Indy 500 lost its relevance 20 years ago? Is that why they have over 400,000 spectators every year, and why ABC/ESPN expanded coverage this year?
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The Indy 500 is even more relevant now that CART/Champ Car has disappeared as a separate body and reunited with IRL.
(Guess all that publicity and coverage of the IRL, Danica Patrick, Milka Duno, etc. is lost on lovers of that handsome Tommie Brady*.)