Originally Posted by 91ACCORDDX

axemansean, this is kind of unrelated to this particular thread but it does have to do with IRL. I was wondering why Marlboro Team Penske still has a tobacco company as their sponsor while Forsythe had to give up their Players sponsor and Ferrari F1 had to remove their Marlboro decals for last years USGP? Nobody that I have asked has been able to give me an answer about that. My brother worked at Team Rahal here in Ohio and he could not even answer it.

I also have another question. I think the fact that IRL is now going to be road racing the demise of CART or ChampCar (whatever they are calling themselves today) will soon follow. I give it two seasons at most before CART is gone for good. I used to be a big fan of CART but when they got bought out by OWRS and some of the bigger name teams started dropping out and moving to IRL I lost interest. I honestly hope that once CART finally goes down for good Tony George will buy the contracts for the CART tracks (I miss the Mid-Ohio race!) and the old CART teams will all move over to IRL and there will once again be one unified American Open Wheel Series. Hopefully if that does happen they will keep the same manufacturers and switch to Turbo V8's kind of like CART now just not only Ford Cosworth. I would be interested to hear your feelings on this.