[Dave V]

A few observations from Sunday. The quality of driving, first to last, is much better than the old days. I think that there were over 25 laps gone before the slowest car was passed. In the early 90's it was closer to 6 or 7 laps. No crashes but some decent passing. Jourdain was forced to start 13th and finished fourth and had better times than the leaders at the end. Some good bumper to bumper driving a couple of times during the race. A very entertaining race even if the winner had the lead, start to finish.

The crowd was larger on Sunday with 28,000 listed in the paper. As I remember there were over 60K back in the early 90's. Laguna Seca has undergone some management changes, a new GM Last November and a lot of new people. I was a volunteer so I was able to see how unorganized they were. Most of the sponsors were Mexican Companies and so the crowd had a large Mexican contingent.

I think the new Laguna Seca management will be more squared away for the Historics. It will get better and new people will have good new ideas. I think CART has a good product but is (or was) badly mismanaged. They need to get American sponsors and do a better job of promoting the drivers names.


Just my 2 cents.

Dave V