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Article #3965Re: NASCAR to split!
From: EMS
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 00:00
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Don Stauffer wrote: > > ChrisB@media.pa wrote: > > > > I think Cart and Irl fans might find this thread somewhat interesting > > as it talks about a series split...something Indy car fans have had to > > live with for 2 years now. > > > > I also find it interesting how a lot of replies to this thread talk > > about a Nascar split as a war between track owners/promoters. Has it > > occured to anyone that the TEAMS would get together and start a series > > which chooses it's own venues? That's what Cart and WoO are all about! > > > snip > > > > > > > Gee, the four way war among track owners (or operators for publicly > owned tracks, such as fairgrounds), promotors, sanctioning bodies, and > owners/drivers has been going on almost since the beginning of the sport > in this country. It seems to me CART has been one of the most > successful of the team-driven groups. One move that these groups made > was to combine promotion and owning/driving so that it reduces to a > three-way battle. > > In other cases, sanctioning bodies and promotors were same group, in > fact if not on paper. > > -- > Don Stauffer in Minneapolis > home web site- http://home1.gte.net/stauffer/ yes Nascar will split when elephants fly and they settle the fights in the middle east.. call my answering service. kill the golden goose... uhhh i dont think so.
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