The Bloom is Off The Rose.

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Originally Posted by SportscarBruce

Danica redeemed herself this afternoon. She stayed out of trouble, worked with her race engineers, and moved well up from her starting position. Who can argue against that? :confused:

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She did what she always does (and what works in today's Indy Car series). Runs all day, has good pit stops, gets a boatload of luck and waits for folks in front of her to make mistakes.

That's how she has finished in the top 10 4 times now at Indy. Give her credit for not making bonehead moves and getting to the checkards. Many more talented drivers still can't do that (especially in long races). But as Robin so accurately said tonight, Marco and Tony RACED their way to the front; Danica used ATTRITION to move up. Big difference.

actually I heard cheering!

the situation made me laugh a bit. It was in victory lane, Dario crawling out of the car, eveybody was buzzing and in the back a lowd crowd was yelling "Da - ni - ca!, Da - ni - ca!...."

DanicaFan, where you there with your pals?
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credit to eveyrone who kept their noses clean. Part of the marathon that Indy is.

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Originally Posted by Scotty G.

She did what she always does (and what works in today's Indy Car series). Runs all day, has good pit stops, gets a boatload of luck and waits for folks in front of her to make mistakes.

That's how she has finished in the top 10 4 times now at Indy. Give her credit for not making bonehead moves and getting to the checkards. Many more talented drivers still can't do that (especially in long races). But as Robin so accurately said tonight, Marco and Tony RACED their way to the front; Danica used ATTRITION to move up. Big difference.

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Yep- the difference between a racer and a driver.

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Originally Posted by SportscarBruce

Danica redeemed herself this afternoon. She stayed out of trouble, worked with her race engineers, and moved well up from her starting position. Who can argue against that? :confused:

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did she pass one car under normal racing conditions???? the sad reality is that she somehow lucked out a 6th place finish when she was basically in the 15-20th place all race long.

everytime I was seeing the intervals, it always seemed Danica was leading a freight train much like on road courses, which comes to questions whether or not she was blocking, the TV never showed it so I cant personally say 100% she was or was not, but there were always 5-6 drivers stuck behind her for many laps.

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Originally Posted by harvick#1

did she pass one car under normal racing conditions???? the sad reality is that she somehow lucked out a 6th place finish when she was basically in the 15-20th place all race long.

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I woudn't call it luck- and I'm not exactly a fan of hers.

She and her team executed a well thought out strategy. She did not have the speed to run up front, so she and her team deserve kudos for finishing in 6th place.

My guess is, once she's strapped into that NASCAR stocker, she'll get that golden horseshoe driven so far up her... well, let's just say that I don't see pit strategy getting her into the Top 10 over there. And if you block over there, you'll either move or you'll get moved.

Whether she got 5th or 6th, that was a fantastic result, however it came to be, considering how slow she (I mean, the team and the car) was all month. I'll give any dog its due if it catches a rabbit, whether by luck or skill. But from what I've read on the intraweb today, the rabbit crawled in the pen with the dog and that's how he got caught.

From what little I've seen, am I right that Tony Kanaan pretty much had the drive of the race?

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Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior

From what little I've seen, am I right that Tony Kanaan pretty much had the drive of the race?

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TK was easily the driver of the race, with Lloyd right behind.

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Originally Posted by harvick#1

TK was easily the driver of the race, with Lloyd right behind.

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Whoa, whoa, whoa...I'd buy somebody trying to pass off TK's drive of the race as THE one although my vote would go to Dario considering nobody could touch him. An argument to be made? Maybe, they were easily the two in contention. Lloyd was just as uncompetitive as Danica all day and literally was within a place or 2 of her after every yellow. He would pretty much lose a spot or 2 to her and some others on each pit and then he'd pass her and basically only her back. He got to 4th the same exact way as Dancia got to 6th (as has been clearly noted). Great result for him and the little Coyne team, just like Danica, but hardly a candidate for "drive of the race". Same goes to him as to Danica, great result --- didn't really perform at a high level.

Of course Patrick catches hell. She is at best an slightly-above-average to average Indy driver who is treated like a the second Schumacher.

She obviously considers herself to be special and believes that the fans have the priviledge of watching her race.

Racing is about R-A-C-I-N-G? We can agree on that?

What if the entire field had Danica's "skills" to hang a the back waiting for others to crash out in front? Think that would be a great Indy500? Maybe everyone could finish 6th then.

She deserves ALL of the scorn she gets -- she creates most of it herself. There are other average drivers like Danica in the field -- the differences is they act glad to be there, and are respectful to other racers, and are attentive of the fans. QED!

Sick of the prima dona! She's going to NASCAR? Good riddance I say.

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Originally Posted by Starter

The last time I looked, you don't get a lot of points or prize money for how fast you were during the race. You do get them for where you finish the race.
On that basis Danica beat the majority of the field yesterday. Everyone keeps saying how she's lucked out race after race. She must be the luckiest driver around then. Just sayin' you know. ;)

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I wonder how she would have done back when the pits were always open.
Now they herd them around like cluster of lemmings; back then the team and DRIVER smarts for pitting were very importand, and one could make up time by timing it right.