re: #234 thedopefishlives

Does the original author know that there are almost no American drivers left in the IndyCar Indycar series anymore?

Made a slight change there. IndyCar was the trademark of the old CART PPG World Series. Indy never actually used the term Indy car, they were always Champ Cars or Big Cars.

When the Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) organization was formed and became the sanctioning body for all the races outside Indy, they brought big sponsorship to the series for the first time. PPG Paints was that big sponsor and their marketing department seized the idea of calling the series IndyCar with cap C and trademarked it.

Then warring and politics led to a split in the sanctioning bodies with the formation of the IRL (Indy Racing League -Hulman George Family, owners of IMS) to control the sport. When it was finally over with the buy out of Champcar (the remnants of CART who by court action could no longer use the term IndyCar in any form) the Indianapolis Motor Speedway took control of the rights to the name Indycar (now with a small c).

Just a little politics, racing style. And something I am quite familiar with being involved to a degree.