This writer has lamented many times about how, in motorsport, silly-season gossip about the future tends to distract from the here and now. In the case of, say, the top class in WEC over the past four years and the interminable internecine Toyota battle, it would be understandable if the focus was pulled away from on-track action and turned instead to ever-brightening prospects with new regs and new manufacturers.
But in IndyCar, it seems plain sad that we seem discontent with the status quo, which generally involves more than a dozen potential race winners on any given weekend and, at the halfway point of the season, six or seven drivers across three or four teams who have a legitimate shot at the title.
