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Originally Posted by ace007
But broader speaking, wouldn't just more European pilots join make the series grow in terms of drivers' standards as well as fan base?
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Indycar's core fanbase found it appalling when the reigning world driving champion came to race in Indycars, taking a spot away from a 'more deserving' 'murrican driver, so we had a holy war waged to take the sport back from all those foreigners and goofy road and street races.
I was one who walked away from the sport when that change occurred and from what I see of the TV ratings and attendance it looks like maybe CART really did have the right idea, but that battle is lost. The sport is back to what it was in the early '60's or maybe even earlier, except the carbon fiber race cars are too expensive to depend on one-off sponsorship from Joe's Plumbing at the next race, so it's kind of neither fish nor fowl now.
It won't amount to anything until the teams find their "attachments" and take the sport back, or somebody else starts something a lot more interesting.