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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
Sarah Fisher nabs primary sponsor
April 11, 2008
Comments(0)ResQ Pure Power Energy Drink, a recently launched product, will sponsor Sarah Fisher and Sarah Fisher Racing
for this year’s Indianapolis 500. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but motorsports sources...
MoreIRL innovation a life saver
April 7, 2008
Comments(6)NASCAR rookie Michael McDowell owes Indy Racing League leaders—and especially Tony George—a measure of gratitude.
If not for research funded by the IRL and George, and led by the University of Nebraska, McDowell, 23,...
MoreIRL incorporates sponsor in logo
April 3, 2008
Comments(4)Today, the Indy Racing League officially announced its sponsorship agreement with DirecTV that was first reported
on this site March 27. Sources familiar with the multi-year deal said it is worth $3 million...
MoreJust Marketing signs BMW deal
April 3, 2008
Comment(1)Officials for locally based Just Marketing International today announced they finalized a deal this week to
work with BMW North American motorsports. Financial terms of the deal were not released.
Central to the commitment...
MoreIRL signs major deal with Coke
April 1, 2008
Comments(2)The Indy Racing League today announced a multi-year agreement with Coca-Cola North America that will make
Coca-Cola an official sponsor of the Indy Racing League through 2010.
Terms of the category exclusive deal were...
MoreDanica a hit with kids
March 31, 2008
Comment(1)While Danica Patrick earned a sixth-place finish in the Indy Racing League season opener at Homestead-Miami
Speedway, 2,740 miles away in Los Angeles she was the winner of another contest.
The Andretti Green Racing...
MoreUnified IRL off to fast start
March 31, 2008
Comments(5)The early returns are good for the Indy Racing League. Attendance and television ratings at Saturday’s season
opener in Miami were up and local media and fans raved about the on-track racing.
Although the...
MoreIRL a step closer to title sponsor
March 27, 2008
Comments(11)The Indy Racing League late yesterday finalized a deal worth $3 million annually over the next few years
that will essentially make DirecTV the series’ presenting sponsor. The California-based satellite television
service provider...
MoreMenards races back to IRL
March 18, 2008
Comments(3) The company that powered Tony Stewart to the 1997 Indy Racing League championship is coming back to open-wheel
racing. John Menard confirmed that his Menards chain of hardware superstores will be sponsoring Tony...
MoreFor $399, you can drive like A.J.
March 12, 2008
Comments(3)Business is good for the Indy Racing Experience, which was founded in a Gasoline Alley shop in 1987. The
company, which started allowing fans to ride around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in two-seat...
MoreChamp Car files bankruptcy
March 6, 2008
Comment(1)Champ Car Wednesday filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy, igniting what could potentially be a bidding war for its
assets. The Indy Racing League last month agreed to acquire certain assets of Champ Car, but the bankruptcy
court could open things up....
MoreGeorge pursuing F1 return for 2009
March 6, 2008
Comments(16)Negotiations are heating up between Formula One and Indianapolis Motor Speedway officials that could bring
F1 racing back to Indianapolis in 2009. Speedway boss Tony George told an audience at yesterday’s IU Business...
MoreIndy trails in sponsor exposure race
March 4, 2008
Comments(2)Recently released data shows NASCAR’s Daytona 500 is still miles ahead of the Indianapolis 500 in terms of
value the race delivers to sponsors. But, with the unification of the Indy Racing League...
MoreIn motorsports, does 1+1=3?
February 28, 2008
Comments(3)Does Gov. Mitch Daniels’ anointing of auto racing industry veteran Rollie Helmling as the state’s motorsports
development director--or the unification of the Indy Racing League and Champ Car--create more motorsports business
opportunities here? While state officials say yes, others in...
MoreMove over Danica
February 27, 2008
Comments(12)There could be as many as four women drivers in this year’s Indy Racing League season. Danica Patrick and
Sarah Fisher already have signed deals to race this year. Yesterday, Venezuelan Milka Duno...
MoreAt last, open-wheel unity!
February 20, 2008
Comments(5)UPDATE (Feb. 22): Owners of Champ Car and the Indy Racing League completed an agreement in principle today
that will unify the sport for 2008, said a statement released at 4:40 p.m. by the Indy Racing League. Several
Champ Car...
MoreDanica look-alikes at LaGuardia
February 20, 2008
Comments(2)AirTran Airways, a sponsor of Danica Patrick’s, recently announced that passengers at LaGuardia Airport in
New York will have the privilege of their own personal pit crew to get through check-in fast, thanks to
a hustling team of Danica Patrick...
