One thing that has struck me is IndyCar placing much of the blame on the fact that the track was multi-groove and pretty much stating that they need to be racing at single groove venues.

Maybe IndyCar would advocate returning to Darlington. The champ cars looked pretty single groove in this old Darlington photo:

I don't think the Indy cars will ever be successful drawing a crowd big enough to cover the payoff at any venue not in a large metro area.

I'd love to see it happen. When we brought the NASCAR Tour Modifieds to Richmond in the 90s and paired them with USAC Silver Crown we drew huge crowds for a couple of years. The crowds at the RIR Indy Car shows were only 18,000 - 20,000, versus 60,000 for a Busch race.

Amen, PK. There is no worse race on the NASCAR schedule than IMS. Instead of moving the Nationwide Series to IMS, a great race show would be Cup & Nationwide on back to back nights at IRP.