As ever, his thoughts are filled with a honesty that might ruffle a feather or two, but were he to reply in any other way, he wouldn't be Paul Tracy. Also, I think that many people were planning to be out here the whole week prior to the SuperNationals, so the majority of the fast West coast and Midwest guys were out here testing anyway. There were a few people who were initially upset about the whole affair. We've got all these different organizations and they all have a different opinion on how karting should be run. The exact same thing.
Some folks seem reluctant to sacrifice a piece of their pie, to the detriment of the common good.
There was a kart support race at the 1983 Long Beach Grand Prix, a race won by Scott Pruett. Last year I was here, trying to put together a program to build my own chassis with Sodikart, when I saw Marc Zartarian in the pits. We've known each other a long time, and he was having a bit of a falling out with his importer when he said that he'd like to be involved with our program. He had some good ideas about design, and he had a distribution network, something I didn't have. Marc and I worked together and went back to Sodikart, but we couldn't get together with them on some design issues.