I wish road racing would get its act together.                                  
Despite it being, in my humble unbiased opinion, of course, the best sport there is, it has not created the audience I think it deserves.
Road racing is my passion in this world and after every race weekend I attend, I wonder ‘why can’t this sport be as big as football, basketball or baseball?’ I just don’t get it. This sport has all the ingredients, all the intrigue that the dominant sports seem to have and then some. We have the team aspect. We have strategy. We have special equipment. We have infighting. We have personalities. We have close finishes. We have a difficult stage to maneuver through. We even have real palpable danger.
To top it all off, instead of playing with a ball, we play with cars. This thing should be a no-brainer. But somehow, we, the road-racing community, collectively haven’t delivered. I’m not exactly sure what it is that’s missing. I’ve put the question to many people over the years, and it seems the reasons put forth don’t really carry much weight.
Some have said, ‘it’s because you can’t see the drivers behind those helmets.’ Well, I would say you can’t really see the players in the NFL when they have their helmets on either, so that one doesn’t work for me.
Some say it’s ‘because the tracks are so long, you can’t really see what’s going on.’ Well, I can see how that would influence actual track attendance, but it shouldn’t be a problem for television.
The son of legendary racer Dan Gurney entered Saturday’s Grand Am season finale sharing a one-point lead over Scott Pruett with Gainsco Racing co-driver Jon Fogarty.

Fast Facts: Gurney holds a degree in business administration from the University of Colorado.

And besides, attendance at the actual events isn’t too much of a problem. Drawing 25,000 for a basketball game is a very good showing, and this is already the norm at many road-racing events.
In the end, it’s really the television numbers that determine whether the sport is big league or not. So there is still something else we need to convey to the people at large. Is it that it’s not difficult enough?
It certainly is difficult enough. I think trying to pass Scott Pruett for the lead, braking into the corkscrew at Laguna Seca, or trying to hold the throttle wide open for as long as you can through the esses at Sears Point, for example, must be every bit as difficult as knocking a home run out of the park at Fenway or dunking over Shaquille O’Neal.
Some would say that’s crazy, but I don’t see how it’s that much different. Road racing just doesn’t hold the prestige — not yet at least.  
I’ve been hoping for 10 years now that someone or some entity would come forward with a plan that would truly deliver road racing to the masses in all its splendor.
NASCAR has certainly done it with oval racing. It’s time someone does it with road racing. I’m in a series right now — Grand Am — that has a shot.
Grand Am officials do a lot of things right and the actual racing is second to none in my opinion, but they have a long way to go to be able to compete with the big boys. Watching and competing in this sport of road racing has really been a pleasure for me. It has been very rewarding.
I know if it was delivered and showcased properly to the people, they would have no choice but to fall in love with it. So maybe in 10 years, instead of hearing about Alex Rodriguez signing a gazillion-dollar baseball contract, you might hear about another Alex signing a gazillion-dollar road-racing contract.
Well, I’m allowed to dream anyway.