110 days ( or so ) until the season finale and the $5 million challenge....

[SarahFan]

I believe Randy and alex have had a discussion ... Alex hasn't said yes or no

[00steven]

I believe Randy and alex have had a discussion ... Alex hasn't said yes or no

I heard a while back that Chip wants to do it and Alex has expressed some interest. If he feels comfortable doing it, I think it would great for auto racing.

[SarahFan]

I heard a while back that Chip wants to do it and Alex has expressed some interest. If he feels comfortable doing it, I think it would great for auto racing.

Alex alone would drive interest.... the Human interest story alone would trancend racing and indycar.......then you build on it with it being the championship race (lets hope we still have a points battle), mix in the $5milchallenge and guys like stewart and patrana....maybeKimi and a busch bros and now we got something....

I know I'll be in Vegas that weekend

[SarahFan]

But Bo didn't go into MLB without having played the game before. I have no problem with Bubba if he had a couple of test sessions and a couple of Indy lights races to get ready and prove he could do this competently

IMO your overvalueing the skill set to compete in an indycar and undrvalueing the skill set to race motorcross.....

stewart will be just fine......

[anthonyvop]

James Stewart is as well known as you can get in Motocross, and his celebrity goes beyond that sport.

No it doesn't. You ask the average person on the street who is James Stewart and 98% will either answer the Actor or "I don't know". His popularity is big among the Supercross crowd and some of the Speed TV viewers....

For this stunt to be successful the ICS needs a big name in racing to run the event and then stink up the Joint.
Forget an F1 Driver...They run Korea that weekend anyway. They need a Name NASCAR driver.

NASCAR runs Saturday night so it is doable.

A fairly popular NASCAR driver would bring in more media and fan attention but the ICS has to make sure they qualify in back and stay there doing the race. NASCAR already claims to have the best drivers. The Last thing the ICS needs is for a NASCAR driver to step into a car and embarrass the IndyCar field,

[SarahFan]

Agree and disagree Anthony

Sure 98% of the general public don't know James..... And that might be generous... It's probaly more like 99.5%

But what he does bring I'd a set of racing fans that aren't familiar with indycar .... If he puts on a good show and the IRL puts on a great race a percentage of those fans are likely to turn on a race in 2012...


Stewart is a perfect candidate for this .....IMO of course