We can thank botched marketing by the ingrates who currently run that corporation. A true shame. Michael Andretti trying to hold the lead as the rain threatened just beyond mid-race was high drama. And rightly so. The Coke 600, for all its magnificent after-dark running around the beautiful Lowe's Motor Speedway, was doomed to play second banana to Indy.
Money is money, but pride is pride.
In my modest opinion, no one is a complete driver until he's raced either an Indianapolis car or a Formula 1 machine. Roofs and doors don't count. Fence-climbing by the Burton crew was a weak imitation of Helio's act. You can look it up. Just ask Roger Penske or Chip Ganassi, not to mention Jack Roush, Joe Gibbs, Rick Hendricks and Robert Yates.