Mexico City Race Weekend Thread (includes RACE spoilers) - Page 3

enemy-ace · 6 Nov 2005, 22:02 (Ref:1453687)

Kudos to Lavin btw. Nice bit of racing there. The kid has come a long way.

marcus · 6 Nov 2005, 22:08 (Ref:1453696)

Bugger I have to go out ,I will add the results when I get home

luke · 6 Nov 2005, 22:22 (Ref:1453709)

Some good, hard racing today into turn 1 espcially, Mexico City is the place to be today!

Russ-Turner · 6 Nov 2005, 22:26 (Ref:1453711)

Takuma Glock?

luke · 6 Nov 2005, 22:33 (Ref:1453716)

Racin' incident IMO.

luke · 6 Nov 2005, 22:45 (Ref:1453725)

Driver of the race? JW, kept it cool, did what he had to do, fastest driver and layed his mark in good fashion for 2006.

Russ-Turner · 6 Nov 2005, 22:49 (Ref:1453727)

Faultless drive, i'm over the moon for him.

Hazard · 6 Nov 2005, 22:49 (Ref:1453728)

What a great race. Would like to give the award to Tracy, but his move on Allmendinger does him out. Lavin deserves a note too, but Wilson the winner sure.

BootsOntheSide · 6 Nov 2005, 22:49 (Ref:1453729)

Great win from Justin, he always seemed to have things under control, although who knwos what Tracy could have done without the penalty, or Bourdais without the need for an ECU change? Solid results for Philippe and Power amongst others to finish the season too

Sheila M · 6 Nov 2005, 22:50 (Ref:1453730)

Well done to Justin. A well deserved win and perfect donuts to boot!

Jordi · 6 Nov 2005, 22:59 (Ref:1453737)

AJ just said that Paul is the "dirtiest" driver, and Paul said he indeed blocked him pretty hard and that he probably deserved the penalty, so even PT acknowledges it. I think there was good racing today. RüSPORT were dominant today and Justin even more so.

enemy-ace · 6 Nov 2005, 23:10 (Ref:1453747)

Vey good drive from Wilson. I think he is going to be Bourdais' No.1 challenger in 06.
My heart goes out to Dominguez, Glock is turning into a bit of a young PT. Quick but prone to stupidity. Boy, AJ sure is ****ed with PT too. Not sure if everyone is privy to it but Aj called him an idiot in a post race interview. PT to his credit though, said that AJ had every right to be angry and admitted that he blocked him very aggressivly.
Great race to end the season. Can't wait until next season.

Mystery · 7 Nov 2005, 00:06 (Ref:1453774)

Fabulous win for Justin. Richly deserved in a highly promising year. Hope to see him putting a lot more pressure on PT and SB next season.

MexMotor · 7 Nov 2005, 00:45 (Ref:1453786)

The people in the grandstands certainly didnt like the move of Glock. the first pit stop of Bourdais, very bad. He lost too much time in that one. Phillipe did a good race, so RAnger and Power, but i think Power was better considering it was only his second start. And Da Matta, he was good at the start, but then who knows what happen to him

rustyfan · 7 Nov 2005, 07:21 (Ref:1453893)

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Originally Posted by marcus

are you serious rustyfan ????

Hell yes - Champ Car has gotten so clean and tidy compared to the late 90's that seeing some rough, bat-out-of-hell crazy arse racing for a change was very refreshing.

Overall it turned out to be a pretty good race, even though the Rusport-domination kind of made it boring towards the front. The Glock/Dominguez duel was good though - until the incident in turn one, that is.

Mystery · 7 Nov 2005, 12:31 (Ref:1454092)

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Originally Posted by MexMotor

The people in the grandstands certainly didnt like the move of Glock.

I can't say I'm suprised really, but I was amazed to see him try the move there and then. I thought a couple of laps before he had a far better opportunity but backed out of it....so why not then - especially since Timo seemed to have the measure of Mario (although perhaps we dont exactly know how much P2P he really had left)

Snrub · 7 Nov 2005, 16:36 (Ref:1454342)

So how was the Papis/Legge international commentary?

The Canadian coverage was interesting. It left to comercial with AJ all over the back of Wilson, Bourdais in 3rd. They come back from comercial and Wilson has a 5 second lead over AJ and Bourdais is back in 13th! Virtually no explaination of the PT/Lavin/AJ situation until later in the broadcast.

