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*** I want to see Toyota win an early Cup race just to hear all the bitching and moaning.

*** I don't want any more IROC unless there's a road course and a dirt track added.

*** I want to see Chad Knauss call a press conference after Jimmie Johnson wins his second straight Nextel Cup and admit they only cheated once -- the month of August.

*** I want to see Tracy Hines in the Indianapolis 500.

*** I want to see Paul Tracy back in victory lane.

*** I want to see Steve Kinser win one more sprint crown.

*** I want to hear Cristiano da Matta doing his impersonation of a NASCAR spotter.

*** I want to see more of Jamie Little -- on television, naturally.

*** I want Boris Said to win the Daytona 500 on the last lap by spinning out a NASCAR biggie.

*** I want to see Lewis Hamilton win a Formula One race.

*** I don't want to hear any NASCAR announcer refer to somebody running 16th as "having a great run" under penalty of death.

*** I want A.J. Allmendinger to call up Gerry Forsythe halfway through June, admit he made a judgment error, ask for his ride back and start winning again.

*** I want SPEED to give myself and Ed Hinton a weekly 30-minute show so we can piss off everyone in North American motorsports.

*** I don't ever want to hear the word "cats" used to describe a driver.

*** I want to be Graham Rahal.

*** Finally, I want to see any driver crying after he wins a race suspended for a year. There's no crying in baseball and there damn sure shouldn't be any in this macho arena. Parnelli Jones, A.J. Foyt, Bobby Unser and Mario Andretti expected to be in victory lane and acted accordingly. They posed for pictures, kissed the trophy girl, got her phone number and went down the road. That's when men were men. Racers were racers. And I really cared.

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Robin Miller covers open wheel racing for SPEEDTV.com, SPEED News, The SPEED Report and WIND TUNNEL. A lifelong resident of Indianapolis, an 18-year-old Miller stooged for his hero Jim Hurtubise at the Indianapolis 500 in 1968 and began covering motorsports for The Indianapolis Star in 1969. Besides working on Indy pit crews from 1968-78, Miller also competed on the USAC midget circuit from 1975-83. During the past 35 years he's also been a contributor for Autoweek, Autosport, Car & Driver, ESPN The Magazine and several publications that folded and still owe him money. He is single, a degenerate gambler and despises the NASCAR phrase, "We had a Top 20 car today."

Robin Miller is not affiliated with RACER magazine and his views should not be considered representative of RACER or of Haymarket Worldwide Inc.