The Current State of IndyCar

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Originally Posted by Paradise City

America is now NASCAR country. It used to be Indycar and NASCAR country. You watched Unser, you turned over to Earnhardt.

Indycar subdivided, cut off its fans, NASCAR swooped them up and they just had no interest in coming back now matter what marketing trick the IRL went with. I guess the motorsport landscape has changed. F1 can be very sterile but its wealthy and carries authority and you can pull in an audience with that.

Anyway - Hinchcliffe did draw in a sponsor to replace GoDaddy so he's on the grid for next year.

Everything changes and I think the irl made a critical mistake with their split in 1996 in terms of their reasoning of trying to recapture an era from decades before with American sprint and midget drivers, American cars and engines and exclusively oval tracks. That era of open wheel racing was never popular with the public outside of Indiana anyways. By 1996 that world had already long moved on and was dead by then with CART fixing those issues in the late 1970's. Now after all that has transpired in two decades with the destruction of their business and the flailing around they do now, the ship has sailed.

There is no quick fix, no gimmick, no schedule change or similar thing that will fix the problem. It is a core series of fundamental problems that polishing the turd will not fix.