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Dear Danica,

Citizens here know a bit almost the business of IndyCar racing. We therefore write to offer some unsolicited yet humble advice. Do with it what you volition.

Yous take made public your involvement in NASCAR. As a lifelong IndyCar fan, I implore you to plough south, get the best deal you can, even if it's in the Nationwide Series, and go. Run - exercise not walk and do not expect dorsum - because the nowadays management of IndyCar racing volition be of footling do good to y'all.

You're the Special Surprise in a box of cereal that the kids don't want.

You practice not need to race at airports, parking lots, harbors, parks, city streets or any other temporary excursion. These "events" are the unmistakable signs of market rejection. I imagine that you have already figured this out. If so, so nosotros suggest that you trust your instincts because your instincts are skilful. Phony racing circuits aren't your forte, anyhow.

That said, the type of oval racing you lot'll exercise in NASCAR will be unlike annihilation you lot've ever washed before. I suggest that you get in a midget or sprint car this winter. Competing in front end-engine, tube-frame cars with lots of horsepower and little downforce is good preparation for the rigors of NASCAR. You'll learn a lot and be better for it.

What most winning the Indy 500? Yep, you could do it some twenty-four hours. Only, much every bit it pains me to write this, so what? The IRL now serves its squad owners and their managers, engineers and drivers who want to accumulate as many laptops, electronic gizmos, and road and street races as possible. Make no mistake - they all hope you lot stay. They would love to apply you equally an nugget to underwrite a product that consumer rejection has bankrupted twice and likely would have a third time if not for mergification. Don't do it. The Indy 500 will suffer for it, and so will you.

NASCAR and its teams are fundamentally sound, professionally managed enterprises. Did you observe during your Carolina tour that NASCAR teams look like real, operating companies? Did you see guys molding, fabricating, and tooling in those shops? Strange, isn't it?

You lot see, Danica, NASCAR teams began with cypher - they earned everything they have, and they're still working for information technology. IndyCar teams inherited market acceptance and consumer demand simply chose to throw it away, financing their whims with underwriters including shareholders, tobacco companies, auto manufacturers, drivers and their rich parents, scam artists, dictators, narcotics traffickers, governments, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, each other, and, nearly frequently, supply chain arbitrage. Who has time to build a multi-billion dollar business based on mass market place credence when you're having a actually swell time racing at an airdrome in front of a solid oversupply for Texas high school football game?

The remaining IndyCar teams intend to race the way they want to race, and they fully await to convince a new enabler to pay for information technology. They'll probably pull it off, too, with help from Noon Brasil. Certain, names of other "sponsors" will adorn the cars and event titles, but nigh of the cash will have come from the behemoth. Danica, the Brazilian industrial supply concatenation has nothing to offering you. You're already in demand right here. If you lot go to NASCAR, then the demand will actually extend to the race track. You'll accept to get used to it.

Danton, Marat and I wish you well. Selfishly, we hope you stay. We love Indy cars and believe that y'all could help revive the sport. But we run into the emerging strategy, and we know how this story ends.

On behalf of the Committee of Public Safety

Yours,

Roggespierre

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