Glock: Again super quick at the end of a race. I don't get how his performances can vary so much between qualifying, the start of the race and the end of the race. As I said in another thread, he should be shot for hitting Dominguez. The series needed Dominguez to finish strongly! I agree that it was a racing incident, but he still shouldn't have done it.

Ranger: Indeed he has been poor since Cleveland. I wonder what is going on. He certainly impressed the heck out of a lot of peope in the first half of the season.

I didn't see too much of the new rookies: Power, McDowell, Zwolsman. Power seems to be very promising though.

Overall IMO it was a good race. It would have been more interesting if the coverage was better and there was more challange to Wilson.

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Originally Posted by rustyfan

Hell yes - Champ Car has gotten so clean and tidy compared to the late 90's that seeing some rough, bat-out-of-hell crazy arse racing for a change was very refreshing.

That's because a guy with a name starting with a "Z" and ending in "anardi" left the series. ...Anyway, I disagree that PT shouldn't have been penalized. Even PT said he deserved to be penalized.

Kicking-back · 7 Nov 2005, 17:20 (Ref:1454393)

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Originally Posted by Snrub

So how was the Papis/Legge international commentary?

They were the guests - the commentator was Jeremy Shaw

Jordi · 7 Nov 2005, 17:32 (Ref:1454405)

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Originally Posted by Snrub

So how was the Papis/Legge international commentary?

It was great, coupled with Jeremy Shaw, whom I've always liked as a commentator. CTE, Cedric the Entertainer was up there for a while as well.

enemy-ace · 7 Nov 2005, 17:42 (Ref:1454424)

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Originally Posted by Snrub

The Canadian coverage was interesting. It left to comercial with AJ all over the back of Wilson, Bourdais in 3rd. They come back from comercial and Wilson has a 5 second lead over AJ and Bourdais is back in 13th! Virtually no explaination of the PT/Lavin/AJ situation until later in the broadcast.

I haven't seen the Canadian coverage yet as I watched it on RD, but it sounds like you got TSN'ed. They have a knack for cutting out the good stuff just to squeeze the race into their time constraints.
I watched a bit of the Int'l feed with Shaw, Legge and Papis. Legge wasn't bad but Papis was brutal. In his defense there is obviously a bit of a language barrier; but he sometimes just tries too hard to be likeable.

codename_47 · 7 Nov 2005, 23:23 (Ref:1454795)

Damn Tracy and his hyper rage has cost him a lot of points in his career...

Plain and simple, there is NO blocking in Champcar, yet Tracy threw one so harsh it would've raised eyebrows in F1 circles!
I think it was the worst example of blocking since Silverstone 2003, Micheal on Alonso at 180mph!!

That said though, it was a great front to back to front to back to front race from Tracy, finally utlising his rage for something more positive.

Not as great as Justin's though, a near-pefect weekend, and a fantastic boost going into the offseason!
Justin for the title next year?

A Great race to end the year, no doubt.
I was particularly a fan of the Glock-Dominquez battle, which we saw mainly from on-board......that was a special treat!

D70s · 8 Nov 2005, 00:20 (Ref:1454836)

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Originally Posted by enemy-ace

I haven't seen the Canadian coverage yet as I watched it on RD, but it sounds like you got TSN'ed. They have a knack for cutting out the good stuff just to squeeze the race into their time constraints.

Yep, that's exactly what happened. You'd think some who works for TSN could have watched the race and cut out some of the less interesting stuff. But no, they cut the most interesting part of the race because an NFL game went long and they had to get to soccer highlights after the race. Can we get a petition going to get rid of TSN in Champcar. If they didn't blackout the Speed coverage, maybe. But this is just stupid.

icemachine · 9 Nov 2005, 18:36 (Ref:1456540)

TSN should just license the Speed coverage and broadcast that whenever the hell they feel like it. They can save money and not **** off race fans.

rustyfan · 10 Nov 2005, 10:14 (Ref:1457081)

Interesting poll on the Champ Car website - "What was the most exciting moment of the Champ Car season finale?"

"Paul Tracy and Rodolofo Lavin getting together and then PT blocking A.J. Allmendinger" has a whoppin' 52% over "Paul Tracy's restart going from fifth to third" (24%) and "Mario Dominguez and Timo Glock battling for a podium finish" (22%).

Seems I'm not the only one who want to see closer and harder racing.

enemy-ace · 10 Nov 2005, 13:00 (Ref:1457208)

I don't think anybody didn't say it wasn't exciting. It just wasn't very clean.

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