Again ..... A much different situation
It was laid out ahead of time that Mario would race the car
And had wally failed to qualify the car Mario would not have started
It's just different
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Again ..... A much different situation
It was laid out ahead of time that Mario would race the car
And had wally failed to qualify the car Mario would not have started
It's just different
It is a sad day for Motorsport when money can buy you a ride after failing to qualify.
Not much different than that late fall trade deadline in MLB when a lot of players are traded to the contenders for the Baseball championship series.Quote:
Originally Posted by SarahFan
This isn't the only series that allows driver swaps after a car has been qualified. It was far more common when more drivers like Mario raced in multiple series all year long. IIRC something similar had happened at Indy in fairly recent years. Penske didn't buy anyone a ride when his team was shut out at indy, but I'm fairly certain the money was there if he had wanted to.
Junky just doesn't have good luck at Indy.
There's perception and there's reality. Welcome to reality.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob Riebe
Yes, the reasons between the 2 are different. But what I'm trying to point out is that this has been the rule at Indy for a long time, if not always. The car qualifies, not the driver. This isn't IndyCar stretching the rules to include a regular driver and sponsor. The possibility for this happening for this reason has always been there and has already happened to Bruno a couple of years ago. Like I said, I feel for Bruno and hope he gets better breaks in future 500's, but I can certainly understand why it's important to Andretti and IndyCar to get one of the few real sponsors in the 500, the only race with decent exposure for the sponsors. Lord knows the Versus ratings aren't going to do the trick.Quote:
Originally Posted by SarahFan
I feel sorry for Bruno but I've grown to accept this as something unique to Indy. It adds a certain intrigue and creates this kind of discussion. However, I find it much more palatable when it happens within a team (i.e. Groff\Goodyear... gave us one hell of a race and a major sponsor was appeased and kept a marginal team afloat). Indy really mattered back then and maybe it matters again.
I'm getting all nostalgic for 5 years ago. http://www.nascar.com/2006/news/head...buy/index.html
Mario in his F1 days, Goodyear in '92, I'm sure there are more examples. For people to be on here complaining about how this is so horrible for this to happen now, as if this is a new thing, or worse, using this to somehow bash the IRL, is disingenuous at best. This only shows those who still hate anything IRL or Indycar. And those doing the complaining around here are of no surprise to those paying attention. Those people will use anything to disparage Indycar. The only thing I'm surprised about is that they haven't tried to blame Tony George yet.
Who is bashing the irl dbell?
I havent read that here on this thread?
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I'm not saying, I'm just saying.Quote:
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