Just as there has always been and just as there always will be. The speeds
may have gone down a little in the interest of fewer people getting killed
but the drama remains the same.

On May 21, 3:52 pm, "RickyBobby" <nasca... (AT) cox (DOT) net> wrote:
Well I really must be bored. Down a little??? Do you know the speed
of the track record? It will never be broken, at least while the IRL
is around driving spec cars with spec engines. Drama?? What drama??
The did finally have one real bump, but it was a bump of a team that
really shouldn't have had a chance to even think about being in the
field. They had a race car with a big push, and they were adding
front wing which will only make the push worse. Driver hadn't been in
an IRL car in years and had driven nothing but sprint car type race
cars and the skill sets are so totally different as to be
unimportant. If these "heros of the short tracks" were so ready for
Indy, why did the IRL form the Indy Pro Series. Hmmm.

The drama was would he go out and over extend the car and himself and
crash the car. Thankfully he didn't and when the car clearly didn't
have the speed, the owner waved off the attempt.

The other story was veteren driver PJ Jones and whether he would get
up to speed. For what ever reason Honda put a mileage limit on the
engines and when he clearly had time that might have sorted out a
problem, he didn't have the miles. Instead of an attempt that had
almost no chance of success and a great deal of chance to put him in
Methodist (which PJ already has that Tee Shirt) he had the courage to
get out of the car. The only drama was whether or not he would try.

Happy hour wasn't happy hour. The time was different. That extra
hour allowed the shadows to creep across the track, cool the track,
raise the grip level, and increase speeds. That was just beginning to
happen when the time ran out. Funny thing is the person trying to
signal the end of qualifying was just as fouled up as the IRL.

Yet the fans seemed pleased. The trouble is that everyone there must
have been related to someone in the Hulman family. In 95 qualifying
attempts were constant from about 5 till the end of qualifying. If
you were bumped, the car was done. If you wanted to try to rebump
your way back into the field it had to be in a different car. Now
that was pressure. The entire front straight for the most part was
full on bump day. This year the question is which was higher.
Milka's speed or the overall attendance.

Indy is much safer, but another broken back this year so far.
Unfortunately many were watching to see if Kite was going to put it in
the fence. If you think drama is watching to see if someone gets
hurt, no thanks. Real racing has plenty of competition and excitement
without the networks playing the fear card. Yet frankly that was all
they had left and that turns me off big time. The IRL was founded as
a take over attempt and left Indy as a tired old maid with nothing to
offer.

On Mon, 21 May 2007 13:52:29 -0700, RickyBobby <nascar42 (AT) cox (DOT) net> wrote:
Stinky troll.

"Robert Lorenzini" <bob (AT) newportharbornet (DOT) com> wrote

From their King, no less.

Carey in Indianapolis