Who is YOUR favorite driver(s)? Mine is Gordon (#24) Jr. (#8) Kasey (#9) and Jimmie (#48)! I miss NASCAR. I haven't been able to watch it for a LONG time!
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Who is YOUR favorite driver(s)? Mine is Gordon (#24) Jr. (#8) Kasey (#9) and Jimmie (#48)! I miss NASCAR. I haven't been able to watch it for a LONG time!
Everyone got their snacks ready and their comfy chairs picked out? Sunday is RACE DAY!!! The Indy 500 then the World Coke 600!
ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!:D
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Originally posted by momoffuzzyfaces
Everyone got their snacks ready and their comfy chairs picked out? Sunday is RACE DAY!!! The Indy 500 then the World Coke 600!
ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!:D
I am ready...
Just one word for Robby Gordon.....
STUPID!
I have seen Gordon race almost everything......
And he finally came in first place by racing his mouth.
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I'm not a fan of Danica Patrick. I do want to see her win, but I after seeing her do a 'bikini spread' in some mag I thought that she was pulling a PR stunt.
You'd think that she'd let her skill do the talking....:confused:
My brother is goingt oIndy today...I sat by the phone all day yesterday waiting for him to call and ask me to go :(
Robby's complaint is legitimate. Most other racing series weigh the car with the driver. In the case of Danica, she's easily bought 50-75 pounds that no other team can get. When all else if fairly equal, that weight can be the advantage. that weight can equal a roughly 10 HP gain in engine power, in a series where the engines are all fairly even.n (sorry, no calc handy , o nthe wrong computer)
Danica is pretty, but after hearing her mouth in an interview she's about 34th on my list of favorite racers in the 500.
Now on to the important race of the day,..........
GO MARK!
assuming Danica Patrick is 100 lbs ,her car falls exactly at the IRL 1525lb ( which most do)minimum and the engine is putting out about 750 HP ........
Danica's engine/ car combination with her in the seat is using 1 HP to move 2.17 lbs
assuming Robby's weight is 200 lbs and again, his car is at the IRL minimum and 750 HP..........
Robby's car is using 1 HP to move 2.3 lbs, which gives Danica almost a 6% advantage in HP to weight. IRL rules are set up to try and avoid this situation, obviously they need a little work. In NASCAR and F-1 the driver's weight is taken into consideration when weighing the car.
I wonder why, at Indy, they don't change the command to start engines to "Racers! Start your engines"? They've had other female racers before. That would cover anyone who was racing. Just my opinion.:)
LH,
Her body weight is offset by the weight of her purse, all the stuff she packed for a 500 mile trip and cosmetics - in case she won.
As it is, she was passed because she was checking her make up in the rear view mirror....In case she won....
O.k.
No more jokes.....
;)
Not to mention the 3 suitcases in the sidepods for her trip after the race.:D
NAWTEE! NAWTEE!
Me thinks you all are just upset that she gave the good ole boys a real run for their money!!!! :D
You go girl!!!!;)
I'll second that!!Quote:
Originally posted by momoffuzzyfaces
NAWTEE! NAWTEE!
Me thinks you all are just upset that she gave the good ole boys a real run for their money!!!! :D
You go girl!!!!;)
If Sarah Fisher had the same level of equipment and sponsorship Danica has she'd be just as fast. Sarah is just as photogenic, but doesn't have Danica's attitude problem. (Again, after hearing Danica's interview on Fox Sports it completely turned me off. No respect whatsoever.) I got the impression from the interview that Danica think sthat the IRL exists for her benefit alone.
I didn't see a thing wrong with her interview. Reminded me of lots of the rookie men's interviews I've heard over the years. In fact, she reminded me of Dale Earnheardt when he was a rookie, attitude wise, I mean.:)Quote:
Originally posted by Lady's Human
If Sarah Fisher had the same level of equipment and sponsorship Danica has she'd be just as fast. Sarah is just as photogenic, but doesn't have Danica's attitude problem. (Again, after hearing Danica's interview on Fox Sports it completely turned me off. No respect whatsoever.) I got the impression from the interview that Danica think sthat the IRL exists for her benefit alone.
