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Perception often better than reality

By Robin Miller
ESPN.com

Friday, March 7, 2003

The line between perception and reality can get pretty blurry depending on how close you're standing. Take the season openers for IRL and CART. In its debut last month at St. Petersburg, CART played to a nice gathering -- filling most of the 26,000 grandstand seats and running another 12,000 through general admission. But its television rating on SpeedChannel was an embarassing 0.2 -- roughly 138,000 homes. CART's Stars of Tomorrow go-kart race drew a 0.3 and test patterns usually hit 0.5. O ...

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