"forty" <cforteR3M0V3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> schla66@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> On Mar 5, 9:57 am, Ken Plotkin <kplot...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 04:23:15 -0800 (PST), Lenny <hayso...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>> They always were a feeder to F1...he just verbalized it.
>>> I agree. CART was always a feeder and/or triple-A to F1. That's the
>>> part I never liked about it.
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>> Good points and I too have big hopes for the future. I am very
excited
>>>> about this year, even if the CC teams don't do too well, it will be
>>>> fun watching the battles.
>>> I think the CC teams will do well. Look at Ganassi and Penske's
>>> performance when they returned to Indianapolis. Look at Newman-Haas's
>>> results out of the box when they were formed in 1983. The good CC
>>> teams are first class racers with Type A attitudes.
>>>
>>> Ken Plotkin
>>
>>
>> ya gotta have a good team , that is for sure. and a good driver. but
>> it sounds like these cars take a bit of a learning curve for all, and
>> that's where I think they will be at a disadvantage for most if not
>> all of this season. top it off with having to run DP-01's at Long
>> Beach (and elsewhere?) and I think the CCWS teams are definitely at a
>> disadvantage. I think that overall this was a piss poor decision, but
>> what else could be done? as I said before, they should have been
>> working this issue at the end of last season and not NOW. I blame TG
>> for that as I think he did this on purpose when he saw how poor his
>> series was doing and that CCWS got a decent TV contract. I also
>> place some of the blame on KK as he should have thought of this
>> earlier, but CCWS looked pretty decent around the end of the year and
>> just needed a couple of minor changes to make it work.
>
> Methinks someone needs to stop drinking the CC kool-ade...
>
> Decent TV contract? CC had a *decent* TV contract? CC's 2008 TV contract
> was a joke.
>
>
> --
> forty
>
> "There's a very fine line between not listening, and not caring. I like
to
> think that I walk that line every day of my life."
It sure was. But on the bright side, I read in the AVS forums ( I have no
link, sorry) that the entire IRL season, every race, was going to be shown
in High Definition on ESPN and ABC. Do you think HDTV will make a
crapwagon
look even uglier? Is that possible?
alien
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