Brian Barnhart
Brian Barnhart
Brian Barnhart is the President of Race Operations of IndyCar. Having previously served as director of race operations for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and IRL, he is charged with primarily the safety and competition of the racing. Brian's most well-known on-camera role has been giving final instructions to every Indianapolis 500 qualifying attemptee before their run. He was also the president of the league from 2005 to early 2007...
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Looking back on it, I think it was the right decision.
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It's really unfortunate that Fontana was not listed on the 2006 calendar,
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I'm confident that we will be back in this market in 2007. We want to keep an open mind and an open dialogue and do what we can to get back in this market in 2007. -- there are hurdles to overcome.
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If there is no competition in 2007, there are some short term benefits to that as well,
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The review process is an on-going process, and we continue our review.
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I didn't think anybody really cared anymore since this event wasn't as big as it used to be,
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I do wish people would step back and look at it with a little bit more of a perspective and be a little more fair of a situation,
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The economy plays into that and the cost of racing plays into that, and we are doing everything we can to control spiraling costs.
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The idea for this act originated from an act I did while traveling with the circus group Electric Blue Monkey Theater. We traveled all over the U.S. in a bus that ran on vegetable oil.
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The key is we are going to have a very open-minded relationship with Honda over the next several years to take a different approach on how the series is grown,
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If Danica and Buddy run, which Bobby Rahal told me they would, then we'll have 18, and I consider that a full field.