I think I might take the bet but that is only $4.80 Cdn.
I think I might take the bet but that is only $4.80 Cdn.
OT, but I thought the exchange rate was so now that the US dollar was less than the Canadian?Quote:
Originally Posted by Easy Drifter
Right. So $5 US is worth $4.80 Cdn. Despite this some merchants in Buffalo were wanting a $1.40 Cdn. for items @ $1 US last week!
Back in the 70's when the Cdn dollar was worth as much as $1.10 US we always bought US dollars before we left to race in the US. Near the border Cdn. dollars usually were accepted (not always) but at the best at par. Get out of a border state and good luck trying to use Cdn. money.
Admittedly part of the reason was the different banking system. Our banks are country wide and even the smallest branch is used to foriegn exchange and always have US money on hand and know the rates. Oops a little off topic.
Dr. Kavorkian to the front office, this thread is in need of your services!
Mike15, I could respond to all of your points one by one, but you are too ignorant to listen to anything I or any of the rest of the people who aren't Kalkhoven apologists have to say.
And if CC doesn't have a 2008, don't bother with writing about how it's the fault of TG, Bernie Ecclestone, Brian France, Honda, Toyota, God, the US Government or any other dumbarse conspiracy theories. Because that will just prove how ignorant you are. You form minute one to me have been stooping for these guys, no matter what they've done. I've never figured out why, but I have come to see that even if I could figure it out it would just tell me that CC's diehards are too dumb, too blind, too obsessed with Anton "Tony" Hulman George to see the truth.
The odds are against CC having another year. Why? Because what they had in 2004 was there. It wasn't much, but it was something to build on. They have tossed all of that away, leaving just "support the cause" as a rally cry, as something to draw on. And it isn't working. And until CC realizes that playing to the market that built you will save them, things will not change. I think it's very nearly too late.
So, you gonna see the truth, or are you gonna like a total idiot when CC closes the doors and Anton wins?
They in 2004 shoulda kept the diverse schedule to whatever extent possible, kept the CART name (because it was known), keep as many of the stars they had, take what they had, stabilize it and then build on it. KK went looking for fast cash. And it has mutated the series into something that looks nothing like what we all hoped and prayed for the amigos to save in the winter of 2004.
But don't worry, just F TG some more, right?
Wake up, Mike.
I posted the original though back on October 25th 2006.
Given the news, all of it bad, since then, I stand behind it now.
All it would take is one team (Haas, etc...) to take up an IRL offer of free chassis and support and jump to the Indy League and CCWS is done foe befoe the first event.
Long Beach is still about 90 days away with four confirmed rides and look what has happened in the last 90 days and project that to what could happen in the next... I am convinced, given the articles written by knowledgeable jouranlists, that there is something happening behind the scenes that the sanguine fanatics cannot comprehend.
I know the sanguine fanatics will still take the bet, but the question of the day is now, of those wanted my five bucks back in October, who still wants to take this bet ???
I'll take the bet.
2008 goes on as planned. It isn't over until GF and KK says it is.
Haas said they aren't going this year. I doubt they would go at all if there's no merger.
No, Haas did NOT say he's not going this year. Read it again.
The bet is on.Quote:
Originally Posted by indycool
You and SoCal bet all you want, but that Haas said he wasn't changing is patently untrue from Miller's commentary. He didn't say he was or he wasn't.