Cairo, NY -- How can a racing series built on foolish self-deception, bitterness and the participation of traitors attract and keep a following?  It is certainly easier to understand when, like a criminal profiler, you are forced to have regular contact with the miscreants that populate the Openwheel Offenders Database.

On any given day I receive any number of insults, admonitions and threats via e-mail and the blog section of these Champ Car Rants.  Each is too vile and too anonymous to include with legitimate reader comments.  Most of the spelling and grammar-challenged vitriol includes a variation on the "We won. You lost. Get over it #*&%@*%$" theme.

Because they themselves are unprincipled these Indy-centric bullies have never been able to grasp the fact that this renegade scribe and like-minded Champ Car enthusiasts have actually been "over it" since 1996. 

Turning our backs on f-inheritor was a more difficult task back then considering how steeped in the day-to-day operation and traditions of our multi-faceted beloved speed sport and its once-great marquee event we had been.

We were more knowledgeable and had far more technology and talent to be knowledgeable about and we were more globally dispersed.  We were proponents of American open-wheel racing -- ambassadors, if you will -- whereas the aforementioned unwashed, foul-speaking regionalized Mindys are merely there for the NASCAR-like elements of a dumbed-down form of Indy car racing.

How ridiculous and despicable are these crash-happy criminals? 

Their idea of exciting "racing" includes open-mic f-bombs at pre-race festivals and race day scenarios that enable a belligerent potty-mouth of a media-manufactured 100-pound wondergirl to terrorize the competition on the days that she is not allowed to win. 

Part of the problem is that before many of these humanoids were old enough to say "Gimme Kool-Aid Mommy" you and I had already determined that the splitter's vision was no more than a pipe dream.  We knew that there could never be a substitute for our uniquely wonderful pre-split series until the Speedway inheritor was eliminated.

Sure we questioned and criticized the Champ Car Company regularly and we were not all that shocked when, ultimately, the ultimate Inside Traitor led the last few jumpers back to Indy.  But how long will it be before someone -- anyone -- demands change and a return to the values of the past? 

Or is the Indy 500 really still such a big a deal that a breakaway series which could better serve real open-wheel racing fans' longings for a high-tech, multi-disciplinary format will never be formed? 

Let's see how much the miscreants remember about the Five Hunnerd in the dead of summer when the meat of the schedule they "merged" with is all they have left to watch on TV.

Will a series that spits back in the face of profane Indy bullies ever be formed?

Where are the writers who cried loud and long for reunification so everything could be returned to "normal"?  Obviously, they ignored the voices of reason that knew better from Day One.  I wonder how much hate e-mail they get these days from the bitter, foolish, self-deceiving defenders of the Speedway inheritor and his fellow traitors?

Does Grandpa Andretti ever wonder how Marco came to be playing second fiddle to a lesser-bred WWE-style cartoon character in the mergified series for which he plead over the last decade?  If so, he must remember how good it used to be and how lame it has become. 

In any case, people can't have it both ways once their profile shows up on the Openwheel Offenders Database.