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As always A.J. Foyt has only his typical myopic point of view. This is not 1965, CART and the IRL are not racing Kurtis-Kraft roadsters. As far street courses being the sorriest races, maybe he needs to look at some of the figures. Long Beach is by far CART's biggest and most watched event on their schedule. It destroys every IRL oval race in attendance, TV ratings and corporate attendance except the Indy 500 and Texas. CART's next most viewed event is Cleveland at Burke Lakefront Airport. Not because it is a beautiful course, but because it offers up some of the most daring and exciting racing. I have been to Houston twice. It is narrow and hard to pass, but it also packs around 100,000 people on Sunday. A.J. Foyt would be right if every IRL race went just like Kansas did with a great two way battle between two fast and respectful racers, but typically they do not.
Maybe A.J. Foyt should look at offering up some solutions instead of propping up his own lame situation. But then again, why work toward a resolution when it is much easier to stand around and ***** about it. What a bitter old has been he has become instead of the revered and gentlemanly Mario Andretti.
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