I agree about a good race being worth watching no matter the venue,
but frankly, the best (for me) are ones are the ones I'm in. <g>
Regards,
Brett C. Cammack
That's Racing! Motorsports
Pompano Beach, FL
Actually, Brett, what I see is a lot of CART fans bashing the IRL, and
a lot of IRL fans defending the IRL -- WITHOUT trying to tear down
CART, its teams, or its drivers, and WITHOUT resorting to "CART-
bashing," if you will. Yes, there is some, but most of the bashing
comes from the CART camp, most often -- but you never see any of that
from CART's owners, drivers, and participants (with the possible
exception of Mario Andretti).
Go, Brett, go! <G>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
;-)
-- JB
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
>> On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 23:52:10 GMT, "Randy Wilson"
>> >> On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 08:59:11 -0700, "Kirk Lane"
>> >> >Man, you seem BITTER...
>> >> >And besides, they could have been racing 3-hp gokarts around a
>> >roller-derby
>> >> >rink for all I care, that was AWESOME RACING!!!!!!
>> >> Artificial Competition: The use of rules and/or equipment to force
>> >> passing, multi-race winners and make the talent of participants appear
>> >> equal. It is used to make a competitive series. The best drivers
>> >> rarely win.
>> >2 words for you, "Hanford Device"
>> Yeah. Re-read my original message.
>"At least the CART race at Michigan 1998 had driver talent"
>2 words for you, "Hanford Device"
Make sure you read every word.
-----------
"My dispute is with the IRL. I will not support the IRL because I think that's
what has disrupted open-wheel racing in America for us. I mean, we are pulling
in different directions and that doesn't make sense."
-- Mario Andretti, May 2000
Juan Montoya tells the truth about the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
http://www.racesimcentral.net/
Oval racing is 98% engineering and 2% driver talent.
Al Unser Jr: The Indy Retirement League Poster-Boy
http://www.racesimcentral.net/
>>This is something that the IRL is good at doing...emulating NASCAR.
> Can YOU say "Hanford device"?
> bob
---------speedy fast wrote--------------
CART does not use this kind of ***on road courses. And until 2000
did not use it on short ovals. When Michael Andretti wins at Mid-Ohio
or Alex Zanardi wins at Road America, I KNOW who the best driver was
that day. I don't care if there were zero lead changes.
---------------------------------------------------
Make sure you read every word.
-----------
"My dispute is with the IRL. I will not support the IRL because I think that's
what has disrupted open-wheel racing in America for us. I mean, we are pulling
in different directions and that doesn't make sense."
-- Mario Andretti, May 2000
Juan Montoya tells the truth about the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
http://www.racesimcentral.net/
Oval racing is 98% engineering and 2% driver talent.
Al Unser Jr: The Indy Retirement League Poster-Boy
http://www.racesimcentral.net/
True, all true. IMO, Indy should really be a 'non-series-affiliated' race.
Sure, different series could count it as a points race - I mean, F1 drivers
could get points for it at one time - but it should really be an open race,
with a set of rules that should be much more open than they are now, to
permit drivers with all sorts of different vehicles to run at the race.
Possibly even so open as to allow all three major open-wheel factions -
CART, IRL, F1 - to have their cars on the track competing with each other.
Equalization rules to slow CART and F1 down to the IRL speeds - simply new
popoff valves for the CART guys and maybe rev limiters or weight increases
for the F1 boys. Now wouldn't THAT be a return to greatness - Shumacher in
his Ferrari, Montoya in his Lola-Toyota, and Ray in his Dallara-Aurora all
diving for the lead going into turn 1, followed closely by Gil de Ferran
with a Reynard-Mercedes (the infamous pushrod one of course =), Mika
Hakkinen in his McLaren-Mercedes (the 19,000 RPM one =), and (dang, not a
Mercedes in IRL =) Eddie Cheever in that Dallara-Datsun...er...Infiniti =)
I'm drooling right now at the cacophony of sights and sounds =)
And PLEASE, bring it back to a full 4 weeks!!!!!
--
Kirk Lane
GPLRank: 229.48
ICQ: 28171652
AIM: Kirker64
(IM me twice so I can reply...using a beta client)
"The time has come for me to kill this game
Now open wide and say my name"
- "Space Lord", Monster Magnet
<LIBERAL SNIP>
Tony George announced a couple of weeks ago that he is considering a
return to a 4-week schedule, or possibly expanding the current format
to make it a 2-weekend qualification schedule for 2001 and beyond.
This would leave more room for qualifying should there be a rainout on
the first weekend, which, thankfully, we haven't had to contend with
for the past two years.
-- JB
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
><LIBERAL SNIP>
>> And PLEASE, bring it back to a full 4 weeks!!!!!
>Tony George announced a couple of weeks ago that he is considering a
>return to a 4-week schedule, or possibly expanding the current format
>to make it a 2-weekend qualification schedule for 2001 and beyond.
>This would leave more room for qualifying should there be a rainout on
>the first weekend, which, thankfully, we haven't had to contend with
>for the past two years.
>-- JB
-----------------------------------------
Dan Belcher
Team Racing Unlimited
http://simcrash.00game.com
