Out of Turbo in Houston
Sometimes things happen for a reason. You may worry about certain decisions after you make them, but at times, the events that follow make you glad you trusted your gut.
I was originally scheduled to go to Houston, Texas, for the Champ Car World Series race. I was also going to schedule a photo shoot there as well. For whatever reason, the excitement that I had for going to that race for the second straight year just wasn't there this year. I honestly was a little perturbed at Champ Car. And as it turns out, I'm glad I didn't buy that ticket.
It appears that the civil war in American open-wheel racing is coming to an end with the rumblings that the Indy Racing League will absorb three Champ Car races this season, and after the Grand Prix of Long Beach, what we now know as the Champ Car World Series will cease to exist. Itself a series that broke away from USAC in 1979, Champ Car survived a bankruptcy in 2003 after taking numerous hits to its prestige after the formation of the Indy Racing League in 1995. IRL founder Tony George held the ultimate trump card: he is also president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. And quite frankly, there's no open-wheel race that matters more than the Indianapolis 500 with the possible exception of Formula One's Monaco Grand Prix.
The Grand Prix of Houston is not one of the three races that the IRL is rumored to absorb this season. With that said, I feel sort of bad not to be attending the race weekend in Houston, as the American Le Mans Series will be running the Lone Star Grand Prix the same weekend, and those cars are just the shit to look at and listen to. But at the same time, who knows if ALMS will even hold the race now that the headline event (the Champ Car race) will not take place.
Meh, sometimes the effects of the decisions you make don't show themselves for a while after you make them. But my point is this: once you make the decision, go forward. Don't go tentatively, put the gas on the floorboard and get moving. When you recognize that perhaps it wasn't the right decision, tread lightly and adjust. If you have to backtrack, well, do it. But don't play "what-ifs" for the whole journey. Just do it.
I was originally scheduled to go to Houston, Texas, for the Champ Car World Series race. I was also going to schedule a photo shoot there as well. For whatever reason, the excitement that I had for going to that race for the second straight year just wasn't there this year. I honestly was a little perturbed at Champ Car. And as it turns out, I'm glad I didn't buy that ticket.
It appears that the civil war in American open-wheel racing is coming to an end with the rumblings that the Indy Racing League will absorb three Champ Car races this season, and after the Grand Prix of Long Beach, what we now know as the Champ Car World Series will cease to exist. Itself a series that broke away from USAC in 1979, Champ Car survived a bankruptcy in 2003 after taking numerous hits to its prestige after the formation of the Indy Racing League in 1995. IRL founder Tony George held the ultimate trump card: he is also president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. And quite frankly, there's no open-wheel race that matters more than the Indianapolis 500 with the possible exception of Formula One's Monaco Grand Prix.The Grand Prix of Houston is not one of the three races that the IRL is rumored to absorb this season. With that said, I feel sort of bad not to be attending the race weekend in Houston, as the American Le Mans Series will be running the Lone Star Grand Prix the same weekend, and those cars are just the shit to look at and listen to. But at the same time, who knows if ALMS will even hold the race now that the headline event (the Champ Car race) will not take place.
Meh, sometimes the effects of the decisions you make don't show themselves for a while after you make them. But my point is this: once you make the decision, go forward. Don't go tentatively, put the gas on the floorboard and get moving. When you recognize that perhaps it wasn't the right decision, tread lightly and adjust. If you have to backtrack, well, do it. But don't play "what-ifs" for the whole journey. Just do it.
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