Nascar 2005

[RICHARD]

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.

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LOLOLOL

BTW, Danica in F1????

[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.

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.

[RICHARD]

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.

500 miles in white???

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..

[lizbud]

F1 racing is probably a thing of the past now in Indy.Race fans
left the track in droves & they're mad as heck.

[Lady's Human]

I thought it was telling that Indy's track stewards boycotted the podium.

[lizbud]

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" ?

[Lady's Human]

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.

[RICHARD]

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.

[Lady's Human]

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.

[RICHARD]

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....

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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....

[Lady's Human]

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.

[RICHARD]

Check out the new Verizon Broadband commercial...I LMAO....

it was funny.

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Congrats Tony.....

[RICHARD]

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.....

[lbaker]

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 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

[Cincy'sMom]

I sure hope it is a trend!!

GO TONY!!!