Team boss moots IRL-NASCAR link
Long-time IRL IndyCar team owner John Barnes has called for the series to consider becoming a support event at NASCAR races
The Panther Racing boss told the Tampa Tribune that the benefits of racing in front of NASCAR's huge crowds outweighed any perceived loss of status.
"We would make it where we would race on Saturday to replace a Busch or ARCA race, and they (Nextel Cup) would race on Sunday," Barnes said.
"I have no problem being second fiddle to them, I just want to get in front of their fans and show them what real racing is all about."
But the IRL's recently-appointed marketing president Terry Angstadt said that the IndyCar Series deserved to be a headline event rather than a side attraction at a NASCAR meeting.
"We would love to make our series better, and we will open the thought waves of doing that," he told the newspaper.
"But at the same time, I think we are a tier one series, and certainly it would be hard to argue that the Indianapolis 500 is not a cornerstone event, if not the premier motor sports event in the world."
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