IndyCar - "As If"

In his eulogy of the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, man of letters Christopher Hitchens wrote that the author of The Gulag Archipelago spent his career writing "as if."

...he carried on "as if" he were a free citizen, "as if" he had the right to study his own country's history, "as if" there were such a thing as human dignity.

We do not mean to compare ourselves with the heroic version of Solzhenitsyn (as opposed to the older, Putin-praising hyper-nationalist iteration.) But we do endeavor to follow his example in some very small way.

"As if" someone who is capable of taking meaningful action is reading The Indy Idea.

"As if" IRL leadership believes as we do that it can compete with NASCAR (sans-culottes!) and topple the House of France.

"As if" IndyCar management might courageously confront its core business problems, rather than chase temporary underwriters in increasingly remote and tertiary locations.

"As if" someone in power were committed to making the Indianapolis 500 and the Month of May in Indianapolis undeniably awesome again.

"As if" readers care about the long-term vitality of IndyCar racing.

Roggespierre