@AutoRockinRacing94 In the mid-1990's, CBS was devoit of anything, even losing affiliations in major markets following the loss of the NFL. CBS had acquired The Nashville Network and expanded the TNN Racing operations where CBS and TNN shared the majority of the IRL contract that year.
i liked CBS auto racing coverage back around the turn of the century, this brings back those memories. and i watched all the racing back then, it was fun times on ESPN too.
@foxtrotalphaone Simple. Tony George isn't as dumb as people think. He is actually a smart man. CART made one too many errors in management, and Tony George didn't. Thus, when CART had their Texas incident, IRL jumped on that while CART had to deal with lawsuits. Thus, the IRL managed to outlive CART and soon buy them out. Things just played into the hands of the IRL. By the way, I do like these sounds and chassis'. Gave IRL its own personality from CART.
@@downnice95 Well you see the problem is the fat cat elitists of CART (Penske, Patrick, Haas) all thought they were bigger than the 500. They spent years minimizing the importance of Indy and oval track racing while making sure CART became a glorified F-1 wannabe series closed off to up and coming American racers and which would be perpetually dominated by their little clique. They refused to make any concessions or accommodations to the legitimate concerns of Tony George and others who refused to accept the notion that CART in the early 90s was perfect and odor-free (as its apologists like to think it was) and they had as much to do with what happened by refusing to head matters off. I prefer these races of the early IRL to snoozefests like Penske's monopolization of Indy 1994 and the rest of the season.
@richdeveau24 the IRL was created b/c CART was trying to control the speedway and was giving TG absolutely 0 respect. You don't have to respect the guy, just pretend like you do to keep things running smooth. They didn't take him seriously in the slightest. Their egos were so big and it ended up burying them.
I keep hearing that but no one has explained what TG allegedly did to OWR in NA. TG wanted to make OWR more competitive the way NASCAR is and he succeeded. That is why we had 10 winners in the 1st 13 IRL races. CART and today's IRL are too tech-based which has made it very expensive. Now a few rich teams dominate the series. Look at what happened to Michael Andretti when he was in F1. He raced for an underfunded team and scored no wins. But his team dominates IRL today. Racing should be about...
That's the first time I've ever heard of McLaren being described as "underfunded". Incompetent they may have been in 1993, but they certainly weren't lacking in funds. Andretti failed in F1 because he didn't take it seriously, thought he could commute from Nazareth to each race (spoiler note: that didn't work), and the fact that McLaren had the awesome Mika Hakkinen on their books.
You basically described open wheel racing, it's expensive and tech driven, simplicity is for nascar not open wheel and that's why the irl looks more like cart today.
@@penskepc2374 And that's why I bailed out from following the joke of a circuit beyond watching Indy. Which at the rate things are going, they'll probably insist within a decade that the 500 become a road race given the increased number of drivers who are too cowardly to race ovals and who I wouldn't rate ahead of anyone who was willing to race the IRL in its heday.
@Zadan "The same as the glory days" haha. Ya, there might be a lot of cars on the grid but of those 26-28 cars maybe 8 would be worthy of driving back when this sport was at its peak. They didn't have milka dunos and ej visos back then. The sport is regressing, sorry. A shitty tv deal, bad leadership, bad drivers, and horrible tracks. Ya, keep adding more street races, that'll do the trick.
@HollywoodSheen It was either sell the series to indycar or just file for bankruptcy and have an even worse series emerge....the "merger" was handled horribly by the same idiot who left open wheel on life support so it was a complete disaster (19 car fields in 2009 wtf?) THANKFULLY that guy was fired and now INDYCAR has the best leader american open wheel racing HAS EVER had unlike George he's smart and listens to the fans and so far has done nothing negative.2012 =turbos,lotus,chevy and hondaxD
The crowds look about the same then as they do today.... Such a shame what Tony George and the IRL has done to American open wheel racing. CART had the right idea, but horrible self promotion... The IRL is doing everything wrong (racing-wise), but has done a much better job of promoting themselves ....
