tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6688895223407306222011-04-21T14:09:03.982-07:00A Rant or Rave depending on your point of view on Racing. Be prepared for misspellings, grammatical errors and of course few random tangents. This ain't no whine and cheese bllllllllllog!indyranthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18056497762347843262noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-668889522340730622.post-82271031349268101752007-04-19T11:24:00.001-07:002007-04-19T11:24:22.664-07:00

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...Motegi Report--Danica Patrick posts the fastest time of the first day of practice in Japan. Remember that this female driver that tends to be over criticized by the media about her driving ability put her former team on the front row here, led laps and finsihed a career high 4th place.Hometown boy Kosuke Matsurra was second quick.

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...It's rough being Little E! NASCAR must have a dozen story writers sitting in an office in Hollywood or Daytona! Granted its much easier to come up with story lines with 45 drivers in NASCAR over the 20 or so in IndyCar racing....I am reporting late on this but what happened in Texas was brilliant. The new latin spice(JP Montoya) causes Tony Stewart to crash. Stewart hints at retirement.

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ChampCar understands 1 thing. Race fans and car nuts like hot chicks! If your racing doesn't sell, sex it up!

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I love when pictures like this show up. A couple of racing fans that have nothing better to do than to reminice Robin Millers defaming articles from the first 8 years of the CART-now ChampCar/IRL IndyCar split. These fans claim that the IRL doesn't have or get crowds at its races and that ChampCar infact does have crowds at its races. Ok so lets go down the list of what the IRL has and what

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...Not only does it suck to loose a member of your team to a competitor but geez. I could not imagine what people were thinking after this happend. AR1 reportsFunny send-off for Eric Mauk In the press meeting Sunday morning at Long Beach John Oreovicz from ESPN got about 100 photographers to stamp their feet, clap their hands and sing chorus to the tune of Queen's "We Will Rock You" to John's

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...I never said that I was on the cutting edge of delivering underground information. Apparently you need to know somebody to get the info! Anyway I pirated this file from Youtube and the info from mynameisirl. Unfortunatly I can't really provide any information about the sponsorship so defer to mynameisirl for the real goods. Here's the clip, enjoy and get pumped up, it appears that unlike

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...Its just a frigg'n number, it always has been, so shut up and deal with it. A little history lesson for all of those "Haters" that like poke fun at Tony George for his comment "33 is only a number".In case you are old, grumpy and have nothing else to do and are confused of what "Haters" means---its you! so shut up because the old days are over, just like a 10cent movie ticket! I am sure all

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...Which is worse? It appears that ChampCar thinks that a chassis name DP01 will be the savior to ChampCar Racing. Proof is pictured to the right where ChampCar features the DP01 and its specification's on the Pole Winner's flag???? That is odd.Anyway pay attention because I am going to make fun of both the IndyCar Series and ChampCar for their "tag lines".Let's start with "I AM INDY". Now I

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Ok, last weekend I gave ChampCar a swift kick to the nutz. Apparently they listened to just about everything I said and put on a decent show in Long Beach. Good News for ChampCar is that after next weekends Houston-night street race ChampCar drivers, teams and officials will have 2 months to figure out any wrinkles that need to be ironed out.The GoodOriol Servia makes a great story and hops in

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Penske's DHL Porsche Spyder's out classed the upper classed more powerful, larger budgeted FACTORY Audi R10's.For the second time in the past year both Penske Porsches put a good old American whoopass on the German Automaker. Unfortunately the only thing American about the whoopass is Penske him self.IndyCar Drivers faired moderately at Long Beach. Ryan Briscoe was the highest finishing IndyCar

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Andretti Green Racing's IndyCar Series driver Dario Franchitti out paced the Porsche's led by Penske Racing's Ryan Briscoe. Both Briscoe and Franchitti will be competeing in the Indianapolis 500 in one month, Franchitti in the Candian Club/Vonage #27 and Brisoce in a car leased from Penske Racing for a new team co-owned by Penske's son.Both Penske Racing and Andretti Green Racing continue to

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Today veteran IndyCar and ChampCar driver Paul Tracy was injured in a frontal impact crash at Long Beach. Oriol Servia will re-place Tracy. During Panoz's tenure in the IndyCar Series several lower back injuries were attributed to the Panoz chassis with its poor safety record.Oriol will contend during the second qualification session. If you don't recall Oriol captured his first ChampCar win

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...AR1 reporting at its best! Read the article below for the back story. Anyway to make things short here is the original comment by an AR1 reader04/11/07 Although Red Bull appears prominently on the PKV Racing car of Neel Jani, it appears the team is getting no money out of the deal because if they did they would be listed on their website along with their other sponsors."Now AR1 dismisses the

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...This year's Indy 500 will have a girl for every man! Danica, Sarah and Milka--Pick 1 from three or all three depending on how you like'em. So here we go a run down of the talent for the 2007 Indy 500.Danica PatrickPerhaps the class of the field. She's one of those fast girls your mother always warned you about. Not only is Danica the best woman driver to ever make it to the upper ranks in

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...Michael Andretti is back at it again. Just like his old man he's still capable of winning races at his age and is out to prove it, although he may have a better shot at winning at a different track than the Indianapolis Motor Speedway(Andretti curse)! This year, in his 2nd return from retirement at the Indianapolis 500 Andretti will be piloting his 5th entry as a team owner in the #39

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...Welcome back Buddy(Pictured right with wife Kara(HOT!!!). I believe it was three years ago when Buddy Lazier stepped into a Panther Racing machine and put a hurting on his full time teammates Tomas Scheckter and Tomas Enge at the Indianapolis 500. Then he continued to show his tenacity and experience in several other oval events throughout the season.Bottom line after being out of the race

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......stays in Vegas, at least that's what ChampCar officials and Newman-Haas-Lanigan Racing are hoping.As ChampCar began to tout their PR machine during the summer months of the 2006 season many racing fans began to believe in the "business model" that ChampCar had set in place. A new revitalized ChampCar Atlantic Series anchored by a new chassis followed by a new formula for ChampCar. Enter

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Stay tuned... as I get my first blog fired up. indyrant will be a rant, imagine that-of coverage, criticism and theories on motorsports happenings mainly focused on IndyCar Racing and other open-wheeled racing series except for (USAC) because they have sold out to NASCAR(first rant experience). Yes I did specifically name IndyCar Racing because I am slightly partial to it so my rants will most

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"Drink when you hear this…” more of a social drinking game...You and your drinking friends come up with a list of terms, phrases events that happened during and IndyCar broadcast. Good ideas to start with;1. Draw a driver- Drink 2 if the driver is shown on camera, 1 drink if the drivers car is shown and chug and entire beer if the driver crashes.2. Every lap that one of your co-drinker's driver

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As if IndyCar racing isn’t exciting enough a few college buddies and I took it to the next level. That’s right we added binge drinking midnight races.Mynameisirl has an impressive game "My name is Hurl" and his blog inspired the posting of the one that you are currently reading… I guess I can start with the origin of the game(s). Well on a normal Saturday night in college you can find a

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