One difference between Danica and Dale Sr. .....
Dale never showed the utter lack of respect for his fellow competitors that Ms Pastrick showed. (This was a radio interview on Fox Sports radio, not the TV interviews she did post race)
No? When he first started racing, he would deliberately bump them off the track and cause wrecks. I was always afraid he would kill someone and didn't like him for years because of that. Luckily, he matured as he grew older. I did grow to like him when he stopped doing that.Quote:
Originally posted by Lady's Human
One difference between Danica and Dale Sr. .....
Dale never showed the utter lack of respect for his fellow competitors that Ms Pastrick showed. (This was a radio interview on Fox Sports radio, not the TV interviews she did post race)
Racing is just too dangerous to deliberately knock someone out of your way.
Oh Bobby! So close.... Go #18!
Maybe he should race in FedEx colors more often and give the 'ole Interstate Battery green a break. ;)
I noticed that Patrick never acknowledged Janet Guthrie or Sarah Fisher........I don't remember the third gal's name.....They were the spear carriers who "paved the way" for Patrick's ability to lead 17 laps of the "world's greatest race".
Open wheel racing cannot be compared to stock car racing-
By the time you 'trade paint' you are into the wall or wadded up you car with someone else.
All things aside. there is a troubling trend among young athletes
in the last few years.
It is the lack of respect to the history, the 'old guard' and the media that cover their jobs.
During an ABC interview, Patrick made a statement about being a 'sex symbol'.
If she had waited until after the race I would not have bothered to be bothered.
http://www.indymotorspeedway.com/danica.htm
She did do well in the race, congrats to her, her attittude probably did get her to where she made it on Sunday....
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Two things...
The announcers on the "Danica Patrick Show" -Not to be confused with ESPN sportscaster Dan Patrick, were shrill and obnoxious-Where is JACKIE STEWART AND CHRIS ECONOMAKI
when you need them??
And when do we see the DP shampoo, underarm shaver and eye liner commercials?
:confused:
The lack of respect I was referring to with Ms Patrick was that in her interview she acknowledge Lyn St James as a role model, ignored Janet Guthrie completely, and completely TRASHED Sarah fisher. Chickie babe, if they hadn't done it, we wouldn't even be talking about you.
When Ironhead came up, yes, he wrecked on the track, but in the late '70s in NASCAR that was the rules of the game. NASCAR achived national prominence when a blizzard on the east coast pretty much forced everyone to watch Cale Yarborough go to blows with Bobby Allison because of a wreck in the race.
In open wheel racing, if the cars touch SLIGHTLY, both cars are probably piles of carbon fiber. I notice everyone in the media is talking about Ms Patrick finishing fourth and leading, ignoring the 5 car wreck she cause, and completely ignoring the person wh oshould be in the spotlight, Dan Wheldon, who has not only won the Indy 500, it was his third victory in a row.
lololol,Quote:
Originally posted by Lady's Human
NASCAR achived national prominence when a blizzard on the east coast pretty much forced everyone to watch Cale Yarborough go to blows with Bobby Allison because of a wreck in the race.
Am I that old that I remember that???
Ah the good old days!!!
When men were men, and they kicked each other's arse for wrecking.
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One thing about Ironhead.
As with all sports figures, I couldn't stand DE...just because he always won....
But everyone knew that when the last 15 laps were being run and number 3 was anywhere close to the leader....you were in for a race.
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Danica darling,
Brash gets you cash,
But winning gets the trophies.
:p
Biffled again???
I hadn't laughed that loud in a long long time....
I was wathing the end of the race-the SSB at the start and the burnouts at the end of the race....
I loved the reaction of the announcers...
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RRRRRR-RRRRRRRR-rrrrrrr----BANG...
*DID WE JUST SEE THAT????*
I love the Polish victory lap, the nose to the wall burnouts and the 'tear the grass up' slide outs.....
I guess we could call that "The BIFFLE"????
:D
race fans...we got some Busch racing and some more of the Danica (what kinda name is that????) Racing League today.....
Hmmm she made the field one place better that her Indy start....
