Chicagoland. The 2007 IRL Championship Decider

[ThePenguin]

I know that most of you don't agree with this, but I still think that the Danica spin had a good chance of being intentional. First Dario knew that if a yellow flag came out for just a few laps that he could make it to the finish without running out of fuel. If there was no caution then both Dario and Scott would have gone into the pits, and Dario probably knew that he couldn't beat Scott in that scenario. The only real way for Dario to beat Scott was for a caution to come out. Once the caution came out Scott had two options, one resulting in defeat, and the other resulting in a possible but highly unlikely victory. His fuel engineer knew that he probably wouldn't make it, but they didn't have a choice.

The Danica spin was very suspicious, I watched the race myself on TV. The theory of her locking up her brakes doesn't work for me because where she spun she should have been just a few mph over pit road speed and would have no need for excessive braking. She has been in the IRL long enough to know how to enter pit road safely. The in car camera looked really suspicious too with the way it showed her drive. Remember, before the race she said something like, "I want to help my teammates in any way I can."

[D.R.T.]

AGR has history aswell

[Knowlesy]

Well without the last yellow Dixon would have had to pit. Surely, in that case, Dario could just have run very lean to the finish over the last laps what with having a massive lead.

I don't see how Danica spun on purpose there. There are better places to do it for a start.

It made no difference other than to give Dixon a shred of hope.

[ThePenguin]

Originally Posted by Knowlesy

Well without the last yellow Dixon would have had to pit. Surely, in that case, Dario could just have run very lean to the finish over the last laps what with having a massive lead.

I don't see how Danica spun on purpose there. There are better places to do it for a start.

It would have been very hard or impossible for Dario to go all the way without the caution. Remember he ran out of fuel right after he crossed the finish line. There was no better time for Danica to spin that at the time that she did, and the length of the caution was perfect. It gave Dario just enough fuel to cross the finish line, but at the same time it made Scott stay out knowing that he would run out of fuel and lose the race. Like I said before, the Danica spin was really the only way for Dario to win the race.

[Kieran20]

Originally Posted by ThePenguin

It would have been very hard or impossible for Dario to go all the way without the caution. Remember he ran out of fuel right after he crossed the finish line. There was no better time for Danica to spin that at the time that she did, and the length of the caution was perfect. It gave Dario just enough fuel to cross the finish line, but at the same time it made Scott stay out knowing that he would run out of fuel and lose the race. Like I said before, the Danica spin was really the only way for Dario to win the race.

dario did not run out of fuel. he stopped the car on the pit straight (or stalled it ) after he got a tow and fired up again to drive back into victory lane.

without the caution or not, if dario ran out of fuel he would have run out after dixon, decalring him champion as he still would have beat him.

the danica incident really doesnt change, or make an impact on anything.

[Hazza]

And you have to take in account the quote from Scott after the race.

WE WERE HOPING FOR A CAUTION FLAG.

[ThePenguin]

Originally Posted by Hazza

And you have to take in account the quote from Scott after the race.

WE WERE HOPING FOR A CAUTION FLAG.

I think that the kind of caution that he was talking about was the kind that happens after a crash and lasts a while, not the perfect-for-Dario one that happened.

[Kieran20]

Originally Posted by ThePenguin

I think that the kind of caution that he was talking about was the kind that happens after a crash and lasts a while, not the perfect-for-Dario one that happened.

yes that would have been ideal for him, but he didnt get it! if danica didnt do what she did he would have got none, and would have had absolutley no hope at all in finsihing the race, making dario again champion.

face it, it was darios day, in reality scott wasnt going to ever win that race with the amount of fuel he had left.

[deejay]

Kieran, if they didn't get a caution flag then Dixon would surely have pitted and Dario would have been left with a decision. If Dario stayed out in that situation the roles might have been reversed, with Dario running out of fuel on the last lap and Dixon cruising by for the win. If both pitted Dixon would still have the track position advantage.

That's not what happend though and none of that proves the conspiracy theory.