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Welcome to The Score, your place for hard-hitting sports business news, fast-breaking updates and fuel-injected debate. Buckle up. I'm your host, Anthony Schoettle, IBJ sports reporter.
Speedway/motorsports Blog Posts
IndyCar's China race, Izod title sponsorship in jeopardy
June 11, 2012
Comments(35)IndyCar officials are hustling to find a replacement for its August race in Qingdao, China so it doesn't run afoul of
its sponsorship agreements.
MoreBrickyard boss likely to have sway over Bernard's future
June 7, 2012
Comments(19)Though he keeps a low profile, Indianapolis Motor Speedway CEO Jeff Belskus will have a big say in whether Randy Bernard survives
after this year as the IndyCar Series leader.
MoreSpeedway traditions sacrificed, and IndyCar better for it
May 25, 2012
Comments(93)Three years ago when the board overseeing the Indianapolis Motor Speedway fired one of its own as CEO, it looked like IndyCar
racing was headed for an ugly crash. Today, the future looks much brighter.
MoreIndy 500 Last Row Party rolls out new features
May 22, 2012
Comments(4)One of the Indy 500’s best peripheral events, the Last Row Party celebrates its 40th anniversary. Organizers have several
special activities and guests slated this year.
MoreHoosiers' heritage takes a beating
May 4, 2012
Comments(41)It's been a tough week for Indiana traditions. Jim Nabors won't be at the Indy 500, the IU-UK match-up has been scrubbed
and the 500 field of 33 may be minus one for the first time since 1934. Is the sky falling? Maybe not, but it sure feels like
it to us Hoosiers.
MoreLong Beach race reveals IndyCar issues
April 16, 2012
Comments(172)IndyCar Series CEO Randy Bernard has two troubling things to ponder in the wake of Sunday's race; marketing and driver
safety.
MoreIndyCar emerges from disaster, but Indy awaits
April 2, 2012
Comments(112)After Dan Wheldon's death last season, few predicted the IndyCar Series would steer its new chassis and engine package
into 2012 smoothly. But so far, the series has opened to mostly rave reviews. The series now faces its biggest test, and opportunity,
at Indy.
MoreLife without Danica presents serious challenges for IndyCar
February 23, 2012
Comments(40)She rarely won. Her tantrums became old and tired. But the media and casual race fans loved Danica Patrick. So the big question
remains, will the series be better or worse off without her?
MoreSarah Fisher frozen out of IndyCar Series
February 21, 2012
Comments(57)The series' only woman owner, and one of its most popular people over the last decade, can't get anyone to sell her
an engine to go racing. She has the money, a promising American driver, a new chassis and new shop. Yet she's still stalled.
MoreIndyCar Series readies to raise curtain on new era
February 13, 2012
Comments(64)While myriad challenges remain, IndyCar's future might finally be pointed in the right direction.
MoreIndyCar crash investigation sheds little light on series' future
December 15, 2011
Comments(35)IndyCar finally set to release its 2012 schedule after investigation into crash at season finale is complete. But many questions
about the series' future remain.
MoreCEO Randy Bernard shakes tree at IndyCar Series
November 30, 2011
Comments(86)SpeedTV is reporting that IndyCar Series CEO Randy Bernard this week fired one high-level executive and demoted another.
MoreIndyCar has had ups, downs since Wheldon's death
November 18, 2011
Comments(118)IndyCar officials have reason to smile with recent developments. Series CEO Randy Bernard also has reason to be very concerned.
MoreEcclestone's antics should ease pain of Indy's F1 loss
November 14, 2011
Comments(22)The way Bernie Ecclestone has treated his new partners in Austin, Texas, recently has to make Indianapolis Motor Speedway
officials at least a little happy they no longer do business with the man known as the Poison Dwarf.
MoreIndyCar, NASCAR drivers face off in Fieldhouse kart race
November 1, 2011
Comment(1)NASCAR drivers Tony Stewart, Austin Dillon and A.J. Allmendinger along with IndyCar racers Scott Dixon and Alex Tagliani will
headline the Dec. 11 race at Conseco Fieldhouse.
