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Even if there were a reunification, open-wheel racing has a huge struggle against NASCAR. IRL & CC are like two cheerleaders arguing at a football game. Few are paying any attention to them; the rest are watching the action on the field.
Neither IRL or CC has demonstrated they understand the cause of NASCAR's success (or their own failures). Is it due to marketing, wisdom (they've been doing this for a very long time and know what works and what doesn't) or substance (today's Americans just don't enjoy road racing)? And neither series seems to have a real plan for the future against NASCAR. This shows how limited their thinking is.
Are they comfortable being a feeder series to NASCAR, watching their stars struggle to compete with the tin-topped good ol' boys? Until someone comes up with a plan to compete with NASCAR, they're like two vagabonds fighting over cigarette butts. Eventually one will quit and slink off, letting the other pretend he won something.
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