Bob Tasca Blasts FOX for 'Insult to Our Fans, to the Drivers'
FOX Sports' IndyCar ads are wildly popular—with everyone but some proud drag-racing fans, including Funny Car team owner-driver Bob Tasca.
During the Gatornationals, which FOX Sports broadcasts, Tasca said, 'I want to say it to the fans: I'm very disappointed with Fox Sports. All winter I got to hear, "The fastest motorsports in the world," and I looked up and I didn't see the PPG Mustang. And I didn't see [Austin] Prock's car. I saw an Indy car.
"And the fact is that we are the fastest motorsport. And I think it's an insult to the drivers and the fans. And truthfully, I didn't think Fox was the Fake News Network." Technically, land-speed racing could be considered "the fastest racing on Earth."
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