How this turned into a nascar discussion is beyond me, but whatever.
You can see where the fans were upset... they showed up and paid for Formula One, and a CART race breaks out
My opinion on the root cause is complicated. I feel that it is very hard to blame Tony George or the track for 'being fast', HOWEVER, the tire wear issues came about after the grinding of the new surface. Still not really the tracks fault, but a contributing factor.
Michelin... easy to blame, largely at fault due to inadiquate tire testing at the track which is their own fault and responsibility. In my opinion their attitude that they are catagorically not to blame only shows they are stonewalling to cover their azzes when they know they screwed up.
The FiA.. The real culprit, but not for the reasons mostly tossed around since Sunday.The FiA shoulders most of the blame (from my view) for attempting to cripple F1 cars with their one set of tires rule. To me it is rediculous.
They wanted to attempt to keep costs in line, and measures like their one engine rule are more sensible and comprehensible.
But trying to make one set of rubber last and having to set a fragile car up to go the distance on detiriating rubber seems like a disaster waiting to happen. Ask all the people (Kimi Raikonen) who have had suspension failures caused by something as simple as a flat spotted tire.
I do understand that there was an effort to make the teams build stronger more durable cars to handle this, but it seems ludicrus to me.
Thats the root cause of the Indy debacle as i see it.
_just my opinion_
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