Comments on Advance Indiana™: Indianapolis Motor Speedway Is Struggling

If I missed it, please correct me, but none of thi...

2010-08-02T07:55:05.382-05:00

If I missed it, please correct me, but none of this development has targetted the Hulman-owned (and wide open space) 'Coke lot' - has it?

I do know that quite a few of the long-time homeowners along Georgetown are being displaced.

It's the inverse of 'too big to fail' - 'too small to allow to exist.'

HEI, It's already started if you've been ...

2010-08-01T20:31:35.792-05:00

HEI,

It's already started if you've been following the Speedzone project out in Speedway. Taxpayer funds are being used to acquire property around the Speedway. There will be a zone creased around the Speedway for a racing theme park to operate 12 months of the year. (Like some0one is coming to Speedway in January for the racing theme park.) That area will be turned over to the Speedway.

Speedway has a redevelopment commission made up of people who stand to profit from the project. There were deals cut in the backroom followed by horse & pony shows to pretend the community had a say on redevelopment.

Everyone I talked to in Speedway is in favor of redevelopment. It's the "how" that's the kicker. Doing things like closing Georgetown Road is going to affect a lot of people lives' negatively.

TVGizmo is correct. George had a good product yet...

2010-08-01T19:11:02.742-05:00

TVGizmo is correct. George had a good product yet-4 some reason-thought he had 2 tinker w/it. True, it wasn't as popular as NASCAR, but it had a good number of fans. Some people just don't understand when they have a good thing going.

I'm waiting for the new management of IMS to b...

2010-08-01T08:20:46.442-05:00

I'm waiting for the new management of IMS to begin negotiations with the City for taxpayer support. Hundred million to this sport, hundred million to that sport, why not another hundred million for the one that is inextricably tied to Indianapolis? At some point, maybe sooner, maybe later, the negotiations will commence.

I do think there has always been a kind of "t...

2010-08-01T01:31:11.442-05:00

I do think there has always been a kind of "taken for granted" attitude towards IMS, the Indy 500 and the Brickyard 400.

It is easy to assume that all will be well with something merely because it always has been but experience teachers us that just isn't so.

I'd be curious as to people's insights into why open wheel racing has suffered so badly at the hands of the less elegant and slower stock car alternatives.

The Indy 500 itself lost a lot of prestige when To...

2010-07-31T12:39:34.174-05:00

The Indy 500 itself lost a lot of prestige when Tony George yanked USAC out as the sanctioning body. They may have been a bunch of old geezers, but they knew how to run a race.