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Originally Posted by gert
I honestly don't understand why that team dropped Westbrook and Valiante and then thought Goossens would do a better job.
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Well it seemed Westbrook probably would have been gone anyway. Stuck with the ever-inconsistent Spirit of Daytona, and lost his Corvette Le Mans seat as well... I'm pretty sure it was the Ford offer that pulled him away.
I do wonder about why they dropped Valiante though. It was said a few times that the team was very Westbrook-oriented in terms of setups and such, yet Valiante pretty much always did a solid job. His drop in the rain at Petit last year was pretty critical, but Rocky did the same thing and given the conditions it could have been anyone really.
I like Goose okay but this isn't the first time I've said "yeah good thing they replaced Valiante with this guy" to myself this season.