Quote Originally Posted by jwhite9185
IMO Newman haas was a midpack team once they came to Indycar. Infact I'd say DCR showed more promise last year than they did. Seems like Paul Newman was the one keeping that team going. Now he's gone, i can see them going the same way as Panther.
On road courses DCR was right there with NHL last year but nowhere close on ovals. NHL was the only team (outside of KV mid season or so on) that could regularly challenge Ganassi and Penske on all course types as far as speed, there were right there with Graham week in and week out. They didn't always get the results at the end because of crashes or strategy but speed wise they were definately the best of the rest. We were talking last year on this forum that the the were the 3 in the big 3 instead of AGR.

As far as their downward fall since PN passed, yes I'm afraid it seems to be a rapid decline in terms of operation and sponsorship, performance likely to but we'll soon see.