"Did anyone notice how ABC never showed the grandstands head-on throughout
the entire race, whereas they went out of their way to show overhead and
head-on shots whenever the CART grandstands were sparsely populated the last
few years?"

Mark,

I watched the entire Homestead race live. ABC showed plenty of shots of the
empty grandstands. Linda and I commented about them during the race.

FWIW – you have a really good web site, but this kind of stuff (and some of
the other anti-IRL stuff) is petty. What is the point to it? Do you realize
you have a nickname in rec.autos.sport.cart?