2012 Petite Le Mons
Date Line Indianapolis
October 31, 2012
Former Hulman family board member Tony George appears to have completed a silent coup of the Hulman palace and wrestled away control of what used to be called the Izod Indy Car Series.
With dwindling television ratings, a one sided, LENGTHY TV contract wedding them to a network that started out as a back to nature, camping outdoors outlet, and with one marque event left on the schedule, the Hulman Companies succumbed to an undisclosed offer of “Silly Money” and sold ownership of the series to Mr. George. This is despite comments by the president of the company stating that the series is not for sale.
Within a few days of word surfacing again that Tony George was behind an offer made to the board of directors to purchase the series, a silly season unlike any in the history of ALL sports was launched. Many called Mr. George to task for an obvious conflict of interest. The final analysis will show that Tony did the right thing by resigning from his membership on the board. Said Mr. George, “I realize that my recent efforts to explore the possibility of acquiring INDYCAR represent the appearance of a conflict”. With those words, he left and put together his consortium that became known as the gang of ‘33 is just a number, yo’.
With only a single event left to promote that would allow the purchasers to grow the series, Mr. George hinted that one could line cockroaches up on the grid in May at Indianapolis and still call it the Indy 500. With just that philosophy, Mr. George appears to be in communication with the recently minted builder of the wining vehicle at the Petite Le Mans which took place back on October 20th at Road Atlanta. Word has leaked out that the conceptual developer for the soon to be re-launched motor sport series is changing the name to better reflect the forward thinking evolution of motorsport which is defined by the Deltawing. Hence, the series looks like it will dump its current title sponsor, Izod and refer to the new series as D I C K S.
Dario in the 055 NOT DeltaWing
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