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Doesn't it cost quite a few thousand $$$ to place an entry? hardly free, so I don't quite follow the logic of that rumour.Quote:
Originally Posted by RGM Fan
Anyhows, so far Yasukawa is safely in, Herb waived his 1st run off (what is the point in waving off these days?) & the Duno/Roth battle for the Matsu****a cup is pretty close.
I agree, why would you wave off a run? If they can't get his fuel pressure fixed today and it rains tomorrow, he's out of luck, and if it does turn out to be too slow, you can go back out again. Better to post something, because as of now he's got nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by courageous
At this point, 1:30 ET Saturday, four cars have qualified -- Yasukawa, Andretti, Duno and Roth, the latter the slowest at 218.922.
That, realistically, leaves about 8-9 cars for seven spots. The 9th would be if P.J. Chesson (or someone else) makes a deal for the Beck backup. The Foyt backup is NOT expected to run, although Larry Foyt took hisn physical this morning. There are other rumblings about backup cars, but the big teams seem to be preparing their race setups.
What seems to be remaining that's known:
Jimmy Kite (PDM)
Roberto Moreno (Chastain)
Al Unser Jr. (Foyt)
Jaques Lazier (Playa del Racing)
Phil Giebler (Playa del Racing)
Alex Barron (Beck)
Jon Herb (Professional)
Richie Hearn (Hemelgarn)
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Originally Posted by Alexamateo
Ouch! You don't think I jinxed him do ya? :eek: ;)
No alex, Phil did this to himself. He learned a valuable lesson at Indy: when the car speaks, you must listen. Hope his team can do a decent thrash job so he can get in the field because:
1) he's a very promising young driver, and
2) Milka as ROY would be a tough pill to swallow. :rolleyes:
As of Noon, they're still thrashing......P.J. Jones and Richie Hearn have hit 216.
The more complete rurmor I heard from someone working at the speedway is the entry fees were wavied after the April deadline came and passed with 27 entries. At least a third of the field is subsidized in part or in full by the George family. So these guys at Cabbie likely made a couple thousand dolllars, got their expenses covered, got all access passes and to my knowledge never turned a lap. I think they scammed TG.Quote:
Originally Posted by courageous
Again I'm just repeating what I heard, so I could be 100 percent wrong.
Most of that appears to be inaccurate. The story in the Indianapolis Star listed the "packages" that were available to smaller or low-budget teams for a second-weekend try and the smallest "package was something like $321,000 for car, engine, tires, fuel and entry fee. So it would appear that IMS, those owning some Panozes or Dallaras they weren't going to run, Honda, Firestone and Ethanol put an attractive package together for 'em. Who got what out of the deal, who knows?
Well in Cabbie's case they already had the chassis from some failed team and since the tires are leased and they never turned a lap they didn't need to spend anything on tires or gas.Quote:
Originally Posted by indycool
Those costs in the Indystar don't mean anything because we know that Tony George is financing a number of these unsponsored entries. Its not unthinkable to believe that someone with the equipment would try to scam Tony George for some quick cash and access to some of the more powerful people in American open wheel.
Now if I were cynical, I would say that makes perfect sense ;-)
If this rumour were true, I wonder if it would have any implications for charitible donations during May 2008...