> The one mile ovals USED to offer some of the most ferocious racing in the
> series. Back when they had tons more downforce, the leaders would be
> passing inside or out....the one groove racing that we see too much of these
> days, didn't exist...If somebody was slowing you up...just run outside..and
> blitz by... Tracey and Andretti and Unser Jr did quite well in the late 80's
> zapping through the traffic on one-milers.
Micheal Andretti side by side for I don't know how many laps. Incredible.
I just hope that they continue the aero trend they started in Germany
and England. The German race was fantastic (apart from the last 10
laps of course :( )
> > Well I have no doubt why they'd be getting no crowds at those tight
> > street circuits and one mile ovals - NO PASSING! I sure as hell
> > wouldn't want to go to Houston and be bored to tears by it all. They
> > have a great street circuit at Long Beach, they CAN do the same for
> > the others if they wanted to. They just have to put more thought into
> > it!
> > And the int'l circuits do get a lot bigger crowds, Mexico for a first
> > race was huge! And Montreal should be awesome next year. :D
> > Rafe Mc
> > On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:49:23 GMT, "Stephen Smith"
> > >Dave,
> > >Goodyear used to publish annual attendance/TV audience figures, but no
> > >longer. Most of the natural-terrain road courses do quite well,
> > >spectator-wise, RA & Mid-O among them. Most of the street courses don't,
> > >except for LB & Canada (e.g., Houston, Miami). And, of course, TV
> > >viewership is lower than whale sh*t.
> > >There are fewer than a half-dozen major n.t. road courses left in
> America:
> > >Laguna Seca
> > >Mid-O
> > >Road America
> > >RoadAtlanta
> > >Watkins Glen
> > >Am I leaving anybody out? I'm not counting Sebring or Cleveland (airport
> > >courses) or Daytona or the new 2-mile, 17-turn Fontana (infield courses)
> or
> > >Willow Springs or V.I.R. (de facto non-spectator tracks) or club tracks
> like
> > >Putnam Park, Grattan or Roebling. That leaves....nada.
> > >Net-net: CART should come to terms with France & Panoz or be denied 40%
> of
> > >the remaining n.t. road circuits in this country.
> yer
> > >breath!
> > >--Steve Smith
> > >> The Long Beach round draws something like 150,000 for the weekend.
> > >> Other CART races are doing well, but there are some, like Michigan
> which
> > >> don't seem to attract big crowds. My fear is the natural road courses
> > >that
> > >> are far from big cities will lose out. Anybody got the attendance
> figures
> > >> for Mid Ohio and Road America???
> > >> dave henrie
> > >> > At this recent Austalian race, CART had over 110,000 people in
> > >attendance.
> > >> I
> > >> > heard the German and British races alos had very good attendance. So
> > >here
> > >> is
> > >> > the solution for CART.
> > >> > ONLY race overseas. I mean they can hardly draw flies here in the
> > >States,
> > >> so
> > >> > they should only race over seas. They can change the name to F1.5 and
> > >make
> > >> a
> > >> > fortune. Seems like a home run.
> > >> > btgoss
Olav K. Malmin
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