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31st October 2011, 13:36 #1
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IRL needs to take advantage of NBA lockout
Here's a big idea that could put the IRL back on the map like it was in the 90s.
NBA is probably the most popular sport in America, but there probably won't be any NBA this year possibly. The solution to this is easy: IRL needs to run a special winter racing series.
Hear me out.
You run indoor 3/4-midget races inside all the basketball rinks that NBA teams play at with all the current stars of the IRL. Each race you get the home team's best player to drive a 3/4-midget and start last and if he can win the race, he and everyone in attendance will split a $10,000,000 prize. Wouldn't that be something.
Now, it gets better. We'll show these races on the television on the channels and timeslots the NBA had! We're cooking with gas now.
You can have a half-time show where the fans get to meet the drivers and after the half you send them back out to run the track the other way so it's right turns only. Now that's a challenge and will shake it up.
You then say "you thought that was cool, well these same drivers will be racing even faster cars even closer all across the country and the world this spring/summer/fall. You better watch for it." And then you show them like a video clip you know those TV screens in the middle well you show them a clip of like Sam Hornish, Jr. winning Chicago, wow, what a race.
People will be hooked. They say we shouldn't race in NFL season, well, we should race in NBA season, when the NBA doesn't have one!
As a way of saying thanks we could send Justin Wilson to the NBA when it happens again. It's the least we can do because I think this might save the IRL.
That's what I think.
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31st October 2011, 14:28 #2
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First of all people need to stop calling it the IRL. There is no longer an IRL it is a unified American Open Wheel series called IndyCar.
The idea isn't horrible (yeah the 3/4 midget races are) but if they ran 3 or 4 exhibition races in warm weather areas, it might be a decent thing. Run a race at Surfers or Laguna Seca or something.Kyle Busch #18 M&M's Toyota Camry
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31st October 2011, 15:28 #3
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The problem is that the NBA is really not all that popular anymore - kind of like when they cancelled the hockey season - nobody really noticed except for the hardcore fans....
That being said - a non-points winter series would be cool - maybe 1-3 a year in "exotic" locations.... maybe not even the same places every year - just something to keep the sport in the public eye and to allow for some fun for all involved....
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31st October 2011, 17:32 #4
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Originally Posted by Mr. Mister
............In what way, shape or form do 3/4 Midget racers have anything in common with the Current or future Indycar? Unless your a Midwesterner who dreams of a return to front engine roadsters to Indy the ICS has more in common with F-1(And that is a large margin) than it does 3/4 Midgets, Sprint-cars, Midgets or WoO cars
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31st October 2011, 18:03 #5
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First ,irl term should be forever buried. Second INDYCAR should build fastest good looking pure race cars that demand best racers to drive them. Nothing more. Build it and fans of real racing will come.
Keep it fast, keep it real!!!
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1st November 2011, 16:34 #6
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Do very many people really care if the NBA is on strike? Judging by comparing the publicity the NFL got with their lockout versus what the NBA is getting, I'd say not many do. Trying to convert stick and ball fans to auto racing is a pointless exercise, from my experience.
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2nd November 2011, 01:34 #7
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"IRL" stands for "Indy Racing League." Sorry if that was confusing to anyone.
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2nd November 2011, 03:32 #8
Originally Posted by Mr. Mister
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2nd November 2011, 13:36 #9
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"IRL needs to take advantage of NBA lockout" - it doesn't work that way. I think several sports and leagues will take some advantage of the lockout: those who offer a good product in visible channels. So that basketball fans don't automatically change to the next station on their TV set when they catch a glimpse of your show. The question is: is IndyCar on Versus a desired product on a visible channel?
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2nd November 2011, 18:28 #10
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