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Actually, if you follow racing, almost all of the top openwheel drivers that are not in F1 are in the IRL now. The Unser, Andretti, and Foyt names are still racing there.
In yesterday's 500, you saw Helio Castroneves, Michael Andretti, Al Unser Jr, Kenny Brack, Gil de Ferran, Tony Kanaan, A.J. Foyt IV, Thomas Scheckter, Sam Hornish, Scott Sharp, and top rookies Scott Dixon and Dan Wheldon. You also had Robby Gordon and Jimmy Vasser from other circuits trying to win the greatest race of the year. There is also a Japanese contingent that gives the race an important international flare (Roger Yasukawa, Shinji Nakano, and Tora Takagi).
While it's still not back to the popularity that it had before the split, the IRL has already gone around the CART in terms of drivers and appeal to racing fans. The CART will die before the IRL does if they don't get back together (which could happen in the future). As for the speed of the cars, 230 mph is not that slow, in my opinion.
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