Al Jr busted for DUI (again?)

[grungex]

Was CNN going out of their way to slander NASCAR?

[gofastandwynn]

Was CNN going out of their way to slander NASCAR?

No, just to the main stream media all racing is Nascar.

[Rudy Tamasz]

Poor Opie. Failing sobriety test at 11 a.m. is clearly an indicator of something. Let's imagine, he's hung over, sick, depressed, hates the whole world and needs a shot of booze to return to senses. And then he has an accident...

I really hope he gets better.

[NoFender]

Poor Opie. Failing sobriety test at 11 a.m. is clearly an indicator of something.

Long night????

[captin 1 VXR]

well we have to say is he s not the first and will not be the last .

also i always woundered why thay have red bull drink bottles . must be red bull and vodka ...


back to topic

he need to sort himself out as d d in usa is a bigger no no than back there in the uk .

[gerkebi]

why didn't you phrase it as "2-time CART champ arested again"?

Because Mark can spell.

[Mark in Oshawa]

Gofast, I think if Michael Andretti was feted for something grand in a headline as a "former CART champion" you would be equally pissed, but like I said, you cant have it both ways. You want to claim he is a CART guy because he was found on a DUI and not an IRL guy? Last people giving him a job were in the IRL, so that is what he is. Accuracy is the first rule of journalism, and it is accurate. Al Jr. at last glance was a participant, albeit part time in the IRL.

Anyone with half a brain knows he ran CART and god knows what else, but his mug was on the Indy 500 broadcast in 2005, and he hasn't run anything else....so I cant see why this is such an issue for you. You want to be upset? Be upset that the guy was around drinking in the MORNING and then driving around. Too many deaths occur because of stupid crap like this, yet you worry about a headline....

[Opinion8d]

the monkey is on al jr bad as alcoholism has destroyed many lives

[R. Mears]

I remember reading this when it happened. Really sad to go from a 2 time Indy 500 winner to a 2 time DUI offender.

[Mickey T]

i had a bit to do with him re the gold coast indy race, and it's terribly sad to see him look so old. he looks like a 55 year old.

as for what kind of racer to call him, most of the mainstream media don't really know the ins and outs of the political wrangling between the open wheeler formulae.

he is most readily identified with open wheeler racing and, to most people in the US, that means the Indy 500, which now means IRL and not CART. My guess, knowing how newspapers work, is that that's how the thought process would have gone.