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Racing royalty looking shaky these days

By Ed Hinton
ESPN.com

Monday, July 20, 2009

What for 15 years was a fundraiser by royalty, for royalty -- the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard -- will be run for the 16th time Sunday. This time it's too little, too late to save the usual beneficiary, Anton Hulman "Tony" George. His ventures and misadventures as head of Indianapolis Motor Speedway and founder of the Indy Racing League were financed largely with enormous profits from the NASCAR race at the Brickyard, a joint function with the France dynasty. Before his ouster last month by h ...

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