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26 May 2002, 19:24 (Ref:296850)
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It's over! Now back to real racing...
After napping through much of the Indy 500 (seriously), I woke up just in time to see Paul Tracy almost win. They didn't show what happened on the last lap, but he feels he's been robbed of the victory and will protest. I don't think he'll get anywhere, but whatever...
What I'm more happy about is, it's over! No more of this stupid month long pratice sessions and multiple qualifying sessions or days with names. No more hour long pre-race ceremonies that make all non-Americans gag. Back to a 3 day race weekend, with one qualifying session and back to races that don't startat 11AM. I honestly wouldn't have any problem with this race coming back to the Cart schedule if they could use the normal 3 day weekend procedure, like Cart will use next week at Milwuakee, but this month long thing is a joke. They could have 3 other events during that time. Anyway, I'm just glad it's over and will look forward to Milwaukee. |
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26 May 2002, 20:27 (Ref:296914)
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indeed, now enough of the IRL. CART, CART, and CART.
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27 May 2002, 02:14 (Ref:297081)
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Ditto, although I think Paul Tracy will get the win. The sweetest part besides being a good deal for Canada and Champ Cars, would be the sour looks on the faces of the team formerly known as Penske and now known as The Deserters.
Back to real racing! Incidentally, our local ignoramus racing correspondent has pointed out that The Tony George Show had 14 drivers out of 33 who did not have American birth certificates and cautioned TG that he'd better take note of it. Personally I find this pretty sad. However, ON TO MILWAUKEE! |
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27 May 2002, 02:19 (Ref:297083)
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Update: He didn't yet. There's still time to protest though.
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27 May 2002, 02:42 (Ref:297093)
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He won't win, and the protest will no go anywhere. The IRL is not about to hand one back over to CART, and the video evidence supports Castroneves' win.
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27 May 2002, 02:48 (Ref:297094)
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I agree with you sevengrain as far as he wont win and the protest will not go anywhere,but the evidence ive seen shows tracy the clear winner.I havent seen anything that supports helio as the winner.
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27 May 2002, 06:39 (Ref:297167)
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Hopefully with a refocus back onto the CART championship all these rumours about a CART collapse will disappear.
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27 May 2002, 10:38 (Ref:297303)
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If the protest is drawn out, it will strengthen the idea that TG is trying any trick to destroy CART which will help make us stronger. But what a travesty!
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27 May 2002, 19:11 (Ref:297803)
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we have a 0.0000000000000001 % possibility of winning Paul's protest. But who the hell cares? Helio was just plain lucky, CART was going to win, and we lost Junqueira and Kanaan, potential winners
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27 May 2002, 21:39 (Ref:297980)
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...and we all know Helio would still be a Cart driver if he had the choice. I think if he doesn't make it to F1 he may be a Cart driver again as soon as his contract with Penske ends.
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27 May 2002, 21:41 (Ref:297983)
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Helio recently re-upped with Penske as did deFerran. It suprised me too... Helio's contract supposedly has an "F-1 out" clause in case he gets an F-1 ride. DeFerran feels that he's too old to pursue F-1.
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