Brash or Trophy today???:confused: :eek:
Just got back from the IRL race, I have some pics, I'll have to upload them some other time, though, as I forgot the USB cable for the camera.
Sorry, richard, no shots of Danica, she was never near the front of the pack. (She finished 13the and STILL got more interview time than the winner):mad:
I did see that at the end of the race she jumped out of the car and there was two guys from her pit crew to welcome her.
Is she yesterday's story already?
:eek:
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GO MARK......slow and steady
Danica wasn't "comfortable" running in side by side groups, so she fell back early and never got into the race.
Can you say Danica Kournikova?
GO MARK, nice top 5!!!!!
what a last lap....
Mark loses a tire going into one, Schrader wrecks in one, Labonte wrecks in two, and NASCAR takes 5 minutes trying to figure out who finished where....LOL
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Originally posted by Lady's Human
Danica wasn't "comfortable" running in side by side groups, so she fell back early and never got into the race.
Can you say Danica Kournikova?
Yes, but it hurts my tongue....
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Yes, great last lap...
Even I was confused......nothing new..
I can get used to the "Edwards"......
I just hope he only does it on the grass infield...:D
Carl Edwards' cars should be impouinded and checked for parts, a turbo or nitrous oxide......
Damn, if racing is THAT easy........good job Carl!!!!
I think Nascar's new star has broken the horizon.:D
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LOLOLOL
BTW, Danica in F1????:confused:
after Bernie Ecclestone's comment on Danica, "You know I've got one of those wonderful ideas ... women should be dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances." I don't think you'll see Danica in F1 anytime soon.
I know I've been hard on Ms Patrick, and I know the media coverage isn't her fault. It just infuriates me when the lead story in the paper the day after the race in texas wasn't Tomas Scheckter winning, it was "Danica dissappointed after 13th place finish". I hope she lives up to the promise, but I have nagging doubts.
For all you Ryan Newman fans out there in PT land, he's been dubbed the "serial pole winner" by ESPN. I thought Batman was the race sponsor, not Kellogs.
Good luck Mark, and god go with the F1 drivers who have to try to race Indy with a tire that has been proven unsafe.
500 miles in white???:DQuote:
Originally posted by Lady's Human
after Bernie Ecclestone's comment on Danica, "You know I've got one of those wonderful ideas ... women should be dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances." I don't think you'll see Danica in F1 anytime soon.
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Good luck Mark, and god go with the F1 drivers who have to try to race Indy with a tire that has been proven unsafe.
lolololol.......
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Third for # 6..........ya gotta love it.....
I thought the comment about him running like "a youngster" was great........
..slow but steady..
F1 racing is probably a thing of the past now in Indy.Race fans
left the track in droves & they're mad as heck.:eek:
I thought it was telling that Indy's track stewards boycotted the podium.
This is a partial quote from an article about today's race;
"The FIA, the series governing body, refused a request to allow the teams using Michelins to change to a fresh set of tires, and wouldn't even consider placing a chicane in the final turn to slow the speeds.
After a lengthy morning meeting, nine of the 10 teams said they would only compete if the chicane was put in place. Ferrari, which fields cars for Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello, was the only team to refuse the chicane.
All 20 cars lined up on the starting grid even without the chicane in place. But, after the warmup lap, the 14 cars on Michelin tires all pulled into the garage and parked in protest.
"It was very clear that we were unsafe today and we couldn't race," pole sitter Jarno Trulli said. "I'm really sorry for the USA fans."
I understand what the problem was , but what is a "chicane" ?
A chicane is a tight corner inserted into a straight on a racetrack to slow the speeds on the straight. It's normally put in just before a corner at the end of a straight. If you look at the track map for watkins glen (http://www.theglen.com/seating/index.jsp) and look at the track section labeled the inner loop you will see a chicane. before the inner loop was put in they had a problem with racecars flying (literally) off the track at the end of the straight.
Get the a hole that they recorded tossing the bottle and put him into jail.
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Lix,
Race fans are hard core..
If you run it, they will come....
