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Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith
Isn't that precisely what Tony George envisaged? An American series, with American drivers racing on ovals, which are identifiably American.
I thought CART got it right. It very much kept the American identity, with a great mixture of classic American road courses a few street circuits and of course ovals. I never felt that attracting an international element did any harm and infact helped garner interest outside of America and attract valuable international sponsorship, something Tony George completely failed to do.
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George wanted to be an oval king ruling over a series made up of oval bosses and he perpetuated a myth that all-ovals was all-American, a delusion fueled by the NASCAR ethos and with AJ Foyt goading him on. This myth was a false one.
CART embodied an ethos of grass-roots enterprise. A series where frontiersmen battled on multiple terrain and that's the American tradition.