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Return to ‘The Race’

Written by Douglas Brown · May 30, 2005

A nine year wait between 500’s and I picked a great one for my return. The 89th running was exciting, intense, interesting, had lots of real racing action and brought the crowd to its feet a few times. Once again, I’m left wondering why more people don’t watch the IRL on “the other” weekends.


There were a lot of stories at The 500 beyond Hers:

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4 Responses to “Return to ‘The Race’”

  1. Josh on May 30th, 2005 1:58 pm

    People are saying a lot about AGR and their domination of the IRL this year. George is a leading conspiracy theorist on this matter. But just don’t any of you go telling me that NASCAR offers less team domination and more opportunity for “the other guy” to win. The only races so far this NASCAR season that were NOT won by a Hendrick or a Roush car were Richmond (Kahne from pole) and Bristol (Harvick). Roush and Hendrick own that series just like AGR and Rahal own the IRL. Multi-car + multi-millions = multi-wins. Simple equation. Doesn’t make the IRL any less or more entertaining that NASCAR. And it’s the same deal in F1 too.

  2. George on May 30th, 2005 4:29 pm

    You are right on the “money” with the multi-car team observation. The only reason F1 (now) has more teams competing at the front is the sheer volume of money the top teams throw at the sport. And they cooked the regs to unseat Ferrari.

    But regardless of the series, when one or two teams begin to dominate week in week out, it’s time to reexamine the rules, especially NASCAR. Limit cars to two per team and maybe that will open up smaller team’s chances of success. The economics may not be suited to that kind of change, but sooner or later the sponsors will figure out that with a four or five car team, they all can’t win.

  3. George on May 30th, 2005 4:36 pm

    …and the tv coverage totally ignored the CC cars of Junquira and Bourdais. They may have recieved two mentions during the race, if that. And if you didn’t read the crawl across the screen you never would have known SeaBass climbed to fourth before his accident. I missed the coverage of the incident, does anyone know the cause? The damn ARL announcers didn’t offer any explanations.

  4. Barry04cobra on June 1st, 2005 5:45 pm

    Can anyone explain why ABC did not televise the race in high definition/wide screen??? Desperate Housewives, but not the Indy 500???

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