Originally Posted by DL72:
I have heard it said that the American drivers, namely sprint car drivers are at a disadvantage in Indy cars because of their lack of experience in driving rear engine cars. I always wanted to ask an Indy car driver to elaborate on the differences in driving a front engine car, as opposed to a rear engine car, but never had the opportunity to do so. If anyone here can clue me in, I would love to hear it.
If you look at the schedule there is something like 5 oval races. The rest are road course and the street races they always seem to push. What chance does a sprint and midget driver have to secure a ride in a series that is so heavily weighted to the twistys.
On another message board there is a 'club' mentality with some of the members. BC is not worthy, Kyle Larson is not worthy, Rico is not worthy because they have the 'wrong' type of experience.
As for Rossi, I still hardly know anything about the driver and quite frankly with IMW coming up I probably will not even bother to find out.