Kanaan #1!!

jenna · 13 Jun 2004, 02:40 (Ref:1002214)

hooray!
it was a weird race for me to watch cos i'm travelling so i had to go to a bar to watch it, and there was no sound! so i really don't know everything that happened, but there was no mistaking that green #11 crossing the line first! go Kanaan!

MLM · 13 Jun 2004, 04:20 (Ref:1002293)

Congrats to Tony!

marcus · 13 Jun 2004, 06:52 (Ref:1002344)

well done to Tony but I was going for dario as I picked him to win this round , oh well he was close.

pretty good race with lots of action , and total domination by two teams really , Rahal and Andretti , simply the class of the field.

**gomick** · 13 Jun 2004, 10:05 (Ref:1002452)

congrats to tony

- another honda domination was it

marcus · 13 Jun 2004, 10:23 (Ref:1002463)

no not really gomick , but they were the class of the field

Down F0rce · 13 Jun 2004, 11:22 (Ref:1002489)

Fantastic stuff. Well done Tony, you deserved this one.

How about Darren Manning though?? He was awesome in this race!

Kicking-back · 13 Jun 2004, 12:17 (Ref:1002523)

Great drive from Darren Manning - just the right mix of sense and agression.

It's a pity Rice's spotter didn't do his job!

gttouring · 13 Jun 2004, 12:23 (Ref:1002527)

good win and what a burnout-this has been a long time comng

Kicking-back · 13 Jun 2004, 12:34 (Ref:1002539)

A long time coming? He won about two or three races ago at Phoenix!

IronLion · 13 Jun 2004, 13:49 (Ref:1002583)

that was th first IRL race i have seen, living in Australia irl is almost unheard of unless you have cable, and it seems the irl is bringing some really good close racing. I havent seen any owr oval racing in a few years and now i rememeber why oval racing provides the best racing.

Down F0rce · 13 Jun 2004, 14:14 (Ref:1002601)

Welcome to the forum, IronLion

Hope you join us for the rest of the year

marcus · 13 Jun 2004, 14:27 (Ref:1002609)

yeah welcome IronLion , Im from Oz as well , jump in head first and join us

Team Owner · 13 Jun 2004, 15:21 (Ref:1002649)

Decent race and a good crowd ! It was kind of expensive for some teams though. The car of Ed Carpenter was a total write-off as the first hit cleaned off the right side suspension and some of the undertray but then it hit the wall again with just the tub and that hurt it bad. It's a show car now. Foyts was mostly hang-on pieces as was Taylors. Rice needs new left rear corner and Manning will need some work to the right side rear undertray and a new wing. Alex Barron came from dead last to finish 3rd in a Chevy powered car. Pretty impressive IMO. Tony K drove a super race and deserved the win!.

GP Racer · 14 Jun 2004, 00:16 (Ref:1003025)

Another great race, with an awful lot of action going on up and down the grid.

This new engine and aero package are real winners. The cars can really race close together, even going 3 wide at times. And the Safer-Barrier, what can you say? It's fantastic. Great stuff!

Agreed that AGR and Team Rahal are the teams to beat now. But I must say that Alex Barron put in a great drive, to save some face for Chevy. He was able to hang with the leaders at the end. Meira was solid all night to, and Greg Ray, way to go! Didn't even think you'd make the race, and by the way, I didn't recognise the new colors! LOL!

AJ Foyt IV, and Mark Taylor just have to stay out of trouble. They cannot keep hitting the wall like this. Mark was actually running his best race until, blammo!

Great crowd, over 90,000. They were surely entertained.

Team Owner · 14 Jun 2004, 01:20 (Ref:1003038)

Taylor was very impressive before his shunt.

Bob Riebe · 14 Jun 2004, 02:02 (Ref:1003051)

Quote:

Originally posted by IronLion
that was th first IRL race i have seen, living in Australia irl is almost unheard of unless you have cable, and it seems the irl is bringing some really good close racing. I havent seen any owr oval racing in a few years and now i rememeber why oval racing provides the best racing.

IronLion, I think you may have revealed a major part of what is wrong with road racing, other than stupid contrived rules.
Many, especially major road racing courses used to have long straights and most often sweeping high speed curves in which it was still possible for top drivers to go side by side, as often as not.
Today, with the saftey naz-s out protecting everyone, the courses have become shoot and squirt go-kart tracks closer in relation to a 1/4 mile midget bull-ring than a high speed test of skill.
It takes talent to win on a bull-ring, ask anyone who has won the Little 500, but it is a totally different style than is used to win on a high speed sweeping course in which a opponet can pass on either side depending on how much room you give him, or how big his balls are.
It was tracks like Daytona-pre-chicane, Spa, LeMans-before they butchered the Mulsanne, Riverside that made road racing pull in oval fans, because in mamy ways, on some tracks, the same principles applied.
Thank you IronLion, the mystery of, at least part, of what was missing from road racing has been revealed.
G'Day and Gods'speed
Bob

JohnSSC · 14 Jun 2004, 02:47 (Ref:1003074)

Defintely agree with you here Bob. The "Authorities" have butchered some really terrific (well, formerly terrific) tracks with chicanes and corners with an "improved" radius.

I thought that when the cars got too fast for the track you changed the formula. Now they change the track!

Bob Riebe · 14 Jun 2004, 02:52 (Ref:1003079)

Quote:

Originally posted by JohnSSC
Defintely agree with you here Bob. The "Authorities" have butchered some really terrific (well, formerly terrific) tracks with chicanes and corners with an "improved" radius.

I thought that when the cars got too fast for the track you changed the formula. Now they change the track!

As Bill France Sr. said (If he were still alive, I think he would be stomping all over Juniors head) when they said the Talledega track was too fast-"The gas pedal goes both ways."

You don't change the formula, you tell drivers who can't handle it to go somewhere else.

Bob

racer69 · 14 Jun 2004, 07:52 (Ref:1003177)

That really was a good race.

Any hope of Meira getting a ride somewhere when Brack comes back? He deserves one......

climb · 14 Jun 2004, 09:04 (Ref:1003229)

Rahal should be crazy to fire Meira (who set yesterday the fastest lap).

Kicking-back · 14 Jun 2004, 12:13 (Ref:1003468)

I think Rahal's line-up will be Rice and Meira for the rest of the season.

rush1 · 14 Jun 2004, 17:48 (Ref:1003815)

Didn't they announce during the telecast on ESPN that Meira was signed on for the rest of the year? Pretty sure I heard that.

Kicking-back · 14 Jun 2004, 18:05 (Ref:1003829)

I think that would've been a reference to Rice.

rush1 · 14 Jun 2004, 18:48 (Ref:1003898)

Quote:

Originally posted by Kicking-back
I think that would've been a reference to Rice.

No, I'm sure Paul Page said Vitor Meira but maybe he meant Buddy Rice.

Kicking-back · 14 Jun 2004, 18:53 (Ref:1003906)

He probably did.

Accuracy and Paul Page don't go together comfortably on a regular basis.

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