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Originally Posted by indycool
Well, profits on the Indianapolis 500 and Brickyard 400, for starters. Then there's Clabber Girl baking powder, Brickyard Crossing Golf Course and the restaurant, bar and motel at the golf course. There's still IMS Productions, an award-winning state-of-the-art video production company. The Hulman Co. used to own several TV stations but sold them years ago. Where they put that money is unknown because it's a private company. But, as a private company with an asset like the Indianapolis Motor Speedway that has been appraised at $3.6 BILLION, I doubt that it's hurtin'.
Couldn't keep F-1? No, Bernie wanted more money than an independent promoter could possibly make. He could get it out of Arab oil sheiks. IMS was probably the only place it could be tried in the U.S. with enough mioney to give it a whirl, but it only drew in the neighborhood of 125-130,000 and was not a pretty full house like the other two. It wasn't going to work. It's been replaced by the Moto GP. Time will tell, but at least in Indy people are excited about that because Nicky Hayden is from down the road near Evansville.
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If TG didn't create the split and ruin the best series in the world there wouldn't be a problem today. He is not going to be superman and save AOWR. It is beyond repair after the years of him not wanting to merge. 2000 would have been ideal but he didn't wanna do it with CART. The IRL will probably have even less cars and this is why TG gave the offer in the first place, not to save open wheel but to make his series even better and stuff CC. It isn't in CC's best interests.
Also IC you shouldn't try make TG look like a saint like luke said. The IRL is not a success either. If it was it would have passed CART in its glory days. It only passed CART in its dying year because, well it was dying! anyway, how's IMS and Tony? Good is he?