Staging Formula One is incredibly expensive.
The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.
At Indy, we are the NASA of the production-car world, and that's clearly why manufacturers are involved - it's such a good testbed.
The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.
All of the courses that run through real streets are very demanding. There is no room for error, no shoulders to lean on. If you go off the road, you're into somebody's shop-window or front porch.