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Okay, here are the inaccuracies:
--IRL management is responsible for TV ratings. IRL management is responsible for putting on races and generally, the ratings have been low, but growing slowly, like attendance. Does ABC/ESPN production and management have something to do with it? Does scheduling have something to do with it? The IRL management is not the ONLY factor involved. Whether Sadie in Omaha has a Nielsen box and does or doesn't watch has something to do with it, too.
--Pikes Peak was bought by ISC and closed down. Nazareth was bought by ISC and closed down. The IRL ran races at both places until they closed down. The IRL didn't own the tracks.
--Being kicked out of New Hampshire? (mutual). Being kicked out of Phoenix? (scheduling problem with its second Cup race). Atlanta? (mutual...it didn't work for USAC in the '60s or CART in the '80s, either). Charlotte? (yes, after the tragic accident there, Humpy Wheeler said he wouldn't run them any more there). Fontana (see Phoenix). Michigan (scheduling problem). So, of all mentioned, one (Charlotte) could be exagerrated to "kicked out."
--100-plus drivers hospitalized? That just hasn't happened.
--A "crippling lack of attendance?" If true, why don't we hear promoters complain? They must be making money because some people must be showing up and buying tickets and corporate support is also there.
--"Bare aluminum at Indy." Sure, there's some in Turn 3 but there are 270,000 seats at Indy, not just a section of Turn 3 and the rest of them have bodies in them. Call it 250,000 and say bad attendance? Uh uh.
--"Drivers bailing as fast as possible to NASCAR?" You can look at how many years Franchitti and Hornish spent in the IRL before those TWO (2) drivers went to NASCAR.
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