I've been thinking a lot about this the last couple of days as both my wife and I are in graduate school, and she is taking a marketing class and one of the case studies is CART. So I gave her an overview of the history of CART/OW/IRL, and I came to the conclusion that if Toyota and Honda were out of the fray OW in general would be much better off. I'm not trying to say that certain things wouldn't have happened but what I am saying is that without Toyota and Honda we probably wouldn't be having many of the discussions we are today.
There is still lots of blame to be placed on the owners of both series' past and present, but take the influence of Honda and Toyota has brought forth monumental changes in OW racing today.
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