Milwaukee 225

Tongue firmly in cheek..."Congratulations to Dario Franchitti for the win. Danica ran a great race. I'm proud of her".

Joking aside, that's probably one of her better drives recently. Didn't set the World on fire, but you also can't simply claim it was done on fuel mileage or luck. Certainly gained a few spots due to others crashing out, but then that could apply to Servia and Rahal as well, so credit where it's due. It'll be heralded as the second coming or a push for the championship, but it was a solid enough drive IMO. Interesting day for Sato, but decent finish.

Hell of a drive by Dario! A great race with a lot of action, it's great to be back at Milwaukee.

Unofficial finish order, and fastest laps.


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Dario should have been black flagged for hitting Power's tire on pit road. Hope he remembers that next time he goes off whining about things.

Good, fun race at Milwaukee. Unfortunately, also what looked to me like the worst televised attendance at a non rained-out IndyCar event. Never seen stands that sparse before, except maybe a NASCAR truck race or on a bad weather event. Makes you wonder if it will be back, because I remember the stands being way more full last time IndyCar was there.

Too bad. Milwaukee fans missed a hell of an event. And you can't blame the promoters either, they worked their butts off, ran lots of ads, kept the race in the public eyes,...and still nobody gave a crap.

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lol i deserve that. But Texas at least had large full sections of stands. I couldn't visually see a difference of more than a few thousand there from this year to last. Milwaukee.. well that was simply embarrassing.

Start messed up on DVR. Race was joined 63 laps in and in the next 10 laps heard:

Marty Reid talk over driver\pit communications when Beatriz hit the wall --
Pumped up double sided restarts with a reformed Kanaan expounding their virtues and promptly went to commercial and missed restart (caught with that technical marvel "sidebyside") --
Scott Goodyear use the word "irregardless" --

Old drinking game: Goodyear explain marbles\oversteer\understeer.
New drinking game: Goodyear say "just a passenger".

I hope ABC\ESPN get turfed at years end.

Otherwise, a so-so race with a few twists at the end.

Kanaan backs it into the wall and Neves has to pit for a tire and a Ganassi driver inherits the lead. All is right with the world.

Solid showings by Rahal, Patrick and Hinchcliffe.

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Dario should have been black flagged for hitting Power's tire on pit road. Hope he remembers that next time he goes off whining about things.

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Apparently it's in the rules that, and I'm quoting here, "a pit violation involving (a) crew member(s) and\or equipment struck by a pitting or un-pitting car of an opposing team will be forgiven if the involved teams pat each other on the back and have a chuckle over it".

One of those IRL "not always" rules.

As for attendance, I think I've seen it look emptier? more empty? Not as full! It's a long road back.

I thought it was a great race. Certainly entertaining.... Yea for Dario, sorry for TK, becoming impressed with Rahal...

My high points:

- Over the radio... "..****ing Sato" :) ))
- RHR going out so early - I wonder if he was running Go Daddy because someone at DHL bitched after Indy
- Dario ripping Helio in the post-race interview. Helio is losing friends fast this season...

It so perfect that they're entering mid-season in a tie. Almost too perfect....nah, probably not...

And a big "Booo!" to ABC coverage. It's so bad. Skipping important events for more and more ads, terrible announcers, ignoring half the field. And the "Father/Racer" factoids - really? No one cared.