Indy Racing League

There was once a snail named Gus and the dream he had was to Become the world's first indianapolis snail racer. Gus was a normal garden snail who lived In a tomato garden with his brother Juan and his friends. Everyday Gus would time himself on how long it would take it him to get from one side of the garden to the other. One day Gus woke up and went straight to one side of the garden to time himself how long it would take him to other side. Gus is half way through the garden and his brother

exclusive products at their events, or special editions of already existing products.There are several sponsors that could mutually benefit from working together such as new products that need an investment which is related to the automotive or open wheel racing community, or tools that race viewers could learn about. According to Schoettle "average viewers was 2.7 million

things a racer should know if he/she is racing. 1. Participants should know the weight of the car with the surroundings inside the car. 2. Participants should know how much of weight they’re putting on the car while driving or making a hard turn.3. Make sure that every racer understands to be careful. There were many famous racers in the Indy 500. There were male racers and female racers who have won of lot of races. Ray Harroun was the first person to won the Indy 500 race. The race happened in 1911

The internal split that led to the creation of the Indy Racing League was a forced market segmentation of the open wheel auto racing market. From a segmentation perspective, the split was unsuccessful for a number of reasons. The primary reason the split was unsuccessful is that it grouped the fans into two very different groups based on the type of track being used for the different leagues. The secondary reason the split was unsuccessful is related to the division of the sponsorships. The final

open-wheel racing in the United States is a story of incredible success and terrible failure. The story can be seen to have started in 1978 with the formation of the Championship Auto Racing Team or CART. The league was founded by several racing teams who were dissatisfied with the way open-wheel racing was being handled. CART experienced tremendous success for a number of years and represented the most popular form of motor sports in the United States. The wheels on the success of CART racing began

Indianapolis Motor Speedway, viewed as potential issues in the league. The first concern was that Championship Auto Racing Teams, also known as CART was losing touch with the principles of open-wheel racing in America by holding several events in foreign countries, too much focus on racing on oval tracks, and the promotion of CART foreign drivers. Due to major concerns and differences in the races George created a new open-wheel league that was set in place to compete with CART.

other league opportunities; and it was at this time in 1978, Championship Automobile Racing Teams began. This type of racing was the forum for open-wheel racing in the United States and for 17 years led open-wheel racing. Anton H. “Tony” George, owner of the Indianapolis 500 believed CART was focusing too much on foreign popularity versus the United States; therefore, the creation of the open-wheel league in 1996 called the Indy Racing League (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014). The Indianapolis Racing League

Motor Speedway, created the Indy Racing League (IRL) to be a new open-wheel league that would compete with Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART), the new league was disruptive to open-wheel racing in the U.S. as team owners were forced to decide whether they would remain with CART or move to the new IRL (Ferrell and Hartline, 2014, p. 440). Because of his concerns that CART was losing sight of the interests of American open-wheel racing by putting too much emphasis on racing at road courses rather than

professional sports teams and opportunities to see top-level professional racing. The city’s professional basketball teams, the WNBA’s Indiana Fever and the NBA’s Indiana Pacers, host games at Bankers Life Fieldhouse downtown. Just down the street is Lucas Oil Stadium, home of The Indianapolis Colts, who compete in the NFL (Visit Indy). Besides these major league teams, the Indianapolis Indians are the AAA league affiliates of Major League Baseball’s Pittsburgh

Today's Indy Car series seems to be “split equally between oval races and road/street races”, according to USA Today (Ryan, N. (2011). “The Indy Racing League was an all-oval series at its 1996 inception, but gradually has moved toward a more balanced schedule since it began adding road and street courses in 2005” (Menzies, & Nguyen, 2012). This student believes that 50-50 mix of ovals and road races should be the mix of formats for future Indy car races, because of the controversial it bought on