The sound of a motor, smell of oil and gas and the speed is the best high in the world.:)
http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/news/s...irl&id=2092194
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
ESPN.com news services
Bernie Ecclestone might want to work on his apologies.
It seemed the Formula One president and CEO had seen the error of his words about women racing with men when he called Danica Patrick over the weekend, presumably to apologize.
But then he repeated his comments.
Ecclestone made news last week with his comments made in response to Patrick's fourth-place finish at the Indianpolis 500.
Asked about Patrick's success, Ecclestone acknowledged her strong finish, but then made an assessment about women racing with men that caused a stir, saying, "You know I've got one of those wonderful ideas ... women should be dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances."
On Saturday, Patrick received a phone call from Ecclestone, in which he complimented her on her performance at the Indy 500.
But Ecclestone caught Patrick off guard when he repeated to her his statement about women and "domestic appliances."
"I just didn't make sense of it," Patrick said during an IRL teleconference this week. "I was surprised, I guess, somebody would say that to me. And the days after, when it actually came out in the press, people were asking me 'What do you think of that?'
"I was like, 'You know what he told me? He said that on the phone.'"
Patrick said some of Ecclestone's comments were positive and complimentary, which made the exchange more perplexing.
"I can't believe that he would say it to me over the phone, not to my face, but directly to me," she said. "I was a bit confused. ... So I don't really know what to think about it.
"I don't know if he was talking about someone else or the majority or what, I'm not really sure. Or, maybe that's his real feeling.
"If that's the case, then you know, [it] doesn't really matter because I'm racing in the Indy Racing League."
Last month, Patrick became the first woman to lead a lap at the Indianapolis 500. She finished fourth, the best finish by a female in the 89-year history of the race.
Ecclestone has garnered attention before for comments on women in racing.
The 74-year-old told Autosport racing magazine in Feb. 2000 that women would never excel in Forumla One. He added that if a woman did make it, "she would have to be a woman who was blowing away the boys. ... What I would really like to see happen is to find the right girl, perhaps a black girl with super looks, preferably Jewish or Muslim, who speaks Spanish."
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
Why does this not surprise me? Bernie, time to sell Formula one before you destroy it completely.
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Originally posted by Lady's Human
But Ecclestone caught Patrick off guard when he repeated to her his statement about women and "domestic appliances."
"I just didn't make sense of it," Patrick said during an IRL teleconference this week. "I was surprised, I guess, somebody would say that to me. And the days after, when it actually came out in the press, people were asking me 'What do you think of that?'
"I was like, 'You know what he told me? He said that on the phone.'"
I didn't find the comment THAT bad.....But I did live in a place with a pink fridge once....:confused:
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I am still kinda bugged by the fans reaction at Indy....
Had their been a crash and death of a driver what would have been the ramifications then??
Easy to say when we aren't driving....:(
The teams that raced didn't deserve what they got. FIA and F1, however deserve everything that's coming to them. It's a little assinine to try to control costs by limiting teams to 1 set of tires per race weekend when the team budgets run upward of $300 million US. (No one will say just what the team budgets are, however when the Ford/Jaguar team (now red bull) needed a wind tunnel they built one for $125 Million US without even batting en eye)
The One tire rule is in itself an accident waiting to happen, just look at what happenned to Kimi Rainkkonen in Canada. He flat spotted a tire, and kept going because it didn't fall within FIA's guidance on when it was okay to change tires. The vibration from the flat spot eventually destroyed his suspension at speed, and sent him off the track at 150+ MPH, yet that isn't a reason to change a tire.
Check out the new Verizon Broadband commercial...I LMAO....
it was funny.
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Congrats Tony.....:mad: ;) :p
Is this Tony thing a trend???
Great race.
Sorry about all you folks on the left coast......
1:40 in the morning.....
I thought I was a sports fan.....:eek:
While looking at a map I thought I was on the right coast and YOU were on the left. HAH, Richard on the left, I'm on the right. Nah, never happen - talk about weird :D When we were at the Pocono races a few weeks back my son called himself on the cell phone from Jenny's cell simply to record the vroom vroom vroom as his answering message :rolleyes:
I sure hope it is a trend!!
GO TONY!!!