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  1. Wow, actually a coherrent answer from you. I am proud. Sure it took months of wading through a lot of 2 cent answers, but it is almost worth it.

    The problem with the competition aspect among tires, maufacturers and even to some point teams really does not have much depth in series racing anymore.

    Take NASCAR. Other than sponsorship, there really is no Chevy, Ford, Dodge or Toyota cars running. On Sunday, pretty much the same cars with the same engines running on the same tires will be take the green flag. About the only difference is the stickers on the cars. I think the reason for that is cost. NASCAR runs the series on the cheap side to get more cars 43 or so per event and to attract the PBR crowd. Contrast that with F1 which really does have true competition with cars that are not cookie cutter. The trade off, high dollar racing that limits it to 20 cars at most, and ticket prices that make it available only to the Perier crowd.

    Cart appeared to try to be the F1 light. Fewer ovals, more foriegn drivers, more international races and attract the wealthier crowd. It did not work for them. In the end, it was as much spec racing as NASCAR.

    The IRL on the other hand tried to stay the true American open wheel series by keeping costs low, support American drivers, on ovals in America. It survives, but has compromised many of its original ideas supposedly to attract the former cart crowd.

    SO I would argue that there is little of the competition you want in racing today. Blowing up the IRL and starting from scratch certainly will not get it. I think the best thing is for the IRL to position itself to come out of the recession with a definite business model and stick to it. I think coming up with an all new car design and if it is the wingless prototype, then so be it. I have never stated status quo is good. I think the IRL made a mistake when it started catering to the cart crowd. The IRL should have stuck to its original vision. Such is life.



  2. Cart was so successful it went bankrupt twice. Got to love that kind of success.

    Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge. You have it down pretty well.

  3. Hope,

    Just a little correction. The voice of the Colts is Bob Lamey, and yes, he is very passionate about his team and knows his sport well. We have another great announcer in Mark Boyle, who does the play-by-play announcing for the Pacers. He is the best basketball play-by-play guy I have ever heard. Both gentlemen are a treat to listen to when they are just talking about general topics as well. Your take on it as being a form of story telling had never occured to me, but I could not agree more. Maybe we should go to a game together sometime, and take our headphones with us.

  4. Hey Timmy, you wanted to be rich and famous! Remember? You're famous but you aint' rich and never gonna be. Whatcha gonna be is locked away, hahahahahahahahahah!!!

  5. Misleading editorial, full of misinformation. But more disturbing are the slanderous and paranoid statements in these comments. And the shareholder comment? Ahem, the stock has rocketed since Biglari took the helm. . . how is that bad for shareholders?

    Ego. . . perhaps so, but it's not objectionable if you can back it up, and Biglari has.

    Biglari has executed beautifully on turning a company around with deep embedded value that was being run into the ground by its previous board, not the other way around. In fact, there has been talk for several years among Buffet progeny in the value investing world of how incredible the SNS opportunity is. It's just now becoming clear how much embedded, untapped value there was in the company, evidenced by its cash flow and stock price.

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