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Several insightful rants on Peter De Lorenzo's Autoextremist.com this week. But this one stood out from the race-fan's perspective:

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....the news of the imminent demise of Champ Car and its absorption into the IndyCar Series does not conjure up old feelings of hostility or a "winners" vs. "losers" scenario for me. There's little left to be said about why the original split happened and what it did or didn't accomplish, because at this point it just doesn't matter. Suffice to say that America's racing landscape has changed unequivocally in these last 12 years, and the toll from the "split" has been devastating.

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