"End Run" for CART says the Philly Inquirer

[Elmo T]

About half way down, after the NASCAR news - "End run. The 25th - and perhaps final - season of CART competition opens Sunday on the streets of St. Petersburg, Fla." :shakehead

End Run for CART (http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/sports/5218903.htm)

Corrected link... Sorry 'bout that one.

[rabbit]

[racer2c]

No offense to the Philly CART fans, but Phiily folks didn't exactly support CART when they were only 30 minutes away. Let's see how they embrace the 'new' race.

[ChrisB]

Nazareth attendance peaked at a healthy 45k in '97. Picture. (http://www.netaxs.com/~gg1/race/naz/naz_97.jpg)

After that, it was CART (and IRL's) April scheduling that killed it with inevitable snow and rain problems. Lack of ISC promotion didn't help much either.

The best place for a Champ race in Philly would be a street race around the Stadium complex area in South Philly. The X games did very well there for 2 years, particularly the outdoor freestyle Moto-X (which I attended) which sorta gave a glimpse of what a motorsports event would look like in that area. It would be very successful there.

[CART2Day]

Philly doesnt seem like the market that CCWS woudl be targeting a "return" to.. Especially with ISC putting up the stink that they did over the Miami race (i.e. too close to Homestead).

[pchall]

Leave it to a stick and ball guy to screw up a metaphor from football when it is being applied to motorsports...:shakehead