Who in the world would agree to lead this mess after the way Bernard was treated? It would seem that anyone smart enough to run this series would be smart enough to avoid it. You are almost correct in all you say.. What you have forgotten or perhaps been too nice to state, is the place and the series is now operated by a very disfunctional group.
Once Tony Hulman and Joe Cloutier were gone it became a rudderless ship. The current managment are friends of Tony George.
While they will never admit it, RB was a lame duck the first day on the job, unless he was able to walk on water. The majority of the owners and the locals act like a group of spoiled children not getting their way. No one with common sense would take that job. When Roger Penske states the board screewed up, I think that tells the entire story. That person needs to be a cross between be Bill France and Berine Ecolestone. In other words it wont happen.
All the bloggers are crying boo-hoo. Their boy Ropin Randy is gone. He was the worst hire in the history of sports. Are you really TG using a pseudonym?
And I believe not only the bloggers are crying boo-hoo—they are just the ones who most closely reflect the voices of the fans—because they ARE fans. IndyCar should be sold. However, not to the likes of Tony George. IndyCar needs to be sold to a group of competent business people who will take the fans into consideration. The IMS board, through their action Sunday, has not only embarassed IndyCar but demonstrated how incompetent and political they actually are.
Anyone who is not dead could see that Randy did not want to resign. In fact, he was moving forward to improve IndyCar which had a solid year in with greater fan exuberance than in past years. Now all that will be reversed and IndyCar will probably sink back into the mire similar to the years when Tony George was in control. Indycar will not be sold to anyone outside the family.
That would give an outsider too much leverage with the Anyway—where would all those relatives work? New TV contract—nope, not up for several years. And they negotiated the last loser in the first place. More ovals?
Owners will love that. Cancel street races? Be a warm-up act for Nationwide races? Put on 2 more fenders and merge with ALMS? Go-kart rides on the infield track at IMS? My initial outrage has given way to laughter at the neverending self-abuse of this racing series.
There is a lot wrong with Indy car. Trying to set up a race in Italy is just a prime example. The China race was stupid and if that is why he lost his job, there might be merit to that. There are too few ovals and no real excuse for it. Way too many street courses.
Too much control by the owners, which led to the demise of CART. If they had fired him for these things, it might have had merit. Bernard was fired because the owners are taking over Tony George or no Tony George. Interesting opinions. Good stuff from George as always. It really depends on who Randy is replaced with for me. As for Bernard, the guy did a lot of good things, no question, but nobody knows what he was like inside the company, etc.
Too much unknown for me to be freaked out in any direction over this. As I said, who is hired next will tell a fuller story. Dog, if you are in a wait and see mode regarding what went on inside the company you may want to stock up on your favorite coffee. Prediction — Within 5 years and possibly sooner The Indianapolis Motor Speedway will go the way of Riverside, Ontario and many of the great old racing venues and become a real estate development.
The third generation of family management has arrived and that is the death of many, if not the majority, of family run companies. When IBJ used its sources and published a story, Bernard and everyone at IndyCar decided to stick to their guns until they could coordinate a response. That is the case at the moment and in the future. But what did you expect?
We were trying to keep it on the down low, but yeah, we let Randy go. I guess in this age of immediate news, what would we expect?
I compare it to reporting the victims of an accident before informing the next of kin. I know that is the goal of journalism, an maybe it is Poly-Anna-ish of me to hope it could be another way. I liked the man. At the halfway point in the NTT IndyCar Series season, we've had seven winners in eight races, spread between five teams — none of them Team Penske. Tickets Subscribe.
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Because of the way the board handled it. If they wanted to take their time to hire, say, a Scott Atherton first, they should have delayed the firing.
In sum, while Randy Bernard in many ways did a good job, his had some undeniable performance deficits which he did not fully mitigate. He made some bad moves any of which could have justified his dismissal.
But it was the ugliness that ultimately made his tenure come to an end the way it did. People can really treat one another horribly at times and in this, no one ends up looking pretty. Open letter to IndyCar fans from Jeff Belskus. Record-setting Indianapolis engineer Wardrop dies. David Malsher-Lopez explains what made the Palou-Ganassi combo so potent so soon.
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At the halfway point in the NTT IndyCar Series season, we've had seven winners in eight races, spread between five teams — none of them Team Penske.
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