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The 'Double' May Be Impossible in the Future

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The 'Double' May Be Impossible in the Future: This year could be the last time any driver competes in both the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 in the same day if the Indy 500's starting time is changed. ABC, Indy Racing League and speedway officials are considering moving the starting time of the Indy 500 back, beginning next year. Tradition dictates that the race start at noon, but that's 9:00am on the West Coast and makes it hard to attract a larger audience. Pushing the Indianapolis 500's starting time back an hour most likely would prevent any driver from running both races because they wouldn't be able to get to Lowe's Motor Speedway in time for the start of the 600. Since John Andretti first accomplished the feat in 1994, Tony Stewart and Robby Gordon have done it.

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Not to smart on the IRL's part, having cup drivers run the indy 500 helps out ratings quite a bit, and if they make it late enough to overlap the coke 600 that will take away some viewers from the 500 also.

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Leave it to Tony George to screw thing up again!!! It's because of his actions that open wheel racing is in the predicament it is today. He finally succeeded it killing CART, now that all the big names are in his league, he's screwing with it again. Some people never learn.

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I would venture to say that the biggest push to move the time is coming from ABC not so much from IRL and the speedway so they can try to get west coast ratings up.

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