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mountainstar, you overstate way too much. After trying a couple years at a two-week Indy program in the '90s, it went back to three weeks because the two were very awkward and the "month of May" term is again more accurate.
Pole Day will be unlikely to have the crowds it had when milestone track records were possible to be set, like 200 mph. But Bump Day, switching from Thursday to Friday, has increased attendance way past what it's ever been, if you've been going to it for awhile.
Saying the IRL has failed after 12 years is just plain untrue. The IRL and the Indianapolis 500 are still going, despite all efforts of CART previously and CC now to blow them up. They have continued unabated with a SPLIT and of course that has had a negative effect toward slowing growth.
No, I don't consider KK, Petit or PG part of the INDY CAR family and Forsythe no longer is. Remember when it was the PPG Indy Car World Series? These guys are NOT running Indy cars.
Of course The Amigos want a successful open wheel series. That's about the only thing you can draw from Gurney's White Paper that might match. Their motives for doing so are still different and the circumstances are different. I want that, too, as do most people on the boards.
In four years, The Amigos have had a Pacific Rim strategy (which resulted in Ansan and Zhuhai), a street racing strategy (which resulted in San Jose, Vegas and Phoenix) and now a European strategy. In four years, it has changed direction three times. So much for what has failed.
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