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Article #3965

Re: NASCAR to split!

#3965
From: EMS
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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