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IRL still considering 'a few issues' before it commits to Gold Coast deal

By John Oreovicz
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

The 1991 event in Surfers Paradise, Australia, marked the beginning of CART's international aspirations. With great fanfare, the chief sanctioning body of Indy-car racing in those days took its show Down Under; in the process, it sparked a philosophical debate within American open-wheel racing that continues to this day. The inaugural Gold Coast Indy represented the first time Indy-style racing had been exported outside the United States and its bordering nations since 1978, when the USAC-san ...

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