“Why are we doing this?”: Bob Varsha recalls the doomed 1996 U.S. 500 

Once upon a time, open-wheel racing dominated the American motorsports scene. The CART (Championship Auto Racing Teams) IndyCar series was enormously successful, even poaching reigning Formula 1 world champion Nigel Mansell in 1993.  “What we know today as IndyCar was probably at the height of its popularity then,” recalls Bob Varsha,  longtime ESPN motorsports journalist and announcer who …Keep reading