MoreNASCAR champ's ill-timed comments no help to IndyCar
October 18, 2011
Comments(44)Five-time defending NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson is calling for an end to open-wheel oval racing. IndyCar officials would
be wise to turn a deaf ear to emotion-driven rants.
MoreFisher's ill-timed comments loom over IndyCar victory
October 3, 2011
Comments(40)Sarah Fisher has been a great ambassador for the sport, but someone needs to tell her that victory circle is the place to
thank sponsors and extol their virtues, not talk about their abandonment of the team.
MoreDanica Patrick bridge-burning tour continues
September 19, 2011
Comments(72)In a matter of three days, the diva driver takes aim at Brazilian drivers, Japan's food supply and the IndyCar CEO's
decision making. So who will she endear in NASCAR?
MoreIndyCar CEO, team owners not on same page
September 14, 2011
Comments(96)Chip Ganassi and Roger Penske refuse to take part in IndyCar CEO's bold bid to bring the open-wheel series some much needed
publicity. Randy Bernard's execution must be better in 2012.
MoreDouble dose of good news for Speedway, IndyCar Series
September 6, 2011
Comments(27)MotoGP gives Speedway big endorsement despite racer complaints, while IndyCar avoids near disasters to score success in key
East Coast market.
MoreToyota finds big return in Indy's drag racing scene
September 2, 2011
Comments(0)Japanese automaker would appear to be an odd entrant in an NHRA race. There's more to it than just trying to beat the
Americans at their own game.
MoreDing dong, Danica era is dead
August 25, 2011
Comments(50)The sooner Dancia Patrick permanently leaves for NASCAR, the better for the IndyCar Series.
MoreIndyCar's new TV deal done with eye on global markets
August 11, 2011
Comments(81)The IndyCar Series' new deal with ABC is worth more than the current deal, sources said. But ESPN's ability to grow
the series overseas is just as important as the financial windfall. Still, the series' most hardcore fans are the least
pleased by the deal.
MoreBrownsburg votes to annex Lucas Oil Raceway
August 8, 2011
Comments(5)Brownsburg officials are promising to help with year-round marketing, security and traffic control during race events, and
are considering extending Ronald Reagan Parkway to make access to the track easier. And sources say the IndyCar Series might
be coming to the track.
MoreNew CEO says local tourism leaders ignoring Speedway
August 4, 2011
Comments(10)Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Association CEO Leonard Hoops thinks it's high time local tourism leaders start thinking
about using the Indianapolis Motor Speedway prominently in marketing materials.
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Cats out of the bag. The object of the game is to get acquired. That means the company has no idea how to grow beyond a certain point. Email is a 1990s technology. I have laughed at this company since day one. Such a small bit player. If it was anywhere but here, it wouldn't be newsworthy.
Esther, Indy has passed Chicago in the local government corruption arena. Don't downgrade us. We're No. 1 in the Midwest.
Does the buyer get to keep the recent Accu-Chek J.D. Power award? Be careful, those Swiss cannot be trusted. Last June they pimped Mayor Ballard and former Governor Daniels at a media op, announcing plans to invest "$300 million at its Indianapolis headquarters, creating up to 100 new jobs by 2017," only to turn around and close the Roche Nutley, NJ facility and eliminate 1000 jobs there later the same week. It seems that healthcare can be innovated only as long as money is to be made. Right now Roche seems to have big eyes for China: there are many Chinese in China and potential billions in Swiss francs! Since Roche is having difficulty with US insurance companies swallowing the bill for overpriced cancer drugs (with debatable efficacy) why not sell insurance to the Chinese and market the drugs to them there? There is a name for these sort of business practices however proper decorum precludes it use in this forum.
Same kind of Luddites who oppose I-69. Guessing their 501(c)(4) application probably sailed right through the IRS.