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Q: I am a big fan of open-wheel racing, especially the IndyCar Series and the Champ Car World Series.  I would like to know why those series get so much less national TV attention than NASCAR (not that I don't like NASCAR)?  Neither series gets qualifying shown on TV and they have stopped showing the IRL's Indy Pro Series (the "feeder series" for the IndyCar Series) on TV, leaving the Champ Car Atlantic Series as the only "feeder series" in open-wheel racing to be shown on TV. –– Bryan Jackson, Bakersfield A: Bryan, I don’t have any insider information on why there is less national television attention on open-wheel racing compared to NASCAR but I’ll give you my thoughts. The split between the IRL and Champ Car (then CART) in the mid-1990s fragmented open-wheel racing and it has never recovered. That is reflected in television ratings, which are abysmal for open-wheel racing. According to published Nielsen Media...
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