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Originally Posted by Mystery
I reckon this is the problem. Indycar needs to come down either as a national series wanting to evoke American emotion, or as a genuine international series with world-class (I.e primarily non-North-American) drivers. It can't do both.
It then follows the 500 is a big American race or an international sideshow. Again it cannot be both.
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The 500 was and still is peculiarly American. In the '60s Colin Chapman and Jim Clark took it on. In the 70s, McLaren produced one of the best cars in the M16 and come the '80s and early '90s drivers like Emo and Mansell reforged their careers; the 500 was never an international sideshow.
It's still peculiarly American but with very little international interest outside of die hard fans, it is becoming a sideshow.