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30 May 2013, 14:51 (Ref:3255500) | #1128 | ||
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They dropped Japan what was arguably a successful event attendance-wise but teams always hated the event for various reasons.
Brazil is a paid-for trip. Works very well with fan interest and local drivers. South America should be considered an expanding point Canada is failing and AOWR has gone from 3 events (Quebec, Toronto-Ontario, and Edmonton-Western Market) to 1 and in a metropolitan area of over 2 and a half million people draws 20,000 with more grandstands being removed. Qingdao was an epic fail, for Indycar that is, why have an overpriced and overvalued second-rate motor race when you have one of the most awesome-looking beer festivals on the planet. Thankfully the New Mayor had somewhat of a brain. Although I remember 2 users on this forum telling me what a success Qingdao would be because of it's European influences. Australia? What are the Options? Is the 'local partner' the local governments? Who else is going to pay up. Maybe 20 years ago Bob Jane, but who has the money? Is Tony George going to buy the Thunderdome and save that as well? Where are all these International races going to come from? One thing that ISN'T going to happen is the IRL LLC reducing CART-esque overvalued sanctioning fees which severely hampers their circuit and venue selection so that Indycar is currently racing in Baltimore and Detroit but not Road America and Laguna Seca. |
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30 May 2013, 19:27 (Ref:3255641) | #1129 | ||
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Hildebrand and Panther split up, effective immediately:
http://www.pantherracing.com/news/index.cfm?cid=56642 Look for Oriol Servia to take over for the time being at least. |
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I wonder if Barnes paid him or if JR will have to sue?
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I'll be very glad to see Oriol remain in the series, but it does hurt to lose a young American who needs track time to continue his development. Another frustration is that a car with a very American sponsor won't be driven by an American driver. It's not a big deal, but if you're trying to promote American drivers, who better than the National Guard (or Boy Scouts of America, Dale Coyne) to sponsor an American driver? Chris |
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Servia better watch out, the Grim Career Reaper may come back to bite him.
Scheckter, Meira, Wheldon and now Hildebrand wow, although I can't blame Barnes for his latest firing. If rumors are true John Barnes is a total scumbag, wonder if this ends up in court. |
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If I were to come into a lot of money in the next couple years I would buy Newman/Haas put Oriol and JR in the cockpit and try to surround them with competent, flexible, team players in the engineering staff. Chris Edit: of course, if someone knows the inside story from Panther, do tell. |
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Always somewhat of a surprise to see a driver replaced midseason, but otherwise not a surprise at all. The team was really behind J.R. after Indy 2011 but now 2 years later I guess they've had enough. The lap 4 crash couldn't have helped this past weekend but running over Will during the caution at St. Pete probably set this in motion.
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I can't imagine Briscoe doing any better in that car. At the end of the day, he was 3rd best Penske driver last year. It could be that being an ex-Penske driver, he'll have knowledge to some Penske tricks, and maybe that's why they hired him.
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As far as J.R. getting canned, he is not without fault in the matter and the team did stand behind him for quite a long time. I wonder if the 2011 Indy was a catastrophic moment for him, something so shattering that he can't get his career back on track. There is no doubt, watching onboard videos - like the one Marshall Pruett posted on speed.com following the Barber race, that the cars he is driving - particularly on road and street courses are terribly set up. I had hoped that the Panther/DRR partnership would help solve that, particularly with Oriol acting as a mentor for J.R. And yet the cars never seemed to improve, and Panther has been downright second or third tier for years - years before J.R. started driving for them. But by the same token J.R. hasn't shown much improvement since joining the team. Running over Will Power at St. Pete was downright embarrassing and his self-inflicted DNF this past weekend was a face-palm "I can't believe you just did that again, J.R." moment. The guy seems to be his own worst enemy on the race track. I hope he gets picked up by someone and put in a positive environment where he can grow. Not to pick on Panther, which I already have by accusing them of setting the car up terribly and not bending to driver inputs, but I think they also expect results at a certain point, particularly with a sponsor as significant as the National Guard. Put J.R. in the SFHR team, where there is a can-do spirit and clearly a positive environment that promotes the growth of young drivers and you could see J.R. recover. We desperately need not only the next Rick Mears, Mario Andretti or A.J. Foyt, but we need the next Jimmy Vasser, Bryan Herta, Scott Pruett, and Robby Gordon. Guys who could compete at the front of the grid on a regular basis, even if they aren't super stars or don't have their faces on the BorgWarner trophy. I mean to sound like someone who is blindly clambering for American drivers, because clearly this is a country that can get behind foreign drivers quite easily. Some of the biggest stars in IndyCar history are Brazilian, Italian, English, and Scottish. But we do like to root for home-grown kids, too. There is something cool about Americans dotting the top 10 in points (and winning Nation's Cups) the way Al Jr., Michael, Bobby Rahal, Scott Pruett, Robby Gordon, Bryan Herta, and Jimmy Vasser did for most of the (very international) 1990s. Chris |
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In the case of Dan Wheldon, I'd disagree; his record speaks for itself. If you look at the history of Panther racing, their best years were in 2000 with Scott Goodyear second in the IRL championship and Sam Hornish jr. wining it in 2001 and 2002. After that they were plagued by a combination of an uncompetitive engine and loss of sponsors. They had a slight resurgence in 2009 with Vitor Meira's 2nd place at Indy followed by Dan Wheldon's second place at Indy in 2010 and 2011 but that's a long way off from what it was.
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The A1GP debacle pretty much sealed the end after tony george personally told the QLD government and everyone else there they sucked and they didn't need them, despite the fact all the bills were paid for the series to go there, plus the sanctioning fee. The Australia bit is just whimsical dreaming of the past when the series was in demand. The demand, interest and money to bring the indy racing league there does not exist unless there is some sort of miracle. |
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As you mention DRT, facts would spoil the chance for a bash at any opening from some who forget that all this is years in the past, get over it. We have what we have, the world ain't going to suddenly revert to 1995 when we wake up tomorrow... V8SC certainly does not make tens of millions every year, they can't even make enough money this year to pay the REC holders even a dollar! |
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I'm going to go ahead and say it's not the MIT educated driver who earned his way into IndyCar and has driven a multitude of cars on many different continents.
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