[throb]

http://www.indystar.com/article/2010...107/100522005/

it was not just a boo.....but the best boo i have ever heard in my entire life!

[Jerry Spencer]

You need help.

Jerry

[HARFprez]

maybe just #7's way of easing out of the IRL and heading to NASCAR land, where no one ever gets booed. teIam, by golly, there is an I in team after all. bob.

[throb]

even better! she doesnt understand why she gets bood for throwing her team under the bus..........


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP2aoPmHwic

[Need For Speed]

99% of the people driving these 'IndyCars' never earned the honor. Whaanica falls within that 99%.

Male or female has nothing to do with anything.

Indy used to be about tradition. Now, Indy is a circus.

EARNING your way to Indy by way of Winchester, Eldora, the Indiana State Fairgrounds, etc, etc, should still be the only way to get there!

[nowingsjeff]

Originally Posted by Need For Speed EARNING your way to Indy by way of Winchester, Eldora, the Indiana State Fairgrounds, etc, etc, should still be the only way to get there!

Amen!

Now there's talk of them opening up the rules on the cars to an open comp type deal in hope that they'll gain back interest & crowds like the old days. That may peak the interest of a few gearheads but it's not going to put a lot of people in the seats.

I can't believe the IMS management can't figure out that it was the names that brought all the people to Indy. People like Foyt, Andretti, Unsers, Johncock, Sneva & more that people followed from short track sprints & midgets to the Speedway. You know if Kinser, Swindell, Wolfgang, Vogler, Hewitt, Darland, Elliott, Hines, Coons & other like them would have gotten 1st class rides at Indy, they wouldn't have the problem they have now. And by the way, the loss of our short track heros started long before the formation of the IRL, so you can't blame it all on T.G.

The real problem now is people have lost the family tradition of going to the Speedway. Even if you did get our short track heros back I don't think it would make a difference as too many years have past & the family traditions of going to the Speedway has been lost forever.

Another thing that pisses me off about Indycar racing is the wine & cheese car owners saying todays sprint & midget guys can't drive rear engine cars. I didn't see any problems with the sprint & midget guys of the 60's making the change to the rear engine cars, so why would it be any different today. I think its just a bunch of SCCA Club types scared that the real races would kick their a$$. I'm willing to bet Bryan Clauson could run circles around Danica right now without any seat time and with some seat time could be an Indy 500 Champion easily.

Anyway, I don't see any light at the end of the tunnel for "The 500" or Indycar racing. That's a shame.

[CTtoPA]

Originally Posted by nowingsjeff Another thing that pisses me off about Indycar racing is the wine & cheese car owners saying todays sprint & midget guys can't drive rear engine cars.

By "can't" they're talking finances, not ability. They've gotta be. Otherwise they're just plain crazy or ignorant.

[Vukie]

[QUOTE
Indy used to be about tradition. Now, Indy is a circus.
EARNING your way to Indy by way of Winchester, Eldora, the Indiana State Fairgrounds, etc, etc, should still be the only way to get there![/QUOTE]

I didn't know that Winchester, Eldora, the Indiana State Fairgrounds, were around in 1911.

[nowingsjeff]

QUOTE]I didn't know that Winchester, Eldora, the Indiana State Fairgrounds, were around in 1911.[/QUOTE]

Russ, I think he was referring to the Tony Hulman years. And Winchester was almost around that long, wasn't it?

[Vukie]

Originally Posted by nowingsjeff QUOTE]I didn't know that Winchester, Eldora, the Indiana State Fairgrounds, were around in 1911.

Russ, I think he was referring to the Tony Hulman years. And Winchester was almost around that long, wasn't it?[/QUOTE]

No, to Winchester but yes to the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds and the Illinois State Fairgrounds.

The Hulman years [60's and 70's] had Jim Clark,Denis Hulme,Jackie Stewart,Jochen Rindt,Graham Hill,Jack Brabham,Team Lotus,Jim Hall,turbines etc and the Indianapolis 500 was huge back in those days. It had a great mix of drivers back then and that includes NASCAR drivers like Cale and Le Roy.

Foreign drivers and cars have been part of the history of the 500 since day one.

Sprint and midget racing is a niche sport. Sorry, but having the entire field of sprint and midget drivers will not increase interest in the Indianapolis 500. It sounds great on paper but that ship has sailed. If everybody wants to go back to the the 1950's, get rid of your computers and cell phones because they didn't have them in those days.