Jay, if attendance numbers are "up" everywhere, why did MPH's financial guidance update predict a greater loss on CART-promoted races, of which there have been four so far? If attendance is "up," where's the money? They announced 112,000 at Cleveland and two weeks later said they were upgrading their losses on CART-promoted events.
As for the American media ditching CART, Forrest Bond has a story out now that alleges Robin Miller, John Oreowicz, Gordon Kirby and David Phillips are bought-and-paid-for journalists by CART who write the CART company line for their other "journalistic" clients. If true, that brand of ethics has been breached by CART and those writers to be exactly the opposite.
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