Indy 500 Not Won By Danica Patrick!

[JLPurcell]

Nonsense. No one knew the track was even here until the F1 guys starting driving it backwards.QUOTE]

I hope you are joking! I watched Jim Clark win Indy in the 60's it has always drawn most of the great drivers. I'm giving away my age. As I said I had the privilege of working in the Rahal - Letterman pits and am looking forward to working on the track rescue crews for the USGP. I will be there on the 17th and the 19th if any one is going let me know maybe we can hookup there. JLP

[panchovisa]

Maybe it's time to start a new thread "Texas IRL race not won by Danica". Hurry, do it now before the results are in!

[sopwith21]

I hope you are joking! I watched Jim Clark win Indy in the 60's it has always drawn most of the great drivers.

Yes, of course I'm joking. That was just a tribute to the "nothing matters but F1" crowd. :classic:

[sopwith21]

Maybe it's time to start a new thread "Texas IRL race not won by Danica". Hurry, do it now before the results are in!

What's the hurry? I was pulling for her!

Besides, the entire broadcast can be summed up in one observation:

After the race, three drivers were interviewed... the one who finished 1st, the one who finished 2nd, and the one who finished 13th.

Oh, btw... two weeks after I was hammered for saying the same thing, the Indianapolis Star had an interesting article last Friday. The author said that the hysterical hype surrounding Danica was reaching such a fanatical pitch that it could only serve to shorten her career with ridiculous expectations that were impossible for anyone to achieve.

This time, please send hate mail to the Star.

I didn't write it.

[panchovisa]

Did the Star have much to say about why Schectker still had a ride after almost three years with no results (positive ones, not most DNF's per start)? Well, he finaly took a winning car to first place. Almost makes up for all the ones he rolled into scrap metal. I say BRAVO Tomas!

[Bambikiller240]

The Star's motorsports coverage has been weak at best since they sacked Robin Miller, the only guy with BALLS enough to tell it like he see's it, even when Tony George doesn't like the truth.

Wonder if Tomas will try to celebrate the win with a hooker & get busted? (the reason he lost is testing gig in F1 and ended up "crashing 'em" in the IRL)

[panchovisa]

Carl, sounds like the clubs in Indy better get ready.

If he had only posed for a men's magazine maybe he would still be testing F1 cars, seems sexist against guys somehow.

[Bambikiller240]

Yeah, It's that "it's OK to look, but don't you dare touch" mentality.

Hey maybe he could hook up with Danica?

[panchovisa]

I think it's probably the old adage that "there is no such thing as bad press". He probably just did it to get his sponsers some attention. Plus, he probably was under the impression that well, you know, little Tommie does all the thinking for the both of us.

Funny the media doesn't mention much about that in his bio? Sopwith is right, it's all the media's fault. They did mention that his dad was a famous racer though. I think they should just stick to his records, which are too numerous to list.

[Bambikiller240]

, maybe Little Tommie does.

In Sheckter's first visit to Indy, Rahal kept telling him to take it easy (over and over) until Tomas finally smacked the wall, overdriving the car.

He had a couple of "bad press" moments in England while testing in F1. The last one (the hooker incident) finally pushed him out of favor with the team principals.

[sopwith21]

Did the Star have much to say about why Schectker still had a ride after almost three years with no results (positive ones, not most DNF's per start)?

Dunno. Write 'em and ask.

[sopwith21]

The Star's motorsports coverage has been weak at best since they sacked Robin Miller, the only guy with BALLS enough to tell it like he see's it, even when Tony George doesn't like the truth.

Robin Miller is living proof that you can still make a living in journalism by hacking up other people.

I have not a shred of respect for a man who deliberately targets people who have done nothing to him whatsoever and attempts to destroy their lives in order to prop up his own sagging career. And not just Tony George, Jack Miller and Dennis Vitolo, but a virtually endless list of people who at the very least deserved to be treated like human beings. Robin Miller is journalism at its lowest ebb. He has burned every bridge he has ever crossed and he never met a person that he wasn't willing to butcher in print in order to create a sensational story.

He didn't just "tell it like he sees it." He targeted and destroyed other decent human beings. I don't care what he thinks or who's opinion may have been right or wrong... that is inexcusable. Journalism cannot possibly sink to any lower depths.