The Bloom is Off The Rose.

Unless it is the Taxi Cabs McNulty is lost.
He had Tracy hitting the wall on his qualifying run.
According to McNulty, last week, Button drives a Red Bull Renault.
The Sun needs to find a new Motorsports writer.

Just for fun, I think we should do an over/under on how many laps down The Danica finishes. Let's set the line at 2. I say she finishes more than 2 laps down.

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Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior

Just for fun, I think we should do an over/under on how many laps down The Danica finishes. Let's set the line at 2. I say she finishes more than 2 laps down.

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Only 2? You must be expecting lots of yellows. ;)

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Originally Posted by Scotty G.

As long as Go Daddy keeps writing the checko. ;)

If she was actually being employed to race the car and her sponsor money wasn't needed to race it, she would have never been hired in the first place. If there was ever a fireable offense for a driver, that was it. In the old days, another driver would have likely been in the car by Sunday morning.

I wish Michael didn't need her money and could run the team and hire the drivers like he wanted. Then he could tell her to go the hell away sometime about 5 minutes after the Indy 500 ends. Then she could get a head start on her sterling NASCAR career, where she needs to get back to learning how to finish 30th and 3 laps down every week.

Kanaan is the guy I feel most sorry for. He is pissing away years with this circus. The absolute worst decision that was made in the past 5 years in Indy Cars, was TK reupping with AGR. TK was loyal and look what that has gotten him. He should have been smart enough to see this coming. He should have gone and talked to Bobby Rahal, Scott Roembke and Buddy Rice. But he is stuck now with a team showing no signs of ever regaining its past form.


One last one on P. Sparkle Pony.... if her car was so crappy and so undriveable at Indy this year and "its not her fault" for the results because of said car; can we also summise that in past years when she has had fast speeds and good results, that also was more because of "the car". Because without her even realizing it (which isn't hard to believe with the intelligence level of this person), she just admitted today that she plays very little role in whether she runs good or runs bad. Because if its "not her fault" when the car is slow, then it also can't be because of her when the car is fast.

So not only did she throw her entire crew, engineering staff and team owner under a greyhound and made a complete ass of herself in front of the public, but also threw herself under the greyhound as well (by indirectly saying the only way she can go fast and look like a real driver is if the car is good and she has no clue and no care on how to make a average car better). :eek:

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Corrected this for ya :)

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Originally Posted by beachbum

Only 2? You must be expecting lots of yellows. ;)

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Ouch! :D

It sounds like you're putting a $20 on the (safe) over bet.

link: http://msn.foxsports.com/motor/story...t-Indianapolis

More piling on :)
Danica Patrick still hearing boos at Indianapolis


A quick walk through the Pagoda Plaza on Carb Day found that at least some fans are still not thrilled with Danica Patrick over her “it’s not my fault” explanation of her poor qualifying effort last Saturday.

There is an undercurrent of resentment for IndyCar’s most popular star following her tough public comments.
Patrick admitted to being surprised by the reaction when her comments boomed over the track's PA system about 10 minutes after she spoke last Saturday. In five previous appearances, she had never qualified outside the top 10.
She spent much of Thursday's media day taking the blame for what she said.
"It makes me feel bad but I understand why," she said. "I kind of broke a cardinal rule in sports and blamed someone. I understand. What I said came across really aggressive, and I know that."
Morton, Ill. resident Phil Fort was at Pole and Carb Days to hear it all.
“Probably like everybody else I was sitting with, I was kind of shocked that she said that about her team,” Fort said. “I know she’s pretty outspoken. I’ve met her a couple of times and she’s always been nice to me. She probably put her foot in her mouth and didn’t realize what she was saying.
“Don’t put your team down, especially when she’s on the big video screen like she was, because everybody booed her.”
Indeed, when Patrick was shown on the Pagoda video board as she prepared to face off against Helio Castroneves in the pit stop competition, she received a fair share of criticism from fans.
Indianapolis resident Jeremy Jackson said that if she really cared about IndyCar and the Indianapolis 500, she wouldn’t have said what she said — and wouldn’t be competing part-time in NASCAR.
“I mean, she says she’s all about the Indianapolis 500 and the month of May,” Jackson said. “She’s the heart of the sport ... I don’t resent [her going to NASCAR]. Absolutely not. Because she’s making the money. But with what she says she does, she should stick to open-wheel racing.”
But the IndyCar Series star is undeterred by the criticism.
"I might get booed if I win, too, but that's OK," Patrick said. "Winning will solve everything for me. That's the be-all, end-all cure for me. I don't know if it'll cure everything from the fans' perspectives, but I can't force them to feel a certain way."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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"Winning will solve everything for me. That's the be-all, end-all cure for me. I don't know if it'll cure everything from the fans' perspectives, but I can't force them to feel a certain way."

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Dream on Danica. Ain't gonna happen at Indy if you are the next to slowest car on carb day.

So now blame the fans. You really don't think your own behavior has anything to do with your image?. As her own team strategist said to her a couple years ago in a race "shut up and drive"

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Ouch! :D

It sounds like you're putting a $20 on the (safe) over bet.

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Well, without yellows, it does look like a safe bet. My wife wanted about a half dozen over-unders. Lap when first lapped, laps downs at end, lap of first f-bomb on radio, lap of first "it's loose!", lap she yells at strategist, lap she just parks it out of frustration, lap she hits someone in pit lane (car or person), if she will throw the team under the bus again, if she will smile on race day (too easy - no)............ As you might guess, my wife isn't a Danica fan. :)

it will be interesting to hear the crowd reaction tomorrow when she is introduced....

if she hears more boos that will not be good for her state of mind

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it will be interesting to hear the crowd reaction tomorrow when she is introduced....

if she hears more boos that will not be good for her state of mind

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She will hear more boos.

And her state of mind for this race is shot anyway. She will be bad and everybody knows it. Hopefully a few of her teammates aren't, so she doesn't have that excuse ready when things don't go well.

She is probably already thinking about her next Nationwide race at Loudon in late June.