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On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 23:40:00 UTC, tjmc <tjmc.enteract (AT) rcn (DOT) com> wrote: 25. It's never Sarah's fault, who are you kidding? Sarah said tires... I said they didn't have time to do proper testing due to spinout. In short, sarah may have had leaky tires but the fact that her car had to be rebuilt hurt more. |
More and more excuses and hollow defense from Sarah's biggest and most
loving fan!
She's a menace. She's has no business out there. She had her chance.
She's the IRL's current Racin Gardner.
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 01:45:56 UTC, tjmc <tjmc.enteract (AT) rcn (DOT) com> wrote: For the first year or two she didn't do all that badly. Her problem is that with all the experienced drivers coming into to IRL, not to mention the aggressive young hot shoes like Rice, Hornish, Scheckter and Dixon, the talent pool in the IRL got real deep real fast. I think she's just been overwhelmed. There have been times last year without the underpowered chevy when she did very well. Leading the first 30 or so laps at kentucy from the pole, for example. |
Even a blind hog finds an acorn now and then.
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When the equipment works, she does well. |
You mean when they somehow chance into a set-up somehow by sheer luck,
because there apparently is no way she contributes in any meaningful
way what she wants. For years people said it was her "communication"
with Walker and his engineers, despite the fact those people had won
races with other drivers. Now it is leaky tires.
She's a menace.
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The problem is getting the equipment to work right. |
She has to contribute her part ot that equation, too. She obviously
can't, though.
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This has been what separates teams like penske from the rest... |
Gee, Ganassi doesn't seem to have a problem. AGR doesn't seem to have
a problem. Panther doesn't seem tohave a problem. Ganassi and Panther
haven't even had problems when they run different drivers.
Even Greg "Concrete Magnet" Ray, with an all new team, etc., has not
had all the problems Sarah has had.
She's a menace.
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He can make the equipment work right nearly every week. |
Newflash - Penske doesn't win every week. Other teams often beat him.
why is it they can do it, but she and her team can't?
Even other teams with tiny budgets beat Penske from time to time - why
can't she?
Answer - She's a menace.
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You rarely hear of his teams having bad handling problems and even his frequency of engine/transmission/etc failures is lower. |
More excuses, excuses, excuses.
She's a menace.
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Maybe. But Sarah's been in the series how many years? How many races? How many victories? To most critical observers she's already well beyond the point where she should have won at least one race by default. A blind squirrel finding a nut and all that... |
driver. Take Michel Jordain, for instance. Here was a guy in poor
equipment for nearly six years, but given the right equipment, he was
(is) able to succeed this year. Sarah has had minutes of success, but
more often than not, she has been a back-marker. The fact is: she (and
Foyt IV) have stepped up to the big times way, way too early with out
proper seasoning in lower formulas.
Ok, there was no IPS when Fisher started, but she surely turned down a
chance at more race experience in winged formula cars by rejecting an
Atlantics ride. I think her lack of experience, fitness, and race craft
shows in her results. No one expects her to win or contend week in and
week out. But try to stay on pace and get top-15s....
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...anyone using one of the following trademarked excuses to defend Sarah's poor performances will be required to pay me a $1 fee. After the first 3 excuses, you will only be required to pay .25 for each additional excuse: 1. Derrick Walker 2. The radio didn't work 3. Derrick Walker's engineers 4. Car was loose 5. Car was tight 6. It was a driver's track 7. It wasn't a driver's track 8. Derrick Walker's crew 9. Tires were losing pressure 10. There were other cars on the track 11. Derrick Walker's cars 12. Chevy 13. Infiniti 14. Robbie Buhl did worse 15. AJ Foyt IV was in the way 16. Bad pitstop/s 17. It was her crew's fault 18. Car was too fast 19. The car wasn't able to handle a 30g wall impact 20. She was biding her time, she didn't know the race was only 200 laps 21. Nobody else with AOL sponsorship did better 22. She didn't plan on crashing so early 23. Derrick Walker's pit equipment 24. She's on the wrong team 25. It's never Sarah's fault, who are you kidding? Really, it was Dallara's fault for selling her team parts that were |
will not collect $1 from me, you will not pass go, and you will go
directly to jail.
Cheers, TA
How do you turn hot air into horsepower? Consult Garrett, Holset, IHI,
KKK, etc.
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I'm not here to take anything away from Jourdain, I've enjoyed watching him succeed. But without de Ferran, Castroneves, Franchitti, Kanaan, Fittipaldi, Andretti, Brack, da Matta and others, even the most fervent CART fan has to admit he's now running against much less talent. |
Weer da best, weer da best.
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For the first year or two she didn't do all that badly. Her problem is that with all the experienced drivers coming into to IRL, not to mention the aggressive young hot shoes like Rice, Hornish, Scheckter and Dixon, the talent pool in the IRL got real deep real fast. I think she's just been overwhelmed. |
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Yes, all those "experienced drivers (CART drivers - "da best") coming into the IRL" (not to mention those Brazilians with all that dirt track experience -snicker) are quickly driving nails into the coffin of the George/IRL manifesto. It has been exposed, just like Sarah Fisher has been exposed, for all it ever was - a marketing gimmick. |
over Tony's "manifesto." What? You thought a business in a dynamic
environment like American open wheel would require no adjustments? No
adaptation to realities? To one extent or another that's precisely what
led to the fall of CART.
Tony got caught out in two areas. First, the engine suppliers and
secondly the amount of driving talent and seasoned ownership/sponsorship
swarming to race in his league. Both of which were direct results of
CART crumbling like a house of cards and certain windfalls for his
series. I mean if you're gonna start an American open wheel series at
the beginning of the 21st century who better to have than Penske,
Ganassi, Green, Andretti, Toyota, Honda, Target, Marlboro and all the
others?
He was supposed to shut them out? Are you crazy?
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(As for the "hot shoes," Dixon was a winner in CART. He's one of those "experienced drivers") |
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Now that the IRL is reaching a new level with the influx of CART teams and is already traveling overseas, shall we now expect to see road and street courses? |
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On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 07:03:27 -0500, "Mark McCauley" REMOVEs-mark1958 (AT) charter (DOT) net> wrote: What I can't understand is you and your fellow CHUMPS continually crying over Tony's "manifesto." What? You thought a business in a dynamic environment like American open wheel would require no adjustments? No adaptation to realities? To one extent or another that's precisely what led to the fall of CART. |
works. His "manifesto" didn't work, so now he's having to adjust and adapt?
The point is the "manifesto" was a fraud, a marketing gimmick. What part of
that don't you understand? Tony is going to implement CART's "business
plan." That's all this was ever about.
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Tony got caught out in two areas. First, the engine suppliers and secondly the amount of driving talent and seasoned ownership/sponsorship swarming to race in his league. Both of which were direct results of |
predictions of 28-30 per race? Oh yeah, then there was "bubble-day," not to
mention the color blue sponsorship of the series most popular driver, Sarah
Fisher.
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CART crumbling like a house of cards and certain windfalls for his series. I mean if you're gonna start an American open wheel series at the beginning of the 21st century who better to have than Penske, Ganassi, Green, Andretti, Toyota, Honda, Target, Marlboro and all the others? |
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He was supposed to shut them out? Are you crazy? |
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(As for the "hot shoes," Dixon was a winner in CART. He's one of those "experienced drivers") Whatever. He's now racing at Tony's house. |
this year.
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Now that the IRL is reaching a new level with the influx of CART teams and is already traveling overseas, shall we now expect to see road and street courses? God, I hope so. |
prostituting itself by racing on street courses? Why would you want the IRL
to do that - adapting and adjusting?
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