The IRL seems to be going from strength to strength, here’s another new driver/sponsor/team added to the grid. All this while CC languishes with some teams down to single car entries. Thoughts of reunification are a waste of time, the two protagonists are just to far apart. What concerns me most is that if the IRL is the last series left standing I honestly don’t believe TG has the brains to lead OW in the States back to its place as a premiere example of single seater racing.

AOW needs to be returned to the diversity of super speedways, ovals, road courses & street circuits that made it sp popular. This will also require a fundamental rethink of the cars specs. The existing chassis were built for ovals, when the conversion pack for road courses is installed it produces at best a hack job & worst an embarrassment. Compare the look, handling & performance of a IRL car to that of a GP2 Dallara or even the A1GP Lola & the IRL comes off as a poor cousin doing nothing to inspire passion in the spectator; coming through the corners they look plain slow.

If Tony does end up with a monopoly he has a obligation to repair the destructive consequences of his selfish, ego driven actions of 96.Unfortunately because the Hulman family was foolish enough to entrust him with the legacy of the 500 & the IMS he thinks he can do what he likes. Somebody should take a branding iron to his forehead, with the words “With great power comes great responsibility”……………………just in case he forgets.

Better to DNF due to a mechanical-driver failure than limp around the track in an unaggressive posture. In short she performed way beyond what I expected.

At least she admitted being slower than a Paris Hilton clone. Much worse could have occurred.

She could have pulled the “my hooters hurt from 6 point belts” card again as an excuse.

I can’t wait to compare Danica’s results against two other women who know how to race. The “Myth of Danica” is soon to be exposed as the marketing fraud that created it.