On Mar 5, 11:37 am, forty <cforteR3M...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> schl...@[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."
decent compared to one year on some obscure cable channel that cannot
keep its name straight, sometimes on broadcast and sometimes on
PSpeed. at least we knew this season that they all were on one
network, something CCWS/CART has not had for several years and
certainly wasn't helping.
the only reason IRL had ABC ESPN is because I am sure TG told ABC "if
you want the indy 500 you gotta do something with the rest of my
series" so they stuck it on ESPN2.
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