Putting the CART Before the Horsepower

So the Marlboro 500 was “not up to expectations” and not “much of a race.” Hello, did you watch the same race we did? Ten lead changes, wheel-to-wheel and nose-to-tail racing, position changes because of pit strategy and times, Andretti charging through the pack from ninth to first in about eight laps. Everyone I spoke with at the speedway and during the train ride home had a great time. Maybe Shav Glick and Mike Kupper equate “exciting race” with more crashes.

GEORGE JOHNSON

La Crescenta

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Whether your writers have been jaded by visiting too many oval races, or they are more partial to the slam-bang sprint action of the Long Beach Grand Prix, I do not know. I do know that local race fans are thrilled to have an oval track in their own backyard, and for L.A. to be the only place in the nation where an oval and street course CART race are run every year.

Boring? No way.

STEVEN PARKER

Marina del Rey