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COPYRIGHT 2000 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service
PHILADELPHIA - The FedEx CART Indy car series paid for its ill-conceived April 9 date for the Bosch Grand Prix at Nazareth Speedway by suffering an embarrassing snowout.
With the Bosch race rescheduled for Saturday, it turns out an area race will serve as a lead-in to Sunday's traditional marquee doubleheader of the Indianapolis 500 and the NASCAR Winston Cup Coca-Cola 600. Talk about lucky second chances . . .
Crowd watchers will be closely checking the Nazareth attendance because the Bosch race hasn't drawn well in recent years. Nazareth has one more year on its contract with CART.
Should Nazareth lose the race, there will no Indy-car racing in the Northeast. Imagine going from the days of Mario Andretti, A.J Foyt and the Unser brothers racing at Pocono, Trenton and Langhorne to nothing.
Michael Andretti, for one, is hoping area racing fans find their way to Nazareth, in the Lehigh Valley....
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