This is what started it all - The press release from IMS stating their intention to form their own Indycar league signed by Tony George. This is how the 1994 #indycar season started. Imagine how different the sport would be today had this not occurred...

And we’re still trying to rebuild the races to this day…CART wasn’t perfect but TG was worse!

Not sure it's possible to overstate the damage Tony George did to open wheel racing in North America.

If I've said it once, I've said it a million times... Fuck. Tony. George.

Bernie was really worried about the growth of IndyCar, right up until...

Fuck Tony George and those Crap Wagons. CART was a great series that had plenty of national recognition. It is my opinion that the Frances were heavily involved in this to take down CART.

Looked so idiotic when TG spoke. For years, IC was growing leaps and bounds, rivaling F1 popularity with many big names drivers coming in. Even Senna was furious after testing the Penske in '93 by finding out IC had more HP than F1 cars of the days.

The bad thing is, CART was still mismanaged. There was too much influence from different directions and no clear direction of where it was going. Disregarding the 500 as the premier event didn't help them. So many things from both sides could have stopped it.

Then after all of that, things are right back to the series being the way it was then. The only things different, Tony George is completely out of the picture with less cool cars than the CART cars.

The cynic in me believes that the owners would still go down the path of cost savings and appeasement of suppliers and the sport would have declined as a result, maybe delayed by a few years. Unless someone had come along with a vision to keep modernizing the series.

They actually did that back then and sold their chassis to the IRL owners