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I always think that is the worst idea that Bernard ever had...
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Apples and Oranges, but...
...V8 Supercars at Gold Coast Andy Priaulx Sebastien Bourdais Fabrizio Giovinardi Boris Said Dirk Muller Joey Hand Augusto Farfus Lucas Di Grassi Simon Pagenaud Marino Franchitti Dan Wheldon Ryan Briscoe Vitantonio Liuzzi David Brabham Marc Lieb Scott Dixon Helio Castroneves Will Power Mika Salo Jan Magnussen Christian Klien Richard Westbrook Allan Simonsen Joerg Bergmeister Alex Tagliani Tony Kanaan Indycar at Las Vegas ($Five Million prize) Tumbleweeds |
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6 Sep 2011, 20:39 (Ref:2951844) | #29 | ||
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It was an idea for the pub and one that shouldn't have survived the hangover.
Débutante + Oval = Wreck, cash hole for cash strapped team bosses and plenty of tears all around. Meanwhile in RandyWorld: Débutante + Oval = Contender. I'm actually glad the idea died at this stage. A few lame duck C list celebrity names peddling around at the back would've been an even bigger fiasco. |
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And as I understand it all those drivers are getting a base fee of $20k each to race. Maybe more money is changing hands from the teams themselves, dunno. But still amazing the difference. And amazing that the irl blew off the Gold Coast and that race will never happen again as the event has been permanently altered. |
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It would also be great if Herta could run a full season campaign with Wheldon next year. Never change a winning team, or so the saying goes. I'm pretty sure the "red car" teams would take this small team much more seriously now than they did back at Indy. |
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12 Sep 2011, 19:41 (Ref:2954657) | #33 | ||
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Ho! According to Curt Cavin, IndyCar will wnnounce tomorrow that Dan Wheldon will race for the US$ 5 million check at Las Vegas!
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Yannick, they should make you the "lucky fan".
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So now it's gotten so bad they have to pay fans to turn up to irl races with a "lottery" or a "raffle". I'm sure it will be tied to attendance/ticket sales for the race. In other words you have to buy a race ticket to be eligible for the raffle, assuming Welldone wins and doesn't drop out with "handling problems" after 5 laps. And if that's the case, with it being vegas, a lot of punters will buy tickets for their chance at the money and few will care about the actual event. At the end of the day, it's just another gimmicky cost as few people know about or care about Dan Welldone. You'd be better off taking that $5 million and investing it in the TV package or some other tangible item of value. |
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Thank you Jagtech for the kudos. But I don't have a US ZIP-Code so I guess it's unlikely. LOL.
Anyway, it's a good decision from IndyCar officials and I hope that the Herta/Schmidt/Curb/Agajanian/William Rast #98 team will be back in strong form like at Indy, even if it means competing with a different chassis. That should be good for their next season's campaign. |
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Well the race is underway and... I hope everyone made it through that crash alive. That was bad, really bad.
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That looked like Atlanta 2001 all over again.
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Atlanta 2001 was bad, but this looked a lot worse. I think it was Dan Wheldon who somersaulted through the air and into the fence.
Edit - Holy crap. I was wrong, I don't think Wheldon got air. But at least two other cars flipped and a third flew an incredible amount of feet through the air - and slammed directly into another car up against the wall. Edit 2 - Going back and viewing the live angle of the crash it seems it was indeed Dan Wheldon flying through the air (didn't realize he had a primarily black car). |
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That was beyond nasty. The cars getting that much air was frightening. Good to see many of the drivers walk away, hopefully they are all o.k
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Wow that was hideous. I don't have any word on the rest of the field involved. How did the other wrecked drivers come out. PIPPA Man looked a real.shaken mess, and what car was crushed? This is dreadful. You would think they would have NASCAR style airbrakes in the sidepods or something. I hope they are all ok.
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I don't like the way that two cars are covered up or that the Medivac Chopper is spooling up. That was a horrible wreck and I have the same feeling as I had in 1999 watching Fontana
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16 Oct 2011, 20:17 (Ref:2972106) | #44 | ||
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The trouble is, air brakes would have done nothing. This was NOT a case of "blowing over". This was a case of cars physically climbing over one another, and also wheel-to-wheel contact.
From the onboard, Will was one of the cars that launched and rolled. |
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16 Oct 2011, 20:26 (Ref:2972113) | #45 | ||
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very very scary , thoughts and prayers are with the injured drivers , that was simply horrifying and i felt/feel sick to my stomach seeing it
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16 Oct 2011, 20:45 (Ref:2972120) | #46 | |
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Prayers for Dan.
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word on Justin's chatter is intrusion into helmet - not good if true. Massa / Senna scenario.
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16 Oct 2011, 21:02 (Ref:2972130) | #48 | ||
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Just caught news of this and have been trying to get more info - looks very bad, prayers for Dan Wheldon and his family.
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There is a photo circulating showing the roll hoop was crushed, very similar to Diniz many years ago...
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I'm going to bed now, but I won't sleep well. Just saw the images ... horrific. I hope really that Dan is ok.
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