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So why would the ACO waste their time visiting Indy to apparently look at possibly moving the WEC away from COTA to Indy, unless it was to milk concessions from COTA or possibly RA or to get Montreal to throw their hat into the ring?
If Indy's not a serious option at this stage, you can bet that the ACO are pressing COTA to give into some of their requests, or trying to get RA to go back to upgrading their track's infrastructure (originally done for NASCAR to get Cup up there, which doesn't seem likely to happen in the immediate future), or get Montreal interested.
Besides, FIA regs say that LMP1s can race on grade 2 tracks, but outside of LM, the ACO/FIA don't want to because they want F1-like facilities inside of the tracks, though it seems that they don't in reality give a damn about the tracks themselves. And even LM, which is grade 2, has facilities equal to if not better than some F1 tracks, and has since the early 1990s.
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