On Mar 5, 11:55 am, "alien" <nofend...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "forty" <cforteR3M...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > schl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> 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]
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> >>> 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
rofl. it'll just be a clearer picture of the crapwagons. but hey,
there might be an op****tunity to see ms. cranky danica in high def!
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