Despite being staged for eight years, the U.S. Grand Prix never felt totally at home in Indiana. And yet the running of the final race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2007 was disappointing, if only because it marked the end of yet another attempt to bring Formula One before an audience noted for its ambivalence just as much as its potential.
The IMS is to motor racing what Augusta is to golf in the U.S. In the eyes of one or two stalwarts, however, the staging of a grand prix for those fussy F1 cars on this hallowed asphalt was akin to digging up the 18th green to accommodate a Crazy Golf course.