that would have changed was a couple of dates, all the tracks would have been the same.