Cahill Racing Annoucement

[Davedigler2004]

Tomorrow afternoon at IMS. They will be making an official annoucement, entering a 2-car effort for Milka Duno and Jeff Mitrisin for the 2007 IRL season.

[Davedigler2004]

Jeff Mitrisin

Who?

USAC driver ironically nicknamed "The Magician". Lets hope he doesn't "disappear" like most other Sprint car drivers in the IRL as of late.

http://www.knoxvilleraceway.com/Driv...ile.aspx?id=89

http://www.sprintcaronline.com/page19.html

[Mihai]

A sprint midget racer ? His last name sounds very... Russian.



Check out the Cahill logo on this 2004 sprint car picture.

[Davedigler2004]

A sprint midget racer ? His last name sounds very... Russian.



Check out the Cahill logo on this 2004 sprint car picture.

Nope. An American from OK. I believe.

http://www.knoxvilleraceway.com/Driv...ile.aspx?id=89

http://www.sprintcaronline.com/page19.html

[Mihai]

Of course he is American, I don't know any Russian named 'Jeff', but he is almost certainly a person of Russian descent.

[BobbyC]

Think too of the nickname of Bill Vukovich in 1952. ("The Mad Russian")

[Quetch]

Think too of the nickname of Bill Vukovich in 1952. ("The Mad Russian")

If that nickname came from his last name it was not quite accurate. Vukovich sounds more like a Serbian or Croatian name rather than Russian.

A sprint midget racer ? His last name sounds very... Russian.

Whereas Andretti & Unser are good old American names?

If you wanted a race with drivers with traditional American names in it, would Penske have to drop Sam Hornish and sign "Dances With Wolves"?

[Mark in Oshawa]

The beauty of America is everyone has a family tree that goes back to somewhere's else, even native Americans, who trace their roots back to the last ice age when they crossed over from Asia....mind you, I don't think records were kept!

[Sleeper]

^If you do that the whole world would trace back to Kenya.