[Snrub]

It takes money to run a series when sponsors are not paying the bill. You can SEE how much money is spent because CART has published the figures. It is nieve of certain troll posters to believe that the IRL hasn't done the same. Recall how many sponsors were on the cars St. Pete. How do people expect those cars to be on the track without money comming from somewhere. The Pook philosphy was to run a series. A non-Pook philosophy involves 19 drivers sitting at home. Could he have saved a few million extra and still run the series? Sure, but that would have ment cutting past the bone. They knew at the start of last season or earlier that that the series had to be bought out.