I miss the days of the machinists union cars with the Buick V6's when a few fabricators could buy a year old car, tweak it with a stock block and qualify. Like lil John Buterra.
I missed the whole race. Last summer the guy on the indy loudspeaker spoke to a veterans's assembly. (I think he died this year.)
He talked about Doolittle, of Dolittle's raiders being a crew chief one year, and another year where a diesel won after taking an early pit stop after overheating, running further and comming into line and n to win.
My question for him was about GP. He said GP wanted a huge raise on the amount of money they wanted after they had arrived there as a venue. Locals whose businesses were affected positlvely, along with the City of Indianapolis itself offered to pay the extortive raise in gp event price. Owners of the venue said screw them, it's too expensive, even if the City wants to pay.
He did go on to comment that Maybe AMA or others would step in and run some races there. His comment was that the track was there and it should be getting used by someone.
He also went on to comment that the GP motorcyclist fans were among the most polite and sophisticated of any of the other fans of any other group of motorsports category.
