Not the best advert for driving standards but at least it was decent entertainment
Wilson's late charge up to 7th just made me think what he could have done had he not spun out of 2nd a while back.
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Not the best advert for driving standards but at least it was decent entertainment
Wilson's late charge up to 7th just made me think what he could have done had he not spun out of 2nd a while back.
outside of the top 5 that finished, and Justin Wilson, it was a pretty poor showing by every other driver out there today, although Simona did a great job getting her first top 10, but much like with Danica, all the passing came pretty much with the expense of everyone else racing hard and crashing.
I think Danica only passed Marco for a position and that was it.
Will Power just showed hes the man in the Indy Cars this year, so glad to see him get another victory
Good race, good crowd, enough crashes and close racing for the casual fan, it was a good race to have ABC. Will Power looked excited, showed some personality and Verizon will do some adds next week congratulating him on his win... everything's good.
More like that please
one more lap and he would've finished 6th. Justin did a great job charging back through the fieldQuote:
Originally Posted by DazzlaF1
Here are the final results..
1.#12 Will Power
2. #10 Dario Franchitti
3. #37 Ryan Hunter-Reay
4. #11 Tony Kanaan
5. #02 Graham Rahal
6. #7 Danica Patrick
7. #22 Justin Wilson
8. #26 Marco Andretti
9. #78 Simona De Silvestro
10. #4 Dan Wheldon
11. #14 Vitor Meira
12. #06 Hideki Mutoh
13. #15 Paul Tracy
14. #32 Mario Moraes
15. #24 Tomas Scheckter
16. #36 Bertrand Baguette
17. #77 Alex Tagliani
18. #6 Ryan Briscoe
19. #8 EJ Viso
20. #9 Scott Dixon
21. #2 Raphael Matos
22. #34 Mario Romancini
23. #19 Alex Lloyd
24. #3 Helio Castroneves
25. #5 Takuma Sato
26. #18 Milka Duno
I agree with MDS that it was exciting, entertaining, and all the good press that comes with it. Glad also to hear the crowd was good, remember they are rebuilding this event. The track certainly lends itself to entertaining racing. Lots of drivers benefitted today from the lunacy out there. I wish PT could've kept his rig running, he ends up somewhere between 5th and 8th if no for that miscue. Sorry for J-Dub though....ugggh. Danica did run well, not 6th place well, but she was competitive in the top 12 all day and most of the weekend so easily her best road/street race.
It was a crashfest today. Danica had this course mastered this weekend. Im proud of her. Look out Edmonton, here she comes!
Everytime she does something halfway respectable you say something stupid and ruin it for her. Just stop talking/posting and she'll retain more fans. The way part timers PT and Graham drove away from her and Justin caught her on that last stint, if she has the course mastered I'd like to know what their classification is.Quote:
Originally Posted by DanicaFan
I thought I would watch the IRL race today at Toronto - BIG MISTAKE.
The last time I watched the Indy 500 was when Montoya showed just how good he is and how inferior the rest of the drivers were.
Today the Indt 500 is dead and buried. I do watch the races at Texas because THAT is the only track where this one make formula works well.
Today demonstrated that either its a stupid short circuit or the drivers are pretty substandard.
This single-seater series has become the home for non-American drivers unable to find a drive in European racing.
No matter what they do it is not going to work. The original idea was for an oval series using American machinery and with lots of American drivers - thats a good formula.
If it were 10 races on oval tracks that could put on shows as they usually fo in Texas, then people like myself and others from the lower echelons of racing such as NASCAR would watch.
Indy racing is finished because there is essentially no connection to anything American witin the series.
You think that American race fans are stupid? There is a reason why the Indy series is where it is today and it is not going to be improved by silly gimmicks as announced this past week.
I had good will towards this series - I remember the CART days which were just superb.
But when CART collapsed the idea for an oval openwheel series was sound.
Where exactly does Indy fit today? Nowhere, and ridiculous road street circuits where every corner looks the same and the drivers too incompetent to drive without a caution every handful of laps is just a road to nowhere.
Openwheel racing deserves to die in the US and it will not be missed - today was a display of incompetent driving at its worst dominated by the only teams that are going to win anything in that series - Ganassi or Penske - yawn.....zzzzzz!
Good driving by about 6 or 7 drivers including the Princess and Simona. The rest of them would be at home in a figure 8 race.
Milk and Donuts should have been flagged off sooner. Even the commentators said so.
A lot of repair work for a lot of teams with a long haul to Edmonton.
Been there, done that!