I watched the end of this last race of the season.
IMHO, interesting & worth watching.

Seemed to me, very good sportsmanship shown
by all after the race, , oh, except for whinning from
one driver who always seems to have a complaint!

How does that joke go?
Something about "wine experts" ?

"a425couple" <a425couple (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in
news:har4ld01mnk (AT) news7 (DOT) newsguy.com:

Danica?

I seem to recall her being on the other end of that type of incident.

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:05:48 GMT, Auto Body <auto (AT) body (DOT) com> wrote:

Who else?

You'd think that by now she could deal with that kind of thing on a
"stuff happens" basis, rather than whining about who has the right of
way and pointing to the individual she thinks goofed.

My opinion of Versus went up several more notches when they had NO
Danica stuff in the pre-race show. They had no choice about showing
her after the race, since she was involved in the only car-to-car
contact of the day.

Kind of a good race, but it came down to a fuel economizer sneaking it
away from the guys who were racing for it.

Ken Plotkin

On Oct 11, 5:14*pm, Ken Plotkin <kplot... (AT) nospam-cox (DOT) net> wrote:
I've only seen the Speed replays and review, but I still don't ever
like a race to be stolen by a fuel strategy only win. It seems to
spoil a great high speed duel -- like Japan last year. Having said
that: Congrats Dario!

As for Danica, she is improving on the whining front, but she can
still use a little lesson in class. Now if they can just keep Judd off
the tube unless she has a script ;-)

On Oct 10, 7:14*pm, "a425couple" <a425cou... (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:
Hey, Dario showed what class means with a very nice tribute to Gregg.
Danica thinks class is a place to learn to whine.

I can't wait to actually see the race some day when corporate giants
remember who are paying the bills.

"Lenny" <jameslong001 (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote in message ...
-On-- Ken Plotkin <kplot... (AT) nospam-cox (DOT) net> wrote:
-> On -- Auto Body <a... (AT) body (DOT) com> wrote:
-> >Danica?
-> Who else?

Yes. Just seems they stick a microphone in front of her
a disproportinately large amount of the time.
And near every time they do she has a very major complaint
against someone else.

-> >I seem to recall her being on the other end of that type of incident.

Yes,
-> You'd think that by now she could deal with that kind of thing on a
-> "stuff happens" basis, rather than whining about who has the right of
-> way and pointing to the individual she thinks goofed.

Yes, but still, she seems (if I recall correctly) to always blame others.
As Ken said, "stuff happens".

-> Kind of a good race, but it came down to a fuel economizer
-> sneaking it away from the guys who were racing for it.
-I've only seen the Speed replays and review, but I still don't ever
-like a race to be stolen by a fuel strategy only win. It seems to
-spoil a great high speed duel -- like Japan last year. Having said
-that: Congrats Dario!

I have no problem with that (fuel economy win).
As I've said before, you consider "odds & percentages".
Is is about being fastest (quickest time) over the set/race distance.
So a team thinks, "well if we go 1 mph slower, we can do it with
one less pit stop, each stop takes 25 seconds (or whatever?),
so if we chose to do that, we are betting on there being
no / none yellows."
Seems like a real 'long shot', but they were right this time!!!

-As for Danica, she is improving on the whining front, but she can
-still use a little lesson in class.

I'll accept you saying she is improving.
But, IMHO, still has a ways to go.

"a425couple" <a425couple (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

!!!
I can't imagine Danica in NA$CAR, with all the intentional bumping she'd be
challenging everyone to a fight after every lap.
the NA$CAR fans would tire of her very quickly