Make sure the Safety Crew have their catcher's mitts on

http://www.speedtv.com/articles/auto/indycar/32257/

Dario Franchitti will not drive in Sunday’s final IndyCar Series race of
the season at Chicagoland Speedway, having suffered a concussion last
week in a crash of his Jaguar E-type vintage car at the Goodwood Revival
race weekend in England.

Franchitti will be replaced on the Andretti Green Racing team by A.J.
Foyt IV, who has not driven an open-wheel car since the end of last
season when he left his grandfather’s team.

Foyt, 22, recently moved to North Carolina to explore options in NASCAR.
He has driven in seven Busch Series races this season, the last being at
Texas Motor Speedway in April. He drove in four last year.

Practice and qualifying for the Peak Antifreeze Indy 300 is Saturday,
but Foyt is expected to receive extra track time and a refresher test
under the supervison of IRL officials Thursday, according to the event.
AGR co-owner Kevin Savoree.

“I’m very excited to have an opportunity like this to drive the Klein
Tools/Canadian Club car for Andretti Green," Foyt said. "It’s obviously
a great race team and should be a very competitive car on Sunday. We’re
going to be able to do this at a place where I’ve got a lot of laps and
I expect to have a good, strong weekend.”

Team co-owner and CEO Michael Andretti added, “We’re looking forward to
having Anthony in the Klein Tools/Canadian Club car this weekend. It’s
unfortunate that Dario won’t be able to drive, but we’re confident that
Anthony will do a great job for us. He’s got a lot of natural talent and
we’re hoping to give him a fast car this weekend.”
--
Forty

“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and
mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.” - Ernest Hemingway

"forty" <cforteNO (AT) SPAMgmail (DOT) com> wrote

years.

Carey in Manvel

You might find out that the kid can drive without the shackles of
grandpappy's inept management.

AGR actually uses those 'puter thangs and enginerigging.

and this should be all the confirmation, you need, that the Speedwagon is
leaving the EARL.

Carey Akin wrote:

So what happened off-track? Did Ashley run over him? Or was it an
on-track incident?

Does crashing an E-type not qualify as a racing accident?

On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:32:05 GMT, "Shell" <jtshellnc (AT) earthlink (DOT) net>
wrote:

On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:09:16 -0500, "Merrill P. L. Worthington"
<mplw (AT) us (DOT) ibm.com> wrote:


Depends on whether you consider the Goodwood event to be a race.

Carey is referring to Dario's motorcycle wreck. The one where he
broke his back.

Should be interesting to see what Anthony can do in a good car.

Ken Plotkin

"Ken Plotkin" <kplotkin (AT) nospam-cox (DOT) net> wrote

Crash into another car while going slightly faster?

alien

On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:41:41 GMT, "alien" <nofenders (AT) mtco (DOT) com> wrote:


Alwyas a possibility. But if that happens, let's hope the rest of the
AGR drivers - all of whom qualified slower than Anthony - don't pile
in.

Ken Plotkin