Oh god. They have a couple oval races, so what, they do it so it attracts
all types of fans and people. I think CART is PERFECTLY balanced. It's like
a mix of NASCAR and F1. It's not as close as NASCAR and theres less passing,
but it's a bit more special when they pass, but not stupid when a driver
can't get around a blocking slow driver in F1 for 10 laps and then they
finally pass them and majorly pull away. That's a little lame. I tuned into
the race halfway through and I didn't see any passes, except for Hakinen
lapping people. I only watched it to see the only drivers I like in F1,
Villenueve (gotta route on the North American!) and Button. The CART race
was great! Passing every once in a while, the cars were closer together, the
cars weren't ugly, and the drivers didn't seem so snobbish and had more
respect for each other, and the workers too. Did you see Mazzacarte's(sp?)
head get clunked by his car that was being lifted up by a crane and he gave
the guy the finger after HE was standing in the way. Geez, he was just
trying to help and do is job! I mean, the F1 drivers dont even talk to the
TV crews when they retire, just their cheezy press conference for the top 3.
The slower cars/drivers dont even get to appear on TV. Then you constantly
see drivers every race taking each other out trying to block the other guy,
instead of letting him by and getting a better run and passing back. Then
you constantly see drivers waving their middle fingers at others. Totally
unproffesional and unacceptable. Then Eddie Irvine's comments about
Americans obsession with passing and comparing it to sleeping with 100 girls
every night or one every week was unacceptable too. It doesn't seem like
they care about doing good or expanding the sport which makes them
millionaires.
and, it's just plain BORING!!!!!!!! 30 seconds between each car? I don't
know how you can like snobbish race drivers that dont even agknowledge the
fans or talk to them, tell the workers or signaling them or are doing them
favors to go f*ck themselves, and the lack of competiveness because the team
that wins is the one with the most money, not necessarily the best drivers.
Oh, and they don't even agknowledge a finisher, or anyone outside the top 6!
I mean, theres teams going scoreless. In F1, consistancy doesn't count,
which is stupid I think.
Now CART. Oh yes, well Paul tracy may sometimes take people out, but you
don't see them giving the finger to people and putting others that work so
hard down. And the race itself is very interesting, with fuel strategies,
lead changes, close calls. It's totally unpredictable and things change so
quickly. I LOVE CART!
Thanks,
Alex
BTW, I used to be like, "Oh yes! F1 is coming to the USA!" But now I REALLY
don't care.
> Well there might be somebody out there who thinks there's more to racing
> than going around in circles ( I must say that road-courses in cart are
> exciting but the oval---comeon. Dogs go around in circles before the
sleep,
> as well as Cart-drivers.) Todas F1-race wasn't the most exciting of them
> all, but still it introduced Hakkinen as a champ-contender. When american
> racer wake up and see that race-cars can go more ways than left maybe the
> rest of the world will take the serious.
> Bertel Bolt-J
> > Did anyone catch both these races today?
> > Makes you wonder why everyone is pumping out F1 titles by the droves and
> > nobody will touch CART.
> > Ironically I ran across a very good editorial at Gamesdomain just now
that
> > asks the same question.
> > http://www.gamesdomain.com/gdr.cgi?depart/jul00/divide.html
> > What's a guy got to do to get a little ICR3!
