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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Long Beach CA, the sewer by the sea.
Posts: 38,168
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Simple, I don't watch the race, just the highlights. I can't be bothered with spending 2 hours on something like a street race. I don't even go to the LBGP anymore. They've been doing that for nearly 50 years and it's old.
But it's a good show for them and everyone makes money so there is that. It was a lot of fun when Al Unser Jr. and Michael Andretti were trading wins. Mario won the first F1 race at LB and that made it work. History will tell you that the LBGP would not have survived without those 3.
It was an idea by a travel agent named Chris Pook to have a Monte Carlo style race and he, originally from the UK, was an LB resident. Other cities followed but it hasn't really been that good of an idea. It's a money grab.
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