MoreOpen-wheel deal raises questions
February 19, 2008
Comments(10)The Indy Racing League series will hold a press conference tomorrow to announce its unification with Champ
Car, sources close to the series said. John Griffin, Indy Racing League vice president of public relations,
said though the exact timing of...
MoreA positive spin for IRL defections?
February 18, 2008
Comments(5)With its season opener six weeks away, the Indy Racing League is getting some preseason exposure from an
unlikely source. During the run-up to NASCAR’s biggest race, the Daytona 500, the spotlight shined on two
IRL alums vying for the...
MoreDanica races into SI swimsuit issue
February 12, 2008
Comments(4)You can’t say Indy Racing League driver Danica Patrick doesn’t make a splash. Patrick can be found gracing
the pages of Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit issue, which hits...
MoreSmart strategy or spinning wheels?
February 12, 2008
Comments(5)While the lights for an Indy Racing League-Champ Car merger appear to be turning green, smoke is apparently
pouring from Champ Car’s balance sheet. Two well placed sources confirmed Champ Car will likely file bankruptcy,
possibly as early as today.
Champ...
MoreOpen-wheel unity talks rolling again
February 8, 2008
Comments(8)Sources close to the Indy Racing League and Champ Car say both sides have agreed on terms for a merger
that will take place this year.
Indy Racing League boss Tony George is set to help any Champ Car teams that...
MoreSparks fly over unification talks
February 6, 2008
Comments(7)Two recent revelations left open-wheel racing fans and sponsors wondering if the unification of the Indy Racing
League and Champ Car is finally at hand. What is less clear is if unification of North America’s two largest
open-wheel racing circuits...
MoreDeal's dead for race track
February 1, 2008
Comments(0)The deal to sell O’Reilly Raceway Park in Clermont is dead, and racing insiders said the opportunity to
raise the local facility’s profile even higher might have died with it. Some within the racing community
felt the suitor, a Santa...
MoreFox black flags Danica ad
January 28, 2008
Comments(7) Motorsports insiders have been skeptical
about Danica Patrick’s self-promotion plan ever
since she raced onto the open-wheel scene
more than five years ago.
From her spread in men’s magazine FHM to her
bad-girl persona, Patrick never has been afraid to shake...
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In my opinion the estridge companies are crooks. They filed bankruptcy on their 'track housing' side of the business two weeks before they closed on one of my clients' homes. When my client first interviewed Estridge as a builder 6 months before, they specifically ASKED about the solvency of their business, knowing that some builders were struggling. Estridge truly misrepresented their financial situation at that time. I suppose I am more unhappy with the whole system than I am with the builder because what the heck==you can file bankruptcy on 'track homes' but still keep building and make money off of 'custom built' homes??? How ridiculous! They are all homes. How can a company be allowed to bilk thousands of dollars from their subcontractors but still be allowed to build houses?? they should have been made to pay back all their unpaid contractors before being allowed to profit from building any more houses! This alone makes them and the system crooks in my eyes. I would never build an estridge home and I would not recommend for my clients either. If they were truly 'bankrupt' how could they afford to keep building homes anyway??? The whole system needs fixed.
I live a couple blocks east of the Angie's campus and my house is assessed for ~$160,000. If I could get that amount, let alone $384,000 (a 140% bonus), I'd sell in a minute. Either Angie's stockholders just got fleeced, or Angie's is getting about a 58% discount on their property taxes, if these properties are actually worth what they paid Mr. Oesterle for them. Which do you think is the case?
Perhaps the IMA board is really to blame! They agreed to hire Charles. They can't seemingly find donors among themselves, or bring in new blood that will support the museums operating budget with an expanded museum and money to provide curators with something to do (ie buy art). The headlines of disarray at the museum and mass firings are hurting the reputation of the museum for some time to come. If people on the board had misgivings, perhaps they shpuld have more forcefully opposed efforts that they have seemingly been unable to fund, like expansion and the costs it has created!
See, I told u Indyman and Dipsicle....this 8 days is overkill. It's barely worth a weekend....great job Tony George! Your dream has been fulfilled....he fans want the I r l back. Thats how good it was.....and that sucked.
I have been in training for a short time now but right off I can see that safety and quality are the number one issues, my experience as of late has been a positive one, the employees along with Jeff the plant manager and the operation supervisor as well as the engineers are a highly motivated group of people, what an asset for the area to have and for company's in need of a quality metal products.