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Sorry, but the handling issues may have come from being all over track. She seemed to be taking very different lines than anyone else - even lap to lap. Slowing for one car only impacts one lap, not every lap.Quote:
Originally Posted by DanicaFan
Competition this years looks a lot stronger than previous years. Just getting out of the first qualifying session into the top 12 isn't going to be easy. The fast 6 should really be entertaining.
7 tenths on the rest of the field? Powers was flying.
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Originally Posted by Lousada
Yeah, very good point. I didn't realize Will was THAT much faster than Dixon in P2 there.
DF...I mean this very respectfully. If your request to give her a break holds water, then why can we go back through just about every single practice and qualifying session for the past (insert # of seasons here) and find her mired at the back? She used to be mid-pack until the merger when the quality of competition went up slightly. The quality is getting better and better every year and she keeps going further and further back. There are no excuses when it is session after session after session...and so on. If it is handling, why are her teammates all competitive? If it is handling, why is she the only one not able to figure it out? That is what she/you said after Barber, after Brazil...etc. When is it time to just admit she isn't that good...but you can still like her?Quote:
Originally Posted by DanicaFan
FYI, I was a huge Rick Mears fan growing up. The guy was an all around talent until his feet were crushed in an accident (Riverside I believe?). When he made his comeback, he was never as competitive on road & street courses. He was probably by far the best ever on strictly ovals though. I rooted for him race in and race out no matter what but I knew when he was in his element and when he wasn't.
Now make no mistake, Danica is no Rick Mears, and driving these cars today is like a stroll in the park compared to the glory days of all of auto racing...but...if you are going to root for her, great!!! Root for her with all your passion...but maybe you should present that passion to all of us with a hint of realism. She isn't very good...it is beyond a theory, it is a proven fact. She can run at the tail of a pack on a course where she doesn't have to lift, save your hopes of a miracle for a day when they run on those types of courses. In the meantime, try to get to know the other drivers a little so you can enjoy the competitive side of the sport instead of just the novelty side. I'm a PT fan now, look what I have to deal with, he isn't even full-time! So I watch objectively rooting for the ultimate competition level, not just my favorite driver.
What do you think?
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Originally Posted by DanicaFan
Wow, taking lessons from her car owner huh? It's always someone else's fault. Michael the Whiner, lived by that axiom.
Gary
It was Sanair.Quote:
Originally Posted by Starter
The story really is Danica is barely even the fastest woman, and considering her experience, the bloom is finally off the rose. This could be the year maybe the media wakes up to the reality that Danica Patrick is the Anna Kournakova of Racing, without the personality.
Her little hissy fit in the pits is just more evidence of her lack of tact, and her lack of poise in dealing with adversity. It is all fine in Danica's world when people kiss her heiney on the track. Of course, these guys wont, and they wont cut her one ounce of slack. She has alienated most of the guys on some level to the point I wouldn't doubt people block her almost out of reflex just to rattle her.
The fact is on road/street circuits, she is no further ahead than she was 5 years ago, and the level of competition has gotten a lot more fierce. She is credible and able to keep up to apoint, but no threat to win. No driver wants to be no threat to win....
Rick was the bomb!Quote:
Originally Posted by TURN3
side story for ya....back in the early seventies my father and uncle raced a twoseater dune buggy in the baja 1000's etc.....against guys like mears, jones, evans etc...
anyhow....one year, i was 5 or 6 barely old enough to remember, they were running the Mint400 outside Las Vegas.....well the rest of the family was the unofficial pit crew in our Volkswagon bus...so were out in the nevada dessert and we come across none other than Rick Mears Broken down in the middle of nowhere with a tire that had broken off his racecar.....so he climbed into the back of the Bus with entire family, wheel and all, and we took him to the next check point...
needless to say we were huge Mears fans during his career....and rooted for him every May....he was (is!) magic at the speedway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVfD1FU28cM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hkVLBZlG2w&NR=1
Milka is currenty 7 seconds off pace.
when Danica goes to Nascar fulltime in 2011 will you no longer be an openwheel fan?Quote:
Originally Posted by DanicaFan