dhess68
13th June 2013, 04:56
The poor guy really needs to stop trying to use that brain of his...it could hurt him some day. OR if god forbid this did happen, we could see a horrific wreck between a big heavy stock car with damn near no brakes hitting an open wheeler causing another needless death on a track.
Dearest Eddie, why not pitch the idea of this but to a certain Mr Ecclestone? It makes more sense, and i'm sure that Bernie would love a chance to see the drivers from his series come to the states and squash some Yanks.
Do it at COTA? Maybe the day before with a car that is not backup for F1, call it a "throwaway car" if you will....yeah I know they cost more than what Dale Jr racks up in merchandise $$$ but this makes more sense than seeing Jeff Gordon vs Helio.
Hell they could get Mario and Sir Jackie Stewart to call the race, I would watch it but doubt it is feasable.
Anyway...the link...
Ok, I don't have enough posts to post a link.
It was on Yahoo "Warped Wed" section....i'll just post the "lowlights" of the section.
Welcome to Warped Wednesday. On this, we'll put out the rush to judgment mat, go a little too far and have a little fun. Will it be funny? Sometimes. Will it be crazy and largely unbelievable? Probably. Will not everyone get it? Definitely.Eddie Gossage has no shortage of ideas to get his track attention and after watching Saturday night'sIndyCar Series race at Texas Motor Speedway, he could have had his craziest one yet.
Sources exclusive to Warped Wednesday said that when Gossage saw the speeds of the IndyCars fall off dramatically through the course of a fuel and tire run, he started feverishly thinking about the possibility of a showdown between the open wheel cars and the Sprint Cup Series cars.
Yes, the IndyCars are the fastest oval-track cars in the world, but at the end of the fuel and tire cycles, the field was averaging approximately 198 MPH a lap. Or, in NASCAR terms, just two MPH faster than the Sprint Cup Series pole speed at Texas Motor Speedway in April.
The premise of the race would go like this. It'd be a 25 lap, winner take all shootout between 10 Cup cars and 10 IndyCars. The Cup cars would be given fresh tires and just enough fuel to make it to the finish while the IndyCars would be handicapped with a full fuel load and tires with 50 laps on them. Each car would run one qualifying lap on the same fuel and tire setup before the race.
Dearest Eddie, why not pitch the idea of this but to a certain Mr Ecclestone? It makes more sense, and i'm sure that Bernie would love a chance to see the drivers from his series come to the states and squash some Yanks.
Do it at COTA? Maybe the day before with a car that is not backup for F1, call it a "throwaway car" if you will....yeah I know they cost more than what Dale Jr racks up in merchandise $$$ but this makes more sense than seeing Jeff Gordon vs Helio.
Hell they could get Mario and Sir Jackie Stewart to call the race, I would watch it but doubt it is feasable.
Anyway...the link...
Ok, I don't have enough posts to post a link.
It was on Yahoo "Warped Wed" section....i'll just post the "lowlights" of the section.
Welcome to Warped Wednesday. On this, we'll put out the rush to judgment mat, go a little too far and have a little fun. Will it be funny? Sometimes. Will it be crazy and largely unbelievable? Probably. Will not everyone get it? Definitely.Eddie Gossage has no shortage of ideas to get his track attention and after watching Saturday night'sIndyCar Series race at Texas Motor Speedway, he could have had his craziest one yet.
Sources exclusive to Warped Wednesday said that when Gossage saw the speeds of the IndyCars fall off dramatically through the course of a fuel and tire run, he started feverishly thinking about the possibility of a showdown between the open wheel cars and the Sprint Cup Series cars.
Yes, the IndyCars are the fastest oval-track cars in the world, but at the end of the fuel and tire cycles, the field was averaging approximately 198 MPH a lap. Or, in NASCAR terms, just two MPH faster than the Sprint Cup Series pole speed at Texas Motor Speedway in April.
The premise of the race would go like this. It'd be a 25 lap, winner take all shootout between 10 Cup cars and 10 IndyCars. The Cup cars would be given fresh tires and just enough fuel to make it to the finish while the IndyCars would be handicapped with a full fuel load and tires with 50 laps on them. Each car would run one qualifying lap on the same fuel and tire setup before the race.