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Thread: Houston Grand Prix
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7th October 2013, 21:23 #11
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Re: Houston Grand Prix
Originally Posted by anfield5"Risk sweetens everything" - Peter Revson (1939 - 1974)
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7th October 2013, 21:27 #12
Re: Houston Grand Prix
Oh, when he sees the video he will most assuredly consider if it is time to retire. The operative word there being consider. I don't think he will do so, but the conversation will be had in his own head.
As for KV releasing TK to take the seat. I doubt that will happen, the sponsors would not be too happy unless they are in on the decision.
Gary"If you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem." --- George Carlin :andrea: R.I.P.
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7th October 2013, 21:58 #13
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Re: Houston Grand Prix
Originally Posted by garyshell
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7th October 2013, 22:33 #14
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Re: Houston Grand Prix
Just like to send my best wishes to Dario and the drivers and fans. Horrid accident.
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8th October 2013, 02:02 #15
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Re: Houston Grand Prix
There's a Columbian that's being considered for Fontana to replace Dario, and it's NOT Montoya.
\"If you have a problem with what I\'m doing, talk to me, get it all out, then shut up.\" - Juan Pablo Montoya
\"I tell ya, if my name was \'Juan Pablo Montoya,\' everyone would just kiss my ass!\" - David Letterman
\"That was a mugging.\" - Tommy Kendall \"You can\'t spell \'fiasco\' without the FIA.\" Those are shark gills, not shark fins! Get it right!
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8th October 2013, 02:14 #16
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Re: Houston Grand Prix
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8th October 2013, 21:21 #17
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Re: Houston Grand Prix
Originally Posted by Civic
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9th October 2013, 21:15 #18
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Re: Houston Grand Prix
Looks like it's Tags subbing for Dario. I guess that means Briscoe is doing Petit Le Mans.
\"If you have a problem with what I\'m doing, talk to me, get it all out, then shut up.\" - Juan Pablo Montoya
\"I tell ya, if my name was \'Juan Pablo Montoya,\' everyone would just kiss my ass!\" - David Letterman
\"That was a mugging.\" - Tommy Kendall \"You can\'t spell \'fiasco\' without the FIA.\" Those are shark gills, not shark fins! Get it right!
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15th October 2013, 16:24 #19
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Re: Houston Grand Prix
This circuit was horrible when champcar raced on it. The ALMS also raced here and the place is so rough that the normally bullet proof Audis we were breaking body parts!
Indycars should never race at a place that is so rough you can split a gearbox casing on the bumps. Utterly ridiculous!
There is simply no excuse, especially since everyone remembers how rough the place was back then. Did they really think the place would just smooth out and become acceptable all by itself? Everyone had to know what they were getting into because everyone saw how badly the place beat up the champcars. You could see the wings shaking and body panels bobbing up and down. Did they really think they were going to go back to the same place and things would be better?
That, and I believe Tony Cotman helped set up both circuits, so at least one person knew how bad it was going to bet when they got there. I also believe Walker was running a team in the series when champcar raced on this circuit, so what the hell were these people thinking? Here's a simple question: Why didn't Walker or Cotman or one of their minions fly out there and drive around the place in a rental car, you know, just to check it out? Answer: They already knew how bad the place was and apparently did not care. Maybe they think because they didn't exercise due diligence in inspecting the place that they have plausible deniability.
Having said that, it's not a bad layout. The surface is just way to rough. If they could grind the whole circuit and patch up any dips, it would probably provide some good racing. The racing was actually not bad, but it would be better if the surface was smoother.
Fences, of course, have been a big problem for a lot of years. We are not a hell of a lot safer in the stands today than we were in 1955. Who's idea was it to put spectators on the outside of a 160mph sweeper anyway?
I'm a big Indycar supporter, but there is no way I can justify what they did here. It was a bad idea to go to Reliant Park, especially since everyone knows how bad the place is. They would have been a lot better off starting from scratch at a smoother location. If nothing else, since they knew how rough the place is, they had all these years to demand the city grind the place. In the end, with all the big sponsor money coming in from Shell and thinking the series was going to make a killing, they just couldn't help themselves, and they simply threw the teams under the bus, and endangered everyone.
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Re: Houston Grand Prix
Originally Posted by Doc Austin"Old roats am jake mit goats."
-- Smokey Stover
I think we saw this one coming, didn't we?
F1 Guru Adrian Newey leave Redbull