The Race Teams Alliance determining that it's impossible to launch a rival series because of track contracts should illustrate to IndyCar fans just what a box they are in when it comes to expansion and adding races at more tracks.

The IndyCar FOX deal being $8 million is crazy. But it also illustrates the penalty that you take to put everything on network TV.

I enjoy that Steve O'Donnell said he's use Pikes Peak if starting a competing series. And I hate that nobody slam dunked on him that NASCAR actually prohibited professional sanctioned auto racing at PPIR in the sale.

But it's styled like the 24 and 48!

I used painter's tape on the light after I replaced it/verified it working. I worked through it pretty methodically and my wife still found ones I missed. But I also had far fewer lights to deal with. 🫡

The second C is for contact.

But it doesn't work because it'd be like the NBA trying to tell Michael Jordan (coincidental example) that he couldn't use the Air Jordan logo on his baseball equipment when he went to play baseball. Its IP that identifies HIM, not the NBA.

This is a big part of why NASCAR was so mad about SRX and why NASCAR wanted teams to give them some power over IP in charter negotiations. Teams using the same IP could lead to confusion in the product. Which I get, but at the same time, that's the team and drivers property to identify themselves.

When you consider that the USPS pays $10 billion into Treasury bonds every year, at a $9 billion loss, that would technically still be a $1 billion profit for the government.

I'm sure the paint scheme designers know. But the marketing execs were like, "One team did it and everyone loved it and it did numbers, so we want to do it too."

Reading between the lines this summer it sounded like if Porsche was dropping to one program that they wanted to be in WEC over IMSA, but they also didn't want to be in WEC.

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I like to imagine 2000 years from now, archaeologists finding it and going, "Um...."

I got 4. I think a fifth has come up when Spotify has autoplayed, but I couldn't even hazard a guess what it sounds like.

IMSA is Jim’s baby. I’d be surprised. I think it’s far more likely that they sell “NASCAR” on the other side of this and try to keep IMSA and the tracks.